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Tim
Aug 20, 2022
This podcast replaced the shorter and more frequently published "Outlook" from the BBC. (still available to download). Although still good, I feel the stories go on a little too long and could be condensed.
Dennis
Aug 4, 2022
In two words - utterly incredible. These true stories are just amazing and emotional. For sure this podcast will blow the cobwebs from your brain!
Jul 11, 2020
Mar 9, 2020
Jan 5, 2020
Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and wondered, "What’s their story?" Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. Extraordinary stories from around the world.
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Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2
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Apr 21, 2024 |
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1
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Apr 14, 2024 |
Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
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Apr 07, 2024 |
Bonus: The Black 14
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Apr 04, 2024 |
My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence
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Mar 31, 2024 |
How to talk to guerillas
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Mar 25, 2024 |
Behind the locked door
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Mar 18, 2024 |
I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university
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Mar 11, 2024 |
Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
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Mar 04, 2024 |
The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel
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Feb 26, 2024 |
Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
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Feb 19, 2024 |
My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
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Feb 12, 2024 |
Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape
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Feb 05, 2024 |
A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together
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Jan 29, 2024 |
Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
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Jan 22, 2024 |
Searching for the last man in the forest
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Jan 15, 2024 |
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2
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Jan 08, 2024 |
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1
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Jan 01, 2024 |
Love in the time of revolution, part 2
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Dec 25, 2023 |
Love in the time of revolution, part 1
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Dec 18, 2023 |
An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
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Dec 11, 2023 |
Scams and poetry in Moscow’s underbelly
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Dec 04, 2023 |
Introducing Amazing Sport Stories
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Nov 30, 2023 |
Unmasking my best friend
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Nov 27, 2023 |
Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge
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Nov 20, 2023 |
Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure
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Nov 13, 2023 |
The fisherman and the 'spy whale'
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Nov 06, 2023 |
Brazil's loneliest fan and his footballing fairytale
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Oct 30, 2023 |
Love, Loss and 'Project 22'
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Oct 22, 2023 |
38 days: a family adrift in the Pacific
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Oct 15, 2023 |
"My friends were arrested, or simply disappeared"
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Oct 08, 2023 |
Bringing home the prime minister’s gold tooth
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Oct 01, 2023 |
The Godmother of Beirut's nightlife
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Sep 24, 2023 |
Dancing in the womb
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Sep 17, 2023 |
The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2
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Sep 10, 2023 |
The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 1
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Sep 03, 2023 |
Miracle on the ocean floor
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Aug 27, 2023 |
Indiana Jones: The kids who remade a blockbuster
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Aug 20, 2023 |
The woman who fell from the sky, part 2
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Aug 13, 2023 |
The woman who fell from the sky, part 1
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Aug 06, 2023 |
Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 2
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Jul 30, 2023 |
Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 1
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Jul 23, 2023 |
I save chimpanzees and they've saved me
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Jul 16, 2023 |
Who is this kneeling man?
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Jul 09, 2023 |
How I survived a pirate hijack
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Jul 02, 2023 |
Love, war, and the cutting room floor
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Jun 25, 2023 |
He was almost a mass shooter – an act of kindness stopped him
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Jun 18, 2023 |
Teenage dreams on the Indian Ocean
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Jun 11, 2023 |
'Don't anger the monster', part 2
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Jun 04, 2023 |
'Don't anger the monster', part 1
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May 28, 2023 |
Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending
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May 21, 2023 |
Lola the bare-knuckle drag queen
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May 14, 2023 |
I was there the night Emmett Till was taken
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May 07, 2023 |
Tanzania’s hip-hop politician
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Apr 30, 2023 |
'Brother. do. you. love. me.' The SMS that changed our lives
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Apr 23, 2023 |
'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island
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Apr 16, 2023 |
The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid: Part 2
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Apr 09, 2023 |
The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1
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Apr 02, 2023 |
Bringing the Muppets to Moscow
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Mar 26, 2023 |
My life in seven swimming pools
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Mar 20, 2023 |
The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by a bullet
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Mar 13, 2023 |
I didn’t know I was part of an experiment
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Mar 06, 2023 |
Eyes on the prize: Pakistan’s first trans film star
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Feb 27, 2023 |
Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2
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Feb 20, 2023 |
Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 1
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Feb 13, 2023 |
The mystery of the tartan twins
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Feb 06, 2023 |
Breaking my addiction to war
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Jan 30, 2023 |
The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses
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Jan 23, 2023 |
Learning to live with the voices in my head
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Jan 16, 2023 |
Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
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Jan 09, 2023 |
Coming out as India’s first gay prince
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Jan 02, 2023 |
The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp
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Dec 26, 2022 |
Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"
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Dec 19, 2022 |
Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story
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Dec 12, 2022 |
The Palestinian tapes, part 2
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Dec 05, 2022 |
The Palestinian tapes, part 1
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Nov 28, 2022 |
I hit puberty, then burned down my family home
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Nov 21, 2022 |
He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'
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Nov 14, 2022 |
My father’s hidden crimes
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Nov 07, 2022 |
The child spy and her secret agent parents
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Oct 31, 2022 |
A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 2
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Oct 23, 2022 |
A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 1
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Oct 16, 2022 |
Opiyo’s law: Never let fear rule your life
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Oct 09, 2022 |
Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 2
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Oct 02, 2022 |
Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 1
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Sep 25, 2022 |
I was the voice of Bambi – and kept it secret for years
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Sep 18, 2022 |
Black, Korean, stateless: a Slickyboy’s American dream, part 2
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Sep 11, 2022 |
Black, Korean, stateless: A Slickyboy’s American dream, part 1
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Sep 04, 2022 |
I see my son in the Northern Lights
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Aug 28, 2022 |
The brain tumour that taught me how to live
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Aug 21, 2022 |
The family that went to war with a military dictatorship
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Aug 14, 2022 |
How I fell in love with blindness
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Aug 08, 2022 |
Nailed into a boat: Escaping Mao’s China
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Jul 31, 2022 |
The legendary goalkeeper forced to pawn her gold medals
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Jul 24, 2022 |
A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2
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Jul 17, 2022 |
A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 1
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Jul 10, 2022 |
My husband thought I was an imposter
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Jul 03, 2022 |
My dream holiday turned to horror
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Jun 23, 2022 |
A family lost at sea
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Jun 19, 2022 |
Giving birth as a hostage in Syria
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Jun 12, 2022 |
Taking on the witch hunters
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Jun 05, 2022 |
Township lawyer v gold giants, part 2
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May 29, 2022 |
Township lawyer v gold giants, part 1
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May 22, 2022 |
We need to talk about Carlo
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May 15, 2022 |
You wanted me dead, but look at me now
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May 08, 2022 |
Bike-riding bank robber, part 2
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May 01, 2022 |
Bike-riding bank robber, part 1
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Apr 24, 2022 |
The trailer
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Apr 18, 2022 |
Introducing Lives Less Ordinary
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Apr 13, 2022 |