I was Mandela's Human Shield

The former special branch officer who became the president's bodyguard

• 55 mins

Giving a Home to 32 Iraqi Orphans

How Husham al-Thabe took on 32 boys when their Baghdad orphanage closed

• 55 mins

Exposing the Bulgarian Mafia

The Bulgarian journalist attacked with acid after campaigning against organised crime

• 55 mins

Black American Befriends the KKK

How Daryl Davis - a black American musician - befriended members of the Ku Klux Klan

• 55 mins

Starlady: Hairdresser to the Outback

The transgender activist who uses hairdressing to change the lives of young Aboriginals

• 55 mins

Abdul Haji: Hero of Westgate Attack

The Kenyan-Somali man who rescued hundreds of people during the Westgate mall attack.

• 55 mins

Footballer Fighting to Save his Son

Andrea Luci's hope that his fame will help research for a cure for his son's condition

• 55 mins

Grieving Mum Fights Corruption in Honduras

Julieta Castellanos took on the Honduran police force after policemen murdered her son

• 55 mins

Marni Nixon: the Secret Voice of Hollywood

The ghost singer whose soprano provided the high notes for Hollywood actresses

• 55 mins

The Best of Outlook 2013 - Part One

Outlook's popular and inspiring stories of the year

• 55 mins

The Best of Outlook 2013 - Part Two

The most popular and inspiring stories of the year from Outlook

• 55 mins

A Model Turned Getaway Driver

American model Georgia Durante impressed the mob with her driving skills

• 55 mins

I Photographed 11 US Presidents

Photographer Harry Benson on 50 years spent taking iconic images of war and celebrity

• 55 mins

Life in the Cold

Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes on surviving the coldest polar adventures

• 55 mins

Bed Bugs and Babies: Life as Somalia's First Lady

Edna Adan Ismail is Somalia's former First Lady, who battled to build her own hospital.

• 55 mins

Tunisian Dr: 'Fighting Angel of Death'

Treating young protesters in Tunisia who have set themselves on fire

• 55 mins

Bullet Baby: Born under Fire in Mumbai

The five-year-old who became a symbol of new life for Mumbai after the attacks in 2008

• 55 mins

The Singing, Tweeting Astronaut

Commander Chris Hadfield recorded his own music video in space

• 55 mins

Tunis Professor: Why I Need A Bodyguard

Habib Kazdaghli on keeping his university - Manouba University in Tunis - secular

• 55 mins

The Week's Best True Life Stories

The singing, tweeting Astronaut, and the Tunisian doctor fighting the Angel of Death

• 28 mins

Searching for My Dead Baby in a New York Mass Grave

Elaine Joseph searched for 35 years to find the burial place of her dead baby in New York

• 55 mins

The Singing Labourers of Dubai

Film-maker Mahmoud Kaabour on the lives of migrant workers seeking solace through singing

• 55 mins

Fighting 'Breast Ironing' in Cameroon

Cameroonian journalist's stand against breast 'ironing' to disguise the onset of puberty

• 55 mins

Standing up to India's Sex Abusers

Meet The Red Brigade, a female self-defence group confronting sexual violence in India

• 55 mins

Talent Contests, Polyglots and Pilots

The singing labourers of Dubai, plus the pilot who landed his plane on the Hudson river

• 28 mins

CAR: Sheltering 10,000 in my Church

Rev. Nicolas Guerekoyame-Gbangou has offered shelter to thousands at his church in Bangui

• 55 mins

From Cop to Whale Activist

Why detective Laurens de Groot gave up enforcing the law for a life hunting whale-hunters

• 55 mins

The 'Menstruation' Man

How inventor Arunachalam Muruganantham's cheap sanitary pad transformed lives

• 55 mins

Inside CAR's Only Children's Hospital

Dr Simplice Kango on caring for children with machete, bullet and shrapnel wounds

• 55 mins

Innovators, Peacemakers and Survivors

India's "menstrual man"; paralysed by my father; and inside the world's tallest slum

• 28 mins