True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4461 episodes
Marriage tips from Afghanistan's "love doctor".
02 Apr 2013,·55 mins
Dr Johnny Slaughter talks about the aftermath of killing someone who broke into his home.
01 Apr 2013,·55 mins
Esther Mbabazi is Rwanda's first woman pilot, flying jets for Rwandair.
28 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Students, parents and a local politician on the challenges facing girls and women in Swat.
27 Mar 2013,·28 mins
The daughter of a Mafia boss, describes growing up with a man who killed 19 people.
26 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Pakistani Amina Janjua Masood, who's never given up hope of finding her missing husband.
25 Mar 2013,·28 mins
How the lives of some of the world's poorest amputees are being transformed.
21 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Father Paolo Dall'Oglio has started his own show on Syrian opposition TV.
20 Mar 2013,·28 mins
The man who took a sledgehammer to a Saddam Hussein statue during the US invasion of Iraq.
19 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Dr Mukesh Kapila who became famous for blowing the whistle on the Darfur massacres.
18 Mar 2013,·28 mins
The Syrian doctors who risk their lives to treat the wounded in makeshift hospitals.
14 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Maria Toor Pakay, the Pakistani squash player who defied death threats to play the sport.
13 Mar 2013,·28 mins
The Japanese barber who has re-opened his shop in the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone
12 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Iraqi paediatric cardiologist on carrying out his first hole in the heart operation
11 Mar 2013,·28 mins
South Sudan bishop Paride Taban's peace village is bringing hostile tribes together
07 Mar 2013,·28 mins
The one-time midwife and goat herder from Texas who changed the way we see the world.
06 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Azra Jafari, the Afghan woman mayor who would be president.
05 Mar 2013,·28 mins
"We shot a shark in an attempt to save swimmer" - the lifeguard and paramedic speak out.
04 Mar 2013,·28 mins
The Malian doctor who treated Islamist militants and their victims.
28 Feb 2013,·28 mins
American mother Shirley Chambers tells how she lost her four children to gun violence.
27 Feb 2013,·28 mins
Ex-intelligence officer in the Lebanese Civil War tells how he ordered murders & torture
26 Feb 2013,·28 mins
US football star Thomas Jones supports research into effects of repeated head injuries.
25 Feb 2013,·28 mins
Afghan Masoud Juya went from weaving carpets to founding a school and now a university.
21 Feb 2013,·28 mins
How six American embassy staff escaped during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979
20 Feb 2013,·28 mins
A dancer who worked on the sinking cruise liner on how the experience still haunts her.
19 Feb 2013,·28 mins
During years of confinement Tamil poet Salma smuggled poems out and got them published
18 Feb 2013,·28 mins
The little boy from Bangladesh who was brutally maimed to make him a better beggar.
14 Feb 2013,·28 mins
The Sierra Leonean woman who made a dance of reconciliation with her rapist
13 Feb 2013,·28 mins
The inside story of life in one of Ireland's notorious Magdalene laundries
12 Feb 2013,·28 mins
Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad on the recent government crackdown on her colleagues
11 Feb 2013,·28 mins
