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The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth

How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband

• 32 mins

A dangerous obsession

Why women鈥檚 rights advocate Julie Lalonde stayed silent about being stalked for a decade

• 39 mins

Half a rotten apple: growing up in 70s China

Writer Xiaolu Guo on a childhood in the aftermath of China鈥檚 Cultural Revolution

• 39 mins

The Guatemalan grandparents storming the disco

Love, grief and fame: how disco has shaped the lives of Favio Vasquez and Maria Moreno

• 18 mins

Adventures of the of the bootleg-busting brothers

Rob and Jason Holmes were first recruited as undercover agents when they were children

• 26 mins

The black child raised by white supremacists

How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing

• 41 mins

On the frontline against chemical warfare

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon braves bombs and bullets investigating chemical weapon attacks

• 24 mins

I set up a radio station for aliens

Electronics whizz John Shepherd spent years trying to contact alien life, with music

• 24 mins

The stay-at-home mum who became a bodybuilding star

Kiran Dembla is an Indian celebrity trainer 鈥� but it's a long way from where she started

• 21 mins

The celestial treasure hunters

An unlikely duo鈥檚 insatiable and dangerous hunt for space rocks

• 26 mins

Painting for our lives

Three fascinating portraits of people who used a paintbrush to transform their lives

• 40 mins

'She came back to the clinic dancing'

The Sierra Leonean doctor whose life-changing work earned her screen time with the Queen

• 24 mins

Revelations from El Salvador that healed my family

Discovering the history of his homeland helped Roberto Lovato understand his father

• 36 mins

The twists and turns of the Rubik's Cube

Meet champion cuber Feliks Zemdegs, and the inventor behind the puzzle Erno Rubik

• 26 mins

CJ Daugherty鈥檚 world of literary escapism

Books were the best-selling author鈥檚 鈥渕agic carpet ride out鈥� of an abusive childhood home

• 41 mins

The wild ride of a Tamil comic book pioneer

The Indian comic book enthusiast bringing his favourite characters to a Tamil audience.

• 22 mins

James Rhodes: My love letter to music

The British pianist is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Music became his lifeline

• 39 mins

Unmasking a horror film icon

Kane Hodder is best known as on-screen killer Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th films

• 38 mins

In bed with an assassin

Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret.

• 26 mins

A scandal at the Oscars: Marlon Brando & me

Millions watched Sacheen Littlefeather refuse an Oscar in a stand against stereotyping

• 31 mins

Skin: the scream that made me a rock star

How Skin, lead singer of the ground-breaking British band, Skunk Anansie, found her voice

• 40 mins

Fire, ice and thunder: a chase on the high seas

Taking down the Thunder, the world's most notorious poaching ship

• 38 mins

The IS orphans rescued by their grandpa

He couldn鈥檛 save his daughter after she joined IS but could he rescue her seven children?

• 26 mins

Separated from my kids at the US-Mexico border

Guatemalan Rosayra Pablo Cruz was helped by a surprise visitor while she was in detention

• 39 mins

A spy in the family

I was betrayed to the East German Secret Police

• 40 mins

The firefighting vets of Brazil

Carla Sassi and her team have been rescuing animals as wildfires burn around them

• 22 mins

Zero-gravity highs and history-making lows

Kathy Sullivan is a former US astronaut who has made history both at sea and in space

• 23 mins

The photo that exposed apartheid

The Soweto Uprisings and the story behind South Africa's most iconic photo.

• 26 mins

Fighting plastic pollution in paradise

How Kristal Ambrose rallied a group of kids to get a plastic ban in the Bahamas

• 22 mins

Speaking through music: Me and my non-verbal sister

Ian Brennan鈥檚 sister, who has Down's syndrome, taught him to communicate through music

• 23 mins