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Swimming blind: my journey to self-acceptance

Melanie Barratt, first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum’s ashes

• 38 mins

The former wrestler who wants your brain

Wrestling with Hulk Hogan and The Rock, Chris Nowinski’s dream job ended after an injury

• 36 mins

Painting faces in search of myself and my mum

Separated from his mum as a boy, Juano Diaz drew her face over and over again

• 39 mins

Searching for green in a concrete world

After losing loved ones to violent crime, Kwesia X found peace in nature

• 41 mins

The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi

Lothar Hermann found out his neighbour was ‘architect of the Holocaust’ Adolf Eichmann

• 38 mins

The true story behind Brazil’s Oscar winner,ÌýI’m Still Here

Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men took his father away

• 33 mins

José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic

The surprising life story of the ex-President of Uruguay who died this month

• 37 mins

The mortician, the "werewolf" and the keeper of brains

Alexandra Morton-Hayward unlocks the secrets of the human brain but her own betrays her

• 42 mins

The man who woke up in the future

When Dr Pier Piccioni woke up after a car accident, 12 years of his life had been erased

• 39 mins

The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98

Opal Lee walked to Washington to demand a new national holiday marking the end of slavery

• 36 mins

Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony

Judith Obina helped bring peace to Uganda with a secret weapon: Joseph Kony’s mother

• 39 mins

The penguin that followed a teacher home

Tom Michell on the lessons he learned from his adopted rescue bird

• 39 mins

Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home

A promise to return to his mother helped Antonio Salazar-Hobson through his darkest hours

• 41 mins

Why I wore iron underwear on Kabul’s busiest street

Kubra Khademi’s protest against sexual violence brought an Afghan street to a standstill

• 40 mins