True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4420 episodes
Patrick Cakirli felt alone but has now helped thousands of people make friends in Denmark
19 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Water, fire, air and earth. Four stories of people in their element
17 Mar 2018,·26 mins
Memuna Sowe is Britain's midwife of the year.
15 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Edd Sorenson has rescued more divers from underwater caves than anyone else on the planet
14 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Min Zaw Oo was a Burmese guerrilla, until a jungle epiphany led him to pursue peace
13 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Tony Kent won several amateur heavyweight titles before becoming a successful lawyer
12 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Returning music to Afghan children and the man behind Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
10 Mar 2018,·26 mins
Pen Farthing was a British Royal Marine when he turned his attention to animal welfare
08 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Joel Salinas is an American doctor who has a condition called mirror-touch synaesthesia
07 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Rex and Keiko Ziak return Good Luck Flags to the families of fallen Japanese soldiers
06 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Jihyun Park was a slave bride, gave birth in secret and lived in a labour camp.
05 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Stories exploring the transience of life and the immortality of love
03 Mar 2018,·26 mins
Former a1 boy band singer Ben Adams on life as a teen idol
01 Mar 2018,·53 mins
Chi-chi Nwanoku, founder of Europe's majority black and ethnic minority orchestra Chineke
28 Feb 2018,·53 mins
As a girl Hannah Milbrandt thought she had terminal cancer but all was not what it seemed
27 Feb 2018,·53 mins
Through novels Laura Freeman was able to eat again after a decade of battling anorexia
26 Feb 2018,·53 mins
People who've been given hours or months to live - and the astonishing ways they reacted
24 Feb 2018,·26 mins
Claudette Colvin, the unsung hero of the US civil rights movement
22 Feb 2018,·53 mins
Chamseddine Marzoug has made it his personal mission to bury migrants who drowned at sea
21 Feb 2018,·53 mins
Paul Canoville was racially abused by fans but he paved the way for future black players
20 Feb 2018,·53 mins
Erricka Bridgeford called a Baltimore ceasefire but could it go 72 hours without killing?
19 Feb 2018,·53 mins
A singing spaceman, a refugee who wants to beat gravity and a cosmonaut stuck in orbit
17 Feb 2018,·26 mins
Bisi Alimi was a successful actor, but after his revelation he had to flee for his life
15 Feb 2018,·53 mins
Denise Fergus on how she struggled to cope after the murder of her young son James Bulger
14 Feb 2018,·53 mins
German writer Dirk Kurbjuweit on how he and his family were tormented by their neighbour.
13 Feb 2018,·53 mins
Remembering Pakistan's human rights lawyer who broke new ground
12 Feb 2018,·53 mins
Two people who had a shocker of an experience, and then an opportunity to put it right.
10 Feb 2018,·26 mins
Adrian Goiginger's mother used fairy tales to shield him from the horror of her addiction
08 Feb 2018,·53 mins
How wine detective Maureen Downey uncovered a huge counterfeiting operation
07 Feb 2018,·53 mins
Chapecoense's team lost many players in a disaster that shocked the football world
06 Feb 2018,·53 mins
