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The sports scandal scoop that almost destroyed me
In 1998 Finnish journalist Johanna Aatsalo published a story that made her a hate figure
How my mysterious childhood became a best-selling novel
Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia’s biggest crime stories
Naked and alone: the comedian trapped in a reality TV show
Nasubi had no idea his 15-month fight to survive was being broadcast on Japanese TV
After doomsday: I outgrew a cult and became a professor
When the world fails to end Jerald Walker is left searching for something to believe in
The bullet that ended our friendship
Paul Rousseau was accidentally shot in the head by his best friend and flatmate
The cricket star who learned to fly
Ricky Ellcock’s rollercoaster life as a fast bowler and airline pilot
The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company
Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety
The long climb back
It started as a magical day for two friends but then a rock came loose
Black boy joy: defying stereotypes on the London stage
Ryan Calais Cameron’s stories and characters shattered convention in UK theatre
Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’
A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart
My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love
When her partner died, Ellidy Pullin chose an unconventional path to motherhood
The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing
Cathy Terkanian turned sleuth when told the baby she’d had to give up, had disappeared
How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune
Reggie Nelson knocked on the poshest doors in London and asked a million-dollar question
The WW2 spy and the little leaf that saved her
In a desolate concentration camp, Odette Hallowes discovers a tiny symbol of hope
The unmaking of a child soldier
As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?
Held hostage by al-Qaeda: my desert odyssey
Edith Blais was kidnapped by armed militants and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days
Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 1
Another chance to hear one of our favourite episodes, a story of spycraft in South Africa
Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 2
ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.
My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery
Michael Visontay’s unexpected link to the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s most coveted book
Rewind: An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief
Introducing Dear Daughter
A bonus episode of Dear Daughter - stories of family and parenting from around the world
The painful secret I hid from my twin
When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them
Swimming blind: my journey to self-acceptance
Melanie Barratt, first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum’s ashes
The former wrestler who wants your brain
Wrestling with Hulk Hogan and The Rock, Chris Nowinski’s dream job ended after an injury
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
Searching for green in a concrete world
After losing loved ones to violent crime, Kwesia X found peace in nature
The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi
Lothar Hermann found out his neighbour was ‘architect of the Holocaust’ Adolf Eichmann
The true story behind Brazil’s Oscar winner, I’m Still Here
Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men took his father away
José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic
The surprising life story of the ex-President of Uruguay who died this month
The mortician, the "werewolf" and the keeper of brains
Alexandra Morton-Hayward unlocks the secrets of the human brain but her own betrays her
