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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
