The Transy Book Heist

The elaborate and oddball scheme to steal some of the world’s most valuable books

• 30 mins

How I Grew Up in a Cave

Christina Rickardsson spent her first years living with her mother in a Brazilian forest

• 21 mins

The Elephant Whisperer of Thailand

Lek Chailert fights for the welfare of elephants working in logging camps.

• 15 mins

Life Without a Womb

At the age of 16, Tasha Bishop found out she didn’t have a uterus

• 14 mins

Being the Mother of a Sociopath

Being the Mother of a Sociopath

• 39 mins

Harlem's Legendary Ballet Dancer

Looking back on the life of Arthur Mitchell, pioneering African-American ballet dancer.

• 18 mins

The Photo That Exposed Apartheid

The Soweto Uprisings and the story behind South Africa’s most iconic photo

• 26 mins

I Took Her Hand and Then We Jumped

Rolf Sorman was one of the survivors of the Estonia ferry disaster 24 years ago

• 22 mins

Coaching the death row football team

Moses Akatugba managed a football club in a Nigerian prison

• 16 mins

The Stranger Who Rescued Me

Rukhiya Budden's life changed when she left the Kenyan orphanage where she grew up

• 13 mins

The Love That Survived IS

Hezni and Jilan Murad were separated when so-called Islamic State targeted Yazidis

• 18 mins

Awake but Trapped Inside My Body

Victoria Arlen woke up in hospital, locked into her body. All she had were her thoughts

• 26 mins

Fighting for a Woman's Right to Love

Khalida Brohi started campaigning after her cousin died in a so-called honour killing

• 22 mins

Saving My Cellmates From Death Row

Kenyan Pete Ouko was a prison inmate turned lawyer who got six people off death row

• 12 mins

The 35 Year Game of Tag

How a close knit group of friends go to extreme lengths to keep playing Tag forever

• 17 mins

Heavy Metal's Groundbreaking Grandma

Meet Inge Ginsberg: Holocaust survivor, Hollywood composer and heavy metal grandma.

• 23 mins

Helping Pakistan's Forgotten Prisoners

Haya Zahid is a top human rights lawyer fighting for justice in Pakistan’s prisons

• 15 mins

Opening my Romanian Secret Police File

Anthropologist Katherine Verdery found out Romania's secret police thought she was spy

• 20 mins

Crossing Continents to Find my Parents

Tuy Gentry Buckner’s epic search to find his birth family in Vietnam

• 38 mins

Refusing To Be Ashamed After Rape

After Sohaila Abdulali was raped in Mumbai, she was determined not to let it define her.

• 15 mins

Injured By A Boat Propeller

The Australian Mum who was trapped under a boat in a crocodile infested river

• 15 mins

My Dad, Muhammad Ali

What is it like to be the daughter of a man who called himself The Greatest?

• 22 mins

Fighting Discrimination with a Fairytale

Valeriu Nicolae is a European diplomat from a Roma background

• 16 mins

Bringing Down the Man Who Gave Us HIV

Diane Reeve's boyfriend infected her and other women with HIV in the US

• 22 mins

Our Near-Death Sub-Zero Border Crossing

Razak Iyal and Seidu Mohammed got frostbite as they crossed into Canada undetected

• 21 mins

Inside the Mind of a Forensic Pathologist

Dr Richard Shepherd has worked on some of Britain's most high profile crime scenes.

• 22 mins

The Mystery of Ecuador's Lost Mastertapes

An eccentric grandfather and an old suitcase of songs and secret loves.

• 30 mins

The Stalker Inside My House

Amanda Playle's stalker turned out to be the person she least suspected

• 15 mins

Confessions of an Art Forger

How a talented art forger imitated some of the greatest artists of all time

• 19 mins

Trapped Inside a Flooding Elevator

The race against time to escape an elevator that's filling with water

• 17 mins