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Black, Korean, stateless: A Slickyboy’s American dream, part 1
Growing up as the son of a sex worker and a black US soldier in South Korea in the '70s, Milton Washington was seen as an outcast, and "not Korean". …
3 years, 6 months ago
I see my son in the Northern Lights
Chasing the aurora helps Hugo grieve. By day Hugo Sanchez works in a school, but by night he hunts glowing light displays across the freezing Canadia…
3 years, 6 months ago
The brain tumour that taught me how to live
How extreme kayaker Scott Lindgren's illness forced him to face his past. Scott’s hard, uncompromising attitude had made him one of the world’s top e…
3 years, 7 months ago
The family that went to war with a military dictatorship
Hafsat Abiola Costello's dad was nearly Nigeria's president - but he had powerful enemies
His name was Moshood Abiola, also known as MKO, and he was o…
3 years, 7 months ago
How I fell in love with blindness
Itto Outini lost her sight but gained her freedom
Itto had been born poor in Morocco's Atlas mountains, and after her parents died, she was shunted be…
3 years, 7 months ago
Nailed into a boat: Escaping Mao’s China
Dr Andrew Kwong fled famine and persecution as a child. He was a proud Maoist, singing revolutionary songs at the top of his voice at school, but the…
3 years, 7 months ago
The legendary goalkeeper forced to pawn her gold medals
Goalkeeper Briana Scurry knew at eight years old it was her destiny to win Olympic gold – and in 1996, she did it. That was just the beginning: she w…
3 years, 7 months ago
A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2
Content Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence
JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscath…
3 years, 8 months ago
A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 1
Content Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence
JP Bimeni risked his life to save a book of his verse. He started composing po…
3 years, 8 months ago
My husband thought I was an imposter
Abi Morgan’s husband woke from a coma and didn’t recognise her.
Abi is a playwright and screenwriter based in London, and she'd made a name for herse…
3 years, 8 months ago