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    ‘I’m going to say sorry to the whales’

    Vittorio Fabris’ treacherous journey from Venice to Nantucket was inspired by Moby Dick

  2. The first beauty queen in a free South Africa

    Basetsana Kumalo was crowned Miss South Africa after the country's first democratic vote

  3. How I built a billion dollar business

    Janice Bryant Howroyd is the first African-American woman to run a billion dollar company

  4. The pianist who learnt to play on a paper piano

    Andrew Garrido’s family couldn’t afford a piano so he taught himself on a drawn keyboard

  5. My nightmares about the policeman who framed me

    Winston Trew was falsely accused of stealing and spent 50 years trying to clear his name

  6. I prayed to God to make me a girl

    Abby Stein grew up in a Hasidic family and was born male but she felt she was a girl

  7. The Welsh miner who made wrestling glamorous

    "Exotic Adrian Street" got abuse for his flamboyant outfits - but they made him a star

  8. Making horse-racing history in a hijab

    Teenager Khadijah Mellah became the first Muslim woman to ride and win in Britain

  9. The Godfather of Hollywood sound

    Walter Murch is a superstar sound designer. His ingenuity transformed cinema forever

  10. 2020: The power of sight

    Three fascinating stories about vision

  11. Inventing a surgery to cure myself

    Doug Lindsay’s mystery illness baffled doctors, so he had to cure himself

  12. The hunt for a calypso king's lost music

    Costa Rica's 100-year-old calypso king and the worldwide search for his lost recordings

  13. Shooting hoops in South Sudan

    Malat Wei and Jess Markt are taking wheelchair basketball and their story to South Sudan

  14. Why I risked my life to present a TV show

    Presenter Mozhdah Jamalzadah’s focus on women’s rights made her some dangerous enemies

  15. Finding the perfect hairdresser changed two lives

    Troy Winget and Andrea Quint Fleck found there was more between them than a good haircut

  16. The barefoot tennis player who turned pro

    Sam Jalloh’s war-torn journey to becoming a top tennis player in Sierra Leone

  17. The family story that became a TV novela

    A Brazilian tale of love, betrayal and revenge

  18. Don’t call me the 'Indiana Jones' of Syria

    Amr al-Azm leads a network of archaeologists battling to save Syria’s monuments

  19. The murder that stopped me writing crime fiction

    Fact and fiction blurred for Danish writer Mads Peder Nordbo when he came across a murder

  20. I believed I was my dead sister

    After Gail Gallant’s sister died, her mother told Gail she was her sister reborn

  21. Footballer Mark Bright: What I’ve learnt about love

    What British player Mark Bright learnt from being fostered as a young child

  22. Fighting the apartheid my grandfather created

    Wilhelm Verwoerd's grandfather was the prime minister of South Africa in the 1960s

  23. Harvard Law School’s first deaf and blind graduate

    While Haben Girma was at Harvard she developed new technology to help her communicate

  24. The dark truth behind my songs

    A murder-suicide devastated Allison Moorer’s youth but now inspires her country music

  25. The Somali pirate tapes

    Danish ship owner Per Gullestrup had to learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates

  26. Creating a video game in a refugee camp

    South Sudanese refugee Lual Mayen made a video game to promote peace and empathy

  27. A star is gone: Judy Garland's last act

    Behind the scenes at Judy Garland’s final UK shows with the woman who got her on stage

  28. The uncomfortable truth hidden in my DNA

    Hiram Johnson embarked on a quest to solve a family mystery

  29. I was jailed for having a stillbirth

    Teodora del Carmen Vásquez was jailed for murder after having a stillbirth in El Salvador

  30. My life as an undercover CIA agent: Part Two

    After being recruited by the CIA Amaryllis Fox became an undercover spy

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