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Looking for Mum in a city of millions

Joel de Carteret from the Philippines was just four when he got lost in a Manila market

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People used to stare at me. I fight back with my paintbrush

How artist Riva Lehrer's portraits challenge myths about disability

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Miss Pat: The Chinese-Jamaican matriarch of reggae

Patricia Chin created a musical empire that started in a Kingston grocery store

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I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped

Li Jingzhi鈥檚 child was abducted in 1988. They were finally reunited 32 years later

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Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history

Grace M. Cho learned to cook traditional Korean food to comfort her traumatised mother

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Steve Van Zandt on bands, bandanas and Bruce Springsteen

Guitarist Steve Van Zandt tells us why he's been happy being the man behind the boss

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My last chance to find our long-lost family

A daughter searches for her ill mother's hidden past, revealing long-held secrets

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The medical textbook that inspired me to flee my homeland

Waheed Arian left war-torn Afghanistan to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor

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How Springsteen became my lifeline

The working class British-Pakistani teen who found a musical hero in The Boss

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'Honour' made my father a murderer

Amina鈥檚 father brutally attacked her and her sister for 鈥榮haming鈥� their Jordanian family

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'Love finds a way' - a bond that overcame decades of separation

Jeanne's family opposed her relationship with Steve. They split, but she never forgot him

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The Holocaust survivor who became a Tiktok star

Lily Ebert survived Auschwitz. Now she shares her story with millions of followers online

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Wynton Marsalis: The making of a jazzman

How a reluctant trumpet player became the most celebrated jazz musician of his generation

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Flying my South African flag at the top of Everest

Saray Khumalo on what it took to become the first black African woman to summit Everest

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Hostage, part 1: A spider, starvation and solitude in the desert

Edith Blais was kidnapped by al-Qaeda and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days

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Hostage, part 2: Escape across the sand dunes

Canadian Edith Blais is reunited with Luca and they plot an ambitious escape

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Harvard Law School鈥檚 first Deafblind graduate

While Haben Girma was at Harvard she developed new technology to help her communicate

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I still believe I'm lucky even after breaking my neck

Ed Jackson almost died after he mistakenly dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool

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Fighting the apartheid my grandfather created

Wilhelm Verwoerd鈥檚 grandfather was the prime minister of South Africa in the 1960s

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The Jewish prisoner, the treasure hunters and the secret diary

Menachem Kaiser鈥檚 family quest led to a top-secret underground Nazi city

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Matt Goss: Life and loss in a superstar boy band

The Bros lead singer on fame, fans, and what happened after the pop bubble burst

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My anonymous teen story became a playground sensation

In 2005, schoolgirl Jade LB uploaded a story to her blog, which took on a life of its own

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The bionic gloves that brought music back to me

Joao Carlos Martins thought he'd never play piano again, then he was gifted bionic gloves

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Pollen detective: Forensics鈥� secret weapon

Patricia Wiltshire uses her deep knowledge of plants to help police solve serious crime

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The choir without vocal cords

The Belgian chorister-turned-doctor who conducts a choir for people without vocal cords

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Why my parents sent my brothers to live in North Korea

When Yonghi Yang was six, her parents made a choice the family have lived with ever since

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The Transy book heist

Inside the elaborate and oddball scheme to steal some of the world鈥檚 most valuable books

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The teenager who baked her way out of a crisis

When Kitty Tait was struggling with her mental health, she opened a bakery

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The 'deepest man on earth'

Herbert Nitsch broke the record for deepest free dive but fell asleep on the way back up

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The cult, the crocodile and my journey back to love

Juliana Buhring's search for true love would catapult her into the record books

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