In bed with an assassin

Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret.

• 26 mins

A scandal at the Oscars: Marlon Brando & me

Millions watched Sacheen Littlefeather refuse an Oscar in a stand against stereotyping

• 31 mins

Skin: the scream that made me a rock star

How Skin, lead singer of the ground-breaking British band, Skunk Anansie, found her voice

• 40 mins

Fire, ice and thunder: a chase on the high seas

Taking down the Thunder, the world's most notorious poaching ship

• 38 mins

The IS orphans rescued by their grandpa

He couldn’t save his daughter after she joined IS but could he rescue her seven children?

• 26 mins

Separated from my kids at the US-Mexico border

Guatemalan Rosayra Pablo Cruz was helped by a surprise visitor while she was in detention

• 39 mins

A spy in the family

I was betrayed to the East German Secret Police

• 40 mins

The firefighting vets of Brazil

Carla Sassi and her team have been rescuing animals as wildfires burn around them

• 22 mins

Zero-gravity highs and history-making lows

Kathy Sullivan is a former US astronaut who has made history both at sea and in space

• 23 mins

The photo that exposed apartheid

The Soweto Uprisings and the story behind South Africa's most iconic photo.

• 26 mins

Fighting plastic pollution in paradise

How Kristal Ambrose rallied a group of kids to get a plastic ban in the Bahamas

• 22 mins

Speaking through music: Me and my non-verbal sister

Ian Brennan’s sister, who has Down's syndrome, taught him to communicate through music

• 23 mins

I learned my mum's identity via SMS

It would take My Huong decades to uncover the truth about her birth family in Vietnam

• 40 mins

My Falklands War: the woman with the white gloves

How a farmer ignored military threats and rallied her community to save injured soldiers

• 46 mins

Bonus podcast: The Conversation, BBC 100 Women

Has the Covid-19 pandemic triggered change that could be seen as positive in the future?

• 49 mins

Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother

Born into folk music royalty, Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle

• 36 mins

The sailor and the pirate king

Indian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta

• 36 mins

The man behind Mindhunter: face to face with serial killers

John E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals

• 40 mins

The secretaries who inspired the hit movie 9 to 5

Karen Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash

• 26 mins

Becoming 'brothers' with my guard in Guantanamo Bay

How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie

• 38 mins

The 'Supervet': from bullies to bionic limbs

Noel Fitzpatrick is an Irish vet who makes ground-breaking bionic limbs for injured pets

• 23 mins

Who do you think you are?

Stories of people whose identities were a mystery begging to be solved

• 40 mins

The epic Arabic poem that was born in a stable

Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh began writing Uruk's Anthem while imprisoned in a stable

• 22 mins

“The best ending to 2020…

...that I can possibly imagine.” It’s time for the BBC Inspirations Awards.

• 3 mins

Discovering Stalin's million-dollar wine cellar

Wine merchant John Baker on trying to buy Josef Stalin's secret wine collection

• 34 mins

The Godfather of Hollywood sound

Walter Murch is a superstar sound designer. His ingenuity transformed cinema

• 26 mins

My music bus healing a gang divide

Justin Finlayson turned his London bus into a music studio to help at-risk young people

• 34 mins

Surviving civil war with a tracksuit and tennis racquet

Sam Jalloh, the barefoot player turned pro, coaches kids to achieve their tennis dreams

• 39 mins

The sisterhood vs the man who gave them HIV

Diane Reeve rallied together women who had contracted HIV from the same cheating lover

• 39 mins

After facing death row, the inmate who turned investigator

Sohail Yafat turned his miscarriage of justice into a fight for all prisoners in Pakistan

• 44 mins

The "five careers" of Bettye Lavette

Bettye Lavette was a teenage singing star. Five decades on, she's a star once more.

