A year ago, when Sam graduated with a masters in Modern History, and headed back to his hometown near Bristol, he had no idea what the year would bring. But it wasn’t this. Suddenly, something Sam’s done has become an international news story.

Can Kwame keep his club open?

Dec 19th, 2022 27m 50s

The Jago is one of the few black-owned clubs left in Dalston, East London. When Kwame took it over in 2018 his idea was to make it a space for community – whether giving grassroots musicians and DJs a place to start nights or providing a food b

Life After Long Covid

Dec 12th, 2022 27m 47s

Zoe’s not entirely sure how to make sense of the last couple of years. But she’s going to give it a go. This is her story of the good, the bad and the ugly everydayness of life with Long Covid. Via life-saving phone calls, cloud-gazing park wa

The Prayer Wall

Nov 28th, 2022 27m 23s

Richard Gamble believes God has given him a mission: to build a huge national monument, made from a million bricks, each representing an answered Christian prayer. It seems an impossible task for a sports chaplain who has no experience of const

Three Sides of a Crisis: Part 3

Nov 21st, 2022 27m 29s

Concluding a sequence of stories offering three different perspectives of the cost of living crisis. In Whitehaven, West Cumbria, Neil receives an update on whether a new coal mine will in in the town. He and his son both aspire to work there i

Three Sides of a Crisis: Part 1

Nov 21st, 2022 27m 42s

Over the coming weeks, the Untold follows three individuals as they experience the cost of living crisis this autumn. We hear from a barrister in Manchester who is stepping out on strike action for the first time. We visit a pawnbroker's and h

Three Sides of a Crisis: Part 2

Nov 21st, 2022 27m 37s

Continuing three parallel stories of the cost of living crisis. Join a striking barrister, a miner hoping to work again and the customer of a pawnbroker's as they make ends meet.

Quest for the Pink-Headed Duck

Oct 31st, 2022 27m 26s

Finding the long-lost pink-headed duck has been Richard's obsession for twenty years.

Lions, Lemurs and Lindsay

Oct 17th, 2022 27m 37s

In 2011 Lindsay McKenna was running corporate workshops from her farm in Ross-on-Wye. An animal lover as a child, when Lindsay came across a raccoon living in squalid conditions she offered to take it. But this was just the beginning. As wor

Should GLOR1A give up her dreams?

Jun 30th, 2022 27m 40s

Gloria has always dreamed of becoming a singer. Growing up in a Pentecostal Christian family near Blackpool, music was always part of her life and she spent her childhood summers performing on the pier before heading off to university to study

Should GLOR1A give up her dreams?

Jun 30th, 2022 27m 40s

GLOR1A has always dreamed of becoming a singer. Growing up in a Pentecostal Christian family near Blackpool, music was always part of her life and she spent her childhood summers performing on the pier before heading off to university to study

The Birdhouse

Jun 13th, 2022 27m 50s

We’ve all done it, at some point: You walk past a shabby, ruined building, with boarded up windows and peeling paint, and you think: 'That could be really beautiful if we could only fix it up'. It’s a very human kind of fantasy. To take somethi

The Suing Seafarer

Jun 6th, 2022 27m 42s

When P&O Ferries suddenly fired its staff on the spot on 17th March, there was an outcry from politicians, unions and the press with widespread scathing condemnation of the company. P&O claimed it had made huge losses during the pandemic and th

Trouble at the Barbers

May 30th, 2022 27m 25s

The covid-19 lockdowns were brutal for small businesses. They were particularly tough for barbers. In an industry when getting up-close and personal is the only way to get the job done, the business of hair-cutting was simply unworkable.Phil, a

Island Warden Wanted

May 16th, 2022 27m 49s

If you look out to the horizon from the coast of South Wales or North Somerset, you see two bumps on the horizon - one tall and one flat. These are the islands of Steep Holm and Flat Holm - the former is English, the latter Welsh. Since 2018, M

A Woman in the Room

May 9th, 2022 27m 49s

Will a woman be elected to the all-male Western Isles Council? Catrìona Murray on the Isle of Lewis is going to try.Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) is the local authority governing the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. 5 May 2022

A Doctor Goes Home

May 2nd, 2022 27m 42s

In 2019 Abhi Gotadki came to the United Kingdom from New Zealand to pursue his dream of becoming a GP. This meant leaving behind his wife and daughter but they decided it was best for all of them for Abhi to complete his training. In March 20

Preparing for the President

Dec 13th, 2021 27m 48s

The staff of Cornwall Airport Newquay prepare to receive President Biden and other world leaders for the G7 summit in June.The stakes couldn't be higher for airport boss Pete Downes. This is President Biden's first foreign trip since taking of

A horse called Hope

Dec 6th, 2021 27m 50s

In 2005 Zoe McQuade and Pat Evans set-up the Little Bramley Farm Sanctuary in Polegate, Sussex, caring for sick, abused and unwanted horses. In 2020 they were told that their lease on the land was coming to an end and they would have to move o

The Dentist Van

Nov 22nd, 2021 27m 20s

Nick has an unbearable tooth ache and has tried, and failed, to extract the bad tooth himself.He's homeless and, like many others, can't access NHS dental care. When a mobile dentist van arrives at a homeless support centre, Nick joins the queu

After the Bridge - Catch-up

Nov 15th, 2021 27m 39s

On 22 March 2017, 25-year-old Will Dyson was walking along Westminster Bridge, when a vehicle mounted the pavement and hit him from behind. The Terror Attack left five people dead and more than 50 injured. Will was one of the injured. In the le

A Fisherman Caught in Two Storms

Nov 1st, 2021 27m 42s

Bally, a fisherman on the West Coast of Scotland, navigates a year of Brexit, Covid, an environmental crisis and a broken down boat.Bally fishes off Isle of Skye and has been doing so for decades, but this year has been his most challenging ye

Out of the Red!

Oct 18th, 2021 27m 47s

James 33 and Courtney 28 were fed up of struggling to make ends meet and decided on a radical solution: they swapped their rented house for a bright orange sprinter van which they’ve converted and affectionately christened DeeDee. Instead of wo

We Lost Dancing

Oct 4th, 2021 27m 51s

Alex Trenchard is the founder of Standon Calling, a 17,000-capacity festival that takes place every year in Hertfordshire. The festival brings together thousands of music fans and hundreds of talented workers who together are part of putting on

He Won't Go To School

Jun 14th, 2021 27m 37s

Andrew is a school refuser. He hasn’t done a full day of school since 2019. "He will just refuse to get dressed. He will hide under his bed. And if you physically try and get him out of the house, he is not a violent child in any way, but he w