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Extraordinary first person stories from around the world
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s5rx7
- Description
- Extraordinary first person stories from around the world
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-20 17:25
- last episode published
- 2025-01-20 00:30
- publication frequency
- 1.95 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 1544
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Personal Journals
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-20 | On the night of December 15th, 1997, a fire broke out in the home of Luz Cuevas and Pedro Vera, a couple living in Philadelphia with their two young sons and their ten-day-old daughter, Delimar. She was asleep upstairs. In the aftermath, the fire was ... |
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| 2025-01-13 | Ryan Calais Cameron dreamed of being an actor, but after a careers advisor told him this was unrealistic he took a different path as a tradesman. Unhappy, Ryan took a risk with acting and eventually landed himself a lead role on one of London’s biggest... |
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| 2025-01-06 | In 2017 Australian Gus Taylor lost his lower leg in a terrible climbing accident. The climbing community rallied, hauled him out of depression and got him back on the mountains again. But then in 2022 another serious accident had tragic consequences. G... |
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| 2024-12-30 | Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety.British journalist Dan McCrum usually writes about businesses for the London-based newspaper, the Financial Times. In 2014 he got a tip off alleging there were so-called ga... |
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| 2024-12-23 | icky Ellcock’s rollercoaster life as a fast bowler and airline pilotBarbados-born Ricky Ellcock had twin ambitions as a boy – to become a cricketer and fly airplanes. His father was, like Ricky, cricket-mad – but on the question of him becoming a pilot... |
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| 2024-12-16 | Paul Rousseau was accidentally shot in the head by his best friend and flatmate. When Paul met Mark in the first year of university in the US, they quickly became close. They moved in together, and spent most of the next four years in each other's comp... |
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| 2024-12-09 | Jerald Walker grew up in the predominantly white, Worldwide Church of God – a doomsday cult that convinced its followers the world would end in 1972. Raised by blind, African American parents and under the cult's strict teachings, which preached racial... |
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| 2024-12-02 | Nasubi had no idea his 15-month fight to survive was being broadcast on Japanese TV.In the late 1990s aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, lived inside a small room for 15 months surviving off sweepstake competition winnings. He was nak... |
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| 2024-11-25 | Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia’s biggest crime stories. Back in the 1980s, when Trent was a kid growing up in Brisbane, he discovered that there was a secret underground room behind his stepfather's wardrobe. There wer... |
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| 2024-11-18 | In 1998 Finnish journalist Johanna Aatsalo uncovered a huge news story: a member of the much-revered Finnish cross-country ski team had taken banned substances. After six months' intense investigation Johanna published her findings, and within just a f... |
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