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  1. The painful secret I hid from my twin

    After a terrible motorbike accident 18-year-old Alex Lewis was left with no memory of his previous life. The only person he could remember was Marcus, his identical twin brother. He became the person Alex most relied upon to rebuild his ent

  2. Introducing Dear Daughter

    A bonus episode from Dear Daughter - the award-winning podcast from the BBC World Service. You can find more episodes by searching for 'Dear Daughter' wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh joins Namulanta in the s

  3. Rewind: An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning

    How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief. Alex had been born in London to Jamaican parents, but grew up in care in the notorious Shirley Oaks children’s home. As a teenager, he was convicted of assaulti

  4. My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery

    Michael Visontay thought he knew everything about his family’s past, but there was one shadowy character he was aching to know more about: his grandfather’s second wife, Olga. As Michael went through old papers, he uncovered a trail to the

  5. Rewind: 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 propaganda unit, and she was feeding back good intelligence to her ANC handlers. Then she got a

  6. Rewind: 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 African National Congress liberation movement in the 1980s, and she knew that if she was caught

  7. Held hostage by al-Qaeda: my desert odyssey

    Edith Blais was kidnapped by armed militants and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days. As a young French-Canadian who had overcome her teenage agoraphobia, Edith took several years to work up the courage to go travelling – but once she d

  8. The unmaking of a child soldier

    As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child? Ishmael Beah was just 13 when war reached his village in Sierra Leone and he was made to flee. In the chaos, he was separated from his family. He ended

  9. The WW2 spy and the little leaf that saved her

    In 1942, several years into the Second World War, the British government sent out a series of bulletins requesting any personal photos the public might have of the French coastline. Odette Hallowes, a French woman living in the UK with her

  10. How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune

    Reggie Nelson grew up on an East London council estate in a British-Ghanaian family that struggled with alcoholism, domestic violence and money worries. After a brush with the law at a young age, he found direction through his Christian fai

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