True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4415 episodes
How an Olympic defeat drove a British medical student to break the four-minute mile.
09 Aug 2012,·28 mins
The children of Bosnia on recovering from the horrors of war.
08 Aug 2012,·28 mins
Bruce Lee's daughter on keeping her father's legacy alive.
07 Aug 2012,·28 mins
"Sport is my saviour," Olympic medallist Fatima Whitbread on being abandoned as a child.
06 Aug 2012,·28 mins
Forty years on - memories of thousands of Asians being expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin.
02 Aug 2012,·28 mins
Ageing with Aids - we hear from two of America's oldest survivors.
01 Aug 2012,·28 mins
The concert pianist who kept on playing despite losing all movement in his right hand.
31 Jul 2012,·28 mins
Why Delhi's only woman auto-rickshaw driver wants to be Indian VP.
30 Jul 2012,·28 mins
War, flight and stardom: South Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek
26 Jul 2012,·28 mins
A Romanian man re-lives his experience of a Communist prison experiment of the 1940s.
25 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The real story behind the British Olympic hero immortalised in Chariots Of Fire.
24 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The fisherman who escaped slavery and was trafficked again.
23 Jul 2012,·28 mins
A widow of the Olympics - memories of Munich 1972.
19 Jul 2012,·30 mins
The Kabul artist using satire to expose corruption in Afghan society.
18 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The corrupt American police officer who spent 22 years on the run.
17 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The man who brought down one of Colombia's most powerful drug cartels.
16 Jul 2012,·28 mins
A Greek Orthodox priest on how the economic crisis is affecting his parishioners.
12 Jul 2012,·28 mins
How poetry saved the life of a Cambodian-American who served 14 years in jail.
11 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The British Pakistani who spent his youth recruiting Muslims to an extremist cause.
10 Jul 2012,·28 mins
Syrian children speak about torture they've suffered at the hands of the army.
09 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The Belgian 'virus detective' who helped identify the deadly Ebola virus.
05 Jul 2012,·28 mins
Tackling abuse in British care homes.
04 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The man rebuilding the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan.
03 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The Colombian policeman held hostage by FARC rebels for nearly 13 years.
02 Jul 2012,·28 mins
Two people's mission to take their learning disabled brother to meet Metallica's drummer.
28 Jun 2012,·28 mins
Nik Wallenda, the man who made history by walking across Niagara Falls on a high wire.
27 Jun 2012,·28 mins
The former child soldier who is digging up the landmines he planted
26 Jun 2012,·28 mins
The secrets of a polygamous marriage - we meet an American man and his three wives.
25 Jun 2012,·28 mins
The man fleeing persecution in China but ended up being held at Guantanamo Bay.
21 Jun 2012,·28 mins
The Indian businessman helping widows across the world.
20 Jun 2012,·28 mins
