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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 González 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

Secrets & Lies: The undercover operatives

Stories from a spy's daughter and Ghana's most famous undercover journalist

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: Lives lived in shame

Two stories of people who spent a lifetime denying who they were

• 39 mins

Secrets & Lies: The man who stole the President’s secrets

One writer risked prison to leak material about Uzbekistan's authoritarian former leader

• 26 mins

Secrets & Lies: Messages hidden in music

A trio of tales with a musical note

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: Fraudsters and forgers

The art of deception - two extraordinary stories

• 36 mins

Secrets & Lies: Imposters

The pop star and the 'fake heiress'

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: Family secrets

Two very different stories of family secrets exposed

• 42 mins

Secrets & Lies: China’s dissident cartoonist

Badiucao's double life and the price of operating in secret

• 26 mins

The break-up that cost me my voice

The triumphant return of Shirley Collins, the 'first lady' of English folk

• 40 mins

The bowl of porridge that changed my life

Elizabeth Nyamayaro was saved from starvation as a child by a UN aid worker in Zimbabwe

• 39 mins

Searching for a serial killer from my bedroom

Paul Haynes spent nearly a decade trying to catch the 'Golden State Killer'

• 38 mins

Bringing down a dictator

One lawyer’s perilous journey to bring a war criminal to justice

• 26 mins

Sin, sexuality and how Beyoncé became a lifeline

Writer Paul Mendez’s turbulent teenage life as a gay Jehovah’s Witness and RnB superfan

• 50 mins

Hunting for a monster in the desert

Palaeontologist Nizar Ibrahim searched the Sahara for a Spinosaurus dinosaur skeleton

• 17 mins

My 30-year fight for justice for my mum

Lee Lawrence was 11 when his mother was shot during a police raid on their home

• 39 mins

Singing for my murdered sister helps me heal

Opera singer Joshua Hopkins' musical journey to deal with the grief of losing his sister

• 24 mins

My life as a millennial Yoruba priestess

Omitonade’s world of deities, divination, and mobile phones

• 27 mins

My mission to save the 'Russian spy whale'

Fisherman Joar Hesten is trying to help a whale rumoured to have escaped the Russian navy

• 37 mins

From saving goals to saving lives

Former ice hockey star Clint Malarchuk nearly died three times, now he helps others

• 37 mins

I became a supermodel overnight and didn't know

As a teenager, Lisa Ray took some photos in India that made her an instant sensation

• 30 mins

My mother’s fake name and secret past

Justine Cowan's English mother invented a fictional childhood

• 40 mins

The daring prison escape of an Argentine footballer

Claudio Tamburrini used bed sheets and a metal bolt to escape imprisonment and torture

• 30 mins

Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell

Claire Martin was abandoned at two days old. For years she looked for blood relatives.

• 16 mins

The surfer who fought apartheid to become a world champion

Cass Collier learnt to surf on segregated beaches – now he's fighting apartheid's legacy

• 22 mins

How I sang for my freedom

Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run

• 38 mins

I was the sole survivor of a plane crash

Stranded on a mountain, 11-year-old Norman Ollestad had to find a way to survive alone

• 42 mins