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The cookbook that became a lifeline

How the eccentric but pioneering chef Julia Child became a role model for Julie Powell

• 22 mins

How do you deal with coronavirus in a war zone?

Thierry Durand helped to set up the only dedicated covid-19 hospital in the city of Aden.

• 22 mins

Heavy Metal's Groundbreaking Grandma

Meet Inge Ginsberg: Holocaust survivor, Hollywood composer and heavy metal grandma

• 26 mins

The forbidden marriage and the legal loophole

The clerical error that allowed two women to make LGBT history in Costa Rica.

• 22 mins

My powerful sideburns and other beard stories

MJ Johnson has an award winning beard, but due to coronavirus its days might be numbered

• 23 mins

Voyage to the bitter deep

Victor Vescovo and John Ramsay explored the deepest points of the world's five oceans

• 23 mins

Wrongfully convicted of murdering my parents

After 17 years in prison Marty Tankleff has been sworn in as a lawyer.

• 27 mins

The teenager who survived the Manchester bombing

Freya Lewis has rebuilt her life after the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017

• 26 mins

The lawyer, the chemical giant, and the contaminated water

Robert Bilott took on a case for one farmer. It became a fight for 70,000 people.

• 39 mins

We missed our baby’s birth because of Covid-19

How one couple travelled across the world to meet their baby son

• 23 mins

Hamilton: overcoming hearing loss to make its music

Alex Lacamoire collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the epic sound of Hamilton

• 40 mins

We risked our lives to save my brother's heart

Hamed Amiri’s family fled from Afghanistan to get a heart operation for his brother

• 24 mins

Dynamo: turning illness into magic

Crohn's disease has hampered the world-famous magician all his life

• 26 mins

The deserted island and the lost graves

Carina Hoang and her siblings ended up stranded on an island in the South China Sea

• 39 mins

Fire and justice: my life after Grenfell

Antonio Roncolato was one of the last survivors to escape London’s Grenfell Tower fire

• 39 mins

Touched by magic

Magicians who used their craft to overcome social awkwardness, sexism and bullying

• 40 mins

Ups and downs in a vertical world

Ian Powell is a climbing hold designer who rebuilt his life after years of drug addiction

• 22 mins

Husband for Hire

Inside Japan’s family rental industry with a man who gets paid to impersonate relatives

• 32 mins

I played violin during my brain surgery

Dagmar Turner played to prevent any damage to her violin skills

• 35 mins

The adventurer’s son who went missing in the jungle

When adventurer Roman Dial's son went missing, he set out to find him

• 24 mins

"Look after her" - the story of a hidden WW2 child

Lien de Jong was a Jewish child who hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands

• 32 mins

Caring for my dying father made me a better doctor

Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor. When her dad got ill her work became personal

• 39 mins

The mystery of Ecuador's lost mastertapes

An eccentric grandfather and an old suitcase of songs and secret loves

• 30 mins

A girl on the run and a girl with no name

Two listeners share extraordinary personal stories

• 39 mins

The trailblazing nurse who began life in care

How Elizabeth Anionwu went from life in a children's home to becoming a medical pioneer

• 39 mins

Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother

Born into folk music royalty Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle

• 36 mins

The literary heroes that helped me cope as a carer

When Sam Mills became a carer for her schizophrenic father, fiction became her lifeline

• 37 mins

Greg Louganis: the Death-Defying Diver

Blood, gold and secrets at the Olympic pool.

• 29 mins

The unmaking of a boy soldier

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

• 39 mins

Chimps taught me how to be a mother

Dr Jane Goodall's work with chimps has revolutionalised our understanding of primates

• 22 mins