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• Why I wore iron underwear on Kabul’s busiest street

  Artist Kubra Khademi was so enraged by the constant sexual harassment faced by women in Afghanistan that she created a bespoke suit of armour, forged out of metal with exaggerated breasts and buttocks. The idea came from an experience...

  14 jul 2025 2406 sec.

• Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home

  After being kidnapped, a promise to return to his mother helped Antonio Salazar-Hobson through his darkest hours. Antonio Salazar-Hobson was four years old when he was kidnapped from his Mexican migrant worker family in Arizona by the...

  7 jul 2025 2466 sec.

• The penguin that followed a teacher home

  While visiting friends in Uruguay, British teacher Tom Michell saw a penguin covered in oil and tar on a beach. Tom cleaned the bird as best he could and then tried to release it. The penguin refused to return to the wild, it just...

  30 jun 2025 2394 sec.

• Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony

  In Judith Obina Okumu's imagination, Joseph Kony was a monster. As leader of the Lord's Resistance Army he'd fought a decades-long war against the government of Yoweri Museveni – displacing and destroying hundreds of thousands of lives...

  23 jun 2025 2383 sec.

• The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98

  Opal Lee is now affectionately known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth. She led the campaign for the 19th June, the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas were finally told that they were free, to be declared a national holiday. As...

  16 jun 2025 2206 sec.

• The man who woke up in the future

  When Dr Pier Piccioni woke up after a car accident, 12 years of his life had been erased. Dr Pierdante Piccioni is an unwilling time-traveller. Twelve years of his life were completely wiped from his memory after he suffered brain...

  9 jun 2025 2396 sec.

• The mortician, the "werewolf" and the keeper of brains

  Alexandra Morton-Hayward unlocks the secrets of the human brain but her own betrays her. Every night Ally Morton-Hayward has a headache so painful it wakes her up. She says it makes her feel like a werewolf. But by day she's unlocking...

  2 jun 2025 2543 sec.

• José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic

  Remembering the former president of Uruguay: José 'Pepe' Mujica. He started life as a flower farmer on the outskirts of Montevideo. As a young man he became politically active, part of the left-wing guerilla group the Tupamaros, who...

  26 mei 2025 2231 sec.

• The true story behind Brazil’s Oscar winner, I’m Still Here

  Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men came and took his father away. Brazil was under a military dictatorship at the time. Marcelo's father was an opponent and was killed for it. His mother Eunice Paiva was now alone, raising five...

  19 mei 2025 2007 sec.

• The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi

  Lothar Hermann found out his neighbour was ‘architect of the Holocaust’ Adolf Eichmann. Lothar Hermann’s German-Jewish family perished in the Holocaust, but when he escaped to Argentina, little did he know that within a few years a...

  12 mei 2025 2335 sec.

• Searching for green in a concrete world

  Kwesia X grew up in south-east London, surrounded by busy roads and tower blocks. As a teenager her mental health spiralled after a member of her family was killed, and she also lost a close friend to knife crime. Faced with a period...

  5 mei 2025 2501 sec.

• Painting faces in search of myself and my mum

  Juano Diaz was taken in to care aged six, his mother was battling alcoholism and he wasn't being cared for. But Juano missed his mum and with no photos of her, he became obsessed by drawing her face so he wouldn't forget her. He was...

  28 apr 2025 2352 sec.