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The Paralympian who was trapped inside her body

How Victoria Arlen swam for gold after years of being unable to speak or move

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The train driver asking men to open up about mental health

Heather Waugh is committed to preventing suicides

• 40 mins

I was the sole survivor of a plane crash at the age of 11

Stranded on a mountain, a young Norman Ollestad had to find a way to survive alone

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The 80s song that brought back my memories

A car accident wiped all of Thomas Leeds' memories and he had to start again

• 40 mins

'Horses saved my life' - how a boy from West Philly made polo history

A chance discovery catapulted Kareem Rosser into the elite world of polo.

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What Susan did on Death Row

Susan Kigula led a choir, got a degree and changed Ugandan law as she waited to be hanged

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Helping the drug addict who stole my dog to get into rehab

When Brayden Morton found the woman who stole his dog, he was determined to help her.

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The Omani football nerd who went from player to pundit

How Rumaitha Al Busaidi became the first female football commentator in the Arab world

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The criminal double life of a stage actor

Jack Charles is a venerated Aboriginal Australian actor, but he once had an addiction.

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I saw a smile on the suicide bomber's face

In 2006 a suicide truck bomb left Iraqi teenager Qusay Hussein severely injured and blind

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Discovering my sister's inner world

A story of sisterly love, migration and art

• 26 mins

Tarantulas, Gandalf and my dying brother's bucket list

Royd Tolkien’s brother Mike left him a daring list of tasks to complete after he died

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I changed my name to change my life

Hakeem Oluseyi beat drug addiction and dropped his old name to become a star scientist

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The improbable rise of Europe’s 'Tofu King'

How German vegetarian Bernard Drosihn took on the ‘meat police’ and won

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I found the Titanic during a top-secret Cold War mission

For 70 years people searched for the wreck of the Titanic. Then came Robert Ballard

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The mountain between us

How two climbers became connected after a fateful expedition on a mountain in Tibet

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Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - part one

Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from around the world – Jari was one of them

• 40 mins

Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - part two

Jari Hannu Bouillon was a baby when he went from a Finnish orphanage to a French castle

• 40 mins

Danny Trejo: The ex-con who cracked Hollywood

He’s played the tough guy in a long list of films but in his 20s faced the death penalty

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Why I gave my sister my womb

Lolita Wästerlund was born without a uterus, so her sister Linda offered up hers

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The painful secret I hid from my twin

When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them

• 26 mins

The joy of skiing blind

Blind skier Mike Brace has dedicated his life to Paralympic sport

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Undercover in a nursing home at the age of 83

Sergio Chamy was in for a shock when he answered a job advert for men in their 70s to 90s

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The secret link between two gymnasts

Jennifer Bricker was born without legs and idolised Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu

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We left as kayakers and came back as dissidents

Andrzej and Jacek escaped Communist Poland on an adventure. Life would never be the same

• 40 mins

The 80s song that brought back my memories

A car accident wiped all of Thomas Leeds' memories and he had to start again

• 26 mins

The many lives of chef Erin French

From rehab to 10,000 reservations, chef Erin French was determined to reclaim her life

• 40 mins

Trapped in a 'metal coffin' on the ocean floor

In 1988, 22 sailors were trapped in the submarine Pacocha with limited oxygen

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From Gaza to Nasa: A space odyssey

Palestinian Loay Elbasyouni was part of the team that launched a helicopter from Mars

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Helping refugees saved my life

At 28, Kon Karapanagiotidis started a charity that would become a lifeline for thousands

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