True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4415 episodes
The Armenian village deserted by its menfolk in their search for work
10 Aug 2011,·28 mins
The African migrant who survived a boat journey on which 63 others died
09 Aug 2011,·28 mins
The psychiatrist treating mental health problems caused by the siege in Misrata
08 Aug 2011,·28 mins
The same sex couple who became one of the first to tie the knot in New York
04 Aug 2011,·28 mins
The tent village springing up on the streets of Tel Aviv as house prices soar
03 Aug 2011,·28 mins
A mother's 20 year campaign to find her murdered son's body
02 Aug 2011,·28 mins
The woman imprisoned in Iran's notorious Evin jail when she was just 16
01 Aug 2011,·28 mins
The unemployed Pakistani man who was kidnapped by the Taliban as he tried to find work
28 Jul 2011,·28 mins
The parents of a British woman murdered in Japan speak out after the killer is sentenced
27 Jul 2011,·28 mins
Fighting to save the man who tried to kill me - the extraordinary Rais Bhuiyan
26 Jul 2011,·28 mins
Ramy Essam, the Egyptian singer-songwriter who became the iconic voice of Tahrir Square
25 Jul 2011,·28 mins
Extraordinary personal stories from around the world.
21 Jul 2011,·25 mins
Scared to go home: the 70 year old widow who fled post election violence in Ivory Coast
20 Jul 2011,·28 mins
The Pakistani barber who reunites missing children and their parents
19 Jul 2011,·28 mins
A war reporter describes how the horrors of the battlefield changed her family life
18 Jul 2011,·28 mins
Building a road to the outside world - life in one of Pakistan's most remote villages
14 Jul 2011,·28 mins
The political editor of the now defunct British paper the News of the World
13 Jul 2011,·28 mins
Held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly a year - an Indian seaman tells his story
12 Jul 2011,·28 mins
Taken by Colombian rebels aged 11 and trained to kill - a woman's escape from terror
11 Jul 2011,·28 mins
The woman who collected the bodies of American soldiers in Iraq
07 Jul 2011,·28 mins
A former child soldier returns to South Sudan as a lawyer to help build a new nation
06 Jul 2011,·28 mins
The true story of the American man who became known as the Horse Whisperer
05 Jul 2011,·28 mins
Former child soldier turned rapper on how he feels about the birth of South Sudan
04 Jul 2011,·28 mins
The Indonesian mother whose baby was put up for sale because she couldn't pay the midwife
30 Jun 2011,·28 mins
Love and lies - the CIA secret agents who met and fell in love on a spying mission
29 Jun 2011,·28 mins
An Iraqi woman activist describes how protests are violently disrupted
28 Jun 2011,·28 mins
The man whose life was transformed by legendary musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron
27 Jun 2011,·28 mins
The Sicilian who uses his TV station to name and shame the Mafia
23 Jun 2011,·28 mins
A young Mexican using hip hop to help gangsters build new lives for themselves
22 Jun 2011,·28 mins