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"I'm a fighter": The Dalit lawyer taking on the caste system

Manjula Pradeep is an Indian activist helping other Dalit women fight caste prejudice

• 17 mins

People used to stare at me. I fight back with my paintbrush

How disabled artist Riva Lehrer's portraits challenge myths about disability

• 23 mins

Miss Pat: The Chinese-Jamaican matriarch of reggae

Patricia Chin created a musical empire that started in a Kingston grocery store

• 40 mins

I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped

Li Jingzhi鈥檚 child was abducted in 1988. They were finally reunited 32 years later

• 26 mins

Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history

Grace M. Cho learned to cook traditional Korean food to comfort her traumatised mother

• 32 mins

The man and the shark

When a shark got a hook caught in its throat, a diver intervened

• 17 mins

The medical textbook that inspired me to flee my homeland

Waheed Arian left war-torn Afghanistan to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor

• 34 mins

'Honour' made my father a murderer

Amina鈥檚 father brutally attacked her and her sister for 鈥榮haming鈥� their Jordanian family

• 39 mins

'Love finds a way' - a bond that overcame decades of separation

Jeanne's family opposed her relationship with Steve. They split, but she never forgot him

• 29 mins

The Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok star

Lily Ebert survived Auschwitz. Now she shares her story with millions of followers online

• 34 mins

Hostage: A spider, starvation and solitude in the desert

Edith Blais was kidnapped by armed militants and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days

• 61 mins

Harvard Law School鈥檚 first Deafblind graduate

While Haben Girma was at Harvard she developed new technology to help her communicate

• 18 mins

I still believe I'm lucky even after breaking my neck

Ed Jackson almost died after he mistakenly dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool

• 40 mins

Fighting the apartheid my grandfather created

Wilhelm Verwoerd鈥檚 grandfather was the prime minister of South Africa in the 1960s

• 26 mins

The Jewish prisoner, the treasure hunters and the secret diary

Menachem Kaiser鈥檚 family quest led to a top-secret underground Nazi city

• 39 mins

Matt Goss: Life and loss in a superstar boy band

The Bros lead singer on fame, fans, and what happened after the pop bubble burst

• 40 mins

My anonymous teen story became a playground sensation

In 2005 a London schoolgirl uploaded a story to her blog that took on a life of its own

• 23 mins

The bionic gloves that brought music back to me

Joao Carlos Martins thought he'd never play piano again, then he was gifted bionic gloves

• 22 mins

The choir without vocal cords

The Belgian chorister-turned-doctor who conducts a choir for people without vocal cords

• 39 mins

Why my parents sent my brothers to live in North Korea

When Yonghi Yang was six, her parents made a choice the family have lived with ever since

• 23 mins

The teenager who baked her way out of a crisis

When Kitty Tait was struggling with her mental health, she opened a bakery

• 13 mins

The 'deepest man on earth'

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

• 27 mins

The cult, the crocodile and my journey back to love

Juliana Buhring's search for true love would catapult her into the record books

• 40 mins

The chicken who sailed the world

Guirec Soud茅e sailed around the world with just his chicken Monique for company

• 39 mins

My real-life Cuban dance romance

JoAnn Jansen learned to dance in the arms of a revolutionary 鈥� now she teaches film stars

• 40 mins

From 'half-nerd' to Hong Kong student leader

For democracy campaigner Nathan Law, the important thing is not to hate himself

• 41 mins

The unsung pioneer of reggae's golden age

How Leroy Sibbles of The Heptones created some of the most influential rhythms in reggae

• 24 mins

I was blamed for the 9/11 attacks

Virginia Buckingham ran the Boston airport from which two of the hijacked planes took off

• 39 mins

My sister Banaz - killed for loving the wrong man

Payzee Mahmod on the tragedy that broke her family and her campaign to end child marriage

• 39 mins

The father and daughter finding closure after a plane crash

Gonzalo and Michelle Dussan were two of only four survivors of a plane crash in 1995

• 32 mins