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Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - part one

Josephine Baker adopted 12 children from around the world – Jari was one of them

• 40 mins

Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - part two

Jari Hannu Bouillon was a baby when he went from a Finnish orphanage to a French castle

• 40 mins

Danny Trejo: The ex-con who cracked Hollywood

He’s played the tough guy in a long list of films but in his 20s faced the death penalty

• 40 mins

Why I gave my sister my womb

Lolita Wästerlund was born without a uterus, so her sister Linda offered up hers

• 40 mins

The painful secret I hid from my twin

When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them

• 26 mins

The joy of skiing blind

Blind skier Mike Brace has dedicated his life to Paralympic sport

• 40 mins

Undercover in a nursing home at the age of 83

Sergio Chamy was in for a shock when he answered a job advert for men in their 70s to 90s

• 40 mins

The secret link between two gymnasts

Jennifer Bricker was born without legs and idolised Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu

• 40 mins

We left as kayakers and came back as dissidents

Andrzej and Jacek escaped Communist Poland on an adventure. Life would never be the same

• 40 mins

The 80s song that brought back my memories

A car accident wiped all of Thomas Leeds' memories and he had to start again

• 26 mins

The many lives of chef Erin French

From rehab to 10,000 reservations, chef Erin French was determined to reclaim her life

• 40 mins

Trapped in a 'metal coffin' on the ocean floor

In 1988, 22 sailors were trapped in the submarine Pacocha with limited oxygen

• 40 mins

From Gaza to Nasa: A space odyssey

Palestinian Loay Elbasyouni was part of the team that launched a helicopter from Mars

• 40 mins

Helping refugees saved my life

At 28, Kon Karapanagiotidis started a charity that would become a lifeline for thousands

• 40 mins

Disco and drama: The story of Ride On Time

Worldwide fame came at a moral price for an Italian DJ who made a huge 1980s dance hit

• 26 mins

'If you cut out part of my brain am I still Jody?'

Brain surgery cured Jody Smith's seizures and there were other surprising side effects

• 40 mins

The schoolgirl fraudster who found redemption in ballroom

Shannon Balenciaga discovered the underground ball scene in prison – and became a legend

• 40 mins

I ran away from slavery; now I help others escape

Analiza Guevarra escaped abuse but can’t return to her family in the Philippines

• 40 mins

Escaping after an IS massacre

Ali Hussein Kadhim was a captured Iraqi soldier who narrowly avoided execution

• 40 mins

The secretaries who inspired the hit movie 9 to 5

Karen Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash

• 26 mins

The murder case that started a cyber sleuth revolution

Todd Matthews became obsessed with identifying 'Tent Girl,' a decades-old unsolved crime

• 40 mins

Why this Covid doctor hid his homeless past

Emmanuel Taban, a former street kid now recognised for his life-saving medical work

• 40 mins

The crazy things we do for love

The first date that ended in a dramatic mountain rescue.

• 40 mins

The epic road trip that taught me how to live again

After surviving cancer in her twenties, Suleika Jaouad felt she'd forgotten how to live.

• 40 mins

The first beauty queen in a free South Africa

Basetsana Kumalo was crowned Miss South Africa after the country's first democratic vote

• 26 mins

I stole a safe, and faced the dilemma of my life

The burglar who discovered a terrible crime - but risked life in prison if he reported it

• 40 mins

Shipwrecks and Cardi B: Stories from behind the piano

Three pianists tell their stories - surviving a shipwreck, tiny toys and a viral virtuoso

• 40 mins

I hit puberty, then burned down my family home

As a teenager Nikki Owen's mental health and behaviour quickly spiralled out of control

• 40 mins

The sinking of a pirate radio ship

Nick Richards was a DJ with an offshore radio station, but the ship was falling apart

• 40 mins

The heavy metal boys from the dump

The heavy metal band who grew up on Cambodia's biggest rubbish dump

• 26 mins