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The bowl of porridge that changed my life

Elizabeth Nyamayaro was saved from starvation as a child by a UN aid worker in Zimbabwe

• 39 mins

Searching for a serial killer from my bedroom

Paul Haynes spent nearly a decade trying to catch the 'Golden State Killer'

• 38 mins

Bringing down a dictator

One lawyer’s perilous journey to bring a war criminal to justice

• 26 mins

Sin, sexuality and how Beyoncé became a lifeline

Writer Paul Mendez’s turbulent teenage life as a gay Jehovah’s Witness and RnB superfan

• 50 mins

Hunting for a monster in the desert

Palaeontologist Nizar Ibrahim searched the Sahara for a Spinosaurus dinosaur skeleton

• 17 mins

My 30-year fight for justice for my mum

Lee Lawrence was 11 when his mother was shot during a police raid on their home

• 39 mins

Singing for my murdered sister helps me heal

Opera singer Joshua Hopkins' musical journey to deal with the grief of losing his sister

• 24 mins

My life as a millennial Yoruba priestess

Omitonade’s world of deities, divination, and mobile phones

• 27 mins

My mission to save the 'Russian spy whale'

Fisherman Joar Hesten is trying to help a whale rumoured to have escaped the Russian navy

• 37 mins

From saving goals to saving lives

Former ice hockey star Clint Malarchuk nearly died three times, now he helps others

• 37 mins

I became a supermodel overnight and didn't know

As a teenager, Lisa Ray took some photos in India that made her an instant sensation

• 30 mins

My mother’s fake name and secret past

Justine Cowan's English mother invented a fictional childhood

• 40 mins

The daring prison escape of an Argentine footballer

Claudio Tamburrini used bed sheets and a metal bolt to escape imprisonment and torture

• 30 mins

Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell

Claire Martin was abandoned at two days old. For years she looked for blood relatives.

• 16 mins

The surfer who fought apartheid to become a world champion

Cass Collier learnt to surf on segregated beaches – now he's fighting apartheid's legacy

• 22 mins

How I sang for my freedom

Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run

• 38 mins

I was the sole survivor of a plane crash

Stranded on a mountain, 11-year-old Norman Ollestad had to find a way to survive alone

• 42 mins

The music star who was born into a cult

Musician Mikel Jollett grew up in Synanon, a drug rehabilitation programme-turned-cult

• 40 mins

Secrets of my family's lost café

Old photos of her grandfather's café led Meriel Schindler to some shocking family truths

• 40 mins

How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?

Jan Six is an art dealer whose ancestor was painted by the Dutch Master Rembrandt

• 31 mins

What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'

The true story behind an infamous social experiment

• 20 mins

The black ballerina who didn't give up

Julie Felix says she was told she was the wrong colour to be a swan

• 26 mins

What my father wouldn’t tell me

Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand the scars and silences of her revolutionary family

• 40 mins

Dancing behind bars in Burkina Faso

After dance helped Bougobali resist the urge to murder, he decided to teach prisoners too

• 23 mins

My forbidden love for a US soldier

What happens when an Iraqi student and a soldier from the invading US army fall in love?

• 39 mins

Going to sea to honour my son

Yayi Bayam Diouf's son was a fisherman who lost his life trying to get to Europe

• 19 mins

Rickie Lee Jones: Why music became my bridge to the world

The US singer hit the big time in her early 20s, winning a Grammy for her first album

• 39 mins

London’s revolutionary kiss-in

Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride

• 39 mins

The nightclub fire that rocked Romania

Following a blaze in a Bucharest club, a sports newspaper uncovered deadly corruption

• 29 mins

My big fake wedding: uncovering an outlandish deception

Benita and Paolo's was a whirlwind romance that turned into a nightmare

• 26 mins