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

Behind the locked door
The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children

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

Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
Holly’s life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean

The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel
Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past

Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger

My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run

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

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

Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy