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BBC World Service 1479 - The photo that exposed apartheid

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The photo that exposed apartheid

Zero-gravity highs and history-making lows

The firefighting vets of Brazil

A spy in the family

Separated from my kids at the US-Mexico border

The IS orphans rescued by their grandpa

Fire, ice and thunder: a chase on the high seas

Skin: the scream that made me a rock star

A scandal at the Oscars: Marlon Brando & me

In bed with an assassin

Unmasking a horror film icon

James Rhodes: My love letter to music

The wild ride of a Tamil comic book pioneer

CJ Daugherty’s world of literary escapism

The twists and turns of the Rubik's Cube

Revelations from El Salvador that healed my family

'She came back to the clinic dancing'

Painting for our lives

The celestial treasure hunters

The stay-at-home mum who became a bodybuilding star

I set up a radio station for aliens

On the frontline against chemical warfare

The black child raised by white supremacists

Adventures of the of the bootleg-busting brothers

The Guatemalan grandparents storming the disco

Half a rotten apple: growing up in 70s China

A dangerous obsession

The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth

The downfall of "The Screamers"

The actor who’s been saying the same lines for 32 years

Farming and Phil Collins taught me about love

The black reverend who bought a Ku Klux Klan shop

Abducted in war, saving lives in peace

Why I didn’t make a sound for 12 years

Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs

We found our baby on the subway

My ancestors changed the lives of slaves in the US

Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star

I discovered my dad was a best-selling sex writer

"This is what a barrister looks like"

Surviving a chemical attack by a doomsday cult

My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners

Vietnam's first family of rock ‘n’ roll

Life without parole: Our fight for freedom

How the tigress of basketball fought back

Documenting my cellmates' names in blood and rust

The boldest human experiment of the last century?

My father and our time machine

I bought a ghost town - then got trapped there

Becoming South Africa's first black rugby captain