Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 2
By 1981, Pakistani-born immigrant Tariq Mehmood had endured years of violent racism in Britain. When he heard that gangs of white skinheads – with a history of attacking Asians – were coming to his ho...
30 Jul 202340min
Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 1
As a Pakistani immigrant teenager in 1970s Britain, Tariq Mehmood endured homelessness and years of violent racism. He found shelter and wisdom in a library, and the strength to stand up to the racist...
23 Jul 202341min
I save chimpanzees and they've saved me
Stany Nyandwi's rescued chimpanzees helped him through war and loneliness.As a young boy Stany made money selling sugarcane and worked as a 'houseboy' for families in Burundi's capital city Bujumbura....
16 Jul 202339min
Who is this kneeling man?
My search for the truth about my father and Martin Luther King’s assassination.Leta McCollough Seletzky grew up knowing that her father was the ‘kneeling man’, photographed tending to the head wound o...
9 Jul 202354min
How I survived a pirate hijack
Marine engineer Chirag Bahri was trapped for eight gruelling months on a chemical tanker.Chirag loved his job working in the engine rooms of huge commercial ships. But in May 2010, while sailing throu...
2 Jul 202341min
Love, war, and the cutting room floor
Mariam and Mohammed are Yemeni filmmakers who turned the lens on their own relationship.Mariam Al-Dhubhani and Mohammed Al-Jaberi's love story started in friendship, and it didn't take long before the...
25 Jun 202341min
He was almost a mass shooter – an act of kindness stopped him
Aaron Stark now works to raise awareness around why mass attacks happen.Aaron had a chaotic and violent childhood, and by the time he was a teenager he was homeless, angry and traumatised. At his lowe...
18 Jun 202342min
Teenage dreams on the Indian Ocean
At the age of 13 Laura Dekker fought for her right to sail solo around the world.Laura comes from a family of sailing enthusiasts, and her father taught her the ropes early. By 11 years old she was sa...
11 Jun 202340min
