Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
A life shaped by addiction.Australian Holly Deane-Johns had a complicated childhood. Her parents ran an escort agency from their home, and heroin addiction later took over the whole family. She was fi...
4 Mar 202441min
The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel
Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past.She left her home in New Zealand as a young woman, driven away by a traumatic attack that would shape her life for years to come. ...
26 Feb 202440min
Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger.One day when Luma Mufleh was driving home to Atlanta, Georgia, she came across a group of barefoot boys playing foot...
19 Feb 202443min
My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run.Early one morning in 1968 he answered his front door, completely oblivious to the whirlwind about to be unleashed on his fa...
12 Feb 202438min
Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape
After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out.In 1972, when the plane carrying 22 year old Uruguayan Nando Parrado and his rugby team came down deep in the Andes ...
5 Feb 202441min
A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together
Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abductedLucy and her father Joe Sexton are American journalists. In 2021 Lucy was working on the TV series ‘Hostages’ when her...
29 Jan 202443min
Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy.Hannah knew her mother could sing. When she took the stage at karaoke, she always stole the show. But when a chance em...
22 Jan 202439min
Searching for the last man in the forest
Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders.One tribe, the Piripkura has just one member left who’s living nomadically, deep in the rainforest. It’s Jair’s ...
15 Jan 202435min
