Hiding the truth behind my NFL stardom

New England Patriots star Ryan O'Callaghan used football as a cover for his sexuality

• 26 mins

My revolutionary 70s summer camp

Jim LeBrecht remembers a revolutionary summer camp in the 1970s for disabled teenagers

• 36 mins

I turned my cleaning obsession into a hit business

Trauma led Lynsey Crombie to compulsive cleaning but now she’s sharing her skills on TV

• 23 mins

The face-blind portrait artist

German artist Carlotta has a brain disorder: she can’t recognise faces, not even her own

• 23 mins

Mr Motivator: from homeless to household name

TV star and fitness instructor Derrick Evans wants to help people keep fit in lockdown

• 17 mins

The Tale of the King of the Wild Blue Sky

The highs and lows of America's first flying newsman, Jerry Foster

• 26 mins

The mayor and the art heist mystery

Mayor Knut Kreuch's mission to solve one of Germany’s biggest art thefts

• 21 mins

The psychiatric nurse who overcame a life of addiction

From age 14 to 37 Anthony Brown was homeless and became addicted to drugs and alcohol

• 30 mins

How the Donut King lost his crown

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy once presided over an empire of donut shops across California

• 26 mins

The actor who preferred to die rather than stop filming

Massimo Troisi delayed heart surgery to make 'Il Postino'. He died before filming ended.

• 16 mins

Love and defection on the dancefloor

Cuban ballet stars Mayara Piñeiro Contido and Etienne Díez found love in exile

• 16 mins

I became ‘dad’ to a baby ocelot

Harry always felt out of place but found ‘home’ with a baby ocelot in the Peruvian jungle

• 23 mins

The Covid-19 nurses: Sharing our stories

Hannah Gray and Bianca Dintino are two ICU nurses tackling the pandemic on two continents

• 21 mins

My journey to become the first Native American US Poet Laureate

Joy Harjo survived prejudice and abuse to become one of America's most acclaimed poets

• 16 mins

They thought my husband was a spy

Matthew Hedges was on a work trip in the UAE when he was accused of being a British spy

• 39 mins

Blades, bullets and my escape from 'murder city'

Rollerblading led Jessel Recinos into bad ways, but eventually became his salvation

• 18 mins

Hiding my sexuality to be a black role model

Becoming one of the first African American actors on children's TV came with an ultimatum

• 40 mins

The woman behind Senegal's Sex and the City

Kalista Sy created a TV series that's taking Senegal by storm

• 23 mins

Trying to get my penpal out of prison

A letter, a murder and a boxer’s dying wish turned a teenager’s life around

• 26 mins

Wynton Marsalis: the making of a jazzman

How a reluctant trumpet player became the most celebrated jazz musician of his generation

• 40 mins

Beyond the bushfires: a koala doctor's story

Cheyne Flanagan's fight to rescue and re-home Australia's koalas

• 23 mins

The refugee lawyer prosecuting IS war crimes

Rez Gardi became the first Kurdish refugee to graduate from Harvard Law School

• 23 mins

How I created the first Chinese Superman character

Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang on how he helped create the first Chinese Superman character

• 24 mins

The woman in lockdown with 70 spiders

When Covid-19 hit, zookeeper Caitlin Henderson ended up in lockdown with 70 spiders

• 14 mins

My search for my sister, the "keeper of memories"

Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family

• 23 mins

The weird world I was warned to keep secret

Pauline Dakin's family life was full of mystery, fear and unpleasant surprises.

• 40 mins

Students by day and hostage negotiators by night

Miles Hargrove asked his old school friend to negotiate with his dad’s kidnappers

• 39 mins

The Australian who woke up speaking Mandarin

Ben McMahon suffered a brain injury which impacted his use of language

• 26 mins

Behind the doors of the lockdown museums

A virtual tour of some the world’s best loved museums by the people who look after them.

• 22 mins

My part in a historic hostage rescue

The Israeli commando who crossed continents on a high risk hostage rescue operation

• 22 mins