成人快手

Facing the ghosts of a freak mountain storm

How one man鈥檚 life was upended when a gentle hike up a mountain turned into an icy hell

• 40 mins

The 'metal bird' that sparked a dream

His first sighting of a plane in the sky would lead Ousman Umar on a treacherous journey

• 40 mins

Adventures in sound: The soundscape ecologist

Musician Bernie Krause overcame a fear of animals to capture natural sounds of the wild

• 40 mins

Why I stopped talking for 17 years

It started out as an experiment for a day but John Francis didn鈥檛 speak for 17 years

• 40 mins

The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth

How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband

• 26 mins

Cleopatra: Uganda's history-making trans activist

Forced to strip to 'prove' her gender, Cleo took a stand and gained official recognition

• 40 mins

My husband thought I was an imposter

Abi Morgan鈥檚 husband woke from a coma and didn鈥檛 recognise her

• 40 mins

From a burnt-out refugee camp to dining with the President

Mondiant Dogon's family had to flee their home in DR Congo because of ethnic violence

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The teenage mum who became a soul star

Aged 17 and unhappily married, PP Arnold found herself auditioning for Tina Turner

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How the tigress of basketball fought back

Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed

• 26 mins

Swimming with polar bears 鈥� a photographer鈥檚 'crazy' dream

Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum is known for his close-up encounters with predators

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A 'dreamer', a Nasa contest and a robot called Stinky

Oscar Vazquez's robot brought him acclaim, but also highlighted his undocumented status

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Bringing my 10,000 kites from Kabul to England

Sanjar Qiam continued to make and fly kites through three decades of war in Afghanistan

• 40 mins

The maid-turned-rapper taking on racism in Brazil

When Preta-Rara wrote about her time as a domestic worker her post caused a storm

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My mother, India鈥檚 forgotten disco diva

Rupa Biswas Sen鈥檚 long-lost Indian disco record became an underground hit after 30 years

• 26 mins

The figure-skating star who fell to earth

Heroin and jail threw Keri Blakinger off course. She鈥檚 now a criminal justice reporter

• 40 mins

The life and loves of the world's oldest drag queen

Walter Cole, 91, has been dazzling audiences in Oregon as Darcelle XV since 1969

• 40 mins

A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 1

JP Bimeni risked his life to save a book of his verse

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A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2

JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscathed

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A musician embraces life after recording through grief

Phil Elverum worried people would be "mad at him" for the raw grief he expressed

• 26 mins

Crossing continents to find my parents

Tuy Buckner鈥檚 epic search to find his birth family in Vietnam

• 40 mins

Me, OCD and the baby bird in my hair

How nursing an abandoned finch helped Hannah Bourne-Taylor through a mental health crisis

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The forbidden lovers who plotted a daring escape

Karl-Heinz and Hedi were kept apart by the Iron Curtain and the East German secret police

• 40 mins

From teen single mother to top gourmet chef

Claudette Zepeda overcame huge hurdles to wow the culinary world with her Mexican food

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Waking from a coma speaking a foreign language

Ben McMahon woke from a coma only able to speak Chinese Mandarin

• 26 mins

I was the voice of Bambi 鈥� and kept it secret for years

Donnie Dunagan was a child star in the 1930s before becoming a US Marine

• 40 mins

When we were kings: the truth about my father

David Wright Falad茅 unearths a shocking secret about his family鈥檚 past

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The legendary goalkeeper forced to pawn her gold medals

Briana Scurry knew she was destined to win Olympic gold then one game changed everything

• 40 mins

Creating a Puerto Rican superhero to save the world

Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez has invented a comic book crusader called La Borinque帽a

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Tarantulas, Gandalf and my dying brother's bucket list

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

• 26 mins