True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4416 episodes
Brothers Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse
29 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Tartania Brown is one of few sickle cell doctors in New York who also has the condition
28 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Bettye Lavette was a teenage singing star. Five decades on, she's a star once more.
26 Dec 2020,·26 mins
Sohail Yafat turned his miscarriage of justice into a fight for all prisoners in Pakistan
24 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Diane Reeve rallied together women who had contracted HIV from the same cheating lover
23 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Sam Jalloh, the barefoot player turned pro, coaches kids to achieve their tennis dreams
22 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Justin Finlayson turned his London bus into a music studio to help at-risk young people
21 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Walter Murch is a superstar sound designer. His ingenuity transformed cinema
19 Dec 2020,·26 mins
Wine merchant John Baker on trying to buy Josef Stalin's secret wine collection
17 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh began writing Uruk's Anthem while imprisoned in a stable
16 Dec 2020,·40 mins
Stories of people whose identities were a mystery begging to be solved
15 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Noel Fitzpatrick is an Irish vet who makes ground-breaking bionic limbs for injured pets
14 Dec 2020,·44 mins
The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station
12 Dec 2020,·26 mins
How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie
10 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Karen Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash
09 Dec 2020,·40 mins
John E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals
08 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Indian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta
07 Dec 2020,·44 mins
Born into folk music royalty, Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle
05 Dec 2020,·26 mins
How a farmer ignored military threats and rallied her community to save injured soldiers
03 Dec 2020,·44 mins
It would take My Huong decades to uncover the truth about her birth family in Vietnam
02 Dec 2020,·40 mins
Ian Brennan’s sister, who has Down's syndrome, taught him to communicate through music
01 Dec 2020,·44 mins
How Kristal Ambrose rallied a group of kids to get a plastic ban in the Bahamas
30 Nov 2020,·44 mins
The Soweto Uprisings and the story behind South Africa's most iconic photo.
28 Nov 2020,·26 mins
Kathy Sullivan is a former US astronaut who has made history both at sea and in space
26 Nov 2020,·44 mins
Carla Sassi and her team have been rescuing animals as wildfires burn around them
25 Nov 2020,·40 mins
I was betrayed to the East German secret police
24 Nov 2020,·44 mins
Guatemalan Rosayra Pablo Cruz was helped by a surprise visitor while she was in detention
23 Nov 2020,·44 mins
He couldn’t save his daughter after she joined IS but could he rescue her seven children?
21 Nov 2020,·26 mins
Taking down the Thunder, the world's most notorious poaching ship
19 Nov 2020,·44 mins
How Skin, lead singer of the ground-breaking British band, Skunk Anansie, found her voice
18 Nov 2020,·40 mins
