True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4460 episodes
A former British Army officer on training members of the Afghan National Army.
04 Sep 2012,·28 mins
The trucker who delivers supplies from Pakistan to Nato troops in Afghanistan.
03 Sep 2012,·28 mins
Outlook celebrates the start of the Paralympic Games live from London, the host city.
01 Sep 2012,·55 mins
The partner of a Japanese journalist who was shot dead in Syria
30 Aug 2012,·28 mins
The US air force deserter who resurfaced in Sweden 28 years later.
29 Aug 2012,·28 mins
A surgeon who has returned from treating the wounded in Syria and an aerial photographer.
28 Aug 2012,·28 mins
"The Olympics changed my life," four athletes' extraordinary experiences.
27 Aug 2012,·28 mins
The Malian journalist attacked for standing up against Islamists who took over his town.
23 Aug 2012,·28 mins
Peru's first transgender couple to go public share their story.
22 Aug 2012,·28 mins
The daughter of a Nigerian politician who died in prison on his life and legacy.
21 Aug 2012,·28 mins
The husband of a member of Pussy Riot on coping with his wife's detention.
20 Aug 2012,·28 mins
The Kenyan rapper fighting tribal divisions in his country.
16 Aug 2012,·28 mins
An American drone pilot on remote controlled warfare.
15 Aug 2012,·28 mins
The double tragedy of a survivor of the Columbine massacre.
14 Aug 2012,·28 mins
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
