In Short 21 December
Chris Warburton looks back at the week's news and sport including the Sydney coffee house seige and Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan.
22 Dec 201449min
Stephen Nolan interviews Kiruna Stamell
Kiruna Stamell successfully sued the Post Office for discrimination because she could not reach the chip-and-pin machines at the counter. Kiruna was born with a rare form of dwarfism.
21 Dec 201418min
Stephen Nolan interviews abuse victim Michael
In an extraordinary half hour of radio, Stephen Nolan talks to Michael, who calls in after Chief Constable Simon Bailey said that men sexually attracted to children should be treated as patients not criminals. Michael (not his real name) talks about how he was abused as a child; how he’s forgiven his abuser; how he himself struggled for many years with being attracted to children; how this battle was particularly difficult as he brought up his daughters; and how men like him need opportunities to talk about what they’re feeling, to help them so they don’t turn to abuse.
7 Dec 201420min
Stephen Nolan with Chris Boudreau
The mother of a Muslim convert killed while fighting for Islamic State militants talks to Stephen Nolan about the loss of her son.
6 Dec 201426min
Stephen Nolan with Mark Serwotka
Stephen Nolan speaks to Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the UK's largest civil service union - the Public and Commercial Services Union. He leads around a quarter of a million civil servants and central government workers. Since spring 2010 Mark has experienced serious heart problems. He's now being kept alive by a machine which pumps blood around his body powered on batteries that he carries around in a bumbag.
1 Dec 201418min
Stephen Nolan with Barry Manilow
Stephen Nolan speaks to music legend Barry Manilow on how he started his music career and how over the years he has dealt with fame. The singer who Rolling Stone magazine called him "the greatest showman of our generation" has sold over 80 million records. He's been bankrupt twice but bounced back on each occasion. He talks about growing up in Brooklyn and what inspired his new album My Dream Duets where by the magic of technology he sings alongside artists like Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe and Whitney Houston.
23 Nov 201423min
June Steenkamp
June Steenkamp talks to Dan and Sarah about one of the biggest international news stories of the past year. Last month South African paralympian and Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was jailed for five years after admitting to shooting his girlfriend, June's daughter, Reeva Steenkamp through a bathroom door at his home in Pretoria. The court cleared him of her murder, but found him guilty of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter in English courts. He's now serving his sentence in Kgosi Mampuru prison, but could be released next year, to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest. Throughout the trail June Steenkamp attended court every single day. She has now written a book about her daughter, her death, the trial and media storm that followed.
19 Nov 201429min
Syrian Border special report
5 live's Phil Mackie reports from Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, 12 miles from the Syrian border. In what's been described as the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War half the Syrian population has been forced to flee their homes and 3.2 million are now registered as refugees outside the country.
17 Nov 201424min
