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Tarantulas, Gandalf and my dying brother's bucket list

Royd Tolkien’s brother Mike left him a daring list of tasks to complete after he died

• 23 mins

I changed my name to change my life

Hakeem Oluseyi beat drug addiction and dropped his old name to become a star scientist

• 40 mins

The improbable rise of Europe’s 'Tofu King'

How German vegetarian Bernard Drosihn took on the ‘meat police’ and won

• 23 mins

I found the Titanic during a top-secret Cold War mission

For 70 years people searched for the wreck of the Titanic. Then came Robert Ballard

• 26 mins

The mountain between us

How two climbers became connected after a fateful expedition on a mountain in Tibet

• 26 mins

Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - Part 1

Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from around the world – Jari was one of them

• 38 mins

Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - Part 2

Jari Hannu Bouillon was a baby when he went from a Finnish orphanage to a French castle

• 30 mins

Danny Trejo: The ex-con who cracked Hollywood

He’s played the tough guy in a long list of films but in his 20s faced the death penalty

• 36 mins

The painful secret I hid from my twin

When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them

• 26 mins

The joy of skiing blind

Blind skier Mike Brace has dedicated his life to Paralympic sport

• 23 mins

Undercover in a nursing home at the age of 83

Sergio Chamy was in for a shock when he answered a job advert for men in their 70s to 90s

• 22 mins

The secret link between two gymnasts

Jennifer Bricker was born without legs and idolised Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu

• 37 mins

We left as kayakers and came back as dissidents

Andrzej and Jacek escaped Communist Poland on an adventure. Life would never be the same

• 40 mins

From rehab to ten thousand reservations - the many lives of chef, Erin French

Erin French runs one of the US’s hardest-to-book restaurants. But it’s been a rough road

• 40 mins

From Gaza to NASA: A Space Odyssey

Palestinian Loay Elbasyouni was part of the team that launched a helicopter from Mars

• 19 mins

Helping refugees saved my life

At 28, Kon Karapanagiotidis started a charity that would become a lifeline for thousands

• 22 mins

Disco and drama: The story of Ride On Time

Worldwide fame came at a moral price for an Italian DJ who made a huge 1980s dance hit

• 27 mins

'If you cut out part of my brain am I still Jody?'

Brain surgery cured Jody Smith's seizures and there were other surprising side effects

• 23 mins

The schoolgirl fraudster who found redemption in ballroom

Shannon Balenciaga discovered the underground ball scene in prison – and became a legend

• 40 mins

I ran away from slavery; now I help others escape

Analiza Guevarra escaped abuse but can’t return to her family in the Philippines

• 36 mins

Escaping after an IS massacre

Ali Hussein Kadhim was a captured Iraqi soldier who narrowly avoided execution

• 22 mins

The secretaries who inspired the hit movie 9 to 5

Karen Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash

• 26 mins

The murder case that started a cyber sleuth revolution

Todd Matthews became obsessed with identifying 'Tent Girl,' a decades-old unsolved crime

• 35 mins

Why this Covid doctor hid his homeless past

Emmanuel Taban, a former street kid now recognised for his life-saving medical work

• 38 mins

The epic road trip that taught me how to live again

After surviving cancer in her twenties, Suleika Jaouad felt she'd forgotten how to live.

• 40 mins

The first beauty queen in a free South Africa

Basetsana Kumalo was crowned Miss South Africa after the country's first democratic vote

• 26 mins

I stole a safe, and faced the dilemma of my life

The burglar who discovered a terrible crime - but risked life in prison if he reported it

• 39 mins

I hit puberty, then burned down my family home

As a teenager Nikki Owen's mental health and behaviour quickly spiralled out of control

• 40 mins

The sinking of a pirate radio ship

Nick Richards was a DJ with an offshore radio station, but the ship was falling apart

• 41 mins

The heavy metal boys from the dump

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

• 26 mins