Survivor 195: Taking down Larry Nassar

Elite US gymnast Rachel Haines confronted predator Larry Nassar who abused her for years

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The letter that brought my grandmother back to life

The Rwandan playwright whose search for her lost grandmother helped a nation heal

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How Rennie Harris danced his way into the spotlight

Renowned choreographer Rennie Harris overcame stereotypes to bring hip-hop centre stage

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I didn't realise I was homeless

Filmmaker Elegance Bratton slept on the streets of New York and New Jersey for years

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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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New York to Vietnam: The greatest beer run ever?

'Chickie' Donohue took beers across the world to boost his friends serving in Vietnam

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Fate and faces: The artist who ‘sold stars’ to make a living

Lita Cabellut is successful Spanish painter but grew up on the streets of Barcelona

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The girl who heckled the President

At 11 Zarifa heckled Hamid Karzai, by 24 she was Afghanistan's youngest female Mayor

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Uncle Jack Charles, the story of an Indigenous film star

'Uncle Jack' was a pioneering actor, elder and champion of Aboriginal Australians

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The sailor and the pirate king

Indian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta

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My Lego invention that silenced the bullies

Aged 17, David Aguilar built a record-breaking prosthetic that brought global recognition

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How The Beatles inspired me to rock against Cuba’s regime

Inspired by The Fab Four, Nilo Nuñez set up a secret rock band in Communist Cuba

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I see my son in the Northern Lights

Hugo Sanchez photographs the mesmerising Aurora Borealis to grieve the loss of his son

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The backing singer who stepped out from the shadows

Merry Clayton, the voice behind Gimme Shelter, reveals why she was haunted by the song

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Who was the stranger who saved my life?

Sonia Solorzano spent years seeking the unknown man who rescued her from a destroyed bus

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Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 1

The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry

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Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 2

Silibil N’ Brains found fame as fake American rappers - but how long can you live a lie?

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I found my 'sister-in-arms' through a newspaper cutting

Canadians Leslie McBain and Petra Schulz united in grief after losing their sons to drugs

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How the girl who was denied an education created a school

As a girl Ashwini Angadi was turned away from school because of her visual impairment

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My unknown song became a political anthem in Hong Kong

How Matthew Keegan found out he had become an overnight pop star 5,000 miles away

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Black, Korean, stateless: A 'slickyboy’s' American dream, part 1

An outcast from birth and a petty thief by seven, all Milton wanted was to find his dad

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Black, Korean, stateless: A 'slickyboy’s' American dream, part 2

An outcast from birth and a petty thief by seven, all Milton wanted was to find his dad

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The marathon runner and Gobi the stray dog

Dion Leonard found an unlikely running partner during a race in China

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My life, painting Iran’s rebellious women

Soheila Sokhanvari grew up in a very fashionable home in Iran but, in 1978 it all changed

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Steve Van Zandt on bands, bandanas and Bruce Springsteen

Guitarist Steve Van Zandt tells us why he's been happy being the man behind the boss

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Rickie Lee Jones: From life on the breadline to stardom

The US singer hit the big time in her early 20s, winning a Grammy for her first album

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The student journalist who risked it all to report in Russia

Armen Aramyan's student paper became one of Russia's last independent news outlets

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A fake billionaire in North Korea

Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network

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The playwright, the school teacher and the lost Xhosa king

How South Africa’s first published black female playwright restored her people’s history

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‘My heart goes out to the mums’

The mum who’s found compassion for the mothers of murderers after her own family tragedy

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Witness to a gangland murder: a mediator’s dilemma

Roegchanda Pascoe put her own safety and freedom on the line to take on Cape Town’s gangs

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Glitter, high kicks and finding freedom

The joy that dance brings us in extraordinary and sometimes surprising ways

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Saving the lost tapes of a musical genius

A grieving lover’s mission to share his partner’s unknown music with the world

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How the kindness of strangers stopped my terror attack

Ex-US Marine Mac McKinney planned to bomb a mosque but ended up converting to Islam

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The drag queen who ran for president of the United States

Joan Jett Blakk ran for office in 1992 to raise awareness about the Aids crisis

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The battlefield of the mind

Toby Gutteridge was one of the best soldiers in the world when he was shot in the neck

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I was interviewed on live TV by accident

Four stories of mistaken identity

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Cracking Germany’s 'biggest' art theft case

The mayor and the top art theft detective who unravelled a 40-year-old German crime

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Painfully honest: A brain surgeon looks back on his mistakes

Living with cancer had made Henry Marsh reflect on the people he could not save

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The cookbook that became a lifeline

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

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My father’s hidden crimes

Analía’s dad was accused of being a government torturer - he said it was a lie

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Hugh Bonneville: From dress-up to Downton

Actor Hugh Bonneville on catching the acting bug as a child and dealing with rejection

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The private eye bringing psychic fraudsters to justice

Bob Nygaard enters a dark underworld of soothsayers exploiting the vulnerable for money

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The argument that led a singer to the truth about her family

Gina Williams believed she was an only child until a major revleation, aged 18

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I went through puberty at two years old

Patrick Burleigh was born with precocious puberty, meaning his body developed very early

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He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'

How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy when she needed it most

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Michael Johnson: How the world's fastest man learned to walk again

US Olympic champion Michael Johnson had to learn to walk again following a stroke

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Why did my mum give me away? An adoptee's quest for answers

Korean-Danish adoptee Sun Hee Engelstoft, flew over 5000 miles in search of her mum

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The truffle in my pocket that changed my life

Guy Debbas from Lebanon survived being held hostage to run a sucessful chocolate business

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I created a mass Marilyn Monroe swim for my mother

How dressing up as the Hollywood icon helped Sarah Tinney cope after her mother’s death

