True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
World Service,·4420 episodes
Mashal Khan had been wrongly accused of blasphemy, his father is now fighting for justice
05 Feb 2018,·53 mins
A child missing among millions in Manila and a blind man left alone in a rush hour crowd
03 Feb 2018,·26 mins
Ibrahim Halawa went to visit his family in Egypt but ended up spending four years in jail
01 Feb 2018,·53 mins
Nazo Dharejo defended her home against a gang of 200 attackers
31 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Hussain al-Shahristani refused to build an atomic bomb for the former President of Iraq
30 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Meet Margaret Boemer and the Nigerian doctor who saved her baby's life
29 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Stories of people who rebuilt their lives after a rough childhood
27 Jan 2018,·26 mins
Jamaican-born Dwayne Fields walked to the North Pole after surviving a gun attack
25 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Arthur Mitchell started the Dance Theatre of Harlem to train black ballet dancers
24 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Nice Leng'ete dared to confront the Maasai tradition of female genital cutting
23 Jan 2018,·53 mins
British mum Sally Evans didn't realise her son was radicalised until it was too late
22 Jan 2018,·53 mins
What would you do if a person you trust wanted you to disappear into a secret community?
20 Jan 2018,·26 mins
Kenny Imafidon was wrongly imprisoned at 18. His acquittal has changed his life
18 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Wilmot Collins has become the first black mayor in the US state of Montana
17 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Psychotherapist Maude Julien grew up in what she calls a 'cult of three' in France
16 Jan 2018,·53 mins
What happened when an American journalist faced the biggest ethical dilemma of his life
15 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Two people trying to make sense of their families after finding out an explosive secret
13 Jan 2018,·26 mins
The all-female anti-poaching unit trained by a former Australian sniper
11 Jan 2018,·53 mins
When Charles discovered his partner Joan had cancer they only had 24 hours to get married
10 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Reconciliation between a British soldier and the boy he shot in Northern Ireland in 1972
09 Jan 2018,·53 mins
In 1977 Maryann Gray accidentally killed a child and it's haunted her ever since
08 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Rusty Young took a guided tour of a Bolivian prison - he ended up staying for four months
06 Jan 2018,·26 mins
LaVonte Stewart uses baseball to draw young people from crime on Chicago's South Side
04 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Aziz Amir was inspired to train female medical staff after his mother's untimely death
03 Jan 2018,·53 mins
Valeria Luiselli volunteers as an interpreter for undocumented migrants in the US
02 Jan 2018,·53 mins
The Iraqi journalist who didn't want the pages of his diary to just be about war
01 Jan 2018,·53 mins
A student cycles round a bend on Bolivia's Death Road and a most unexpected thing happens
30 Dec 2017,·26 mins
Asem Hasna lost his leg to a bomb in Syria. He then became a prosthetics designer
28 Dec 2017,·44 mins
Amateur violin maker Danny Houck tries to build a copy of one of the world's best violins
27 Dec 2017,·44 mins
Dr Abdel Kader Haidara managed to hide thousands of ancient books from Islamist militants
26 Dec 2017,·44 mins
