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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

Looking for the Liberian sister I left behind

Civil war separated Helene Cooper from her sister. Years later she went back to find her

• 21 mins

I sailed the oceans in a Scientology jazz band

Neil Sarfati toured on board a ship with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard

• 37 mins

Family and forgiveness, the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Celebrating the life of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu with an interview he did in 2014

• 22 mins

My surprise Paralympic entry

Marie Harrower’s mother taught her not to let her blindness hold her back

• 17 mins

Caring for my mum & the secrets of her sickness

After a lifetime of caring for her ill mother Helen Naylor began to ask was it all a lie?

• 40 mins

The freediver who found salvation underwater

Alenka Artnik overcame grief and pain to become a world champion freediver

• 23 mins

Solving the puzzle: Crosswords, anorexia, and me

How Anna Shechtman recovered from anorexia and changed the world of crosswords

• 22 mins

Anne Frank’s stepsister: How I survived Auschwitz, part 1

The extraordinary Holocaust testimony of Eva Schloss and her memories of Anne Frank

• 39 mins

Anne Frank’s stepsister: How I survived Auschwitz, part 2

How Anne Frank’s diary led Eva Schloss to find her brother’s hidden Holocaust paintings

• 40 mins