Ellen Holmes became the full-time carer for her mother and her two brothers while she was at high school (R)

David Coles is one of very few colourmen or 'pigment-whisperers' in the world

Ruth Clare took decades to understand it was her dad's service in Vietnam that had made him aggressive and unpredictable (R)

Jack surpassed all expectations, rising from an illiterate childhood to become a professor (R)

Simon McCartney and his climbing partner, Jack, shared a telepathic relationship

Kate Cole-Adams explores the mysteries of the in-between state we occupy on the operating table

Cheryl Maracic spent years in hospital as a child with kidney disease, and wasn't expected to live long. Then came a medical breakthrough.

Jenny Valentish road tests the pathways girls and women take into and out of drug and alcohol addiction

What Wally Franklin's gleaned from a lifetime of observing whales, their migratory patterns, songs and sex lives (R)

Hilarious and true tales of personal mortification, told at a live Conversations event.