True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4416 episodes
Therese Tang has done lots of jobs - hunting for a killer wasn't meant to be one of them
17 Nov 2020,·44 mins
Sacheen Littlefeather stood in front of 85 million people to reject Marlon Brando's Oscar
16 Nov 2020,·44 mins
Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret
14 Nov 2020,·26 mins
Kane Hodder is best known as on-screen killer Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th films
12 Nov 2020,·44 mins
The British pianist is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Music became his lifeline
11 Nov 2020,·40 mins
The Indian comic book enthusiast bringing his favourite characters to a Tamil audience
10 Nov 2020,·44 mins
Books were the best-selling author’s “magic carpet ride out” of an abusive childhood home
09 Nov 2020,·44 mins
Meet champion cuber Feliks Zemdegs, and the inventor behind the puzzle Erno Rubik
07 Nov 2020,·26 mins
Roberto Lovato didn't understand his father until he discovered the history of his home
05 Nov 2020,·44 mins
The Sierra Leonean doctor whose life-changing work earned her screen time with the Queen
04 Nov 2020,·40 mins
Biosphere 2 was one of the most controversial human experiments of the 20th Century
03 Nov 2020,·44 mins
Three fascinating portraits of people who used a paintbrush to transform their lives
02 Nov 2020,·44 mins
An unlikely duo’s insatiable and dangerous hunt for space rocks
31 Oct 2020,·26 mins
Kiran Dembla is an Indian celebrity trainer – but it's a long way from where she started
29 Oct 2020,·44 mins
Electronics whizz John Shepherd spent years trying to contact alien life, with music
28 Oct 2020,·40 mins
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon braves bombs and bullets investigating chemical weapon attacks
27 Oct 2020,·44 mins
How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing
26 Oct 2020,·44 mins
Rob and Jason Holmes were first recruited as undercover agents when they were children
24 Oct 2020,·26 mins
Love, grief and fame: how disco has shaped the lives of Favio Vasquez and Maria Moreno
22 Oct 2020,·44 mins
Writer Xiaolu Guo on a childhood in the aftermath of China’s Cultural Revolution
21 Oct 2020,·40 mins
Why women’s rights advocate Julie Lalonde stayed silent about being stalked for a decade
20 Oct 2020,·44 mins
How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband
19 Oct 2020,·44 mins
Atlantis was a fringe psychotherapy commune who moved to guerrilla controlled Colombia
17 Oct 2020,·26 mins
Catherine Russell has played the same part more than 13,000 times – without a sick day
15 Oct 2020,·44 mins
Learning lessons about love and life from a ewe and a lamb
14 Oct 2020,·40 mins
How Reverend David Kennedy fought to shut down a shop selling racist paraphernalia
13 Oct 2020,·44 mins
Aminata Conteh-Biger was one of thousands of women abducted in Sierra Leone’s civil war
12 Oct 2020,·44 mins
Marie McCreadie on her agony becoming mute at 13 and her shock and joy learning the cause
10 Oct 2020,·26 mins
How do you get Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to play in a warzone?
08 Oct 2020,·44 mins
The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station
07 Oct 2020,·40 mins
