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My unknown song became a political anthem in Hong Kong

A phone alert revealed Matthew Keegan had become an overnight pop star 5,000 miles away

• 34 mins

Rugby star Gareth Thomas: Strong, vulnerable and HIV positive

Rugby legend Gareth Thomas was blackmailed and lived in fear before revealing he was HIV+

• 39 mins

Stories from Syria's secret library

Under siege: how a group of friends risked everything to create a literary sanctuary

• 40 mins

A plane crash left me lost in the Amazon

Brazilian pilot Antônio Sena survived 36 days alone after crashing into dense rainforest

• 40 mins

Banned from voting for my wife, so we changed the law

Desmond and Sheena Meade’s historic battle to give ex-felons the right to vote in Florida

• 40 mins

Birdwatching with the men who kidnapped me

Diego Calderón was taken hostage in Colombia on a biology field trip

• 23 mins

From intensive care to the Olympic podium

How fencer Keeth Smart won an Olympic medal months after being diagnosed with leukaemia

• 38 mins

A decade without Dan: The search for my brother gave me purpose

The loss of Loren O’ Keeffe’s brother led her to help families with missing loved ones

• 39 mins

Trapped in a "metal coffin" on the ocean floor

42 metres down on the seabed with 22 sailors inside: the story of the submarine Pacocha

• 46 mins

From songbird to birdsong expert

Former opera singer Gisela Kaplan on how she became an expert in bird communication

• 33 mins

Seven months trapped in an airport

Hassan Al Kontar had to live at Kuala Lumpur airport after he got stuck in a legal limbo

• 38 mins

Punk, God, and my search for truth

Punk icon Palmolive walked away from two pioneering bands looking for spiritual answers

• 36 mins

Recording my first album as a man

The singer-songwriter Cidny Bullens finally decided to transition aged 61

• 40 mins

The Paralympian who was trapped inside her body

How Victoria Arlen swam for gold after years of being unable to speak or move

• 26 mins

The train driver asking men to open up about mental health

Heather Waugh is committed to preventing suicides

• 11 mins

The 80s song that brought back my memories

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

• 39 mins

'Horses saved my life' - how a boy from West Philly made polo history

A chance discovery catapulted Kareem Rosser into the elite world of polo.

• 40 mins

What Susan did on Death Row

Susan Kigula led a choir, got a degree and changed Ugandan law as she waited to be hanged

• 26 mins

Helping the drug addict who stole my dog to get into rehab

When Brayden Morton found the woman who stole his dog, he was determined to help her.

• 20 mins

The Omani football nerd who went from player to pundit

How Rumaitha Al Busaidi became the first female football commentator in the Arab world

• 22 mins

The criminal double life of a stage actor

Jack Charles is a venerated Aboriginal Australian actor, but he once had an addiction.

• 22 mins

I saw a smile on the suicide bomber's face

In 2006 a suicide truck bomb left Iraqi teenager Qusay Hussein severely injured and blind

• 37 mins

Tarantulas, Gandalf and my dying brother's bucket list

Royd Tolkien’s brother Mike left him a daring list of tasks to complete after he died

• 23 mins

I changed my name to change my life

Hakeem Oluseyi beat drug addiction and dropped his old name to become a star scientist

• 40 mins

The improbable rise of Europe’s 'Tofu King'

How German vegetarian Bernard Drosihn took on the ‘meat police’ and won

• 23 mins

I found the Titanic during a top-secret Cold War mission

For 70 years people searched for the wreck of the Titanic. Then came Robert Ballard

• 26 mins

The mountain between us

How two climbers became connected after a fateful expedition on a mountain in Tibet

• 26 mins

Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - Part 1

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

• 38 mins

Josephine Baker: My mother, the superstar singer and spy - Part 2

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

• 30 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

• 36 mins