True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4419 episodes
Margo Perin has spent years unravelling her mysterious childhood and her family's secrets
04 Jul 2019,·53 mins
Dr. Jean Gody worked to keep the CAR's only children's hospital open during war
03 Jul 2019,·53 mins
Badiucao has paid a high price for the dissident cartoons he made in secret
02 Jul 2019,·53 mins
The extraordinary story of Jemal Damtawe, an Eritrean man who spent a lifetime on the run
01 Jul 2019,·53 mins
As an FBI agent John E. Douglas interviewed serial killers to understand the criminal mind
29 Jun 2019,·26 mins
Dr Alaa Hamdon is on a mission to rebuild a library destroyed by the Islamic State group
27 Jun 2019,·53 mins
Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black’s mum inspired him to fight for marriage equality
26 Jun 2019,·53 mins
The story of an 11-year-old Iraqi girl and the man whose life she inadvertently saved
25 Jun 2019,·53 mins
Lazarus Chigwandali went from performing on the streets of Malawi to working with Madonna
24 Jun 2019,·53 mins
One writer risked prison to leak material about Uzbekistan's authoritarian former leader
22 Jun 2019,·26 mins
James Lubbock watched his dad transform from clean-living family man to major drug-dealer
20 Jun 2019,·53 mins
After a disastrous effort to flee East Germany, Andreas Laake was set on finding his son
19 Jun 2019,·53 mins
How a scandalous lie made Monika Glennon fight back against anonymous internet trolls
18 Jun 2019,·53 mins
US marine Zach Skiles reluctantly took part in the invasion of Iraq
17 Jun 2019,·53 mins
Jim Obergefell fought for the legalisation of same sex marriage in the USA.
15 Jun 2019,·26 mins
A Miss South Africa contestant jailed in Thailand, facing the death penalty and pregnant
13 Jun 2019,·44 mins
A South African woman who discovered a letter that revealed the shame around her birth
12 Jun 2019,·44 mins
The undocumented migrant and Joburg's viral river rescue
11 Jun 2019,·44 mins
Fine dining chef Lesego Semenya is on a mission to kick snobbery out of Joburg’s kitchens
10 Jun 2019,·53 mins
Natalia Bolivar, a rich socialite, used her high class status to help topple a dictator
08 Jun 2019,·26 mins
Murtada al-Hachimi fought for years to organise a hot air balloon festival in Iraq
06 Jun 2019,·53 mins
Jennifer Merry’s haemophiliac sons were infected by contaminated blood in a UK hospital
05 Jun 2019,·53 mins
Playwright Eve Ensler’s father abused her. Writing his apology has helped her find peace
04 Jun 2019,·53 mins
Historian Catherine Corless uncovered a national scandal in Ireland
03 Jun 2019,·53 mins
Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret
01 Jun 2019,·26 mins
Arne Murke used a trick he saw on television to save himself from drowning
30 May 2019,·53 mins
Music journalist Jayson Greene kept a grief journal after the death of his daughter
29 May 2019,·53 mins
The friendship between a former extremist and a reformed anti-Islamist protester
28 May 2019,·53 mins
Civil war separated Helene Cooper from her sister. Years later she went back to find her
27 May 2019,·53 mins
Exotic Adrian Street received abuse for his flamboyant outfits - but they made him a star
25 May 2019,·26 mins
