The Wicker Man: Learning to love the film that broke us
Dominic and Justin Hardy were young boys when their father, the director Robin Hardy, began a gruelling and obsessive quest to make The Wicker Man. Now the film is regarded as a masterpiece and belove...
20 Okt 202445min
"He counted 3, 2, 1 – then stabbed me in the heart"
Kieran Quinlan was on his way to a party when a man with a knife attacked him. Kieran Quinlan was an aspiring boxer living in his hometown of Birmingham in the UK. When he was 17 he was on the bus hea...
13 Okt 202441min
The US’s first black astronaut trainee reaches space at 90
In May 2024, 90-year-old Ed Dwight Jr. from Kansas City, Missouri travelled to the edge of space – he was an honoured guest in the Blue Origin rocket. His trip was 60 years overdue. Ed had been chosen...
6 Okt 202440min
Love, grief, and an AI chatbot
Joshua created an AI simulation of his deceased fiancée to help him deal with his loss.When gaming enthusiast Joshua Barbeau met Jessica, he knew he had found his soulmate. But his happiness didn't la...
29 Sep 202445min
A love story and a battle cry in the Ecuadorian rainforest
Nemonte Nenquimo’s passion for her rainforest home, and her love for an unlikely man, propelled her to achieve an historic victory for indigenous people in Ecuador. She took the national government to...
22 Sep 202439min
The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 2
Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor.Maxwell Smart was just 11 years old in 1941 when the Nazis took over his town in eastern Poland. One by one his...
15 Sep 202430min
The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 1
Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor.Maxwell Smart was just 11 years old in 1941 when the Nazis took over his town in eastern Poland. One by one his...
8 Sep 202441min
Never ever give up: how Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida
American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad faced down box jellyfish, cold and extreme fatigue to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage for protection, in 2013. She was 6...
1 Sep 202439min
