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Californian Lisa Wrightsman was on track to play soccer at the highest level, but her dreams were crushed when her league collapsed. Struggling to cope with this dramatic shift, Lisa became addicted to drugs and gave up playing. That was until she met a rag-tag team, who weren't particularly skilled, but re-ignited her love of the game.

Tiago Rech was the only Santa Cruz FC fan at a big away game for his team in 2012. When they scored, his timid, lone celebration in the stands was caught by TV cameras and went viral. All this attention earned him a role with the club, where full of ideas and enthusiasm, he made his way to the very top – to becoming club president. But there would be a sting in this fairy tale.

Before he was sentenced to 25 years in Sing Sing maximum security prison, John ‘Divine G’ Whitfield dreamt of becoming a professional dancer and attended a prestigious performing arts school. Inside, Divine G and some other inmates decided to put on plays and created a small theatre group. Seeing a perfomance stopped another prisoner, Clarence ‘Divine Eye’ Maclin, in his tracks. The group offered him camaraderie and a sense of freedom. Their work became the inspiration for Hollywood film ‘Sing Sing’ in which Clarence plays himself.

As a teenager musician Peter Cole’s life was thrown into turmoil by the Liberian civil war. The horrific events war brought to his country had a huge impact on Peter’s music; he doesn’t shy away from challenging subjects – from the plight of child soldiers to sexual abuse.

Presenter: India Rakusen

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