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    The spies in my house

    Ulrike Poppe was one of the most surveilled women in East Berlin

  2. Betting the family farm on rockstar dreams

    The Emerson brothers’ family funded their musical aspirations – they almost lost it all

  3. Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook

    Some old family letters led historian Karina Urbach to try and right an historic wrong

  4. Searching for the last man in the forest

    Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders

  5. Drums like a heartbeat: The boy who took Afro-Uruguayan music to the world

    Singer Rubén Rada started performing in carnival groups when he was just 10 years old

  6. Seven months trapped in an airport

    Hassan Al Kontar had to live at Kuala Lumpur airport after he got stuck in a legal limbo

  7. Unmasking my best friend

    Reality TV producer Johnathan Walton found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up

  8. Stories from a hospice: The people I carry with me

    Kathryn Mannix was a pioneer in palliative care, then she became a ground-breaking author

  9. Love in the time of revolution, part 2

    The guerilla lovers who endured separation and torture to rule their country

  10. Love in the time of revolution, part 1

    The guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay

  11. My escape, thanks to a Russian mail-order bride

    Wes Hurley’s story of family secrets, pirated films and an unexpected transformation

  12. A Family Affair: A hand-me-down recipe made me a cookery star

    Elizabeth Chong popularised Chinese food in Australia with her father's family recipes

  13. A Family Affair: Scars and silences

    Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand her family history after Brazil’s military coup.

  14. A Family Affair: Spiders, Gandalf – a brother's bucket list

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

  15. A Family Affair: My uncanny resemblance to Jackie Wilson

    One night singer Bobby Brooks was told news that explained the talent he took for granted

  16. A Family Affair: Dad was a best-selling sex writer

    Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books

  17. A Family Affair: Remembering my dancing parents, Fosse and Verdon

    Nicole Fosse’s life wasn't always as smooth as her parents’ celebrated choreography

  18. A Family Affair: A buried photo collection brought our town together

    Javier Mazzuca took on the task of developing his dad's mammoth archive of negatives

  19. A Family Affair: Sly and Cynthia, funk royalty

    Phunne Stone is the daughter of funk legends Sly Stone and Cynthia Robinson

  20. A Family Affair: My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'

    Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run

  21. The Uruguayan conservationist and the great parrot heist

    Juan Villalba-Macías has risked his life to rescue animals from the clutches of poachers

  22. I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

    A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

  23. Thorgy Thor: A pioneering drag queen and her violin

    Thorgy Thor has spent her career trying to bring together drag and classical music

  24. The pop rebel who rediscovered her voice

    Vashti Bunyan had given up music for good – 30 years later she became an underground hit

  25. A crime reporter and her own stalking story

    Journalist Isla Traquair was stalked by her neighbour in the idyllic English countryside

  26. The beatboxing cellist making music out of family history

    How US cellist Gary Washington turned a painful history of slavery into a symphony

  27. Harry Potter and the dynamic shadow – his stuntman

    Gymnast David Holmes got his dream job when he became Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double

  28. The Hollywood screenwriter born in a cult

    Guinevere Turner spent her childhood in a cult as strange as any film

  29. A life made beautiful by rubbish

    Robi Walters finds solace in making art, after a childhood isolated by trauma

  30. Why cutting my dreadlocks set me free

    Feeling trapped in a strict Rastafari household, poetry helps Safiya Sinclair escape

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