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The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel
Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past.
She left her home in New Zealand as a young woman, driven away by a traumatic a…
2 years ago
Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger.
One day when Luma Mufleh was driving home to Atlanta, Georgia, sh…
2 years, 1 month ago
My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run.
Early one morning in 1968 he answered his front door, completely oblivio…
2 years, 1 month ago
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.
In 1972, when the plane carrying 22 year old Uruguayan Nando Parr…
2 years, 1 month ago
A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together
Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted
Lucy and her father Joe Sexton are American journalists. In 2021 Lu…
2 years, 1 month ago
Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy.
Hannah knew her mother could sing. When she took the stage at karao…
2 years, 2 months ago
Searching for the last man in the forest
Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders.
One tribe, the Piripkura has just one member left who’s livin…
2 years, 2 months ago
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2
Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics
When war split Tasoula's home country of Cyprus in two in 1974 sh…
2 years, 2 months ago
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1
Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics
In 1974 Tasoula's country, Cyprus, was torn in two by war. Distra…
2 years, 2 months ago
Love in the time of revolution, part 2
Pepe and Lucía: the bonfire of young love, a long separation, and rise to presidency.
The guerrilla lovers finally meet and fall for each other, but t…
2 years, 2 months ago