True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4457 episodes
"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
The stories behind Sri Lanka's war enquiry commission
24 Sep 2010,·25 mins
David Hamilton's journey from gunman to man of God.
23 Sep 2010,·25 mins
The Eritrean journalist who had to flee his homeland, leaving his family behind.
22 Sep 2010,·25 mins
The grieving father who turned anger towards his son's killer into forgiveness
21 Sep 2010,·25 mins
The Australian surgeon who ended up joining the Kosovo Liberation Army in the late 1990s
20 Sep 2010,·25 mins
Abandoned children in Zimbabwe and the woman determined to give them a brighter future.
17 Sep 2010,·25 mins
African singing star Yvonne Chaka Chaka on fighting malaria, making money and Mandela.
16 Sep 2010,·25 mins
Natascha Kampusch: the story of her 8 years trapped in a cellar by a kidnapper.
15 Sep 2010,·25 mins
Paul Brickhill, the white Zimbabwean who has run Harare's free speech café for 30 years
14 Sep 2010,·25 mins
Anh Do, one of Australia's top comedians on his other life - as a refugee from Vietnam.
13 Sep 2010,·25 mins
The childhood trauma that led an American woman to study the world's most dangerous men.
10 Sep 2010,·25 mins
A mother's long vigil waiting for her son to be freed from the San Jose mine.
09 Sep 2010,·25 mins
The Congolese soldiers who admit to rape, but say they have changed their ways.
08 Sep 2010,·25 mins
Mende Nazer's moving story of abduction and slavery in Sudan and the UK.
07 Sep 2010,·25 mins
The former Miss Bolivia now running one of the country's most dangerous provinces.
06 Sep 2010,·25 mins
Voices from the hometown of the Ecuadorian migrant who survived a massacre in Mexico
03 Sep 2010,·25 mins
Dr Hawa Abdi - the doctor giving a lifeline to thousands of refugees fleeing Somalia
02 Sep 2010,·25 mins