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    Finding a rare portrait, and the boy hidden in its paint

    Art collector Jeremy Simien’s quest to find a lost portrait and a vanished, enslaved boy

  2. 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

  3. Going undercover in a cartel’s wild prison-HQ

    Venezuelan journalist Ronna Rísquez found a playground, a nightclub and a zoo inside

  4. I was a surrogate mum to a parrot chick to save it from extinction

    Argentinian Marianela Masat made history when red-and-green macaws were born in the wild

  5. Olympic gymnast and representative of life on Earth

    An image of Cathy Rigby is on board a Voyager space probe to teach aliens about humans

  6. Vet at the end of the Earth

    Joe Hollins escaped childhood restriction to find freedom looking after animals

  7. A rebel with an oud: Inventing a future for Lebanon

    Bassam Jalgha’s love of music and engineering made him a TV star and gave him hope

  8. Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock 'n' roll star

    A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy

  9. Thirty-eight days: A family adrift in the Pacific

    The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast

  10. Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history

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

  11. The ‘King of Beer’ dismantling racism

    Sir Geoff Palmer revolutionised brewing and became Scotland’s first black professor

  12. How almost dying on a migrant boat gave me a new purpose

    After a perilous journey from Senegal, Baye Seyni Sène set up a school to stop migration

  13. Latifa and Mohamed: A reunion through dance

    A mother, a son, and the discovery of a shared dream

  14. Love, loss and my unlikely romance with Oliver Sacks

    After losing his partner, Bill Hayes found love again with neurologist Oliver Sacks

  15. Why this doctor hid his homeless past

    Emmanuel Taban, a former street kid now recognised for his life-saving medical work

  16. The prison escape and the wooden keys

    Anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin's remarkable escape from a South African prison

  17. Called to climb: Why I take photographs from skyscrapers

    Isaac Wright was a depressed army veteran when he picked up a camera and started to climb

  18. Writing poems, and waiting to be arrested

    Tahir Izgil is a Uyghur poet who lived under Chinese state surveillance

  19. The moment that made me love my face

    Jono Lancaster was born with a rare condition which means he's always looked different

  20. How a girl from Mexico fought to dance in the clouds

    Irene García Hernández defied gender norms to take part in a high risk aerial tradition

  21. The black child raised by white supremacists

    How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing

  22. The godmother of Beirut's nightlife

    Under the boot of the Syrian army, Nicole Moudaber brought raves to Lebanon

  23. The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2

    From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality

  24. The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 1

    A bond between brothers, a coming-out story, and an international song contest

  25. My life as a midwife on the frontline

    Anna Kent’s work delivering babies in warzones shaped her own journey to motherhood

  26. Chess saved me, now I use it to help others

    Tunde Onakoya teaches chess to children in slum communities across Africa

  27. The only fan: A football fairy tale from Brazil

    Tiago Rech alone in the away stands became a viral image - how far would his loyalty go?

  28. Songwriting, banjos and the bohemian city that cradled me

    Canadian Allison Russell went from sleeping in cemeteries to being a Grammy nominee

  29. Jail to gym: The prison workout that saved my life

    Facing seven years in jail for drug dealing, Coss Marte is told he might die within five

  30. The troubled life of an ice hockey hero

    Former NHL star Clint Malarchuk nearly died three times, now he helps others

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