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'Don't anger the monster', part 2
Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein. Rowena thought that speaking up about her alleged sexual assault by We…
2 years, 9 months ago
'Don't anger the monster', part 1
Rowena Chiu on surviving the Hollywood sexual predator Harvey Weinstein.
Rowena was just 24 when she became an assistant to Weinstein at his film comp…
2 years, 9 months ago
Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending
Raised by addicts, Dr Katriona O'Sullivan defied the odds to become a university lecturer.
Her parents were addicted to heroin, she was neglected and…
2 years, 10 months ago
Lola the bare-knuckle drag queen
Martial arts kept him out of jail, but drag artistry made him whole.
Diego Garijo was bullied for his femininity as a child, so as he grew up he tough…
2 years, 10 months ago
I was there the night Emmett Till was taken
Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction.
Emmett's brutal murder in Mississippi in 1955 sparked a wave o…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tanzania’s hip-hop politician
Joseph Mbilinyi pioneered Swahili rap and then turned to politics, but ended up in jail.
In the 1990s he'd become one of Tanzania's biggest stars unde…
2 years, 10 months ago
'Brother. do. you. love. me.' The SMS that changed our lives
Brothers Manni and Reuben Coe, and the text that prompted a lockdown rescue mission.
Manni was living in Spain when he received this troubling text fr…
2 years, 11 months ago
'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island
Tricks from a hit TV show held the key to Jaivet Ealom’s audacious dash for freedom.
As a student in his native Myanmar, Jaivet Ealom became obsessed…
2 years, 11 months ago
The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid: Part 2
ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.
After training, Sue had got a job within the government's prop…
2 years, 11 months ago
The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1
Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent
Sue was a student when she was first recruited as a spy for the Africa…
2 years, 11 months ago