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  1. Zarna Garg: The rise of an ‘unstoppable’ comedy star

    Once a homeless teen in Mumbai, now Zarna Garg’s a top comedian, touring with Tina Fey

  2. You wanted me dead, but look at me now

    Anne’s village thought her disability made her worthless. She had other ideas

  3. Woman on Frontline Against Al Shabaab

    Iman Elman is one of few women in the Somali National Army

  4. Why I wore iron underwear on Kabul’s busiest street

    Kubra Khademi’s protest against sexual violence brought an Afghan street to a standstill

  5. Why I wanted a Xhosa circumcision

    The white Afrikaans teenager who shared the traditional rituals of his black best friend

  6. Who is this kneeling man?

    My search for the truth about my father and Martin Luther King’s assassination

  7. We need to talk about Carlo

    Donna discovers her ex fiancé’s secret life

  8. We Lived with a Grizzly Bear

    How a Scottish couple lived with an eight feet tall, half tonne Grizzly called Hercules

  9. Unmasking my best friend

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

  10. Undercover Cop: Fighting Gangsters

    Peter Bleksley the former British undercover policeman who infiltrated drug gangs

  11. Turkish TV star rescuing street kids

    Turgay Tanülkü and his wife have fostered 100s of children

  12. Tulisa: I wanted fame, but it almost destroyed me

    Tulisa Contostavlos survived betrayal and a tabloid sting

  13. Trisha and Sharon Shattuck

    The extraordinary journey of a father who wanted to live as a woman

  14. Trapped underground: my 54-hour cave rescue

    When George Linnane fell in a cave, it was the start of the UK's longest rescue

  15. Trapped underground for 41 days

    The miner from Tanzania who went down to rescue his friends, and became trapped himself.

  16. Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape

    After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out

  17. Trailer: World of Secrets: Al Fayed, Predator at Harrods

    Women accuse Mohamed Al Fayed of rape. For the full series, search for World of Secrets

  18. Tracking Down Missing Moon Rocks

    Joe Gutheinz has investigated what happened to the moon rocks brought to earth by NASA.

  19. Township lawyer v gold giants, part 2

    Charles sues his country’s richest companies on behalf of black gold miners

  20. Township lawyer v gold giants, part 1

    Apartheid taught Charles to know his place, so how did he end up suing the gold industry?

  21. Tim Berners-Lee: The man who dreamed of a World Wide Web

    The web's inventor on the unique life that inspired a tech revolution

  22. The WW2 spy and the little leaf that saved her

    In a desolate concentration camp, Odette Hallowes discovers a tiny symbol of hope

  23. The world's first armless pilot

    Jessica Cox was born without arms - but that hasn't stopped her learning to fly a plane

  24. The woman who holds the key to the internet

    Anne-Marie Eklund-Lowinder: one of the 14 people in the world who safeguards the internet

  25. The woman who fell from the sky, part 2

    How a jump changed daring parachutist Tony Osornio's life forever

  26. The woman who fell from the sky, part 1

    Tony Osornio would go to dangerous extremes to keep skydiving

  27. The Wicker Man: Learning to love the film that broke us

    The director's obsessive quest to make this iconic horror film would devastate his family

  28. The War Zone Librarian

    The Syrian man risking his life to create a public library in a war zone

  29. The US’s first black astronaut trainee reaches space at 90

    In May 2024 Ed Dwight became the oldest person to travel to the edge of space

  30. The unmaking of a child soldier

    As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?

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