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Love, loss and my unlikely romance with Oliver Sacks

After losing his partner, Bill Hayes found love again with neurologist Oliver Sacks

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Latifa and Mohamed: A reunion through dance

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

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How almost dying on a migrant boat gave me a new purpose

After a perilous journey from Senegal, Baye Seyni S猫ne set up a school to stop migration

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The 鈥楰ing of Beer鈥� dismantling racism

Sir Geoff Palmer revolutionised brewing and became Scotland鈥檚 first black professor

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Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history

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

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Thirty-eight days: A family adrift in the Pacific

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

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Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock 'n' roll star

A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam鈥檚 forgotten musical legacy

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A rebel with an oud: Inventing a future for Lebanon

Bassam Jalgha鈥檚 love of music and engineering made him a TV star and gave him hope

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Vet at the end of the Earth

Joe Hollins escaped childhood restriction to find freedom looking after animals

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Olympic gymnast and representative of life on Earth

An image of Cathy Rigby is on board a Voyager space probe to teach aliens about humans

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I was a surrogate mum to a parrot chick to save it from extinction

Argentinian Marianela Masat made history when red-and-green macaws were born in the wild

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Going undercover in a cartel鈥檚 wild prison-HQ

Venezuelan journalist Ronna R铆squez found a playground, a nightclub and a zoo inside

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The forbidden lovers who plotted a daring escape

Karl-Heinz and Hedi were kept apart by the Iron Curtain and the East German secret police

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Finding a rare portrait, and the boy hidden in its paint

Art collector Jeremy Simien鈥檚 quest to find a lost portrait and a vanished, enslaved boy

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My life as rock's first female roadie

Tana Douglas was rock's first female roadie but hid a monumental secret to fit in

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Lessons of an Afghan girl disguised as a boy for ten years

Nilofar says the freedoms of her 鈥榖oyhood鈥� still define her as an Afghan woman

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'Russia formed me' - The odyssey of a people-trafficked poet

Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was taken from Cameroon to Moscow

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The 'five careers' of Bettye Lavette

The rocky road from her first hit at age 16 to global recognition at 63

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The ballet secret that got father and son grooving again

When artist Jamie Ross discovered his dad鈥檚 hidden dance career, their bond was revived

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Memory isn't black and white: Girl on a Spacehopper

'The portrait you'd love to have of yourself as a child' 鈥� but who is she?

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Fighting for my brother, Egypt鈥檚 most famous political prisoner, part 1

Alaa and Sanaa became icons of Egypt鈥檚 revolution, but their biggest battle was to come

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Fighting for my brother, Egypt鈥檚 most famous political prisoner, part 2

A family bond unbroken by prison, Sanaa won鈥檛 give up until her brother Alaa is free

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Milli Vanilli: Story of a pop Scandal

Fab Morvan was part of Milli Vanilli when the pop band's secret came to light

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The lost hiker who said goodbye with his hat

Ed Rosenthal got lost in the desert in the middle of a heatwave

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Ghana's first photojournalist who found fame in his 90s

James Barnor's work had fallen into obscurity but then came a surprise revival.

• 26 mins

Plans and dreams: The adventures of a wandering guitarist

Growing up poor in Uganda, musician Jon Muq was short on plans, but always big on dreams

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Reconnecting with the boy in the picture - me

When Edel Rodriguez left Cuba he had no idea he was becoming part of history

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An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning

How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief

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The wipeout that nearly killed me

Surfer Owen Wright was on track to become World Champion when he was hit by a giant wave

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'A dream is a dream': the man who refused to give up

Solomon Lefakane longed to become a doctor, but apartheid South Africa tried to stop him

• 26 mins