True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4418 episodes
Amr al-Azm leads a network of archaeologists battling to save Syria’s monuments
19 Dec 2019,·53 mins
Fact and fiction blurred for Danish writer Mads Peder Nordbo when he came across a murder
18 Dec 2019,·53 mins
After Gail Gallant’s sister died, her mother told Gail she was her sister reborn
17 Dec 2019,·53 mins
What British player Mark Bright learnt from being fostered as a young child
16 Dec 2019,·53 mins
Wilhelm Verwoerd's grandfather was the prime minister of South Africa in the 1960s
14 Dec 2019,·26 mins
While Haben Girma was at Harvard she developed new technology to help her communicate
12 Dec 2019,·53 mins
A murder-suicide devastated Allison Moorer’s youth but now inspires her country music
11 Dec 2019,·53 mins
Danish ship owner Per Gullestrup had to learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates
10 Dec 2019,·53 mins
South Sudanese refugee Lual Mayen made a video game to promote peace and empathy
09 Dec 2019,·53 mins
Behind the scenes at Judy Garland’s final UK shows with the woman who got her on stage
07 Dec 2019,·26 mins
Hiram Johnson embarked on a quest to solve a family mystery
05 Dec 2019,·53 mins
Teodora del Carmen Vásquez was jailed for murder after having a stillbirth in El Salvador
04 Dec 2019,·53 mins
After being recruited by the CIA Amaryllis Fox became an undercover spy
03 Dec 2019,·53 mins
Before Amaryllis Fox was a CIA agent, she smuggled a rare interview out of Burma
02 Dec 2019,·53 mins
The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home
30 Nov 2019,·26 mins
Comedian Hossan Leong on how he kept smiling while facing a life threatening illness
28 Nov 2019,·44 mins
John Low spent four days stranded at sea, with only a flotation ring to cling on to
27 Nov 2019,·44 mins
As a child, May Ooi was not allowed to practise martial arts. She is now a champion.
26 Nov 2019,·44 mins
Singaporean Ang Song Kang started working in a kitchen because he had no food at home.
25 Nov 2019,·44 mins
The heavy metal band who grew up on Cambodia's biggest rubbish dump
23 Nov 2019,·26 mins
Rema Rajeshwari is using storytelling to combat the spread of deadly rumours in India
21 Nov 2019,·53 mins
Rachel and Josh Mason had no idea their unassuming parents ran an iconic gay porn shop
20 Nov 2019,·53 mins
How police officer Grant Edwards, once Australia’s strongest man, faced his inner trauma
19 Nov 2019,·53 mins
Stories of two very different men recovering lost and stolen treasures
18 Nov 2019,·53 mins
Mats Steen found friendship and escape in an online fantasy land
16 Nov 2019,·26 mins
Ifrah Ahmed went through FGM as a child. Now she fights to ban the practice in Somalia
14 Nov 2019,·53 mins
In her 40s Gail Lukasik discovered that her ‘white’ mother was in fact multiracial
13 Nov 2019,·53 mins
Photographer Vicky Roy got his break taking photos of his friends on the streets of Delhi
12 Nov 2019,·53 mins
Remarkable stories of war, its impact on people’s lives and the love that transcends it
11 Nov 2019,·53 mins
At risk of losing her son Virginia Walden Ford fought to change the US education system
09 Nov 2019,·26 mins
