Surviving civil war with a tracksuit and tennis racquet

Sam Jalloh, the barefoot player turned pro, coaches kids to achieve their tennis dreams

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The sisterhood vs the man who gave them HIV

Diane Reeve rallied together women who had contracted HIV from the same cheating lover

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After facing death row, the inmate who turned investigator

Sohail Yafat turned his miscarriage of justice into a fight for all prisoners in Pakistan

• 44 mins

The "five careers" of Bettye Lavette

Bettye Lavette was a teenage singing star. Five decades on, she's a star once more.

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My brother’s illness made me a “sickle cell warrior”

Tartania Brown is one of few sickle cell doctors in New York who also has the condition

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The family murder that launched our campaign

Brothers Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse

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BBC Inspirations Awards 2020: finale fandango

Jo Fidgen reveals the final two winners of the BBC Inspirations Awards 2020.

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The tale of the countess and the little cello

How a 180-year-old miniature cello shaped the musical dreams of two American girls

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Elza Soares: invincible queen of samba

Singer Elza Soares survived poverty and public scandal to become a music legend in Brazil

• 26 mins

Why I made a film in which I kill my dad

When Kirsten Johnson’s dad got dementia she found an unusual way to cope

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My husband came back from the dead

How an accident and a case of mistaken identity changed one couple's lives forever

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Seven songs to mourn seven black men

Joel Thompson is behind a composition about the killing of black men in the USA

• 44 mins

The rebel musicians fighting India’s caste system

The Casteless Collective is a protest band who challenge caste oppression through song

• 44 mins

A descendant of chiefs: my long journey home

How Jesse Thistle, a homeless Indigenous man, found his identity and his calling

• 26 mins

The video that turned our lives upside down

When a mum hit record on her son crying she couldn't have predicted the global reaction

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Defending my dream cost my mother her life

Two-times US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey turned to poetry after her mother's murder

• 44 mins

I ran with the men, and changed history

Kathrine Switzer was attacked for running in the men-only 1967 Boston Marathon

• 44 mins

Tasting the desert with Chile's leading forager

Patricia Pérez sells the rare herbs she finds in the Atacama desert to Chile's top chefs

• 44 mins

Moana: The Polynesian family behind the smash hit songs

Musician Opetaia Foa'i fought for the Disney movie to stay true to Pacific culture

• 26 mins

The match-making tree and other tales of unexpected romance

From the world's most romantic postbox to a persecuted couple’s perilous ocean voyage

• 44 mins

The Beninese singer hustling for success in New York

Shirazee endured homelessness and a threat of deportation as he pursued his music dreams

• 44 mins

‘I am sinking. This is not a joke. MAYDAY’

Disaster struck when Kevin Escoffier’s boat split during the perilous Vendée Globe race

• 44 mins

'Document everything. Trust no one'

Omar Mohammed went undercover to expose IS atrocities in his blog Mosul Eye

• 44 mins

The Iranian avocado quest that led to prison

The saga to free journalist Jason Rezaian from Iran’s most notorious prison

• 26 mins

The rap star saved by a nursing home

After losing his memory T La Rock forgot he was famous and had to learn to rap again

• 44 mins

My abuser used an alien plot to brainwash me

Jan Broberg and her mum Mary Ann share how a trusted friend kidnapped Jan – twice

• 44 mins

Tales from 'the beautiful game'

Three inspiring footballers share their boundary-breaking stories

• 44 mins

Who says I can't go to school?

How an Afghan girl defied the Taliban by setting up a secret classroom

• 44 mins

Escaping lockdown in the Coral City

The urban reef webcam bringing together a community around the globe

• 26 mins

The gourmet chef who used to beg for food

How a childhood on the streets of India prepared Sash Simpson to become a top chef

• 44 mins