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My mother’s fake name and secret past

Justine Cowan's English mother invented a fictional childhood

• 40 mins

The daring prison escape of an Argentine footballer

Claudio Tamburrini used bed sheets and a metal bolt to escape imprisonment and torture

• 30 mins

Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell

Claire Martin was abandoned at two days old. For years she looked for blood relatives.

• 16 mins

The surfer who fought apartheid to become a world champion

Cass Collier learnt to surf on segregated beaches – now he's fighting apartheid's legacy

• 22 mins

How I sang for my freedom

Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run

• 38 mins

I was the sole survivor of a plane crash

Stranded on a mountain, 11-year-old Norman Ollestad had to find a way to survive alone

• 42 mins

The music star who was born into a cult

Musician Mikel Jollett grew up in Synanon, a drug rehabilitation programme-turned-cult

• 40 mins

Secrets of my family's lost café

Old photos of her grandfather's café led Meriel Schindler to some shocking family truths

• 40 mins

How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?

Jan Six is an art dealer whose ancestor was painted by the Dutch Master Rembrandt

• 31 mins

What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'

The true story behind an infamous social experiment

• 20 mins

The black ballerina who didn't give up

Julie Felix says she was told she was the wrong colour to be a swan

• 26 mins

What my father wouldn’t tell me

Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand the scars and silences of her revolutionary family

• 40 mins

Dancing behind bars in Burkina Faso

After dance helped Bougobali resist the urge to murder, he decided to teach prisoners too

• 23 mins

My forbidden love for a US soldier

What happens when an Iraqi student and a soldier from the invading US army fall in love?

• 39 mins

Going to sea to honour my son

Yayi Bayam Diouf's son was a fisherman who lost his life trying to get to Europe

• 19 mins

Rickie Lee Jones: Why music became my bridge to the world

The US singer hit the big time in her early 20s, winning a Grammy for her first album

• 39 mins

London’s revolutionary kiss-in

Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride

• 39 mins

The nightclub fire that rocked Romania

Following a blaze in a Bucharest club, a sports newspaper uncovered deadly corruption

• 29 mins

My big fake wedding: uncovering an outlandish deception

Benita and Paolo's was a whirlwind romance that turned into a nightmare

• 26 mins

Fighting to free my daughter from the Nxivm 'sex cult'

Catherine Oxenberg discovered her daughter India’s self-help group was a dangerous cult

• 43 mins

The perilous world of a ‘cult deprogrammer’

Rick Alan Ross went from selling cars to trying to rescue people from cults

• 40 mins

Keeping up with Australia's rebellious Buddhist nun

Robina Courtin went from being a radical feminist to martial arts expert to Buddhist nun

• 23 mins

Saving the songs of the Sahara

The defiant life of desert music pioneer Fadimata Walet Oumar

• 29 mins

The doctor treating children 8000 miles away

Afghan refugee Meena Said is saving the lives of children in her homeland

• 30 mins

‘Aids Angel’ – I gave love in a time of prejudice and fear

Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of HIV+ gay men abandoned by their families

• 40 mins

The spies in my house

Confronting the Stasi agent who watched me for fifteen years

• 26 mins

Andy Cole: Goals, glory and the battle for his life

Manchester United star Andy Cole went from top scorer to transplant survivor

• 31 mins

The quiet Louisiana grandma who became an environmental warrior

Sharon Lavigne campaigned to stop a plastics factory being built in her riverside parish

• 22 mins

Living without time: The cave experiment we didn't want to end

Fifteen people lived in darkness to see what it did to their perception of time

• 12 mins

A top Iranian chess umpire and her impossible decision

Shohreh Bayat was one of Asia’s top chess umpires until she was faced with an ultimatum

• 24 mins