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I set up a radio station for aliens
Electronics whizz John Shepherd spent years trying to contact alien life, with music

On the frontline against chemical warfare
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon braves bombs and bullets investigating chemical weapon attacks

The black child raised by white supremacists
How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing

Adventures of the of the bootleg-busting brothers
Rob and Jason Holmes were first recruited as undercover agents when they were children

The Guatemalan grandparents storming the disco
Love, grief and fame: how disco has shaped the lives of Favio Vasquez and Maria Moreno

Half a rotten apple: growing up in 70s China
Writer Xiaolu Guo on a childhood in the aftermath of China’s Cultural Revolution

A dangerous obsession
Why women’s rights advocate Julie Lalonde stayed silent about being stalked for a decade

The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth
How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband

The downfall of "The Screamers"
Atlantis was a fringe psychotherapy commune who moved to guerrilla controlled Colombia

The actor who’s been saying the same lines for 32 years
Catherine Russell has played the same part more than 13,000 times – without a sick day