True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4457 episodes
The Turkish journalist inspired by her friend's murder to tell difficult stories.
24 Nov 2010,·25 mins
Former Canadian first lady Margaret Trudeau talks about surviving mental illness.
23 Nov 2010,·25 mins
Pakistan's leading human rights activist on death threats,marriage and stand-up comedy
22 Nov 2010,·25 mins
A campaigner on the risks of being openly gay in Indonesia
19 Nov 2010,·25 mins
Aron Ralston, the young American climber who cut his own arm off to save his life
18 Nov 2010,·25 mins
One woman's fight to try to stop young Somalis from turning to piracy.
17 Nov 2010,·25 mins
The extraordinary man who spends his life fighting to save endangered big cats
16 Nov 2010,·25 mins
The Haitian man who grew up as a "restavec" child and is now helping other child servants
15 Nov 2010,·25 mins
Keith Ellison, the first Muslim congressman in the US
12 Nov 2010,·25 mins
The Somali fishermen who are fighting back against the pirates stalking their coastline
11 Nov 2010,·25 mins
The Chinese billionaire who gives half his profits away to charity
10 Nov 2010,·25 mins
How Sabrina Mahtani was inspired by her father's arrest to work in Sierra Leone's jails.
09 Nov 2010,·25 mins
The 30-year-old woman from Taiwan who has just got married - to herself
08 Nov 2010,·25 mins
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
