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My child and spouse came out as trans

The story of how a family coped with two seismic revelations and are now closer than ever

• 38 mins

I stole a plane to escape the military

53 years ago Theo Van Eijck flew from Malta to Libya to start a new life

• 19 mins

The rescue dog that rescued me

Sean Laidlaw rescued Barrie from Syria in 2018 and now she helps him to overcome his PTSD

• 17 mins

The struggle of Soweto's 'Lion King'

It was a long road to the recording studio for Lebo M who wrote songs for the hit movie

• 23 mins

The making of the 'Wish Man'

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

• 26 mins

The priest who came out at 91

After a life of hiding his sexuality, former priest Stanley Underhill finally feels free

• 16 mins

Joining the racist gang that tormented me

Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joined a racist gang as a teenager for his own protection

• 22 mins

The diver trapped inside an iceberg

Jill Heinerth was exploring submerged frozen caves when crisis hit

• 20 mins

The rebel lawyer transforming Malaysia

Cecil Rajendra set up the first legal aid clinics in shacks

• 22 mins

The 'deepest man on earth'

Herbert Nitsch broke the record for deepest free dive but fell asleep on the way back up

• 26 mins

Why I love the woman who killed my son

Tiki Finlayson forgave the woman who killed her son in a drink-driving accident

• 23 mins

The inside story of a Muslim drag queen

Amrou Al-Kadhi on their complex identity: Muslim, gay, non-binary drag queen

• 32 mins

Finding the whale that nearly killed me

The epic search for the whale that landed on a filmmaker’s kayak and changed his life

• 20 mins

Life as the UK's first black TV reporter

Broadcasting legend Sir Trevor McDonald looks back on his life and career

• 39 mins

A mother's battle for her son's education

At risk of losing her son Virginia Walden Ford fought to change the US education system

• 26 mins

Remembrance 2019: in love and under siege

For Remembrance Day, we're re-visiting this remarkable story of love in war-zone

• 18 mins

The street kid and the plastic camera

Photographer Vicky Roy got his break taking photos of his friends on the streets of Delhi

• 16 mins

Why my mother lied about her race

In her 40s Gail Lukasik discovered that her ‘white’ mother was in fact multiracial

• 22 mins

Confronting my grandma and my nation over FGM

Ifrah Ahmed went through FGM as a child. Now she fights to ban the practice in Somalia

• 15 mins

The secret world of our dying son

Mats Steen found friendship and escape in an online fantasy land

• 26 mins

The Treasure Hunters

Stories of two very different men recovering lost and stolen treasures

• 28 mins

Pulling a plane doesn’t make me strong

How police officer Grant Edwards, once Australia’s strongest man, faced his inner trauma

• 23 mins

Our parents' secret gay porn empire

Rachel and Josh Mason had no idea their unassuming parents ran an iconic gay porn shop

• 23 mins

The policewoman fighting fake news

Rema Rajeshwari is using storytelling to combat the spread of deadly rumours in India

• 14 mins

The heavy metal boys from the dump

The heavy metal band who grew up on Cambodia's biggest rubbish dump.

• 26 mins

How hunger made me a top chef

Singaporean Ang Song Kang started working in a kitchen because he had no food at home

• 22 mins

Girls don’t fight? I became a champion

As a child, May Ooi was not allowed to practise martial arts. She is now a champion

• 16 mins

Sunburnt, starving and stranded at sea

John Low spent four days stranded at sea, with only a flotation ring to cling on to

• 12 mins

The man who makes Singapore laugh

Comedian Hossan Leong on how he kept smiling while facing a life threatening illness

• 11 mins

Giving birth during a genocide

The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home

• 26 mins