Strangers to coworkers to friends to...sisters?
Cassandra Madison and Julia Tinetti met working at the same bar in their 20s and were struck by how similar they looked. Their adoption reco...
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20 of 220 episodesTaught to kill – my childhood under the Khmer Rouge
Separated from her family and trained as a child soldier, Loung Ung's unbreakable spirit helped her survive Pol Pot’s regime, which killed n...
Bonus: Dear Daughter: Surviving my daughter's killing
When 19-year-old Ann from Florida, USA was shot by her boyfriend in 2010, her family were thrust into a nightmare, one that meant taking the...
I was taken as a baby…I didn’t know who I was, part 2
Jackie makes sporting history for Ireland and uncovers the truth about her past. Taken from her mother as a baby and raised in an Irish inst...
I was taken as a baby, I didn’t know who I was, part 1
A black girl in a white town, Jackie’s made to grow up silenced and alone. This episode contains outdated racial language that some might fi...
Skepta’s Mum: How I raised a rap legend
Ify Adenuga grew up with strict parents. As a mum, she rewrote the rulebook and encouraged creativity in her children, with her son Skepta b...
Me, dad and the zombie chickens
Filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman railed against Hollywood his whole career as the founder of cult B-movie production house, Troma, while his daughter...
Growing up black in a white family – the truth behind my birth
M People star Andrew Lovell’s home life hid a terrible – yet beautiful – secret. It would take him decades to find out the truth. At the hei...
Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano
While Francois Pierron was homeless in London he taught himself to play a public piano at St Pancras train station – from scratch. His maste...
Hercules: the grizzly bear who became family
Maggie Robin raised a bear cub who grew into an extraordinary companion. When Maggie Robin and her wrestler husband Andy brought home a bear...
Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 2
While filming in rebel-held Syria, Loubna Mrie is falsely accused of being a spy – an accusation that spirals into a life-threatening ordeal...
Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 1
From a powerful Alawite family in Syria, Loubna Mrie trusted the Assad regime – until witnessing its violent crackdown led her to defy loyal...
The couple who foiled New Zealand’s biggest drugs plot
An ordinary couple foiled the country's biggest drugs deal, all by doing a good deed. It involves a boat, a fake funeral at sea and the crim...
I bought Macclesfield FC while drunk and it saved my life
Rob Smethurst bought a bankrupt football club while his life was unravelling – then they went on to make football history and save him in th...
Colm Tóibín: How an Irish boy with a stammer found his voice
Colm Tóibín is a celebrated Irish writer, but as a child words didn't come easily. Navigating grief as a boy when his father died, he develo...
The gay Kenyan boyband star who refused to be defeated
Willis Chimano is one of Kenya’s biggest pop stars. With the boyband Sauti Sol, he’s won a string of awards and even danced with President B...
Laughter saved me: the comedian turning tragedy into comedy
When she was 14, Krystal Evans survived a lethal house fire. Years later, to come to terms with what she’d experienced, she turned it into a...
Living a lie: discovering my dad faked who he was
Joanne Briggs had always thought of her dad as a bit of a superhero. But he was hiding a dark secret. She only saw him a couple of times a y...
Fatima Whitbread: from abandoned baby to world champion
Fatima Whitbread grew up in a UK children’s home. She found both a mother and a coach in one person – going on to break the javelin world re...
One suitcase, three kids: a broke scientist pursues a dream
When Ijeoma Uchegbu arrived back in the UK as a single mum of three young children she soon found herself living in a homeless shelter; now...