• 26 mins

My brother’s illness made me a “sickle cell warrior”

Tartania Brown is one of few sickle cell doctors in New York who also has the condition

• 39 mins

The family murder that launched our campaign

Brothers Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse

• 39 mins

The student who fought to pass Mexico’s historic ‘revenge porn’ law

Ana Baquedano campaigned to change the law in Mexico after an ex shared her nude selfie

• 28 mins

How I became ‘Mr Vaquita’

Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho faces poachers and pirates to save the world's rarest marine mammal

• 26 mins

The tale of the little Countess's little cello

How a 180-year-old miniature cello shaped the musical dreams of two American girls

• 36 mins

Elza Soares: invincible queen of samba

Singer Elza Soares survived poverty and public scandal to become a music legend in Brazil

• 26 mins

Why I made a film in which I kill my dad

When Kirsten Johnson’s dad got dementia she found an unusual way to cope

• 39 mins

My husband came back from the dead

How an accident and a case of mistaken identity changed one couple's lives forever

• 22 mins

Seven songs to mourn seven black men

Joel Thompson is behind a composition about the killing of black men in the USA

• 31 mins

The rebel musicians fighting India’s caste system

The Casteless Collective is a protest band who challenge caste oppression through song

• 21 mins

The video that turned our lives upside down

When a mum hit record on her son crying she couldn't have predicted the global reaction

• 22 mins

Defending my dream cost my mother her life

Two-time US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey turned to poetry after her mother's murder

• 23 mins

I ran with the men, and changed history

Kathrine Switzer was attacked for running in the men-only 1967 Boston Marathon

• 40 mins

Tasting the desert with Chile's leading forager

Patricia Pérez sells the rare herbs she finds in the Atacama desert to Chile's top chefs

• 15 mins

Moana: the Polynesian family behind the smash hit songs

Musician Opetaia Foa'i fought for the Disney movie to stay true to Pacific culture

• 23 mins

The match-making tree and other tales of unexpected romance

From the world's most romantic postbox to a persecuted couple’s perilous ocean voyage

• 40 mins

The Beninese singer hustling for success in New York

Shirazee endured homelessness and a threat of deportation as he pursued his music dreams

• 22 mins

‘I am sinking. This is not a joke. MAYDAY’

Disaster struck when Kevin Escoffier’s boat split during the perilous Vendée Globe race

• 22 mins

'Document everything. Trust no one'

Omar Mohammed went undercover to expose IS atrocities in his blog Mosul Eye

• 38 mins

The Iranian avocado quest that led to prison

The saga to free journalist Jason Rezaian from Iran’s most notorious prison

• 26 mins

The rap star saved by a nursing home

After losing his memory T La Rock forgot he was famous and had to learn to rap again

• 23 mins

My abuser used an alien plot to brainwash me

Jan Broberg and her mum Mary Ann share how a trusted friend kidnapped Jan – twice

• 38 mins

Who says I can't go to school?

How an Afghan girl defied the Taliban by setting up a secret classroom

• 34 mins

Escaping lockdown in the Coral City

The urban reef webcam bringing together a community around the globe

• 26 mins

The gourmet chef who used to beg for food

How a childhood on the streets of India prepared Sash Simpson to become a top chef

• 21 mins

That time I DJed from space

The astronaut who headlined a rave while he was in orbit and other extraordinary gigs

• 40 mins

Inside the hospitals of lockdown Wuhan

Filmmaker Hao Wu got unprecedented footage from four hospitals during Wuhan's lockdown

• 23 mins

My life by Whitney Houston's side

Robyn Crawford and the superstar singer were inseparable for two decades

• 39 mins

The record-breaking runner who hated her legs

Mimi Anderson's desire for thinner legs took her from the treadmill to ultra-marathons

• 22 mins

The broken computer that unlocked my fortune

From 'dumpster baby' to millionaire: Freddie Figgers uses his tech mastery to help others

• 22 mins

The voyage of The Fisherman's Friends

How a group of friends with a love for sea shanties went from Cornwall to the Albert Hall

• 33 mins

The making of the 'Wish Man'

How a poor boy who was abandoned by his mother grew up to grant children’s dying wishes

• 26 mins

The scavenger who found a brass symphony

A trombone took Ronald Kabuye from the streets of Kampala to a world-famous stage

• 38 mins

Setting up a fake mafia to catch El Chapo

Crime boss is just one of the many undercover roles played by FBI agent Mike McGowan

• 38 mins

Mary Wilson: her life as a Supreme

How Mary Wilson became a Motown star and why she hated The Supremes’ early hits

• 17 mins

Swimming with polar bears – a photographer’s 'crazy' dream

Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum is known for his close-up encounters with predators

