Our Lives

Natalie Ray is a 30-year-old mum of four, married to cage-fighting pro Stevie ‘Braveheart’ Ray. This is the tale of his one million dollar fight, told through Natalie’s eyes.

The stakes have never been higher for elite gymnast Rhys McClenaghan as he prepares for three major competitions that could make or break his career – but can he bring home gold?

Natasha can’t use her arms or legs, but she’s determined to sail the Atlantic. Her dad invents a way to control a boat with her breath, and the family set out across the world.

It's knitting, but not as we know it. A warm-hearted documentary profiling the colourful lives and creations of the Swansea Yarnbombers.

Josh Quigley, a suicide survivor turned record-breaking cyclist, was pushed to the brink by alcohol. However, his life took a remarkable turn when he embarked on a transformative journey, cycling around the world. Now, fueled by a second chance, he pushes himself to the limits in pursuit of a coveted spot in the World Championships.

Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) is a mountain that people keep coming back to. It’s the most popular mountain in Britain, and it’s getting busier each year. People are prepared to queue for up to 45 minutes at peak times to climb the final few steps to the summit, to take that all-important picture. Yr Wyddfa already attracts around 750,000 people a year. As the summit’s visitor centre prepares to re-open, and the famous train carries passengers to the very top for the first time since October 2019, a record number of visitors are expected in 2023. It looks like being their busiest summer yet.

A determined young Formula One dyno technician chases her dream to be a racing driver. Isla Mackenzie has a sought-after role at one of the world's top Formula One teams, testing engines for some of the biggest names in motorsport. But Isla always had the thirst to succeed as a driver herself. This season, she has been signed up by a team that has seen her potential, and she is going for it at full speed. Isla’s rural upbringing in the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides couldn’t seem further from the fast-paced world of motor racing. But early freedoms, from riding horses to tearing around fearlessly in old cars on the family farm, gave her a first taste of speed. Now she is training for her F3 debut and will need to draw on everything she’s learned to succeed. In the male-dominated and expensive world of motor racing, can this 29-year-old island speedster achieve her breakthrough?

An ex-aircraft engineer becomes the warden of a remote island between England and Wales.

For the first time since his release, Stephen Greer returns to the prison where he learnt to paint to teach art to offenders. Will art transform their lives as it did his?

The story of one of Britain’s great underwater forests and one man's quest to protect it. In the 1950s, the Sussex coast was a treasure trove of adventure for freediver Eric Smith, who started diving when he was 11. It was a spectacular world brimming with life and one of the most bio-diverse places on the planet. Then in 1987, after devastating winter storms and a change in fisheries laws, Eric’s vibrant kelp forests were largely reduced to a barren desert. After years of alerting the authorities to the devastation, Eric could no longer stand witness to the destruction. Along with others, his lobbying of the Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority helped initiate a landmark plan to ban trawling in Sussex and allow the seabed to recover. In 2021, those efforts paid off, with a bylaw that banned trawling and protected some 300 square kilometres off the Sussex coast - the first such ban in the UK. Now, around the UK, there are 20 trawler exclusion bans under review. The

A character study of Peter Lavery, a Belfast bus driver who won £10.2m on the lottery in 1996 and has several new business enterprises launching this year, including the first whiskey distillery in the city for 90 years. The film follows the progress of Peter’s ambitious plans for a ‘floating’ distillery in the Titanic Pumphouse and the launch of a new tour boat on the River Lagan. We also look back at his lottery win, what happened to him after that, and how he coped with the turmoil of going from earning £200 a week to suddenly becoming one of Northern Ireland's richest people overnight.

Train, compete, sleep, repeat! Welcome to the world of competitive ballroom, where dreams are made and broken on the dance floor. Following Caerphilly’s finest teenage dancers at the start of the competition season, we’ll see them pull out all the stops in the run-up to Wales's first ever ballroom world championships.

Hairdressing, but not as you know it. Aberkenfig hairdresser Shelley Lane loves cutting her regular clients’ hair, but she has a completely different side to her work – creating stunning avant-garde hair designs. She competes around the world with the best but always loves coming home to Aberkenfig.