'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 with the hit US TV show Prison Break. He watched i...
16 Apr 202349min
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 intellig...
9 Apr 202341min
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 agentSue was a student when she was first recruited as a spy for the African National Congress liberation movement in the 1980...
2 Apr 202340min
Bringing the Muppets to Moscow
Natasha Lance Rogoff’s daunting task of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia.In the early 90s, American journalist Natasha Lance Rogoff was covering the collapse of the Soviet Union – until the ...
26 Mar 202341min
My life in seven swimming pools
Amjed Tantesh is determined to teach kids in Gaza to swim no matter how many pools he has to build.Finding freedom in the water as a child, Amjed wanted to train the next generation of Gazans for Olym...
20 Mar 202345min
The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by a bullet
Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers.He was a volunteer helping refugees escape Eastern Ukraine during the early days of the 2022 invasion, when his ...
13 Mar 202339min
I didn’t know I was part of an experiment
When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away.In 1951, Greenland native Helene Thiesen was just seven years old when two Danish men knocked at the family home. T...
6 Mar 202336min
Eyes on the prize: Pakistan’s first trans film star
Rejected by family and society, trans actor Alina Khan was forced to spend time on the streets of her native Lahore as a child. Through dance, she found an escape and a living, but also encountered pr...
27 Feb 202335min
