Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 1
From Beverly Hills to hiding from the law with his dad, Blair’s seen it all. To help him get through the tough times – and there’d be quite a few of those – Blair created a separate persona. This was ...
13 Feb 202340min
The mystery of the tartan twins
A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why.When he was just a baby, David McBride made headline news in Northern Ireland. He had been discovered in the fro...
6 Feb 202342min
Breaking my addiction to war
Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop.It was his job as a BBC journalist to help the audience make sense of the madness of war, but he knew there was anot...
30 Jan 202343min
The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses
From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya Rakini will stand up for herself, and you. From an early age she's fought for what's right. As a child living in Tamil Nadu, she stopped eating so her...
23 Jan 202341min
Learning to live with the voices in my head
Debra Lampshire started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control.The voices became so visceral and intense that Debra had to spend 18 years in a psychiatric hospital. Then...
16 Jan 202347min
Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.For most of his life, Uganda had been unstable, but he'd been able to train as a commercial pilot despite the vio...
9 Jan 202339min
Coming out as India’s first gay prince
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and societyHe was next in line to a centuries-old royal dynasty in the Indian state of Gujarat - and grew up in the 1970s in a ...
2 Jan 202339min
The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp
Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history.A phone call out of the blue had set him on his hunt for the Clotilda, an American vessel that had illegally transported ensla...
26 Dec 202240min
