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Becoming South Africa's first black rugby captain

Siya Kolisi's journey from a poor South African township to Rugby World Cup victory

• 44 mins

I bought a ghost town - then got trapped there

Brent Underwood was snowed in at an abandoned California mining town with a haunting past

• 40 mins

My father and our time machine

Creating a play for my theatre obsessed father, before he lost his memory

• 44 mins

Sealed in a glass dome and running out of oxygen

Biosphere 2 was an audacious experiment to see if humans could live in space

• 26 mins

Documenting my cellmates' names in blood and rust

Mansour Omari risked his life to record the names of his cellmates in a Syrian prison

• 44 mins

How the tigress of basketball fought back

Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed

• 44 mins

Life without parole: Our fight for freedom

A mother鈥檚 life sentence for a drug offence and the young lawyer who promised to free her

• 40 mins

Life without parole: A call from the president

Would Brittany K. Barnett ever be able to free Sharanda Jones from her life sentence?

• 44 mins

Vietnam's first family of rock鈥榥鈥檙oll

How a bunch of pre-teen kids became the biggest rock 'n' roll band in wartime Saigon

• 26 mins

My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners

How a black Victorian footballer led Malik Al Nasir to discover his own complex history

• 44 mins

Surviving a chemical attack by a doomsday cult

How a bag leaking sarin in Tokyo led Atsushi Sakahara to seek answers from a cult member

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A star in her teens, a star in her seventies

How Bettye Lavette found and lost her music career five times

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'This is what a barrister looks like'

Alexandra Wilson is a young black woman changing the face of Britain鈥檚 legal system

• 44 mins

I discovered my dad was a best-selling sex writer

Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books

• 26 mins

Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star

How personal loss and violent conflict shaped the career of Panshak Zamani aka Ice Prince

• 44 mins

My ancestors changed the lives of slaves in the US

Nettie Washington Douglass unites the bloodlines of two ex-slaves who became iconic names

• 44 mins

We found our baby on the subway

The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station

• 40 mins

Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs

How do you get Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to play in a warzone?

• 44 mins

Why I didn鈥檛 make a sound for 12 years

Marie McCreadie on her agony becoming mute at 13 and her shock and joy learning the cause

• 26 mins

Abducted in war, saving lives in peace

Aminata Conteh-Biger was one of thousands of women abducted in Sierra Leone鈥檚 civil war

• 44 mins

The black reverend who bought a Ku Klux Klan shop

How Reverend David Kennedy fought to shut down a shop selling racist paraphernalia

• 44 mins

Farming and Phil Collins taught me about love

Learning lessons about love and life from a ewe and a lamb

• 40 mins

The actor who鈥檚 been saying the same lines for 32 years

Catherine Russell has played the same part more than 13,000 times 鈥� without a sick day

• 44 mins

The downfall of 'The Screamers'

Atlantis was a fringe psychotherapy commune who moved to guerrilla controlled Colombia

• 26 mins

The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth

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

• 44 mins

A dangerous obsession

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

• 44 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

• 40 mins

The Guatemalan grandparents storming the disco

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

• 44 mins

Adventures 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

• 44 mins