True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4415 episodes
The Saudi surgeon fighting for the right to marry the man she loves
21 Jun 2011,·28 mins
The peace campaigner who stripped off her clothes in protest at Liberia's bloody civil war
20 Jun 2011,·28 mins
Growing up in poverty in the UK - a brother and sister's story
16 Jun 2011,·28 mins
A New York hotel chambermaid on the demands of her job
15 Jun 2011,·28 mins
The white Zimbabwean farmer who took President Mugabe to court
14 Jun 2011,·28 mins
Why Pakistani gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai now fears for her life
13 Jun 2011,·28 mins
The cosmonaut campaigning for reconciliation in Kyrgyzstan
09 Jun 2011,·28 mins
Torment of a mentally ill man chained to medieval stocks in Bali for nine years
08 Jun 2011,·28 mins
The daughter of a Mafia mobster on why she got sucked into a life of crime
07 Jun 2011,·28 mins
The Olympic rower seeking justice for his brother who was killed by the Khmer Rouge
06 Jun 2011,·28 mins
'Locked in syndrome': totally aware yet unable to move a muscle after a stroke
02 Jun 2011,·28 mins
The mother of one of the American hikers being held in Iran
01 Jun 2011,·28 mins
The former UN translator whose entire family was killed in the massacre at Srebrenica
31 May 2011,·28 mins
'I Have a Dream', the man who helped Dr Martin Luther King write that famous speech
30 May 2011,·28 mins
The Japanese doctor who risked his life to save his patients during the tsunami
26 May 2011,·28 mins
The Iranian woman blinded by acid now seeking to pour acid into the eye of her attacker
25 May 2011,·28 mins
The Egyptian teacher who says he was tortured during the uprising
24 May 2011,·28 mins
Joao Silva, the wartime photographer who lost his legs to a landmine
23 May 2011,·28 mins
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19 May 2011,·25 mins
The story of Kate and Gerry McCann, whose daughter Madeleine has been missing four years
16 May 2011,·28 mins
The Ivory Coast priest helping thousands of people displaced by fighting
12 May 2011,·28 mins
The remarkable life story of eighties pop icon Adam Ant
11 May 2011,·28 mins
The Afghan journalist who survived Al Qaeda's cameraman-bomber suicide attack
10 May 2011,·28 mins
The woman at the centre of the incident that triggered Tunisia's revolution.
09 May 2011,·28 mins
A woman so dangerous she was sent to a man's jail. Jackie Katounas tells her story
05 May 2011,·28 mins
Former islamic militant Noman Benotman reflects on his meetings with Osama Bin Laden
04 May 2011,·28 mins
Personal stories behind the news from all over the world.
03 May 2011,·25 mins
Personal stories of the violence and terror inspired by Osama Bin Laden
03 May 2011,·28 mins
