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The trailblazing nurse who began life in care

How Elizabeth Anionwu went from life in a children's home to becoming a medical pioneer

• 39 mins

Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother

Born into folk music royalty Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle

• 36 mins

The literary heroes that helped me cope as a carer

When Sam Mills became a carer for her schizophrenic father, fiction became her lifeline

• 37 mins

Greg Louganis: the Death-Defying Diver

Blood, gold and secrets at the Olympic pool.

• 29 mins

The unmaking of a boy soldier

As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?

• 39 mins

Chimps taught me how to be a mother

Dr Jane Goodall's work with chimps has revolutionalised our understanding of primates

• 22 mins

The day the music stopped

Violinist Min Kym was at the height of her career when her priceless violin was stolen

• 39 mins

Why I talk to warlords

Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers

• 40 mins

My Dad, Muhammad Ali

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

• 26 mins

The secret surrogate

I didn't tell my child I'm a surrogate mum

• 24 mins

Mean streets to sporting elite

Racism, gang life and the quest to build America's first black high school rowing team

• 48 mins

How did this diver cheat death?

Diver Chris Lemons was trapped on the North Sea bed for around 35 minutes without air

• 35 mins

Making movies helped me heal after my dad's murder

Rwandan director Jo毛l Karekezi explores the trauma he experienced during the 1994 genocide

• 29 mins

Attila the Nun

Arlene Violet, the American nun who took on the mob

• 26 mins

The coral crusaders: finding beauty in a murky world

How two punk rocker best friends created the world's first urban reef webcam

• 20 mins

Name, shame and jail: Ghana's undercover journalist

Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas uses some impressive disguises to go undercover.

• 24 mins

23 years longing to find my mum

Omar and Hassan Mohamed are two Somali brothers who never stopped looking for their mum

• 39 mins

The stolen Picasso and the forest quest

Why writer Mira Feticu looked for a stolen Picasso in a Romanian forest

• 20 mins

Discovering my grandfather's secret Nazi past

Growing up Julie Lindahl had been forbidden from looking into her family history

• 26 mins

The 25 day sit-in that changed history

Judy Heumann on the longest ever occupation of a federal building in US history

• 40 mins

The tycoon who became 'Mr Toilet'

Jack Sim is a Singaporean multi-millionaire who grew up without a working toilet

• 22 mins

I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped

Li Jingzhi's child was abducted in 1988. They鈥檝e finally been reunited 32 years later

• 34 mins

Fosse and Verdon: the legacy of a dancing family

Two superstars of dance, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, remembered by their daughter Nicole

• 41 mins

When trash met thrash: Paraguay's landfill musicians

How a youth orchestra of tin-can violins and X-ray drums got the attention of Megadeth

• 26 mins

The supermodel who escaped a cult

Hoyt Richards was a jet-setting supermodel, but he became enthralled by a doomsday cult

• 40 mins

Conjoined twins can now look into each other鈥檚 eyes

It took almost two years to separate two sisters conjoined at the back of their heads.

• 17 mins

The barber saving lives one haircut at a time

British hairdresser Tom Chapman gets men to share their problems in his barber's chair.

• 22 mins

The narcotics cop and a daughter hooked on heroin

Kevin Simmers' heart-breaking dilemma when he discovered his daughter was a heroin addict

• 22 mins

The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons

Why a terminally-ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal

• 26 mins

The first date that led to a dramatic mountain rescue

Rachel Colenso and her partner were stranded on a Swiss mountain in a fierce blizzard

• 30 mins