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The African girl raised by Kim Il-sung

Monica Macias had two dads: Equatorial Guinea's brutal leader and the North Korean despot

• 26 mins

The wrestling star helping a grieving mum

Former wrestler Kendo Nagasaki helped Lyn Rigby cope after her son was murdered

• 53 mins

Leaving America's 'most hated family'

Libby Phelps grew up in the infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church

• 53 mins

The sailor and the secret

Guy Oliver’s secret took him from being on a warship to designing superyachts

• 53 mins

My revenge against 'revenge porn'

Ana Baquedano fought to change the law in Mexico after an ex shared her nude selfie

• 53 mins

Sarajevo Siege - metal music in the madness: part 1

While war raged around them, the city's heavy metal musicians found artistic freedom

• 26 mins

The family murder that began our campaign

Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse

• 53 mins

The backflip that shocked the Olympics

Surya Bonaly performed an ‘illegal’ move that cemented her name in figure skating history

• 53 mins

Losing my dad in the Challenger space disaster

Richard Scobee watched as the Space Shuttle Challenger took off, it would change his life

• 53 mins

Using comedy to unpick my past on air

Comedian Rosie Waterland started a podcast with her mum to examine their difficult past

• 53 mins

Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs: part 2

How do you get Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to play in a warzone?

• 26 mins

The voyage of The Fisherman’s Friends

How a group of friends went from singing in their local pub to national stardom

• 53 mins

How did this diver cheat death?

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

• 53 mins

Keeping wrestling alive in Afghanistan

Teacher Abbas and his wrestling gym are back with a vengeance after a terror attack

• 53 mins

From homeless child to top firefighter

Sabrina Cohen Hatton survived homelessness to become a leading firefighter in the UK

• 53 mins

The words that saved John Dwayne

A wrongfully convicted illiterate teenager found his freedom in books and letters

• 26 mins

The massacre that made me a mortician

Camilo Jaramillo survived a massacre and found solace in becoming a mortician

• 53 mins

Survivor 195: Taking down Larry Nassar

Elite US gymnast Rachel Haines was abused by convicted paedophile Larry Nassar for years

• 53 mins

The friendship born of murder

How the father of a victim became buddies with the killer's family

• 53 mins

Opioid crisis: the doctor who got addicted

Lou Ortenzio got addicted to opioids as he was prescribing them to his patients in the US

• 53 mins

How I turn prisoners into violin virtuosos

Tito Quiroz found himself in a tough Mexican prison, tasked with teaching music lessons

• 26 mins

The secrets uncovered by a body detective

Sue Black can tell from a cadaver what the deceased's mother ate during pregnancy

• 53 mins

The perfect stranger and the ice lake rescue

Timofey Yuriev was possibly the best person to save two dogs trapped in an icy lake

• 53 mins

What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'

The true story behind an infamous social experiment

• 53 mins

The heiress giving away her Disney fortune

Abigail Disney felt her family was ruined by the wealth from their Hollywood empire

• 53 mins

Elza Soares: invincible queen of samba

Singer Elza Soares survived poverty and public scandal to become a music legend in Brazil

• 26 mins

How menstrual blood became my political paint

After being jailed for her art, journalist Zehra DoÄŸan's paint supplies were confiscated

• 53 mins

I can't make long-term memories

Hum Fleming has epilepsy. A side effect means her memories mostly fade after six months

• 53 mins

'Honour' made my father a murderer

Amina’s father brutally attacked her and her sister for ‘shaming’ their Jordanian family

• 53 mins

I trained to be a surgeon when I couldn’t read or write

Ethiopian child bride Mamitu Gashe became a surgeon after she almost died in childbirth

• 53 mins