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The epic road trip that taught me how to live again

After surviving cancer in her twenties, Suleika Jaouad felt she'd forgotten how to live.

• 40 mins

The first beauty queen in a free South Africa

Basetsana Kumalo was crowned Miss South Africa after the country's first democratic vote

• 26 mins

I stole a safe, and faced the dilemma of my life

The burglar who discovered a terrible crime - but risked life in prison if he reported it

• 39 mins

I hit puberty, then burned down my family home

As a teenager Nikki Owen's mental health and behaviour quickly spiralled out of control

• 40 mins

The sinking of a pirate radio ship

Nick Richards was a DJ with an offshore radio station, but the ship was falling apart

• 41 mins

The heavy metal boys from the dump

The heavy metal band who grew up on Cambodia's biggest rubbish dump

• 26 mins

Finding healing in the sea that took my family

Geraldine Mullan swims to remember her family who died when their car veered into the sea

• 22 mins

I went backpacking and became an accidental celebrity

Dan Tyler left England to get away from it all. He ended up finding a new course in life

• 18 mins

A footballing legend's gambling secret

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

• 30 mins

Addicted to my son's addiction

David and Nic Sheff, whose struggle with addiction inspired the film Beautiful Boy

• 26 mins

The immigration lawyer who hid her undocumented past

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

• 34 mins

My teacher became my torturer

Mirsad Solakovic was just 13 when his teacher came to school and pointed a gun at him

• 30 mins

"The camera was my shield" - a refugee films his journey

The footage Hassan Akkad captured would help make his name as a filmmaker

• 43 mins

The inside story of a Muslim drag queen

Amrou al-Kadhi on their complex identity - Muslim, gay, non-binary drag queen

• 31 mins

The Somali prisoner, the secret language and the life-saving book

Mohamed Barud鈥檚 fellow prisoner tapped out Tolstoy's Anna Karenina through his cell wall

• 38 mins

Agent Orange: A Vietnamese grandmother's last battle

Tran To Nga is fighting to get compensation for victims of the toxic herbicide

• 29 mins

The man who (re)painted the Mona Lisa

Adebanji Alade recreated a masterpiece - but he's never seen the real thing

• 23 mins

The uncomfortable truth hidden in my DNA

Former policeman Hiram Johnson's quest to solve a family mystery

• 26 mins

鈥楤orn lucky鈥�: Escaping the Khmer Rouge

Sieu Do鈥檚 idyllic childhood took a brutal turn when he found himself in a labour camp

• 40 mins

The spy who pretended to be homeless

Tom Marcus went undercover as a homeless man to stop extremist attacks in Britain

• 23 mins

The locked-in boy and the brain experiment

Why neurologist Phil Kennedy experimented on his own healthy brain

• 40 mins

The secret that nearly destroyed our marriage

Cheryl was married to Bobby Love for 30 years before she found out the truth about him

• 39 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

• 26 mins

"I'm a fighter": The Dalit lawyer taking on the caste system

Manjula Pradeep is an Indian activist helping other Dalit women fight caste prejudice

• 17 mins

People used to stare at me. I fight back with my paintbrush

How disabled artist Riva Lehrer's portraits challenge myths about disability

• 23 mins

Miss Pat: The Chinese-Jamaican matriarch of reggae

Patricia Chin created a musical empire that started in a Kingston grocery store

• 40 mins

I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped

Li Jingzhi鈥檚 child was abducted in 1988. They were finally reunited 32 years later

• 26 mins

Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history

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

• 32 mins

The man and the shark

When a shark got a hook caught in its throat, a diver intervened

• 17 mins

The medical textbook that inspired me to flee my homeland

Waheed Arian left war-torn Afghanistan to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor

• 34 mins