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My journey to become the first Native American US Poet Laureate

Joy Harjo survived prejudice and abuse to become one of America's most acclaimed poets

• 16 mins

They thought my husband was a spy

Matthew Hedges was on a work trip in the UAE when he was accused of being a British spy

• 39 mins

Blades, bullets and my escape from 'murder city'

Rollerblading led Jessel Recinos into bad ways, but eventually became his salvation

• 18 mins

Hiding my sexuality to be a black role model

Becoming one of the first African American actors on children's TV came with an ultimatum

• 40 mins

The woman behind Senegal's Sex and the City

Kalista Sy created a TV series that's taking Senegal by storm

• 23 mins

Trying to get my penpal out of prison

A letter, a murder and a boxer鈥檚 dying wish turned a teenager鈥檚 life around

• 26 mins

Wynton Marsalis: the making of a jazzman

How a reluctant trumpet player became the most celebrated jazz musician of his generation

• 40 mins

Beyond the bushfires: a koala doctor's story

Cheyne Flanagan's fight to rescue and re-home Australia's koalas

• 23 mins

The refugee lawyer prosecuting IS war crimes

Rez Gardi became the first Kurdish refugee to graduate from Harvard Law School

• 23 mins

How I created the first Chinese Superman character

Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang on how he helped create the first Chinese Superman character

• 24 mins

The woman in lockdown with 70 spiders

When Covid-19 hit, zookeeper Caitlin Henderson ended up in lockdown with 70 spiders

• 14 mins

My search for my sister, the "keeper of memories"

Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family

• 23 mins

The weird world I was warned to keep secret

Pauline Dakin's family life was full of mystery, fear and unpleasant surprises.

• 40 mins

Students by day and hostage negotiators by night

Miles Hargrove asked his old school friend to negotiate with his dad鈥檚 kidnappers

• 39 mins

The Australian who woke up speaking Mandarin

Ben McMahon suffered a brain injury which impacted his use of language

• 26 mins

Behind the doors of the lockdown museums

A virtual tour of some the world鈥檚 best loved museums by the people who look after them.

• 22 mins

My part in a historic hostage rescue

The Israeli commando who crossed continents on a high risk hostage rescue operation

• 22 mins

The cookbook that became a lifeline

How the eccentric but pioneering chef Julia Child became a role model for Julie Powell

• 22 mins

How do you deal with coronavirus in a war zone?

Thierry Durand helped to set up the only dedicated covid-19 hospital in the city of Aden.

• 22 mins

Heavy Metal's Groundbreaking Grandma

Meet Inge Ginsberg: Holocaust survivor, Hollywood composer and heavy metal grandma

• 26 mins

The forbidden marriage and the legal loophole

The clerical error that allowed two women to make LGBT history in Costa Rica.

• 22 mins

My powerful sideburns and other beard stories

MJ Johnson has an award winning beard, but due to coronavirus its days might be numbered

• 23 mins

Voyage to the bitter deep

Victor Vescovo and John Ramsay explored the deepest points of the world's five oceans

• 23 mins

Wrongfully convicted of murdering my parents

After 17 years in prison Marty Tankleff has been sworn in as a lawyer.

• 27 mins

The teenager who survived the Manchester bombing

Freya Lewis has rebuilt her life after the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017

• 26 mins

The lawyer, the chemical giant, and the contaminated water

Robert Bilott took on a case for one farmer. It became a fight for 70,000 people.

• 39 mins

We missed our baby鈥檚 birth because of Covid-19

How one couple travelled across the world to meet their baby son

• 23 mins

Hamilton: overcoming hearing loss to make its music

Alex Lacamoire collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the epic sound of Hamilton

• 40 mins

We risked our lives to save my brother's heart

Hamed Amiri鈥檚 family fled from Afghanistan to get a heart operation for his brother

• 24 mins

Dynamo: turning illness into magic

Crohn's disease has hampered the world-famous magician all his life

• 26 mins