True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4420 episodes
Omitonade’s world of deities, divination, and mobile phones
20 Jan 2019,·23 mins
PV Viswanath was called in to translate when his friends were caught in a siege in Mumbai
17 Jan 2019,·53 mins
Patricio Manuel is the first professional transgender boxer in the United States
16 Jan 2019,·53 mins
Debra Biagini was given a DNA test for her 60th and there were life-changing consequences
15 Jan 2019,·53 mins
Maria Hamilton and Doretha Lock were united by the shooting of their sons in the US
14 Jan 2019,·53 mins
The dramatic life of a scientist who refused to build an atomic bomb for Saddam Hussein
13 Jan 2019,·23 mins
Nathi Mankayi spent four years in a South African prison. He’s now a music sensation
10 Jan 2019,·53 mins
The tobacco industry saw campaigning doctor Judith Mackay as a serious threat
09 Jan 2019,·53 mins
Stefano Cucchi died after he was arrested. Ilaria Cucchi wanted the truth
08 Jan 2019,·53 mins
Navajo woman Jean Whitehorse learned she’d been sterilised when her appendix was removed
07 Jan 2019,·53 mins
The American father and son whose struggle with addiction inspired the film Beautiful Boy
06 Jan 2019,·23 mins
Former drug addict Chris McMillan on how he created Jennifer Aniston’s iconic hairstyle
03 Jan 2019,·53 mins
How a white teenager accidentally became the personal chauffeur to a civil rights leader
02 Jan 2019,·53 mins
Therese Tang is a volunteer with Missing People Sweden
01 Jan 2019,·44 mins
It would take My Huong decades to uncover the truth about her birth family in Vietnam
31 Dec 2018,·44 mins
Grant Achatz was running a famous restaurant when he was diagnosed with tongue cancer
30 Dec 2018,·23 mins
Edward Potter's fishing boat sank during Hurricane Irma
27 Dec 2018,·44 mins
How one man’s lies led to the wrongful conviction of 62 people and an unlikely friendship
26 Dec 2018,·44 mins
Dennis Aabo Sørensen was the first amputee to feel touch through a prosthetic
25 Dec 2018,·44 mins
Jason Padgett was a party animal before a vicious attack turned him into a maths prodigy
24 Dec 2018,·44 mins
When Ol’ Blue Eyes made Australia see red
23 Dec 2018,·23 mins
Eric Idle is a founding member of Monty Python, a group who changed the face of comedy
20 Dec 2018,·53 mins
Paul Hudson's daughter died in a plane crash. Her notebook was found at the site
19 Dec 2018,·53 mins
MisSa Blue shocks audiences with her highly dangerous stunts
18 Dec 2018,·53 mins
Annie Price was badly burnt as a baby in a caravan fire - how it started was a mystery
17 Dec 2018,·53 mins
Sohail Yafat's journey from inmate to investigator
16 Dec 2018,·23 mins
Chef Martin Morales was forced to flee Peru during a bloody guerrilla conflict
13 Dec 2018,·53 mins
In February, Tiina Jauhianen tried to help her friend Princess Latifa escape from Dubai
12 Dec 2018,·53 mins
Greek pilot Vasileios Vasileiou hid in a bed frame to survive a Taliban attack
11 Dec 2018,·53 mins
Sexual assault survivor Melissa Kreider found untested rape kits in evidence rooms
10 Dec 2018,·53 mins