True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4463 episodes
Journalist Mimi Chakarova risked her life infiltrating underground brothels and sex clubs
30 Oct 2013,·55 mins
Italian Vito Fiorino and his friends saved 47 migrants on a fishing trip off Lampedusa
29 Oct 2013,·55 mins
Abduction, marriage and love: a story of two teenagers in the Lord's Resistance Army
28 Oct 2013,·49 mins
The Pakistani captain who was rescued from pirates thanks to his wife and daughters
24 Oct 2013,·49 mins
Martin Pistorius, the South African who became ill and ended up unable to move or speak
23 Oct 2013,·55 mins
Puppeteer Raven Kaliana has created a puppet show based on her childhood trauma
22 Oct 2013,·55 mins
The former North Korean spy who lost everything when he was caught by the enemy.
21 Oct 2013,·55 mins
Mishka Ben David, the Israeli former Mossad agent is now writing crime fiction
17 Oct 2013,·55 mins
Howard Dully was one of the youngest people ever to be given a controversial lobotomy
16 Oct 2013,·55 mins
Belarusian journalist Iryna Khalip on living under house arrest under watch of the police
15 Oct 2013,·55 mins
Known as 'the Indiana Jones of surgery', surgeon David Nott, volunteers in war zones
14 Oct 2013,·55 mins
How Syrian children in a refugee camp in Iraq are coping with the violence they've seen
10 Oct 2013,·55 mins
American prosecutor Kym Worthy is determined to investigate thousands of unsolved rapes
09 Oct 2013,·55 mins
American basketball player Alex Owumi was shocked to learn he had joined Gaddafi's team
08 Oct 2013,·55 mins
The nun devoted to helping women and girls traumatised by the Lords Resistance Army
07 Oct 2013,·55 mins
'Dr Habeeb' talks about his lonely campaign to promote mental health in war-torn Somalia
03 Oct 2013,·55 mins
Acclaimed Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o on the power of writing and life in exile
02 Oct 2013,·55 mins
A Mauritanian slave's extraordinary journey to freedom - and how he freed his family
01 Oct 2013,·55 mins
Rebecca Musser was forced to marry an 85-year-old self-styled prophet of a radical sect
30 Sep 2013,·55 mins
Calligrapher Ewan Clayton went from monastic life in England to advising digital pioneers
26 Sep 2013,·55 mins
Writer Bill Bryson on why the summer of 1927 was a turning point in American history
25 Sep 2013,·55 mins
Suzette Jordan defied social stigma by identifying herself as a rape victim
24 Sep 2013,·55 mins
How Harvard scholar Majid Rafizadeh faced the challenges of a Syrian-Iranian dual identity
23 Sep 2013,·55 mins
Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford barely survived the 2009 massacre at the Fort Hood army base
19 Sep 2013,·55 mins
The challenges of commemorating the lives of 170 people killed in a plane bombing
18 Sep 2013,·55 mins
Chantal Véron has devoted herself to teaching Afghans through war, exile and regime-change
17 Sep 2013,·55 mins
Hamadi Jebali was the first Prime Minister of post-revolutionary Tunisia
16 Sep 2013,·55 mins
A former US marine who was revealed to be the mysterious rescuer of 9/11.
12 Sep 2013,·55 mins
Marcus Robinson, the artist documenting the rebuilding of the World Trade Center
11 Sep 2013,·55 mins
Nollywood actress Omotola Ekeinde on Nigeran cinema and giving a voice to young Africans
10 Sep 2013,·55 mins
