True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4414 episodes
Paul Brickhill: the white Zimbabwean who has run Harare's free speech café for 30 years.
05 Nov 2010,·25 mins
Acclaimed Burmese writer Wendy Law Yone on life in exile and the upcoming elections.
04 Nov 2010,·25 mins
A Spanish journalist who took on a new identity to go undercover with Islamic militants
03 Nov 2010,·25 mins
The sisters briefly united across Korea's North- South divide after 60 years apart
02 Nov 2010,·25 mins
The parents of abducted aidworker Linda Norgrove on why they feel no anger over her death
01 Nov 2010,·25 mins
Actress Preity Zinta on cricket, the mafia, her 34 'daughters', and cheating death twice
29 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Manuel Gonzalez - the first man down into the San Jose mine to rescue the Chilean miners
28 Oct 2010,·25 mins
A Filipino mother's search for the truth about her daughter's disappearance
27 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Cathrine Ann - pimped out by her uncle at 15, now a millionaire businesswoman
26 Oct 2010,·25 mins
A daughter's long pursuit of justice for her murdered father in Colombia.
25 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Chinese dissident Chai Ling on escaping to the West by hiding in a box
22 Oct 2010,·25 mins
The Russian exchanged for undercover agents in the biggest spy swap since the cold war
21 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Two men brought together by tragedy who now teach children the price of gun crime.
20 Oct 2010,·25 mins
The boy lost in China, adopted in America, and his parents' 11-year search to find him
19 Oct 2010,·25 mins
The devastating impact of crack addiction on families living in Rio's slums.
18 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Cuban dissident Jose Luis Garcia Paneque on his 7 years in a Cuban jail.
15 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Michael Morpurgo's campaign to shut down a detention centre for asylum seekers.
14 Oct 2010,·25 mins
"What hit us very hard was the humiliation, the callousness of apartheid"
13 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Sarah Shourd, the American hiker who spent 14 months in an Iranian jail
12 Oct 2010,·25 mins
The former child slave from Sudan - who became the country's swimming champion.
11 Oct 2010,·25 mins
The Mayor of Mogadishu on why he left London to dodge bullets in Somalia
08 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Ingrid Betancourt on her six years as a hostage in the Colombian jungle.
07 Oct 2010,·25 mins
A bride kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan describes being forced into a life she didn't choose.
06 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Fawzia Gailani, her fight for women's rights in Afghanistan
05 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Why there are growing mental health problems in Indian administered Kashmir
04 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Quake survivors in Haiti tell the world about their plight in heartfelt letters
01 Oct 2010,·25 mins
Mohammad Mostafaei on his fight against the death penalty in Iran
30 Sep 2010,·25 mins
Saving Somali lives: the man behind an ambulance service in the war torn capital.
29 Sep 2010,·25 mins
Australia's first indigenous MP Ken Wyatt on entering politics and his personal journey
28 Sep 2010,·25 mins
'El Pastor'- helping people with mental health problems in Mexico's murder capital
27 Sep 2010,·25 mins