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From homeless kid to hero of Africa's biggest slum

Kennedy Odede is known by some as the unofficial mayor of Kibera

• 22 mins

The love story behind a lost Leonardo

How a long-lost painting was restored, attributed to da Vinci and sold for $450,000,000

• 23 mins

The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons

Why a terminally ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal

• 26 mins

How not to be a rock star

Cora Bissett got a five album deal when she was just 17, but then faced a huge backlash

• 18 mins

Dr Palipana, the quadriplegic ER medic

How a car accident turned Dinesh Palipana into a quadriplegic emergency doctor

• 19 mins

I raised 1,000 children but gave my own away

Sindhutai Sapkal is known as the 鈥榤other of orphans鈥�, but had to give her own child away

• 17 mins

The acid attack meant for someone else

Andreas Christopheros had acid thrown in his face in a case of mistaken identity

• 22 mins

Discovering my 鈥榤um鈥� stole me at birth

In 1997 a baby is stolen from a Cape Town hospital, 17 years later she learns the truth

• 26 mins

How I fixed my own brain

Sarah Vallance鈥檚 fight to put her life together after suffering traumatic brain injury

• 20 mins

The TV action hero fighting bullies

Why German action star Carsten Stahl became an anti-bullying crusader

• 14 mins

Modern birth: Why I gave my sister my womb

Lolita W盲sterlund was born without a uterus, so her sister Linda offered up hers

• 37 mins

Modern birth: The fertility doctor who impregnated his patients

Matthew White and Heather Woock found out they were siblings and uncovered a scandal

• 39 mins

Modern birth: Having a dead man鈥檚 baby

Liat Malka fulfilled a dead man鈥檚 dream of having a baby by using his sperm and IVF

• 23 mins

Modern birth: The man who had a baby

Freddy McConnell is a transgender man who decided to have a baby

• 27 mins

'Honey, I brought home a crocodile'

Gilberto 鈥楥hito鈥� Shedden adopted a wild crocodile in Costa Rica

• 17 mins

I defaced a picture of Assad and knew I had to flee

Reading Virginia Woolf inspired a Syrian woman to lead protests against the president

• 22 mins

My partner killed our baby

Hera McLeod has used her grief and anger to become an advocate for child protection

• 32 mins

Derren Brown: the magician鈥檚 secrets

Illusionist Derren Brown听on how he used magic to overcome his social awkwardness

• 22 mins

The false confessions of a serial killer

Thomas Quick was Sweden鈥檚 most notorious serial killer. Then he retracted his confessions

• 26 mins

Scammed by my friend, the fake heiress

Rachel DeLoache Williams was conned out of tens of thousands of dollars by Anna Sorokin

• 24 mins

Learning to sing by copying divas on DVDs

Rising star Vuvu Mpufo discovered opera as a teenager at her home in South Africa

• 17 mins

Exposing the scandal that's cost me my life

Vicky Phelan on the medical scandal that gave 221 women inaccurate smear test results

• 24 mins

London bus driver fighting crime with music

Justin Finlayson turned his bus into a music studio to keep youths out of trouble

• 23 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

The accident that taught me how to die

After being electrocuted by 11,000 volts, Dr BJ Miller now devotes his life to the dying

• 23 mins

Pirates stole my son

Howie Truong was separated from his baby son Kai as they fled Vietnam by boat

• 22 mins

Curing my own deadly disease

David Fajgenbaum was nicknamed 'The Beast' before he became ill with a deadly disease

• 22 mins

Mental Health Day: Dancing and delusions

Dancer Kevin Turner and his mum Avis tell us how they coped with his bipolar disorder

• 23 mins

How Superman saved my life

Screenwriter Joe Straczynski wished for a hero to rescue him from his abusive childhood

• 26 mins

The Afghan physio who survived a landmine

Shukrullah Zeerak wanted to help others after he lost his leg in a landmine explosion

• 19 mins