True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4413 episodes
Oil spill fisherman; Britain's youngest woman on Everest; Zambia's First Lady.
20 May 2010,·25 mins
Unemployed hero pilot, Parisian sewing cafe and Ghana's first lady.
19 May 2010,·25 mins
Rory Stewart - a week in the life of a new British MP
18 May 2010,·25 mins
Soweto's strictest judge; Venezuela's Sonero school; Sierra Leone's first lady.
17 May 2010,·25 mins
Reformed gang member; single mothers in Latvia; Poker Champion Liv Boeree.
14 May 2010,·25 mins
Children's heart surgeon; UK election campaign photographer; South Africa's white healer
13 May 2010,·25 mins
Eritrean journalist, women accused of witchcraft, Money launderer turned crime-spotter
12 May 2010,·25 mins
Burma's political prisoners; Bolivian salt gatherers; Metin Senturk.
11 May 2010,·25 mins
Saddam's plastic surgeon; Taiwan's sea goddess; Turkey's out-of-tune muezzins.
10 May 2010,·25 mins
Grandmothers United; Halal goats in Virginia; Caring for a wife who can't move or talk.
08 May 2010,·25 mins
Gaza's prosthetic limb centre; India's transgender 'hijras'; Card counting in the casinos
05 May 2010,·25 mins
Iranian embassy siege remembered; Chile's sexual revolution.
04 May 2010,·25 mins
Pakistani-American Salman Ahmad talks about his mission to bring peace through music.
03 May 2010,·25 mins
Abuse survivor on meeting the Pope; Kabul's Hatters; painting the Queen.
30 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Prudence Mabhena; Philadelphia Graffiti; Nigeria's most glamorous farmer.
29 Apr 2010,·25 mins
War through a lens; Burmese protest songs; You Tube sensation.
28 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Tim Brannigan
27 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Saudi poet; Enron; life with Parkinson's.
26 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Taking the rap for boss's affair; Ghazi stadium reclaimed; running your own mini-state.
23 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Honour killers in court; embedded and pregnant; Anzac Day changes.
22 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Fred Ouko; The Charlie Circle; UK election photographer
21 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Icelandic volcano; forced marriage; Taiwan's singing sensation.
20 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Zimbabwe's forbidden artist, silent order of nuns in London, Banjul drainlayer
19 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Vietnam air lift baby returns; Ugandan survivors of LRA violence; Freedom in Zimbabwe.
16 Apr 2010,·25 mins
The lawyer stalking stalkers; mountain life in Kabul; Zimbabwe's independence.
15 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Brazilian mudslides; Black Mamba Boy; 30th anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence.
14 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Haiti's baby miracle; blind Afghan newscaster; Egypt's gay websites.
13 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Racism in Hong Kong?; Latvia's economic survivors; Nigeria's dump scavenger rapper.
12 Apr 2010,·25 mins
Paying addicts not to have children; India's new super highways; Afghan Sikhs.
09 Apr 2010,·25 mins
A Kashmiri paramedic; secret schools in Afghanistan; Cameroon's conjoined twins.
08 Apr 2010,·25 mins