Annie Raser-Rowland's adventurous life as a weed forager and free thinker

Raised in rural Idaho in an extremist Mormon family who forbade her to attend school, Tara studied in secret, and made her way to university

Journalist Masha Gessen on growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union, and her two remarkable grandmothers

Charles Eddy became an expert on rare bleeding diseases after his son Lachie was born with haemophilia

Liz's life before and after netball; and what she had to unlearn to have a baby boy after facing secondary infertility

Robert Fisk has spent his career reporting from war zones, and he's one of the few Western journalists who met Osama Bin Laden in person (R)

Kerry Tucker rewrote her life story from inside maximum security

Historian and angler Anna Clark on the story of fishing in Australia (R)

Peter Venn's imagination was captured by the simple physics of the hovercraft. He turned flying them into a business, but the unusual vehicles still bring him joy

Archaeologist Serena Love on climbing into history in one of the first villages on earth, where the locals lived with de-skulled bodies buried in the floor