Podcast Episodes

Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony

In Judith Obina Okumu's imagination, Joseph Kony was a monster. As leader of the Lord's Resistance Army he'd fought a decades-long war against the government of Yoweri Museveni – displacing and destr…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98

Opal Lee is now affectionately known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth. She led the campaign for the 19th June, the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas were finally told that they were free, to …

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The man who woke up in the future

When Dr Pier Piccioni woke up after a car accident, 12 years of his life had been erased.

Dr Pierdante Piccioni is an unwilling time-traveller. Twelve years of his life were completely wiped from his …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

The mortician, the "werewolf" and the keeper of brains

Alexandra Morton-Hayward unlocks the secrets of the human brain but her own betrays her.

Every night Ally Morton-Hayward has a headache so painful it wakes her up. She says it makes her feel like a w…

Published on 4 months ago

José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic

Remembering the former president of Uruguay: José 'Pepe' Mujica. He started life as a flower farmer on the outskirts of Montevideo. As a young man he became politically active, part of the left-wing …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

The true story behind Brazil’s Oscar winner, I’m Still Here

Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men came and took his father away. Brazil was under a military dictatorship at the time. Marcelo's father was an opponent and was killed for it. His mother Euni…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi

Lothar Hermann found out his neighbour was ‘architect of the Holocaust’ Adolf Eichmann.

Lothar Hermann’s German-Jewish family perished in the Holocaust, but when he escaped to Argentina, little did he…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Searching for green in a concrete world

Kwesia X grew up in south-east London, surrounded by busy roads and tower blocks. As a teenager her mental health spiralled after a member of her family was killed, and she also lost a close friend …

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Painting faces in search of myself and my mum

Juano Diaz was taken in to care aged six, his mother was battling alcoholism and he wasn't being cared for. But Juano missed his mum and with no photos of her, he became obsessed by drawing her face …

Published on 5 months ago

The former wrestler who wants your brain

Former Harvard athlete Chris Nowinski turned World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star after a reality TV show catapulted him into the world of professional wrestling. Performing as the obnoxious and …

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago