An audience with Melinda Gates: Empowerment, careers and society
5 Live's Laura Whitmore meets Melinda Gates - one of the world’s most powerful women. She’s a former general manager at Microsoft, co chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropist w...
17 Juli 201954min
Ed Dwight Jr: The first black astronaut who never flew
In the autumn of 1962, US president John F Kennedy laid out his ambition for the USA to put the first man on the moon. At the time, it seems, Kennedy already had in mind one particular individual who ...
17 Juli 201949min
Andy Woodward: I was abused by football coach Barry Bennell
Andy Woodward was a promising young footballer at Crewe Alexandra when he was groomed and sexually abused from the age of 10 to 16 by the club's youth coach Barry Bennell.In 2016 Andy Woodward decided...
27 Juni 201939min
D-Day: The Home Front Heroes
To mark D-Day, BBC Radio 5 Live honours some of Britain’s Homefront heroes – the people who made the invasion possible without being on the front line.Chris Warburton has been finding out about the yo...
6 Juni 201930min
Inside Porton Down
Nihal Arthanayake gets rare behind the scenes access to one of the most secretive establishments in the UK - the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory - which many of us know as Porton Down. It w...
29 Maj 201955min
Knife Crime: one family’s story
What can be done to stop young people from being stabbed on our streets?We tried to get some answers to that question by focusing on one particular story, that of Quamari Serenkuma Barnes, who was sta...
3 Maj 201930min
Vicky McClure: Our Dementia Choir
Vicky McClure’s grandmother, Iris, lived with dementia. Now Vicky wants to break myths around the condition and she’s been part of an incredible BBC documentary called 'Our Dementia Choir' that looks ...
2 Maj 201944min
Sri Lanka Easter Attacks
The latest after more than 200 people were killed and 450 injured in co-ordinated Easter day attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.
21 Apr 201931min
