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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

From child bride to literary sensation

Indian writer Baby Halder overcame difficult circumstances to become a global best-seller

• 20 mins

Signing to save lives in the Australian bushfires

Sean Sweeney interprets major emergency announcements into sign language

• 19 mins

Thai cave doctor: 'I feared I'd killed them'

Richard Harris anaesthetised the trapped boys believing they had no chance of survival

• 38 mins

The choir without vocal cords

The Belgian chorister turned doctor who conducts a choir for people without vocal cords

• 46 mins

Befriending a princess - and helping her escape

In 2018, Tiina Jauhianen agreed to help her close friend Sheikha Latifa escape from Dubai

• 25 mins

Akram Khan: from curry to choreography

Celebrated dancer Akram Khan’s first stage was his family's Indian restaurant

• 18 mins

Bringing music to people in pain

´óÏó´«Ã½ Inspirations 2018 nominee Jorge Bergero plays between concert halls and care homes

• 21 mins

Once upon a time in Wakaliwood

´óÏó´«Ã½ Inspirations 2016 nominee Isaac Nabwana is known as 'Uganda's Tarantino'

• 22 mins

A Syrian love story that started with a resume

The social media call out for CV advice that resulted in an online wedding

• 26 mins