Ella tripped while jogging and ended up having to have her leg amputated. She talks to Emma Barnett how coming through the ordeal has changed her life.

Gerald Ratner

1 Mar 23rd, 2017 25m 12s

Emma Barnett meets the person at the heart of a news story to find out what really happened and how their life changed overnight. This week jewellery boss Gerald Ratner tells Emma why he called his shops' products "crap", and how he's had to ba

Matthew Hedges and his wife Daniela Tejade

Nov 26th, 2019 21m 12s

Last year Matthew spent six months in prison in the United Arab Emirates after being accused of spying. Matthew was initially arrested at Dubai Airport in May 2018 as he tried to leave the country and sentenced to life in prison on 21st Novembe

Marie McCourt

Nov 19th, 2019 23m 7s

Marie McCourt speaks to Emma Barnett about the night her daughter Helen went missing in 1988. Helen's body has never been found, and her mother wants there to be no parole for murderers who refuse to say where their victims' bodies are.

Michaella McCollum: Why I smuggled cocaine into Peru

Nov 14th, 2019 23m 58s

Michaella McCollum (pictured, left) was just 20, when she was caught with 11 kilos of cocaine at the airport in Peru in 2013. Along with her Scottish accomplice, Melissa Reid, she spent almost three years behind bars there, before she was allow

Megan Phelps Roper

Nov 14th, 2019 28m 6s

Megan Phelps Roper talks to Emma Barnett about growing up in the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, which preached hatred towards LGBT people and picketed the funerals of dead soldiers.

Beverley Bass

Nov 5th, 2019 20m 40s

Trailblazing pilot who was grounded by 9/11.

Elber Twomey

Oct 22nd, 2019 19m 9s

I lost my family in a crash with a suicidal driver.

Diane Modahl: Life after being banned

Oct 8th, 2019 18m 50s

In 1994 the former Olympic athlete tested positive in a drugs test and was banned for four years. She won the appeal - but she and her husband lost everything in the process.

Rachel Dolezal: How the world reacted to race row

Sep 10th, 2019 23m 45s

Rachel Dolezal remembers the controversy she faced for identifying as 'transracial'. She tells 5 Live's Adrian Chiles what it was like to lose friends and hit headlines around the world after she was branded a ‘fraud’ for her role as a black ri

“My donor had obviously been very good to them”

Aug 20th, 2019 19m 57s

Corinne Hutton on having a double hand transplant after losing her own hands to sepsis.

Tragic school sports day

Aug 13th, 2019 18m 26s

Lis Cashin's life changed forever in 1983. She was 13, and she'd been chosen to throw the javelin for her school sports day. But her throw hit her classmate Sammy, who was measuring the distances of the throws. Four days later Sammy was dead

“I was scammed by my con artist friend”

Jul 30th, 2019 27m 49s

Rachel Deloache Williams tells Emma Barnett how she lost tens of thousands of dollars to a “friend”, Anna, who turned out to be a con artist on a grand scale.

Diver who cheated death

Jun 4th, 2019 22m 7s

North Sea diver Chris Lemons was 100 metres below the surface when his oxygen hose snapped. He wasn't rescued for half an hour.

'Death Row is the only place I didn’t experience racism'

Apr 29th, 2019 41m 38s

Anthony Ray Hinton spent 28 years on death row in Alabama for two murders he didn’t do. He was freed in 2015 when the US Supreme Court quashed his conviction. He was a black man arrested by white police officers, tried by a white prosecutor, co

"I was exploited by TV producers"

Apr 25th, 2019 27m 4s

“I was the last person who should have gone on a TV show.” The thoughts of Caroline Wharram, a Big Brother contestant from 2012 who hit the headlines after being accused of being racist. She tells Emma Barnett she feels the producers of the sho

Twentieth Anniversary of the Columbine Shootings

Apr 18th, 2019 24m 15s

Clare McDonnell talks to Beth Nimmo whose daughter Rachel was of the twelve students who were murdered in the Columbine school shootings alongside one of their teachers.

Willy Phillips Junior

Apr 15th, 2019 25m 17s

Willy Phillips Junior, who in 2010 survived a plane crash which killed his father, talks to Emma Barnett about how he escaped, and how he has only recently overcome crippling fears and anxieties caused by the accident.

Rotherham Whistleblower

Mar 21st, 2019 23m 45s

Angie Heal, a former specialist drugs worker with South Yorkshire Police, talks to Emma Barnett about how she helped raise the alarm about the horrific grooming of children and young people taking place in Rotherham.

Surviving a terror attack

Feb 21st, 2019 11m

Ahmad Nawaz escaped the Taliban four years ago, when extremists stormed his school in 2014, killing 149 people, including his younger brother. He now lives in Birmingham and campaigns against extremism.

NHS Whistleblower

Feb 14th, 2019 16m 29s

Peter Duffy, the NHS surgeon who was accused of racism and 'forced out' of his job after raising concerns about three Asian colleagues. Peter, once voted doctor of the year, said the experience completely destroyed his career and devastated his