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The Hollywood screenwriter born in a cult

Guinevere Turner spent her childhood in a cult as strange as any film

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Harry Potter and the dynamic shadow 鈥� his stuntman

Gymnast David Holmes got his dream job when he became Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double

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The beatboxing cellist making music out of family history

How US cellist Gary Washington turned a painful history of slavery into a symphony

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A crime reporter and her own stalking story

Journalist Isla Traquair was stalked by her neighbour in the idyllic English countryside

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The pop rebel who rediscovered her voice

Vashti Bunyan had given up music for good 鈥� 30 years later she became an underground hit

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Thorgy Thor: A pioneering drag queen and her violin

Thorgy Thor has spent her career trying to bring together drag and classical music

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I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

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The Uruguayan conservationist and the great parrot heist

Juan Villalba-Mac铆as has risked his life to rescue animals from the clutches of poachers

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A Family Affair: My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'

Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run

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A Family Affair: Sly and Cynthia, funk royalty

Phunne Stone is the daughter of funk legends Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson

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A Family Affair: A buried photo collection brought our town together

Javier Mazzuca took on the task of developing his dad's mammoth archive of negatives

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A Family Affair: Remembering my dancing parents, Fosse and Verdon

Nicole Fosse鈥檚 life wasn't always as smooth as her parents鈥� celebrated choreography

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A Family Affair: Dad was a best-selling sex writer

Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books

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A Family Affair: My uncanny resemblance to Jackie Wilson

One night singer Bobby Brooks was told news that explained the talent he took for granted

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A Family Affair: Spiders, Gandalf 鈥� a brother's bucket list

Royd Tolkien鈥檚 brother Mike left him a daring list of tasks to complete after he died

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A Family Affair: Scars and silences

Carol Benjamin鈥檚 quest to understand her family history after Brazil鈥檚 military coup.

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A Family Affair: A hand-me-down recipe made me a cookery star

Elizabeth Chong popularised Chinese food in Australia with her father's family recipes

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My escape, thanks to a Russian mail-order bride

Wes Hurley鈥檚 story of family secrets, pirated films and an unexpected transformation

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Love in the time of revolution, part 1

The guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay

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Love in the time of revolution, part 2

The guerilla lovers who endured separation and torture to rule their country

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Stories from a hospice: The people I carry with me

Kathryn Mannix was a pioneer in palliative care, then she became a ground-breaking author

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Unmasking my best friend

Reality TV producer Johnathan Walton found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up

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Seven months trapped in an airport

Hassan Al Kontar had to live at Kuala Lumpur airport after he got stuck in a legal limbo

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Drums like a heartbeat: The boy who took Afro-Uruguayan music to the world

Singer Rub茅n Rada started performing in carnival groups when he was just 10 years old

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Searching for the last man in the forest

Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders

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Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook

Some old family letters led historian Karina Urbach to try and right an historic wrong

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Betting the family farm on rockstar dreams

The Emerson brothers鈥� family funded their musical aspirations 鈥� they almost lost it all

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The spies in my house

Ulrike Poppe was one of the most surveilled women in East Berlin

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Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1

Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics

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Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2

Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics

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