Being tall can be very lonely. Being very tall indeed can be life-threatening. Leonid Stadnyk, from Ukraine, is 36 and 8 feet 4 inches tall. He is currently the world’s tallest man. He is tall because he suffers from Pituitary Giantism – but he has never been treated and his life is in danger.

For more than 20 years Leonid has been too fearful to seek help but recently he did have medical tests and we sent the results to one of the world’s leading specialists in Giantism, Harley Street’s Professor Michael Besser. Professor Besser travelled to Ukraine to meet and examine Leonid. He discovers Leonid’s life may have been saved by something little short of a miracle.

Twenty years after documentary maker Richard Denton first went to Russia, he returns to film inside the Kremlin as Putin nears the end of his controversial Presidency.

From the urbane spin doctor, Dimitri, all the way down to Konstantin, a soldier in the Presidential Regiment, Denton meets the people who work for the President at a time when there are scandals inside the Russian army. British diplomats are accused of spying and Putin himself prepares for the biggest press conference in history. Meanwhile Russians are beginning to ask the question: after Putin, who will be the next President of Russia?