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He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'

How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy when she needed it most

• 48 mins

I hit puberty, then burned down my family home

At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why

• 42 mins

The Palestinian tapes, part 1

Mo’min Swaitat’s magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette

• 33 mins

The Palestinian tapes, part 2

Disco, protest and poetry – Hanan and Riad’s story of making the Intifada album

• 34 mins

Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story

Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old

• 56 mins

Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"

Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family

• 23 mins

The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp

Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history

• 40 mins

Coming out as India’s first gay prince

Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society

• 39 mins

Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies

Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.

• 39 mins

Learning to live with the voices in my head

Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control

• 47 mins

The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses

From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya will stand up for herself, and you

• 41 mins

Breaking my addiction to war

Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop

• 43 mins

The mystery of the tartan twins

A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why

• 42 mins

Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 1

From Beverly Hills to hiding from the law with his dad, Blair’s seen it all

• 40 mins

Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2

In the ring, Blair finds calm amidst the chaos of his life

• 32 mins

Eyes on the prize: Pakistan’s first trans film star

Rejected by family and society, Alina Khan carved her own path to big screen fame

• 35 mins

I didn’t know I was part of an experiment

When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away

• 36 mins

The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by a bullet

Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers

• 39 mins

My life in seven swimming pools

Amjed’s determined to teach kids in Gaza to swim no matter how many pools he has to build

• 45 mins

Bringing the Muppets to Moscow

Natasha Lance Rogoff’s daunting task of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia

• 41 mins

The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1

Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent

• 40 mins

The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid: Part 2

ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.

• 41 mins

'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island

Tricks from a hit TV show held the key to Jaivet Ealom’s audacious bid for freedom

• 49 mins

'Brother. do. you. love. me.' The SMS that changed our lives

Brothers Manni and Reuben Coe, and the text that prompted a lockdown rescue mission

• 40 mins

Tanzania’s hip-hop politician

Joseph Mbilinyi pioneered Swahili rap and then turned to politics, but ended up in jail

• 40 mins

I was there the night Emmett Till was taken

Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction

• 41 mins

Lola the bare-knuckle drag queen

Martial arts kept him out of jail, but drag artistry made him whole

• 51 mins

Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending

Raised by addicts, Dr Katriona O'Sullivan defied the odds to become a university lecturer

• 39 mins

'Don't anger the monster', part 1

Rowena Chiu on surviving the Hollywood sexual predator Harvey Weinstein

• 36 mins

'Don't anger the monster', part 2

Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein

• 33 mins