True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4455 episodes
Rape report in Cameroon; Angel of Queens; Tsunami photographer; my best listener.
15 Dec 2009,·25 mins
The doctor fighting abortion; women patrolling India's border; the Belarus activists.
14 Dec 2009,·25 mins
Zimbabwe refugees in South Africa; Gay Iraqis; Museum of Broken Relationships.
11 Dec 2009,·25 mins
Swimming to survive, Argentinian Gauchos under threat, from the stage to the streets.
10 Dec 2009,·25 mins
Sacked by phone; Cycling in the Americas; Ho Chi Monh's Green Lung; Gibbon matchmaker
09 Dec 2009,·25 mins
War widow Christina Schmid; Climate change in Mekong; gay wedding in Argentina halted.
08 Dec 2009,·25 mins
Mekong Delta and climate change; Polio campaigner; Barbershop StoryCorps
07 Dec 2009,·25 mins
Racism in Peru; South African footballing grannies and adventures in the Sahara.
04 Dec 2009,·25 mins
Inside Osama Bin Laden's family; Victoria Climbié school; 'angels' of Golden Gate Bridge.
03 Dec 2009,·25 mins
Homosexuality in Uganda; Sri Lanka's disabled dancers; the Tyranny of Email
02 Dec 2009,·25 mins
Witch children in Nigeria; storycorps; Japanese pop star; photographer Joseph Rodriguez
01 Dec 2009,·25 mins
Wife of the Washington sniper; Indian puppeteers colony
30 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Guatemala bus drivers; StoryCorps and Women Of Zimbabwe Arise.
27 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Thai forensic pathologist; US story library; Commonwealth expeditions remembered.
26 Nov 2009,·25 mins
After Mumbai attacks; Somali banker; Commonwealth expeditions; Zambia's champion boxer
25 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Remembering Mumbai terror attacks; ritual cleansing in Uganda; Commonwealth expeditions.
24 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Life after Lords Resistance Army; addiction in Afghanistan; families unite in US army.
23 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Peruvian child servants, Amazon road, Black New York cowboys.
20 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Wang Zhiqui; NYC Jewish dating scene; white witch of Swaziland.
19 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Brother of the "Veil Martyr"; Phnom Penh water festival and Katie Piper's surgeon.
18 Nov 2009,·25 mins
China's 'oriental angel'; Bolivian child bullfighter; solar-powered flight.
17 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Surviving Sierra Leone's civil war; Australia's Bush Fires, Obama's half brother.
16 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Australians prepare for forest fires; Annie Lennox; Puntland assassination; GDR jokes.
13 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Music comes back to Swat; 89 Squares; Iraqi kids; Returning to Vietnam
12 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Fighting off Somali pirates; 89 Squares, Berlin; Queen of Mantas
11 Nov 2009,·25 mins
From Mexican crop-picker to US astronaut; 89 Squares - Warsaw; living without money.
10 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Al Gore on his crusade to save the planet, 89 Squares, Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez.
09 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Terrible choice, Revolution Square, Tuareg Rebel.
06 Nov 2009,·25 mins
Amazonian tribal leader; Everest hospital and the question of mixed race.
04 Nov 2009,·25 mins
