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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

How we pulled off 'the rescue of the century'

Vernon Unsworth oversaw the huge operation to save 12 Thai schoolboys trapped in a cave

• 22 mins

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Shari Ho from Taiwan was sold as a slave by her father when she was just seven years old

• 22 mins

How cooking landed me in a Syrian prison

Chef Majeda Khouri got arrested for cooking food for displaced people in Damascus

• 16 mins

The painful secret I hid from my twin

When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them

• 26 mins

My child and spouse came out as trans

The story of how a family coped with two seismic revelations and are now closer than ever

• 38 mins

I stole a plane to escape the military

53 years ago Theo Van Eijck flew from Malta to Libya to start a new life

• 19 mins

The rescue dog that rescued me

Sean Laidlaw rescued Barrie from Syria in 2018 and now she helps him to overcome his PTSD

• 17 mins

The struggle of Soweto's 'Lion King'

It was a long road to the recording studio for Lebo M who wrote songs for the hit movie

• 23 mins

The making of the 'Wish Man'

How a poor boy who was abandoned by his mother grew up to grant children鈥檚 dying wishes

• 26 mins

The priest who came out at 91

After a life of hiding his sexuality, former priest Stanley Underhill finally feels free

• 16 mins

Joining the racist gang that tormented me

Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joined a racist gang as a teenager for his own protection

• 22 mins

The diver trapped inside an iceberg

Jill Heinerth was exploring submerged frozen caves when crisis hit

• 20 mins

The rebel lawyer transforming Malaysia

Cecil Rajendra set up the first legal aid clinics in shacks

• 22 mins

The 'deepest man on earth'

Herbert Nitsch broke the record for deepest free dive but fell asleep on the way back up

• 26 mins

Why I love the woman who killed my son

Tiki Finlayson forgave the woman who killed her son in a drink-driving accident

• 23 mins

The inside story of a Muslim drag queen

Amrou Al-Kadhi on their complex identity: Muslim, gay, non-binary drag queen

• 32 mins

Finding the whale that nearly killed me

The epic search for the whale that landed on a filmmaker鈥檚 kayak and changed his life

• 20 mins

Life as the UK's first black TV reporter

Broadcasting legend Sir Trevor McDonald looks back on his life and career

• 39 mins

A mother's battle for her son's education

At risk of losing her son Virginia Walden Ford fought to change the US education system

• 26 mins

Remembrance 2019: in love and under siege

For Remembrance Day, we're re-visiting this remarkable story of love in war-zone

• 18 mins