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World Service,4415 episodes

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The heart of a heart surgeon
Stephen Westaby has operated on 12,000 hearts
19 May 2022,40 mins
Coming out as India’s first gay prince
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, heir to a royal dynasty, risked it all to be his true self
18 May 2022,40 mins
Bike-riding bank robber, part 2
The FBI close in. “It’s a wake-up call when police are trying to shoot you.”
17 May 2022,40 mins
Bike-riding bank robber, part 1
Olympic hopeful to audacious thief – the racing cyclist who turned to crime
16 May 2022,40 mins
Twenty-three years longing to find my mum
Omar and Hassan Mohamed are two Somali brothers who never stopped looking for their mum
14 May 2022,26 mins
The Guantanamo Bay Muslim chaplain accused of being a spy
James Yee was a US soldier who found himself behind bars, threatened with execution
12 May 2022,40 mins
The baby chimpanzees helping me heal
Mama Zawadi takes care of orphaned chimps caught up in the violence in DR Congo
11 May 2022,40 mins
The Syrian refugee helping people escape Ukraine
Tareq Alaows had his own perilous journey to safety, now he’s helping others fleeing war
10 May 2022,40 mins
My dad died a Ugandan Aids pioneer
Tezra Lutaaya's musician dad, Philly Lutaaya, came out publicly as an Aids victim
09 May 2022,40 mins
'This is what a barrister looks like'
Alexandra Wilson is the young black woman changing the face of Britain’s legal system
07 May 2022,26 mins
We discovered we were stolen as babies
Maria Diemar and Daniel Olsson were adopted from Chile and brought up in Sweden
05 May 2022,40 mins
The love story behind Nasa's alien mixtape
Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan fell in love while making Nasa’s historic Voyager Golden Record
04 May 2022,40 mins
Tales of modern marriage: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Nia Vardalos on how her own love story became a hit romantic comedy
03 May 2022,40 mins
How I discovered the Wood Wide Web
Suzanne Simard discovered how trees communicate underground
02 May 2022,40 mins
Making movies helped me heal after my dad's murder
Rwandan director Joël Karekezi explores trauma he experienced during the 1994 genocide
30 Apr 2022,26 mins
The teenager pilot who flew around the world
Zara Rutherford broke records in her microlight - and more stories of teenage pioneers
28 Apr 2022,40 mins
'A little bit Indiana Jones'
The archaeologist who risked his life for a mysterious prehistoric artefact
27 Apr 2022,40 mins
The champion boxer without a country to fight for
Boxer Bilal Fawaz was trafficked to the UK from Nigeria as a teenager
26 Apr 2022,40 mins
The dancing prodigy who became Prince’s greatest muse
Mayte Garcia was Prince’s first wife and one of his biggest musical inspirations
25 Apr 2022,40 mins
Saving the songs of the Sahara
The defiant life of desert music pioneer Fadimata Walet Oumar
23 Apr 2022,26 mins
Surviving apartheid to make maritime history
Captain Knowledge Bengu led the voyage to discover Shackleton's lost ship Endurance
21 Apr 2022,40 mins
Book by book, restoring an iconic library destroyed by IS
Dr Alaa Hamdon dreamt of replacing thousands of books burnt by militants in Mosul, Iraq
20 Apr 2022,40 mins
England's secret cowboy town
The town of Laredo is filled with cowboys and saloons in the style of the Wild West
19 Apr 2022,40 mins
The dark truth behind my songs
A murder-suicide devastated Allison Moorer’s youth but now inspires her country music
18 Apr 2022,40 mins
The violin maker's salvation
Hans Benning found love through repairing the world's most priceless stringed instruments
16 Apr 2022,26 mins
Discovering my mother's heroic past
A box of letters revealed the secret and extraordinary life of Eva Taylor's mother
14 Apr 2022,40 mins
Who was the stranger who saved my life?
Sonia Solorzano spent years seeking the unknown man who rescued her from a destroyed bus
13 Apr 2022,40 mins
The astronaut who made a quilt in Space
Astronaut Dr Karen Nyberg launched a sewing project from the International Space Station
12 Apr 2022,40 mins
The drag queen who ran for president of the United States
Joan Jett Blakk ran for office in 1992 to raise awareness about the Aids crisis
11 Apr 2022,40 mins
A Syrian love story that started with a resume
The social media call out for CV advice that resulted in an online wedding
09 Apr 2022,26 mins