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...

At the beginning of the 20th century, copper was the most sought after natural resource on earth, used for new technologies like electricity, telephone wires, indoor plumbing and the newfangled motor car, and, under the little Mexican town of N...

Today, we are in Australia, for the true crime tale of a small time criminal but notorious jail breaker. Join us as we leap from trains, wriggle through hospital windows, break free of inescapable prisons, and even stroll right out the front do...

The year is 1872 in Massachusetts, USA. A handsome, young Master Mariner, named Benjamin Briggs, his wife Sarah, and small daughter Sophia are about to set sail to Genoa, Italy, with a cargo of alcohol. What could possibly go wrong...

When Kate Warne persuades Alan Pinkerton, head of the largest agency in the world, to make her their first female detective, she soon proves her worth, but no one knew that she would go on to play the key role in saving a President from assassi...

Welcome back to Honourable MentionsToday we are off to leafy Oundle in North Northamptonshire, England, to learn about the life and times of an illiterate sex maniac Puritan preacher who became so convinced that he was the second coming ...

A young soldier returns to the fens having fought in the Nine Years' War in Ireland, only to become embroiled in a life of crime and adventure as a notorious highwayman in Tudor England, eventually leading to him becoming the first ever subject...