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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

I learned my mum's identity via SMS

It would take My Huong decades to uncover the truth about her birth family in Vietnam

• 40 mins

My Falklands War: the woman with the white gloves

How a farmer ignored military threats and rallied her community to save injured soldiers

• 46 mins

Bonus podcast: The Conversation, 麻豆约拍 100 Women

Has the Covid-19 pandemic triggered change that could be seen as positive in the future?

• 49 mins

Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother

Born into folk music royalty, Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle

• 36 mins

The sailor and the pirate king

Indian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta

• 36 mins

The man behind Mindhunter: face to face with serial killers

John E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals

• 40 mins

The secretaries who inspired the hit movie 9 to 5

Karen Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash

• 26 mins

Becoming 'brothers' with my guard in Guantanamo Bay

How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie

• 38 mins

The 'Supervet': from bullies to bionic limbs

Noel Fitzpatrick is an Irish vet who makes ground-breaking bionic limbs for injured pets

• 23 mins

Who do you think you are?

Stories of people whose identities were a mystery begging to be solved

• 40 mins

The epic Arabic poem that was born in a stable

Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh began writing Uruk's Anthem while imprisoned in a stable

• 22 mins

鈥淭he best ending to 2020鈥�

...that I can possibly imagine.鈥� It鈥檚 time for the 麻豆约拍 Inspirations Awards.

• 3 mins

Discovering Stalin's million-dollar wine cellar

Wine merchant John Baker on trying to buy Josef Stalin's secret wine collection

• 34 mins