Abducted in war, saving lives in peace

Aminata Conteh-Biger was one of thousands of women abducted in Sierra Leone’s civil war

• 39 mins

The black reverend who bought a Ku Klux Klan shop

How Reverend David Kennedy fought to shut down a shop selling racist paraphernalia

• 22 mins

Farming and Phil Collins taught me about love

Learning lessons about love and life from a ewe and a lamb

• 22 mins

The actor who’s been saying the same lines for 32 years

Catherine Russell has played the same part more than 13,000 times – without a sick day

• 21 mins

The downfall of "The Screamers"

Atlantis was a fringe psychotherapy commune who moved to guerrilla controlled Colombia

• 26 mins

The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth

How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband

• 32 mins

A dangerous obsession

Why women’s rights advocate Julie Lalonde stayed silent about being stalked for a decade

• 39 mins

Half a rotten apple: growing up in 70s China

Writer Xiaolu Guo on a childhood in the aftermath of China’s Cultural Revolution

• 39 mins

The Guatemalan grandparents storming the disco

Love, grief and fame: how disco has shaped the lives of Favio Vasquez and Maria Moreno

• 18 mins

Adventures of the of the bootleg-busting brothers

Rob and Jason Holmes were first recruited as undercover agents when they were children

• 26 mins

The black child raised by white supremacists

How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing

• 41 mins

On the frontline against chemical warfare

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon braves bombs and bullets investigating chemical weapon attacks

• 24 mins

I set up a radio station for aliens

Electronics whizz John Shepherd spent years trying to contact alien life, with music

• 24 mins

The stay-at-home mum who became a bodybuilding star

Kiran Dembla is an Indian celebrity trainer – but it's a long way from where she started

• 21 mins

The celestial treasure hunters

An unlikely duo’s insatiable and dangerous hunt for space rocks

• 26 mins

Painting for our lives

Three fascinating portraits of people who used a paintbrush to transform their lives

• 40 mins

'She came back to the clinic dancing'

The Sierra Leonean doctor whose life-changing work earned her screen time with the Queen

• 24 mins

Revelations from El Salvador that healed my family

Discovering the history of his homeland helped Roberto Lovato understand his father

• 36 mins

The twists and turns of the Rubik's Cube

Meet champion cuber Feliks Zemdegs, and the inventor behind the puzzle Erno Rubik

• 26 mins

CJ Daugherty’s world of literary escapism

Books were the best-selling author’s “magic carpet ride out” of an abusive childhood home

• 41 mins

The wild ride of a Tamil comic book pioneer

The Indian comic book enthusiast bringing his favourite characters to a Tamil audience.

• 22 mins

James Rhodes: My love letter to music

The British pianist is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Music became his lifeline

• 39 mins

Unmasking a horror film icon

Kane Hodder is best known as on-screen killer Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th films

• 38 mins

In bed with an assassin

Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret.

• 26 mins

A scandal at the Oscars: Marlon Brando & me

Millions watched Sacheen Littlefeather refuse an Oscar in a stand against stereotyping

• 31 mins

Skin: the scream that made me a rock star

How Skin, lead singer of the ground-breaking British band, Skunk Anansie, found her voice

• 40 mins

Fire, ice and thunder: a chase on the high seas

Taking down the Thunder, the world's most notorious poaching ship

• 38 mins

The IS orphans rescued by their grandpa

He couldn’t save his daughter after she joined IS but could he rescue her seven children?

• 26 mins

Separated from my kids at the US-Mexico border

Guatemalan Rosayra Pablo Cruz was helped by a surprise visitor while she was in detention

• 39 mins

A spy in the family

I was betrayed to the East German Secret Police

• 40 mins