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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

• 39 mins

A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together

Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted

• 43 mins

Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape

After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out

• 41 mins

My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'

Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run

• 38 mins

Fugees Family: the football team who became my life

The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger

• 43 mins

The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel

Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past

• 40 mins

Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison

Holly鈥檚 life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean

• 41 mins

I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

• 42 mins

Behind the locked door

The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children

• 48 mins

How to talk to guerillas

Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them

• 37 mins

My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence

Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape

• 40 mins

Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud

Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off

• 49 mins

Balochistan鈥檚 mystery benjo man, part 1

The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument

• 40 mins

Balochistan鈥檚 mystery benjo man, part 2

How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star

• 38 mins

How I convinced police my dad was a murderer

On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence

• 50 mins

Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo

Mistaken for a terrorist, Ahmed Rabbani was detained without trial. Art became his refuge

• 41 mins

Lost in lion country and saved by Spam

Two friends stranded in the desert, only a discarded tin held the key to their escape

• 44 mins

The Hiroshima survivor who's still shouting for peace

Setsuko Thurlow knows what nuclear war looks like

• 59 mins

Kill or be killed: A climber鈥檚 dilemma, part 1

Beth Rodden was on the expedition of her dreams in Kyrgyzstan when she was kidnapped

• 33 mins

Kill or be killed: a climber鈥檚 dilemma, part 2

Beth Rodden escaped her kidnappers, but the moment would haunt her in the years to follow

• 31 mins

The man who finds water in the desert

Why Alain Gachet quit a lucrative career in oil to search for water underground

• 36 mins

My father Faiz: Pakistan鈥檚 revolutionary poet, part 1

Salima Hashmi grew up with puppets and poetry, inspiring her own career in performance

• 40 mins

My father Faiz: Pakistan鈥檚 revolutionary poet, part 2

How Salima Hashmi and Faiz defied a dictatorship through satire and poetry

• 40 mins

Dead Man Walking: The US nun who took on the death penalty

When Helen Prejean wrote to a death row inmate, she had no idea what was coming

• 45 mins

'It's much easier for them to create a spy than catch a spy'

Anoosheh Ashoori was imprisoned in Iran, having been falsely accused of espionage

• 40 mins

The family hiding in the bush after leaking Russian secrets

Nick Stride said too much about his former boss, one of Putin鈥檚 closest allies

• 40 mins

Britain鈥檚 infected blood scandal, my quest for the truth

When he was four, Jason Evans鈥� dad died after contracting HIV from contaminated blood

• 41 mins

The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 1

As a survivor of Sudan's civil war, Salva Dut's will to keep going has taken him far

• 38 mins

The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 2

Salva Dut returns to Sudan to find his dad and decides to get clean water to his village

• 25 mins

Buddhist chants and Ibiza trance: A Spanish boy鈥檚 odyssey

Osel Hita Torres was a baby when he was recognised as a reincarnated spiritual leader

• 40 mins