Podcast Episodes

Sex, love, Rock 'n' Roll... and The Sopranos

Robin Green is an American writer who has been dizzyingly successful, but she describes herself as a 'clueless girl'. At times, she didn't even realise she could actually write. In the early 1970s wh…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Why I wore iron underwear on Kabul’s busiest street

Artist Kubra Khademi was so enraged by the constant sexual harassment faced by women in Afghanistan that she created a bespoke suit of armour, forged out of metal with exaggerated breasts and buttock…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home

After being kidnapped, a promise to return to his mother helped Antonio Salazar-Hobson through his darkest hours.

Antonio Salazar-Hobson was four years old when he was kidnapped from his Mexican migra…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The penguin that followed a teacher home

While visiting friends in Uruguay, British teacher Tom Michell saw a penguin covered in oil and tar on a beach. Tom cleaned the bird as best he could and then tried to release it. The penguin refused…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

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 6 months 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 6 months, 1 week 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 6 months, 2 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 6 months, 3 weeks 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 7 months 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 7 months, 1 week ago