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The student who became my son

Tim King was a teacher in Chicago who took in a student after their mother died

• 19 mins

I was a teenager at Auschwitz

Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus was only 14 when she was taken to a Nazi concentration camp

• 41 mins

The daughter and the double agent

The Latvian forced to make an agonising choice in a world of Soviet-era spying

• 26 mins

Saving my zoo from Australian wildfires

Zookeeper Chad Staples took animals into his own home to save them from the raging fires

• 9 mins

I grew up in a secret nuclear city

Nadezhda Kutepova exposed the deadly legacy of a secret nuclear plant in Soviet Russia.

• 24 mins

The film tickets that destroyed a family

When Neelam Krishnamoorthy’s two children died in a fire, she began a fight for justice.

• 20 mins

I brought my daughter’s killer down

Karen Edwards on the anguish she felt after the murder of her daughter Becky.

• 22 mins

The making of a disco star

Marcia Barrett was a lead singer of the chart-conquering disco band, Boney M

• 26 mins

I knocked out sexism in British boxing

Jane Couch fought both in the ring and in court to make women’s boxing legal in Britain

• 23 mins

The avid hunter turned pioneering conservationist

An encounter with a Bobwhite Quail made Lebanese hunter Assad Serhal rethink his life.

• 12 mins

Discovering my dad was a music superstar

Anoushka Shankar found out that her father was Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar.

• 23 mins

Michael Johnson: how the world's fastest man learned to walk again

US Olympic champion Michael Johnson had to learn to walk again following a stroke.

• 39 mins

The Canadian cop who uncovered a police scandal

When a First Nations teenager was found frozen to death Ernie Louttit wanted answers

• 26 mins

The star student with an agonising secret

Dan-el Padilla Peralta went from an undocumented US immigrant to a Princeton professor.

• 24 mins

How I ended up marrying 'my mother'

A gay couple from California technically became mother and daughter as a legal workaround

• 14 mins

How a stage-fight nearly ended my acting career

Actor Conor Madden suffered a brain injury when a stage-fight went wrong.

• 19 mins

For the love of radio

How radio around the world has helped communities and listeners in unexpected ways

• 17 mins

I survived Joseph Kony - I want my children back

Nakout Sylvia was abducted and held as a sex slave by the Lord’s Resistance Army.

• 17 mins

Flying my South African flag at the top of Everest

Saray Khumalo on what it took to become the first black African woman to summit Everest

• 26 mins

The mother choosing to love her 'enemy'

A mother who stepped into the world of her son's killer to stop further acts of violence

• 15 mins

My family are sex workers - education saved me

Eliska Tanzer grew up illiterate in a family of sex workers, but defied all expectations

• 40 mins

The rapper who woke up deaf

Dutch rapper Sor was on the brink of stardom when he suddenly lost his hearing.

• 22 mins

My father was killed by 'Prime Evil'

Candice Mama forgave her father’s killer, notorious apartheid murderer Eugene de Kock.

• 22 mins

‘My heart goes out to the mums’

The mum who’s found compassion for the mothers of murderers after her own family tragedy

• 26 mins

Nigeria’s rebel artist families

Outlook is in Lagos with rebel artists Wole Soyinka, Femi Kuti, and Afrobeats star Falz.

• 39 mins

Lagos road trip challenge

One day, four extraordinary individuals, nine hours of Lagos traffic

• 38 mins

Killing on campus: Nigeria's criminal fraternities

How Nigeria's university fraternities morphed into violent criminal gangs

• 39 mins

The Superheroes of Lagos

In Lagos, Nigeria young cartoonists are creating a new kind of superhero.

• 22 mins

Photographing firefighters on the streets of Lagos

Akintunde Akinleye has won awards for his photographs of pipeline explosions in Lagos.

• 13 mins

The prison escape and the wooden keys

Anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin's remarkable escape from a South African prison

• 40 mins