How my mysterious childhood became a best-selling novel

Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia’s biggest crime stories

• 40 mins

Naked and alone: the comedian trapped in a reality TV show

Nasubi had no idea his 15-month fight to survive was being broadcast on Japanese TV

• 46 mins

After doomsday: I outgrew a cult and became a professor

When the world fails to end Jerald Walker is left searching for something to believe in

• 41 mins

The bullet that ended our friendship

Paul Rousseau was accidentally shot in the head by his best friend and flatmate

• 40 mins

The cricket star who learned to fly

Ricky Ellcock’s rollercoaster life as a fast bowler and airline pilot

• 45 mins

The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company

Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety

• 40 mins

The long climb back

It started as a magical day for two friends but then a rock came loose

• 39 mins

Black boy joy: defying stereotypes on the London stage

Ryan Calais Cameron’s stories and characters shattered convention in UK theatre

• 40 mins

Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’

A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart

• 40 mins

My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love

When her partner died, Ellidy Pullin chose an unconventional path to motherhood

• 41 mins

The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing

Cathy Terkanian turned sleuth when told the baby she’d had to give up, had disappeared

• 37 mins

How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune

Reggie Nelson knocked on the poshest doors in London and asked a million-dollar question

• 39 mins

The WW2 spy and the little leaf that saved her

In a desolate concentration camp, Odette Hallowes discovers a tiny symbol of hope

• 40 mins

The unmaking of a child soldier

As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?

• 40 mins

Held hostage by al-Qaeda: my desert odyssey

Edith Blais was kidnapped by armed militants and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days

• 62 mins

Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 1

Another chance to hear one of our favourite episodes, a story of spycraft in South Africa

• 40 mins

Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 2

ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.

• 41 mins

My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery

Michael Visontay’s unexpected link to the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s most coveted book

• 40 mins

Rewind: An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning

How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief

• 41 mins

Introducing Dear Daughter

A bonus episode of Dear Daughter - stories of family and parenting from around the world

• 26 mins

The painful secret I hid from my twin

When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them

• 31 mins

Swimming blind: my journey to self-acceptance

Melanie Barratt, first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum’s ashes

• 38 mins

The former wrestler who wants your brain

Wrestling with Hulk Hogan and The Rock, Chris Nowinski’s dream job ended after an injury

• 36 mins

Painting faces in search of myself and my mum

Separated from his mum as a boy, Juano Diaz drew her face over and over again

• 39 mins