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    The celebrity DJ who fought addiction to feel music again

    DJ Fat Tony dominated the club scene but when the Aids crisis hit, his world imploded

  2. Bagpipe fever: One Nigerian's unlikely musical mission

    How a teenage dream turned into a national revival

  3. I witnessed schools get destroyed, now I build them

    Mohamed Papa Bangura struggled to get an education during the civil war in Sierra Leone.

  4. Donor 150, my mum and me

    Chrysta Bilton always knew her family was ‘different’, the truth upended her life

  5. The classical concert pianist - who has only one hand

    Nicholas McCarthy built a career in music by playing with just his left hand

  6. My 500 days alone in a cave

    Beatriz Flamini took part in an experiment into the effects of extreme isolation

  7. Hiding in plain sight: My family's secret

    Rafael Agustin's 'all-American' life fell apart when he discovered he was undocumented

  8. Indiana Jones: The kids who remade a blockbuster

    In 1982 Mississippi two boys recreated a $22m film – on their pocket money

  9. The Colombian tour guide and her Encanto fairy tale

    When Disney came to Alejandra Uribe’s tour, she didn't realise she’d influence a hit film

  10. How I discovered the Wood Wide Web

    Suzanne Simard discovered how trees communicate underground

  11. Schooled at sea: My chaotic voyage to university

    Suzanne Heywood grew up sailing the world but longed for a formal education

  12. 'Don't anger the monster', part 2

    Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein

  13. 'Don't anger the monster', part 1

    Rowena Chiu on surviving the Hollywood sexual predator Harvey Weinstein

  14. Frieda and George: A love story

    Poet and artist Frieda Hughes found a baby magpie in her garden and adopted him

  15. Painfully honest: A brain surgeon looks back on his mistakes

    Living with cancer has made Henry Marsh reflect on the people he could not save

  16. Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 2

    Self-defence is no offence: how anti-racist activist Tariq Mehmood made UK legal history

  17. Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 1

    Immigrant teen Tariq Mehmood led a movement to resist violent racism in 1970s Britain

  18. From small-town America to playing in the UK's Premier League

    Aged 22, Jay DeMerit moved to the UK to try to make it as a professional footballer

  19. Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending

    Raised by addicts, Dr Katriona O'Sullivan defied the odds to become a university lecturer

  20. Grandma at the Grammys: From seamstress to singer at 80

    Abuela Irma Silva’s folksong duets with her grandson Jorge led to unexpected success

  21. You must touch the art! Telling my story in dots

    Age six Clarke Reynolds dreamt of his own exhibition. 35 years later it came true

  22. Hidden kingdom: My battle to save the world’s largest cave

    When Vietnam’s spectacular Son Doong cave came under threat, Huong Le knew she had to act

  23. Trinidad’s family-tree detective, and his Indian quest

    Shamshu Deen has helped thousands trace their roots and reunite with distant relatives

  24. Lola the bare-knuckle drag queen

    Martial arts kept him out of jail, but drag artistry made him whole

  25. The medical textbook that inspired me to flee my homeland

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

  26. I had a baby while leading the resistance from the mountains

    Cecilia Oebanda was once famous as Commander Liway, a rebel leader in 1970s Philippines

  27. The 'hyperactive listener' capturing the world around him

    Andy Slater lost his sight in childhood and is now an award-winning sound artist

  28. Revolution in a test tube: Inventing the home pregnancy test

    In 1960s New York, Meg Crane fought for a pregnancy test women could do themselves

  29. The Black pioneers of modern emergency medicine

    John Moon joined a team of paramedics in the 60s who revolutionised the ambulance service

  30. The master of disaster

    What Randall Bell learned about trauma from the world’s most infamous crime scenes

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