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Tunisia's Ex-PM: My 17 years in prison

Hamadi Jebali was the first Prime Minister of post-revolutionary Tunisia

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Afghanistan's Unstoppable Teacher

Chantal Véron has devoted herself to teaching Afghans through war, exile and regime-change

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Memorial in the Sahara Desert

The challenges of commemorating the lives of 170 people killed in a plane bombing

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Shot Seven Times in Fort Hood Massacre

Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford barely survived the 2009 massacre at the Fort Hood army base

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Torn Between Two Countries

How Harvard scholar Majid Rafizadeh faced the challenges of a Syrian-Iranian dual identity

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Calcutta Rape Victim: Why I Spoke Out

Suzette Jordan defied social stigma by identifying herself as a rape victim

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Bill Bryson: America's Greatest Year?

Writer Bill Bryson on why the summer of 1927 was a turning point in American history

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Ewan Clayton: Scribe of Silicon Valley

Calligrapher Ewan Clayton went from monastic life in England to advising digital pioneers

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The 19th Wife: Escaping Polygamy

Rebecca Musser was forced to marry an 85-year-old self-styled prophet of a radical sect

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Escaping Slavery in Mauritania

A Mauritanian slave's extraordinary journey to freedom - and how he freed his family

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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: The Power of Words

Acclaimed Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o on the power of writing and life in exile

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Rescuing the mentally ill in Somalia

'Dr Habeeb' talks about his lonely campaign to promote mental health in war-torn Somalia

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Saving Victims of the LRA

The nun devoted to helping women and girls traumatised by the Lords Resistance Army

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I Played Basketball for Gaddafi

American basketball player Alex Owumi was shocked to learn he had joined Gaddafi's team

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Investigating 11,000 ‘Forgotten’ Rapes

American prosecutor Kym Worthy is determined to investigate thousands of unsolved rapes

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Refugee Camp: Child's Eye View

How Syrian children in a refugee camp in Iraq are coping with the violence they've seen

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Surgery on Syria's Frontline

Known as 'the Indiana Jones of surgery', surgeon David Nott, volunteers in war zones

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Under KGB House Arrest

Belarusian journalist Iryna Khalip on living under house arrest under watch of the police

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"My Ice-Pick Lobotomy"

Howard Dully was one of the youngest people ever to be given a controversial lobotomy

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From Secret Agent to Crime Writer

Mishka Ben David, the Israeli former Mossad agent is now writing crime fiction

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I Spied for North Korea

The former North Korean spy who lost everything when he was caught by the enemy.

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My Parents Sold Me into Child Pornography

Puppeteer Raven Kaliana has created a puppet show based on her childhood trauma

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Entombed in My Own Body for Over 12 Years

Martin Pistorius, the South African who became ill and ended up unable to move or speak

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My Family Freed Me From Somali Pirates

The Pakistani captain who was rescued from pirates thanks to his wife and daughters

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Forced to Marry by Ugandan Rebels

Abduction, marriage and love: a story of two teenagers in the Lord's Resistance Army

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We saved 47 drowning migrants

Italian Vito Fiorino and his friends saved 47 migrants on a fishing trip off Lampedusa

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Undercover to Expose Sex Traffickers

Journalist Mimi Chakarova risked her life infiltrating underground brothels and sex clubs

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Jailed for Selling US State Secrets

American Chris Boyce served 24 years in prison for selling secrets to the Soviet Union

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My Search for Philomena's Lost Son

Martin Sixsmith who helped a woman search for the son she was forced to give up.

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My son died to tell Somalia's story

Kathy Eldon remembers her son Dan, a photojournalist killed while working in Somalia.

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