• 38 mins

We discovered we were stolen as babies

Maria Diemar and Daniel Olsson were adopted from Chile and brought up in Sweden

• 39 mins

Jail Time Records - songs from a Cameroon prison

Music producer Vidou H made an album while wrongly accused of murder

• 20 mins

Egypt's only woman rally driver who "dances with the dunes"

Yara Shalaby, Egypt's only woman rally driver who learned to “dance with the sand dunes"

• 17 mins

New York to Saigon: taking beers to my friends in a warzone

An epic mission to raise the morale of Chickie Donahue's friends fighting in Vietnam

• 26 mins

Taking over my parents' legendary jazz venue

Ben Jaffe's parents turned Preservation Hall into a New Orleans jazz institution

• 39 mins

My son found his birth mother using Google Earth

The story of Sue Brierley’s adopted son Saroo became the Oscar-nominated film Lion

• 40 mins

An Orthodox rapper in Jerusalem

Nissim Black is an American rapper who converted to Hasidic Judaism

• 22 mins

The Cuban dad who became a lifeline for Chernobyl's children

Manuel Barriuso was a medical translator in an historic humanitarian operation

• 29 mins

The sport I love damaged my brain

Former rugby player Alix Popham can't remember some of his finest moments on the pitch

• 36 mins

I hated the word 'albino'

Mala Bhargava learned to accept her white hair and skin when her face became famous

• 22 mins

The photoshoot that helped me grieve for my baby

A gifted photoshoot provided Ashley Jones comfort after her daughter died at 21 months

• 22 mins

The actress turning her back on Bollywood to follow her dad's dreams

Sonia Mann's father wrote her a letter on her birth, which has guided her life ever since

• 22 mins

The child labourer who became a star of Mexico's food scene

Eduardo Garcia picked fruit, then served time in prison, before achieving culinary fame

• 25 mins

Married to a psychopath: my husband’s double life

Mary Turner Thomson’s life took a chilling turn after meeting the “perfect” man online

• 40 mins

The birthday gift that survived the Holocaust

In 1942 Sylvia Cohn wrote her daughter a book of poems. They're her "greatest treasure"

• 22 mins

Fear and fantasy TV in the siege of Aleppo

The Syrian medic who found solace in TV as he ran rebel Aleppo’s only children’s hospital

• 39 mins

The child spy and her secret agent parents

Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War

• 39 mins

Abandoned at sea for three years

Sailor Vikash Mishra lived on a leaky cargo ship after its owners ran out of money

• 17 mins

From classical piano to rock stardom in Japan

Japanese rock star Yoshiki shares the personal story behind his songs

• 22 mins

The architect who lost his sight but gained a vision

Chris Downey went blind almost overnight, one month later he was back being an architect

• 23 mins

Spain's fearless barnacle-hunting sisters

Isabel and Susana González risk their lives to collect barnacles along Spain's coastline

• 26 mins

Secrets & Lies: Lives destroyed online

Two unnerving stories about how quickly lies can spread online

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: What my parent hid from me

Two stories involving parents who concealed life-changing secrets from their children

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: The undercover operatives

Stories from a spy's daughter and Ghana's most famous undercover journalist

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: Lives lived in shame

Two stories of people who spent a lifetime denying who they were

• 39 mins

Secrets & Lies: The man who stole the President’s secrets

One writer risked prison to leak material about Uzbekistan's authoritarian former leader

• 26 mins

Secrets & Lies: Messages hidden in music

A trio of tales with a musical note

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: Fraudsters and forgers

The art of deception - two extraordinary stories

• 36 mins

Secrets & Lies: Imposters

The pop star and the 'fake heiress'

• 40 mins

Secrets & Lies: Family secrets

Two very different stories of family secrets exposed

• 42 mins

Secrets and Lies: China’s dissident cartoonist

Badiucao's double life and the price of operating in secret

• 26 mins

The break-up that cost me my voice

The triumphant return of Shirley Collins, the 'first lady' of English folk

• 40 mins

The bowl of porridge that changed my life

Elizabeth Nyamayaro was saved from starvation as a child by a UN aid worker in Zimbabwe

• 39 mins