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Jail to gym: The prison workout that saved my life

Facing seven years in jail for drug dealing, Coss Marte is told he might die within five

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Songwriting, banjos and the bohemian city that cradled me

Canadian Allison Russell went from sleeping in cemeteries to being a Grammy nominee

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The only fan: A football fairy tale from Brazil

Tiago Rech alone in the away stands became a viral image - how far would his loyalty go?

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Chess saved me, now I use it to help others

Tunde Onakoya teaches chess to children in slum communities across Africa

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My life as a midwife on the frontline

Anna Kent鈥檚 work delivering babies in warzones shaped her own journey to motherhood

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The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 1

A bond between brothers, a coming-out story, and an international song contest

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The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2

From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality

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The godmother of Beirut's nightlife

Under the boot of the Syrian army, Nicole Moudaber brought raves to Lebanon

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The black child raised by white supremacists

How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing

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How a girl from Mexico fought to dance in the clouds

Irene Garc铆a Hern谩ndez defied gender norms to take part in a high risk aerial tradition

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The moment that made me love my face

Jono Lancaster was born with a rare condition which means he's always looked different

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Writing poems, and waiting to be arrested

Tahir Izgil is a Uyghur poet who lived under Chinese state surveillance

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Called to climb: Why I take photographs from skyscrapers

Isaac Wright was a depressed army veteran when he picked up a camera and started to climb

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The prison escape and the wooden keys

Anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin's remarkable escape from a South African prison

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Why this doctor hid his homeless past

Emmanuel Taban, a former street kid now recognised for his life-saving medical work

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Love, loss and my unlikely romance with Oliver Sacks

After losing his partner, Bill Hayes found love again with neurologist Oliver Sacks

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Latifa and Mohamed: A reunion through dance

A mother, a son, and the discovery of a shared dream

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How almost dying on a migrant boat gave me a new purpose

After a perilous journey from Senegal, Baye Seyni S猫ne set up a school to stop migration

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The 鈥楰ing of Beer鈥� dismantling racism

Sir Geoff Palmer revolutionised brewing and became Scotland鈥檚 first black professor

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Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history

Grace M. Cho learned to cook traditional Korean food to comfort her traumatised mother

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Thirty-eight days: A family adrift in the Pacific

The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast

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Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock 'n' roll star

A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam鈥檚 forgotten musical legacy

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A rebel with an oud: Inventing a future for Lebanon

Bassam Jalgha鈥檚 love of music and engineering made him a TV star and gave him hope

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Vet at the end of the Earth

Joe Hollins escaped childhood restriction to find freedom looking after animals

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Olympic gymnast and representative of life on Earth

An image of Cathy Rigby is on board a Voyager space probe to teach aliens about humans

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I was a surrogate mum to a parrot chick to save it from extinction

Argentinian Marianela Masat made history when red-and-green macaws were born in the wild

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Going undercover in a cartel鈥檚 wild prison-HQ

Venezuelan journalist Ronna R铆squez found a playground, a nightclub and a zoo inside

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The forbidden lovers who plotted a daring escape

Karl-Heinz and Hedi were kept apart by the Iron Curtain and the East German secret police

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Finding a rare portrait, and the boy hidden in its paint

Art collector Jeremy Simien鈥檚 quest to find a lost portrait and a vanished, enslaved boy

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My life as rock's first female roadie

Tana Douglas was rock's first female roadie but hid a monumental secret to fit in

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