True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4415 episodes
A Colombian journalist forced into exile after receiving death threats.
22 Nov 2011,·28 mins
The hurricane that inspired a novel - one American woman's terrifying ordeal.
21 Nov 2011,·28 mins
The UN's fight against torture - and living in fear on Sesame Street
17 Nov 2011,·28 mins
The mother of a Russian lawyer who died in a Moscow prison calls for a full investigation.
16 Nov 2011,·28 mins
The Afghan girl given away in a debt of honour, then abused for a decade.
15 Nov 2011,·28 mins
The legendary musician and producer Nile Rodgers.
14 Nov 2011,·28 mins
First baby at 57 - the pleasure and pain of being an older mother.
10 Nov 2011,·28 mins
A father's shock at realising his son was responsible for a high school killing spree.
09 Nov 2011,·28 mins
An eyewitness account of a notorious massacre in a Libyan jail
08 Nov 2011,·28 mins
The widow of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko on her husband's murder
07 Nov 2011,·28 mins
Inside a Syrian hospital: a doctor's account of violent abuse by security services
03 Nov 2011,·28 mins
Robert King on spending 29 years in solitary confinement
02 Nov 2011,·28 mins
Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.
01 Nov 2011,·28 mins
Face to face with an Eta gunman: the son of a murdered father offers forgiveness.
31 Oct 2011,·28 mins
The biologist leading the fight against malaria and the world's champion slackliner
27 Oct 2011,·28 mins
The Chechen woman who at the age of 14 kept a diary of the country's war with Russia.
26 Oct 2011,·25 mins
Raffaele Sollecito's father on never losing faith while his son was in jail for murder.
25 Oct 2011,·28 mins
Libya's 'revolutionary doctor' on why he risked his life to treat rebel fighters
24 Oct 2011,·28 mins
The first French woman fined for wearing the niqab explains why she's fighting the law.
20 Oct 2011,·28 mins
Afghan poet Masood Khalili reflects on the al-Qaeda attack that nearly killed him.
19 Oct 2011,·28 mins
The refugee from Haiti who became the first black Governor General of Canada.
18 Oct 2011,·28 mins
The Egyptian woman whose fiancé was killed during last week's violent clashes in Cairo.
17 Oct 2011,·28 mins
New life for the Egyptian woman cut off from the world for ten years.
13 Oct 2011,·28 mins
The Saudi Army officer who's become the country's leading contemporary artist
12 Oct 2011,·28 mins
The property developer who apologised for his part in the Irish financial crash.
11 Oct 2011,·28 mins
The first British lesbian to go public about conceiving by artificial insemination.
10 Oct 2011,·28 mins
Adopting a severely neglected "feral child" - a mother's story.
06 Oct 2011,·28 mins
"The beauty... the chaos," a life spent chasing tornadoes.
05 Oct 2011,·28 mins
May Shigenobu's childhood on the run as the daughter of two revolutionaries.
04 Oct 2011,·28 mins
Jeanna Giese describes how she became the first person ever to survive rabies.
03 Oct 2011,·28 mins
