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I still believe I'm lucky even after breaking my neck

Ed Jackson almost died after he mistakenly dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool

• 40 mins

Fighting the apartheid my grandfather created

Wilhelm Verwoerd’s grandfather was the prime minister of South Africa in the 1960s

• 26 mins

The Jewish prisoner, the treasure hunters and the secret diary

Menachem Kaiser’s family quest led to a top-secret underground Nazi city

• 39 mins

Matt Goss: Life and loss in a superstar boy band

The Bros lead singer on fame, fans, and what happened after the pop bubble burst

• 40 mins

My anonymous teen story became a playground sensation

In 2005 a London schoolgirl uploaded a story to her blog that took on a life of its own

• 23 mins

The bionic gloves that brought music back to me

Joao Carlos Martins thought he'd never play piano again, then he was gifted bionic gloves

• 22 mins

The choir without vocal cords

The Belgian chorister-turned-doctor who conducts a choir for people without vocal cords

• 39 mins

Why my parents sent my brothers to live in North Korea

When Yonghi Yang was six, her parents made a choice the family have lived with ever since

• 23 mins

The teenager who baked her way out of a crisis

When Kitty Tait was struggling with her mental health, she opened a bakery

• 13 mins

The 'deepest man on earth'

Herbert Nitsch broke the record for deepest free dive but fell asleep on the way back up

• 27 mins

The cult, the crocodile and my journey back to love

Juliana Buhring's search for true love would catapult her into the record books

• 40 mins

The chicken who sailed the world

Guirec Soudée sailed around the world with just his chicken Monique for company

• 39 mins

My real-life Cuban dance romance

JoAnn Jansen learned to dance in the arms of a revolutionary – now she teaches film stars

• 40 mins

From 'half-nerd' to Hong Kong student leader

For democracy campaigner Nathan Law, the important thing is not to hate himself

• 41 mins

The unsung pioneer of reggae's golden age

How Leroy Sibbles of The Heptones created some of the most influential rhythms in reggae

• 24 mins

I was blamed for the 9/11 attacks

Virginia Buckingham ran the Boston airport from which two of the hijacked planes took off

• 39 mins

My sister Banaz - killed for loving the wrong man

Payzee Mahmod on the tragedy that broke her family and her campaign to end child marriage

• 39 mins

The father and daughter finding closure after a plane crash

Gonzalo and Michelle Dussan were two of only four survivors of a plane crash in 1995

• 32 mins

Gerald and the giant vegetables

Septuagenarian Gerald Stratford went viral with videos of his enormous vegetables

• 11 mins

Alaska: Drag, drugs and fighting the fame monster

Dream chasing and Drag Racing with Alaska 5000, and the restorative power of Catwoman

• 39 mins

"We were going to hold our ground": Behind the lines of a Mohawk protest

Tracey Deer's community were involved in a 78 day siege with the Canadian government

• 22 mins

Lessons in grief from the South African wilderness

Working as a wilderness guide helped Sicelo Mbatha confront the loss of his best friend

• 23 mins

Falling for the stranger who saved me

When Nupur Gupta found herself in trouble out at sea, Attila Bosnyak appeared at her side

• 23 mins

I lost my heart to a herd of reindeer

Tilly Smith went to Scotland to look after a herd of reindeer 40 years ago and never left

• 17 mins

Kidnapped by Nazis as a baby

Ingrid Von Oelhafen discovered she'd been part of an experiment during World War II

• 22 mins

The shocking truth about my three dads

DNA tests revealed that Eve Wiley's biological father was not the man she thought

• 37 mins

The tip-off and the 30-year treasure hunt

A story told over drinks in the 1980s set two metal detectorists on a very long hunt

• 29 mins

A quizmaster’s accidental route to fame

How quizmaster Jay Flynn started the UK's most in-demand pub quiz by accident

• 24 mins

A mother's battle for her son's education

At risk of losing her son Virginia Walden Ford fought to change the US education system.

• 26 mins

The factory worker who became Chile's first blind senator

How a tear gas cannister changed the course of Fabiola Campillai’s life

• 22 mins