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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
- 2025-03-31 08:34
- last episode published
- 2025-03-30 23:30
- publication frequency
- 1.98 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC World Service
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 1554
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Personal Journals
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-30 | How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief.Alex had been born in London to Jamaican parents, but grew up in care in the notorious Shirley Oaks children’s home. As a teenager, he was convicted of assaulting a police o... |
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| 2025-03-24 |
My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery Michael Visontay thought he knew everything about his family’s past, but there was one shadowy character he was aching to know more about: his grandfather’s second wife, Olga. As Michael went through old papers, he uncovered a trail to the world’s most... |
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| 2025-03-17 | ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown. After training, Sue had got a job within the government's propaganda unit, and she was feeding back good intelligence to her ANC handlers. Then she got a phone call.... |
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| 2025-03-10 | Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agentSue was a student when she was first recruited as a spy for the African National Congress liberation movement in the 1980s, and she knew that if she was caught she'd face pr... |
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| 2025-03-03 | Edith Blais was kidnapped by armed militants and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days.As a young French-Canadian who had overcome her teenage agoraphobia, Edith took several years to work up the courage to go travelling – but once she did it, she go... |
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| 2025-02-24 | As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child? Ishmael Beah was just 13 when war reached his village in Sierra Leone and he was made to flee. In the chaos, he was separated from his family. He ended up with a gr... |
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| 2025-02-17 | In 1942, several years into the Second World War, the British government sent out a series of bulletins requesting any personal photos the public might have of the French coastline. Odette Hallowes, a French woman living in the UK with her three young ... |
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| 2025-02-10 |
How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune Reggie Nelson grew up on an East London council estate in a British-Ghanaian family that struggled with alcoholism, domestic violence and money worries. After a brush with the law at a young age, he found direction through his Christian faith and then,... |
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| 2025-02-03 | In April 2010, Cathy Terkanian received a letter that turned her world upside down. It revealed that her daughter, Alexis, whom she’d had to place for adoption in 1974, had gone missing. Then she was given more shocking news—the police had a new lead, ... |
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| 2025-01-27 | In 2020, Ellidy Pullin’s life was turned upside down when her partner, Olympic snowboarder Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin, died in a tragic accident. The couple had been trying for a baby, so in the deeply disorientating hours after his sudden death, when a frie... |
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