True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4460 episodes
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
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
