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'Don't anger the monster', part 2
'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…

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'Don't anger the monster', part 1
'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

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Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending
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

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Lola the bare-knuckle drag queen
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…

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I was there the night Emmett Till was taken
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…

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Tanzania’s hip-hop politician
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

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'Brother. do. you. love. me.' The SMS that changed our lives
'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

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'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island
'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

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The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid: Part 2
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…

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The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1
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…

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