The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel

Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past

• 40 mins

Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison

Holly’s life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean

• 41 mins

I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

• 42 mins

Behind the locked door

The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children

• 48 mins

How to talk to guerillas

Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them

• 37 mins

My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence

Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape

• 40 mins

Bonus: The Black 14

The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism

• 32 mins

Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud

Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off

• 49 mins

Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1

The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument

• 40 mins

Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2

How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star

• 38 mins

How I convinced police my dad was a murderer

On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence

• 50 mins