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Abandoned at birth: 50 years searching for our families

A baby left in a car, the other in a phonebox. David and Helen’s quest to find out why

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Delia Ephron: ‘I fell into my own romantic comedy'

How writer Delia Ephron found herself in a love story like her hit film You’ve Got Mail

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The Oscar joke that turned into a real life drama

How a triumphant moment in Colin Gibson’s career inadvertently led to a false bomb scare

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The British commune and the Colombian guerilla group

Atlantis was a psychotherapy commune who moved to Farc controlled territory

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Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret

It took Brendan Watkins decades to find out the true identity of his birth parents

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Taking on the witch hunters

Wrongly blamed for killing her father, Monica fought to save others accused of witchcraft

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Glad to be gay: The surprise hit that became a pride anthem

Tom Robinson became a Pride icon with his top 20 hit Glad to be Gay

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Kidnapped as I lay sleeping

Pirates attacked us on a remote island

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Giving birth during a genocide

The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home

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The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam

Former swindler Richard Marcus now works for the same casinos that he once robbed

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The schoolgirl who fought an oil company and won

When Nalleli Cobo fell ill, fingers pointed to an oil well next to her home in LA

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A family lost at sea

Fleeing Vietnam Lauren’s family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers

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Book lovers unite: The bookish boy who became a boxing champion

The bookish boxing champion, the bin man who built a library and the secret German author

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London’s revolutionary kiss-in

Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride

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Facing the ghosts of a freak mountain storm

How one man’s life was upended when a gentle hike up a mountain turned into an icy hell

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The 'metal bird' that sparked a dream

His first sighting of a plane in the sky would lead Ousman Umar on a treacherous journey

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Adventures in sound: The soundscape ecologist

Musician Bernie Krause overcame a fear of animals to capture natural sounds of the wild

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Why I stopped talking for 17 years

It started out as an experiment for a day but John Francis didn’t speak for 17 years

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The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth

How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband

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Cleopatra: Uganda's history-making trans activist

Forced to strip to 'prove' her gender, Cleo took a stand and gained official recognition

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My husband thought I was an imposter

Abi Morgan’s husband woke from a coma and didn’t recognise her

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From a burnt-out refugee camp to dining with the President

Mondiant Dogon's family had to flee their home in DR Congo because of ethnic violence

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The teenage mum who became a soul star

Aged 17 and unhappily married, PP Arnold found herself auditioning for Tina Turner

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How the tigress of basketball fought back

Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed

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Swimming with polar bears – a photographer’s 'crazy' dream

Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum is known for his close-up encounters with predators

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A 'dreamer', a Nasa contest and a robot called Stinky

Oscar Vazquez's robot brought him acclaim, but also highlighted his undocumented status

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Bringing my 10,000 kites from Kabul to England

Sanjar Qiam continued to make and fly kites through three decades of war in Afghanistan

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The maid-turned-rapper taking on racism in Brazil

When Preta-Rara wrote about her time as a domestic worker her post caused a storm

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My mother, India’s forgotten disco diva

Rupa Biswas Sen’s long-lost Indian disco record became an underground hit after 30 years

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The figure-skating star who fell to earth

Heroin and jail threw Keri Blakinger off course. She’s now a criminal justice reporter

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