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I was told I was the wrong colour to be a swan

Julie Felix says she was excluded from a ballet company because of the colour of her skin

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Bringing down a dictator

One lawyer’s perilous journey to bring a war criminal to justice

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Sin, sexuality and how Beyoncé became a lifeline

Writer Paul Mendez’s turbulent teenage life as a gay Jehovah’s Witness and RnB superfan

• 44 mins

The secret prison book written on toilet paper

Remembering the great Egyptian writer and feminist icon, Nawal el-Saadawi

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My 30-year fight for justice for my mum

Lee Lawrence was 11 when his mother was shot during a police raid on their home

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Singing for my murdered sister helps me heal

Opera singer Joshua Hopkins' musical journey to deal with the grief of losing his sister

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My life as a millennial Yoruba priestess

Omitonade’s world of deities, divination, and mobile phones

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My mission to save the 'Russian spy whale'

Fisherman Joar Hesten is trying to help a whale rumoured to have escaped the Russian navy

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From saving goals to saving lives

Former ice hockey star Clint Malarchuk nearly died three times, now he helps others

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I became a supermodel overnight and didn't know

As a teenager, Lisa Ray took some photos in India that made her an instant sensation

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My mother’s fake name and secret past

Justine Cowan's English mother invented a fictional childhood

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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

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The daring prison escape of an Argentine footballer

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

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Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell

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

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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

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How I sang for my freedom

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

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A plane crash survivor’s search for answers

Sole survivor Norman Ollestad returns to the crash site 27 years later

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The music star who was born into a cult

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

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Secrets of my family's lost café

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

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How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?

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

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What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'

The true story behind an infamous social experiment

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The black ballerina who didn't give up

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

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What my father wouldn’t tell me

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

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Dancing behind bars in Burkina Faso

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

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My forbidden love for a US soldier

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

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Going to sea to honour my son

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

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The diplomat turned detective: Hunting 'The Serpent'

An unlikely investigator on the trail of serial killer Charles Sobhraj

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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

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London’s revolutionary kiss-in

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

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I was a teenager at Auschwitz

Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus, now 91, was 14 when she was taken to a Nazi death camp.

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