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Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending

Raised by addicts, Dr Katriona O'Sullivan defied the odds to become a university lecturer

• 39 mins

'Don't anger the monster', part 1

Rowena Chiu on surviving the Hollywood sexual predator Harvey Weinstein

• 36 mins

'Don't anger the monster', part 2

Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein

• 33 mins

Teenage dreams on the Indian Ocean

At the age of 13 Laura Dekker fought for her right to sail solo around the world

• 40 mins

He was almost a mass shooter 鈥� an act of kindness stopped him

Aaron Stark now works to raise awareness around why mass attacks happen

• 42 mins

Love, war, and the cutting room floor

Mariam and Mohammed are Yemeni filmmakers who turned the lens on their own relationship

• 41 mins

How I survived a pirate hijack

Marine engineer Chirag Bahri was trapped for eight gruelling months on a chemical tanker

• 41 mins

Who is this kneeling man?

My search for the truth about my father and Martin Luther King鈥檚 assassination

• 54 mins

I save chimpanzees and they've saved me

Stany Nyandwi's rescued chimpanzees helped him through war and loneliness

• 39 mins

Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 1

Immigrant teen Tariq Mehmood led a movement to resist violent racism in 1970s Britain

• 41 mins

Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 2

Self-defence is no offence: how anti-racist activist Tariq Mehmood made UK legal history

• 40 mins

The woman who fell from the sky, part 1

Tony Osornio would go to dangerous extremes to keep skydiving

• 40 mins

The woman who fell from the sky, part 2

How a jump changed daring parachutist Tony Osornio's life forever

• 38 mins

Indiana Jones: The kids who remade a blockbuster

In 1982, two Mississippi boys recreated a $22m film, shot-for-shot, on their pocket money

• 40 mins

Miracle on the ocean floor

Harrison Okene spent three days trapped in an air pocket in a sunken ship

• 40 mins

The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 1

A bond between brothers, a coming-out story, and an international song contest

• 44 mins

The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2

From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality

• 43 mins

Dancing in the womb

A mother, a son, and the discovery of a shared dream

• 44 mins

The Godmother of Beirut's nightlife

Under the boot of the Syrian army, Nicole Moudaber brought raves to Lebanon

• 38 mins

Bringing home the prime minister鈥檚 gold tooth

Juliana Lumumba had to fight to reclaim the remains of her father, Patrice Lumumba.

• 38 mins

"My friends were arrested, or simply disappeared"

Tahir Izgil is a Uyghur poet who lived through a Chinese state clampdown

• 35 mins

38 days: a family adrift in the Pacific

The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast

• 46 mins

Love, Loss and 'Project 22'

Fleur Pierets and Julian Boom wanted to wed in every country that allowed gay marriage

• 41 mins

Brazil's loneliest fan and his footballing fairytale

Tiago Rech went viral when he was the only supporter in the stands at his club's game

• 38 mins

The fisherman and the 'spy whale'

Joar Hesten's mission to save a whale rumoured to have escaped from the Russian navy

• 40 mins

Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure

Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in

• 30 mins

Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge

Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in

• 27 mins

Unmasking my best friend

Reality TV producer Johnathan found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up

• 37 mins

Introducing Amazing Sport Stories

Sport but not as you know it. A brand new sports storytelling podcast

• 3 mins

Scams and poetry in Moscow鈥檚 underbelly

Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was trafficked from Cameroon to Russia

• 37 mins