Discover the incredible true story of a young mother and poor tobacco farmer whose cells were taken without her knowledge.This episode explores the remarkable medical breakthroughs that saved millions of lives, but also how modern medici...

30th of December 1952, on a cold and dark night in a London still scarred by World War II, Albert Gunter was driving his number 78 bus on the usual route over Tower Bridge when the unthinkable happened. Faced with a split-second dec...

Merry Christmas and welcome to a special episode of Honourable Mentions where, to celebrate the season, we are looking into the lives of Franz Gruber and Joseph Mohr, whose 1818 collaboration in the parish church of Oberndorf, Austria, gave the...

Fred Kroll was a native New Yorker, the grandson of Belarussian immigrants, a second world war veteran, and a genius in the world of toys and games. In 1978, his latest invention caught the toy business by surprise and more than hel...

Serbian, Duško Popov was a good looking, exquisitely dressed, multi-lingual international playboy and, as codename Ivan, he was the top spy for the German Military Intelligence (Abwehr) in the Second World War.But, under the codename Tri...