True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4415 episodes
The Egyptian doctor who has gone from Tahrir Square to Libya to treat the wounded
15 Mar 2011,·25 mins
The Burmese man who went from soldier to peace activist.......
14 Mar 2011,·25 mins
The Algerian writer whose work means he lives under constant threat
11 Mar 2011,·25 mins
The British man subjected to repeated domestic violence by his girlfriend
10 Mar 2011,·25 mins
The New Zealand woman who held her brother's hand as he died in the Christchurch quake
09 Mar 2011,·25 mins
How the 7/7 bombings led a British woman on a remarkable journey through Afghanistan
08 Mar 2011,·25 mins
Voice of Free Libya, one of the men behind the country's first uncensored radio station
07 Mar 2011,·25 mins
The Dutch sea captain who saved more than 200 Afghans from drowning in stormy seas
04 Mar 2011,·25 mins
Sarah Brown on life as the wife of the former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
03 Mar 2011,·25 mins
The British couple who were the unexpected victims of the world's biggest cash robbery
02 Mar 2011,·25 mins
The lawyer who tracks down the money embezzled by former dictators
01 Mar 2011,·25 mins
The teenagers who suffered terribly at the hands of the LRA
28 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The moment life changed for an Australian taken hostage in the Moscow theatre siege
25 Feb 2011,·25 mins
Palestinian doctor who will not hate, despite losing three daughters in an Israeli attack
24 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The Afghan-American businessman who sacrificed family life in the US to rebuild Kabul
23 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The child soldier who had to kill a close friend to survive three years in the LRA
22 Feb 2011,·25 mins
How the widow of the Challenger space shuttle's Commander was affected by the disaster
21 Feb 2011,·25 mins
A student leader in Prague's Velvet Revolution reflects on the Middle East protests
18 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The Egyptian mother whose son's death in police custody became an icon of the uprising
17 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The story of the young Bangladeshi girl who died after being punished by village elders
16 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The widow of a politician killed by Eta revisits the place where he was killed
15 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The doctor who braved sniper fire to tend to the injured in Cairo's Tahrir Square
14 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The British undercover cop who cracked under the strain of leading a double life
11 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The Indian woman who defied her religious elders to protect victims of domestic abuse
10 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The story of an ex-hostage and his kidnappers and how they found peace
09 Feb 2011,·25 mins
Gay in Uganda, a lesbian's life in the aftermath of David Kato's murder
08 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The woman who grew up with drug-addicted parents but ended up graduating from Harvard
07 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The famous Russian designer who spent 6 years as a child trying to get home from Siberia
04 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The daughter of Saddam Hussein's pilot on her work for women in conflict zones
03 Feb 2011,·25 mins
The son of a Ku Klux Klan member describes a childhood scarred by violence.
02 Feb 2011,·25 mins