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The bombshell revelations that turned my family on its head

Carmen Rita Wong on coming to terms with a lifetime of family secrets and hidden pasts

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My body has given me everything

Bonita Norris overcame an eating disorder to make history climbing Everest

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'I could've been her and she could've been me'

For journalist Brandi Morin exposing the harrowing stories of her community is personal

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Fighting for peace in a violent city

Fartuun Adan and her daughter Ilwad Elman risked everything to help rebuild Mogadishu

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My teacher became my torturer

Mirsad Solakovic was just 13 when his teacher came to school and pointed a gun at him

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The sketchpad that saved my life

How painting gave Muniba Mazari hope after being paralysed in a car crash in Pakistan

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Out of the swamp: Uncovering a hidden US slave ship

Ben Raines set out to expose a 160-year-old secret and found himself in murky waters

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Murder in the heart of the Amazon

When her brother was brutally murdered, Claudelice Silva dos Santos took up his fight

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Birdsong, blindness and my ‘super brain’

Juan Pablo Culasso’s rare avian sound skills led to a life-altering moment on national TV

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England's secret cowboy town

The town of Laredo is filled with cowboys and saloons in the style of the Wild West

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The Palestinian tapes, part 1

Mo’min Swaitat’s magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette

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The Palestinian tapes, part 2

Disco, protest and poetry – Hanan and Riad’s story of making the Intifada album

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Watergate’s 'lady lawyer' facing sexism and scandal

Jill Wine-Banks’ historic role as the only woman investigating the Watergate cover-up

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The illegal nude that made me a security expert

After a photo of Mia Landsem was leaked online, she fought to change the law

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Surviving apartheid to make maritime history

Captain Knowledge Bengu led the voyage to discover Shackleton's lost ship Endurance

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My friend was a serial killer and I had to stop him

Nurse Amy Loughren discovered that her colleague and confidant was murdering patients

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Guns, guards, snarling dogs: A child migrant’s story

Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old

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Olympic gymnast and representative of life on Earth

An image of Cathy Rigby is on board a Voyager space probe to teach aliens about humans

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Unrepeated: Damo Suzuki's improvisations in music and life

The iconic Can vocalist on walking away from fame to follow a life of improvisation

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The tip-off and the 30-year treasure hunt

A story told over drinks in the 1980s set two metal detectorists on a very long hunt

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I was 71 when I first heard my father’s voice

Margaret Ann Harris got a life-changing Christmas gift when she heard a wartime radio show

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The famous love songs written about me

Something about Pattie Boyd inspired two rock stars to compose hits about her

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Anick and Destin, the miracle conjoined twins of DR Congo

The remarkable story of DR Congo's first successful separation of conjoined twins

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Young hearts run free: The life and soul of Candi Staton

Candi Staton’s dance anthem revealed her heartbreak behind the scenes

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Discovering Stalin's million-dollar wine cellar

Wine merchant John Baker on trying to buy Josef Stalin's secret wine collection

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Did my birth mother fake her own death?

How a failed insurance scam saw Donna Freed put up for adoption in the US

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The Syrian artist bringing beauty to a desert refugee camp

When Malak fled Syria she packed the essentials: her sketchbook and pencils

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How the Spice Girls saved my life

Isolated and rejected as a gay teen, a pop band showed David Montgomery how to live again

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Victim and perpetrator: The two gunshots that changed my life

Mexican American Obed Silva is an English professor with a tangled past

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'A little bit Indiana Jones'

The archaeologist who risked his life for a mysterious prehistoric artefact

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Duty-bound: My secret life as Officer Clemmons

Becoming one of the first African American actors on children's TV came with an ultimatum

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Making memories before our children go blind

The diagnosis that led a family on a global adventure

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The Nazis killed my family but I decided not to hate

As a boy Peter Lantos survived Bergen-Belsen, then devoted his life to helping others

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Saving lives in Pinochet’s Chile with Superman’s help

Christopher Reeve and Angélica Malinarich-Dorfman helped actors facing death threats

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Wrongfully convicted of murdering my parents

Murder, a false confession and Marty Tankleff's 17-year fight for justice

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They said my brain was ‘on fire’

Consumed by a mystery illness, Susannah Cahalan almost lost her life and sanity

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‘No one can take my smile from me’

Burn survivor Sneha Jawale reclaimed her face and found a new identity in tarot reading

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The political poster child who became a million dollar model

Paulina Porizkova's face was used to show the hardships of Communist Czechoslovakia

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Connecting with Dad: a Pacific voyage and never-heard tape

A Pacific row gave Louis Bird courage to listen to a tape his dad had left him

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Trying to get my penpal out of prison

A letter, a murder, and a boxer’s dying wish turned a teenager’s life around

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Learning to live with the voices in my head

Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control

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The man who calls a river his 'family'

Salman Khairalla risked his life to protect Iraq's historic wetlands

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I escaped my abusive boss and found a sisterhood

Mariam was mistreated while working as a cleaner in Lebanon and now campaigns for others

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I was there the night Emmett Till was taken

Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction

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Hugh Bonneville: From dress-up to Downton

Actor Hugh Bonneville on catching the acting bug as a child and dealing with rejection

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Walking away from the crash that killed my friends

Lech Blaine on guilt, grief and accepting his luck after surviving a fatal car accident

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Grandma and the great gold rush of Suriname

Hennah Draaibaar is on the trail of her family’s legendary lost gold

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Surviving 'Doomsday' and learning to live again

Claire Ashman spent nearly a decade in a doomsday cult with her eight children

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Debt and oil: My two years as a migrant worker

Kate Beaton took a job in a Canadian oil facility and was cut off from the outside world

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