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I was surfing world champion but no one knew my name

Pauline Menczer won her title in 1993 with the odds stacked against her in every way

• 40 mins

The runaway child bride who changed a village

Dorcas Zoogah resisted child marriage and now helps other young women do the same

• 40 mins

The immigration lawyer who hid her undocumented past

Qian Julie Wang started working on immigration cases and faced a dilemma

• 26 mins

Detainee EML019: My escape from Manus

How Prison Break – his favourite TV show – inspired Jaivet Ealom’s daring bid for freedom

• 40 mins

Becoming Blair 'the Flair': A boxer on the run, part 1

From Beverly Hills to hiding from the law with his dad, Blair Cobbs has seen it all

• 40 mins

Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2

Back in the US Blair Cobbs’ boxing dream seems out of reach. Will he get a lucky break?

• 40 mins

The master of disaster

What Randall Bell learned about trauma from the world’s most infamous crime scenes

• 40 mins

The shocking truth about my three dads

DNA tests revealed that Eve Wiley's biological father was not the man she thought

• 26 mins

The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by a bullet

Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers

• 40 mins

Tanzania’s hip-hop politician

Joseph Mbilinyi pioneered Swahili rap and then turned to politics, but ended up in jail

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'That would be my freedom, that would be my escape'

John Büültjens' BMX bike helped free him from the scars of a traumatic childhood

• 40 mins

‘I have to stop it’: The hero of the Club Q shooting

US veteran Richard Fierro faced his biggest test when a shooter threatened his family

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A footballing legend's secret addiction

How Steph Shilton saved husband Peter from a 45-year gambling addiction

• 26 mins

I ran with the men, and changed history

Kathrine Switzer was attacked for running in the men-only 1967 Boston Marathon

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The Nigerian farmer who sued an oil giant

Eric Barizaa Dooh took Shell to court over pollution in a case that stunned the world

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Legends and lies: The perilous life of an undercover cop

Creating convincing characters was a survival skill Liam Thomas learned as a little boy

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Grandma at the Grammys: From seamstress to singing star at 80

Abuela Irma Silva’s folksong duets with her grandson Jorge led to unexpected success

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Delia Ephron: ‘I fell into my own romantic comedy’

How writer Delia Ephron found herself in a love story like her hit film You’ve Got Mail

• 26 mins

The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1

Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent

• 40 mins

The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 2

ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.

• 40 mins

The cassette tapes that let me hear my abducted parents' voices

Paula Mónaco Felipe was days old when her parents were taken by the Argentine military

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My fight to sail around the world at 14

Dutch sailor Laura Dekker and the legal battle and media storm that surrounded her voyage

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The Cuban dad who became a lifeline for Chernobyl's children

Manuel Barriuso was a medical translator in an historic humanitarian operation

• 26 mins

A dad’s loss and a son’s vision – our LA riots film

How Justin convinced his dad to act again and capture a Korean story of the LA riots

• 40 mins

The Biospherians: Why we were sealed in a giant dome

Biosphere 2 was one of the most controversial human experiments of the 20th century

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Intergenerational: Two stories of heritage lost and found

A playwright in search of the truth about his father; and a musician’s lockdown discovery

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Gangs, raids and a mum undercover: The search for my daughter

Susana Trimarco infiltrated Argentina’s sexual slavery rings to look for Marita Verón

• 40 mins

The master of disaster

What Randall Bell learned about trauma from the world’s most infamous crime scenes

• 26 mins

The Black pioneers of modern emergency medicine

John Moon joined a team of paramedics in the 60s who revolutionised the ambulance service

• 40 mins

Revolution in a test tube: Inventing the home pregnancy test

In 1960s New York, Meg Crane fought for a pregnancy test women could do themselves

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