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The rebel past of a Tibetan Lama

Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche reflects on a life of conflict, hedonism and disco dancing

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The chess game that changed a homeless boy鈥檚 life

Tani Adewumi fled Nigeria and became a chess champion in New York at just eight years old

• 40 mins

The 'bride and groom of the Syrian revolution鈥�

Noura and Bassel's secret prison wedding and their struggle for freedom in Syria

• 44 mins

Sewing to protest in a Chilean prison camp

Student Cristina Zamora found courage in creativity when she was taken from her baby

• 26 mins

Disco and drama: the story of Ride On Time

Worldwide fame came at a moral price for an Italian DJ who made a huge 1980s dance hit

• 44 mins

The girl who cycled her father 1,200km to safety

When Covid hit, Jyoti Kumari and her injured dad had to return to their home village

• 44 mins

A descendant of chiefs: my long journey home

How Jesse Thistle, a homeless Indigenous man, found his identity and his calling

• 40 mins

The trans boxer learning the many ways to be a man

Thomas Page McBee wanted to understand the relationship between masculinity and violence

• 44 mins

Why 8 of us were sealed in a glass dome

Biosphere 2 was one of the most controversial human experiments of the 20th century

• 26 mins

My soldier dad's goodbye tape

How Tricia Davies Nearn got to know a father lost in war

• 44 mins

Becoming South Africa's first black rugby captain

Siya Kolisi's journey from a poor South African township to Rugby World Cup victory

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I bought a ghost town - then got trapped there

Brent Underwood was snowed in at an abandoned California mining town with a haunting past

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My father and our time machine

Creating a play for my theatre obsessed father, before he lost his memory

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Sealed in a glass dome and running out of oxygen

Biosphere 2 was an audacious experiment to see if humans could live in space

• 26 mins

Documenting my cellmates' names in blood and rust

Mansour Omari risked his life to record the names of his cellmates in a Syrian prison

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How the tigress of basketball fought back

Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed

• 44 mins

Life without parole: Our fight for freedom

A mother鈥檚 life sentence for a drug offence and the young lawyer who promised to free her

• 40 mins

Life without parole: A call from the president

Would Brittany K. Barnett ever be able to free Sharanda Jones from her life sentence?

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Vietnam's first family of rock鈥榥鈥檙oll

How a bunch of pre-teen kids became the biggest rock 'n' roll band in wartime Saigon

• 26 mins

My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners

How a black Victorian footballer led Malik Al Nasir to discover his own complex history

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Surviving a chemical attack by a doomsday cult

How a bag leaking sarin in Tokyo led Atsushi Sakahara to seek answers from a cult member

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A star in her teens, a star in her seventies

How Bettye Lavette found and lost her music career five times

• 40 mins

'This is what a barrister looks like'

Alexandra Wilson is a young black woman changing the face of Britain鈥檚 legal system

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I discovered my dad was a best-selling sex writer

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

• 26 mins

Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star

How personal loss and violent conflict shaped the career of Panshak Zamani aka Ice Prince

• 44 mins

My ancestors changed the lives of slaves in the US

Nettie Washington Douglass unites the bloodlines of two ex-slaves who became iconic names

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We found our baby on the subway

The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station

• 40 mins

Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs

How do you get Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to play in a warzone?

• 44 mins

Why I didn鈥檛 make a sound for 12 years

Marie McCreadie on her agony becoming mute at 13 and her shock and joy learning the cause

• 26 mins

Abducted in war, saving lives in peace

Aminata Conteh-Biger was one of thousands of women abducted in Sierra Leone鈥檚 civil war

• 44 mins