大象传媒

The broken computer that unlocked my fortune

From 'dumpster baby' to millionaire: Freddie Figgers uses his tech mastery to help others

• 22 mins

The voyage of The Fisherman's Friends

How a group of friends with a love for sea shanties went from Cornwall to the Albert Hall

• 33 mins

The making of the 'Wish Man'

How a poor boy who was abandoned by his mother grew up to grant children鈥檚 dying wishes

• 26 mins

The scavenger who found a brass symphony

A trombone took Ronald Kabuye from the streets of Kampala to a world-famous stage

• 38 mins

Setting up a fake mafia to catch El Chapo

Crime boss is just one of the many undercover roles played by FBI agent Mike McGowan

• 38 mins

Mary Wilson: her life as a Supreme

How Mary Wilson became a Motown star and why she hated The Supremes鈥� early hits

• 17 mins

Swimming with polar bears 鈥� a photographer鈥檚 'crazy' dream

Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum is known for his close-up encounters with predators

• 38 mins

We discovered we were stolen as babies

Maria Diemar and Daniel Olsson were adopted from Chile and brought up in Sweden

• 39 mins

Jail Time Records - songs from a Cameroon prison

Music producer Vidou H made an album while wrongly accused of murder

• 20 mins

Egypt's only woman rally driver who "dances with the dunes"

Yara Shalaby, Egypt's only woman rally driver who learned to 鈥渄ance with the sand dunes"

• 17 mins

New York to Saigon: taking beers to my friends in a warzone

An epic mission to raise the morale of Chickie Donahue's friends fighting in Vietnam

• 26 mins

Taking over my parents' legendary jazz venue

Ben Jaffe's parents turned Preservation Hall into a New Orleans jazz institution

• 39 mins

My son found his birth mother using Google Earth

The story of Sue Brierley鈥檚 adopted son Saroo became the Oscar-nominated film Lion

• 40 mins

An Orthodox rapper in Jerusalem

Nissim Black is an American rapper who converted to Hasidic Judaism

• 22 mins

The Cuban dad who became a lifeline for Chernobyl's children

Manuel Barriuso was a medical translator in an historic humanitarian operation

• 29 mins

The sport I love damaged my brain

Former rugby player Alix Popham can't remember some of his finest moments on the pitch

• 36 mins

I hated the word 'albino'

Mala Bhargava learned to accept her white hair and skin when her face became famous

• 22 mins

The photoshoot that helped me grieve for my baby

A gifted photoshoot provided Ashley Jones comfort after her daughter died at 21 months

• 22 mins

The actress turning her back on Bollywood to follow her dad's dreams

Sonia Mann's father wrote her a letter on her birth, which has guided her life ever since

• 22 mins

The child labourer who became a star of Mexico's food scene

Eduardo Garcia picked fruit, then served time in prison, before achieving culinary fame

• 25 mins

Married to a psychopath: my husband鈥檚 double life

Mary Turner Thomson鈥檚 life took a chilling turn after meeting the 鈥減erfect鈥� man online

• 40 mins

The birthday gift that survived the Holocaust

In 1942 Sylvia Cohn wrote her daughter a book of poems. They're her "greatest treasure"

• 22 mins

Fear and fantasy TV in the siege of Aleppo

The Syrian medic who found solace in TV as he ran rebel Aleppo鈥檚 only children鈥檚 hospital

• 39 mins

The child spy and her secret agent parents

Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War

• 39 mins

Abandoned at sea for three years

Sailor Vikash Mishra lived on a leaky cargo ship after its owners ran out of money

• 17 mins

From classical piano to rock stardom in Japan

Japanese rock star Yoshiki shares the personal story behind his songs

• 22 mins

The architect who lost his sight but gained a vision

Chris Downey went blind almost overnight, one month later he was back being an architect

• 23 mins

Spain's fearless barnacle-hunting sisters

Isabel and Susana Gonz谩lez risk their lives to collect barnacles along Spain's coastline

• 26 mins

Secrets & Lies: Lives destroyed online

Two unnerving stories about how quickly lies can spread online

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: What my parent hid from me

Two stories involving parents who concealed life-changing secrets from their children

• 40 mins