BBC Radio Podcasts from Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm

Kerry Irving

Kerry Irving and Max the Miracle Dog.

Matthew Hahn

Matthew Hahn on committing a burglary which changed his life

'I was wrongly accused of being "fixer" for paedophile gang'

Wajed Iqbal was wrongly accused by a newspaper of helping a paedophile ring.

Ella Dove

I had to have my leg amputated after falling while out for a run.

Matthew Hedges and his wife Daniela Tejade

Matthew spent six months in a United Arab Emirates prison after being accused of spying.

Marie McCourt

I speak to the mother of Helen McCourt, who went missing in 1988.

Michaella McCollum: Why I smuggled cocaine into Peru

Michaella McCollum talks to Emma Barnett about her time in jail in Peru for smuggling.

Megan Phelps Roper

Megan Phelps Roper talks to Emma Barnett about life in the Westboro Baptist Church.

Beverley Bass

Trailblazing pilot who was grounded by 9/11.

Elber Twomey

I lost my family in a crash with a suicidal driver

Diane Modahl: Life after being banned

Former athlete tested positive in a drugs test. She won the appeal but lost everything.

Rachel Dolezal: How the world reacted to race row

Rachel Dolezal remembers the controversy she faced for identifying as 'transracial'.

“My donor had obviously been very good to them”

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

Tragic school sports day

Lis Cashin on the tragic death of her classmate at a school sports day in 1983.

“I was scammed by my con artist friend”

Rachel Deloache Williams on losing thousands to her fake friend

Diver who cheated death

North Sea diver Chris Lemons was 100 metres below the surface when his oxygen hose broke.

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

Anthony Ray Hinton spent 28 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit.

"I was exploited by TV producers"

Big Brother contestant Caroline Wharram says she should never have been allowed on TV.

Twentieth Anniversary of the Columbine Shootings

Clare McDonnell talks to Beth Nimmo whose daughter Rachel was murdered in Columbine.

Willy Phillips Junior

A man who survived a plane crash which killed his father.

Rotherham Whistleblower

Angie Heal on helping reveal the grooming scandal

Surviving a terror attack

Ahmad Nawaz escaped the Taliban four years ago when extremists stormed his school in 2014

NHS Whistleblower

Peter Duffy, the NHS surgeon who was accused of racism and 'forced out' of his job.

Steve Brookstein

The winner of the first ever series of the X Factor.

Andy Grant

A man who survived being blown up in Afghanistan, and refused to let it ruin his life

Mark Oaten

The former Liberal Democrat MP who was at the centre of a tabloid sex scandal.

The inspiring legacy of Jane Tomlinson

The amateur athlete and fundraiser's husband, Mike, remembers her incredible life.

Bataclan survivors

A British couple who survived the Paris attacks

'I spent 25 years in prison for a murder I didn't commit'

Robert Brown tells his story - and explains why he's trying to change the justice system.

Karen Downes

The mother of a 14-year-old girl who disappeared in 2003

Rogue trader

Kweku Adoboli, the trader jailed for the UK's biggest financial fraud

Mid-Staffs whistleblower

Helene Donnelly, the nurse who revealed the NHS scandal

Utøya Attack Survivor

Lisa-Marie Husby escaped Anders Breivik's terror attack.

Pilot accused of lying

Tracey Curtis-Taylor on being accused of being a fraud.

The first woman to accuse Larry Nassar

The first woman to accuse Larry Nassar

Paul Conroy

War photographer Paul Conroy on Marie Colvin's death

Hated for 'buying' twins

Branded Britain's most hated for 'buying' twins

Youngest person to swim the Channel

Tom Gregory on swimming the Channel aged 11 in 1988.

The Bosnian Anne Frank

Zlata Filipovic, whose childhood diary became a bestseller.

Tiger Mom

Amy Chua on being the original Tiger Mom.

Dancing Man: Sean O'Brien

Sean was fat-shamed online over his dancing pictures. Here's why he had the last laugh...

Surviving jumping off a bridge

Michael Josephson on surviving his suicide attempt.

Anne Scargill

Anne Scargill shares her memories of the miners’ strike of 1984-5.

Chloe Ayling

Model Chloe Ayling was kidnapped in Milan and held captive for six days.

Aron Ralston

The man who cut off his own arm to save his life.

Rebecca Black

The teenage singer on facing abuse online after releasing her viral song, Friday.

The Stranger on the Bridge

The man who planned to end his life - and the passer-by who saved him.

Lee Rigby's mother

Lyn Rigby, the mother of fusilier Lee Rigby.

James Bulger's mother

Denise Fergus on the murder of her son

Touching The Void climber

Simon Yates on the true story behind the film

Fab from Milli Vanilli

What really happened in the infamous lipsync scandal.

Rhys Jones’s parents

Mel and Steve Jones

Fashion designer murder

Lucy Braham’s father on the death of his daughter

Jonathan Aitken

The disgraced former Cabinet minister on his time in prison

Gurpal Virdi

Anna speaks to former policeman Gurpal Virdi, accused of racial discrimination and abuse.

Islamic State survivor

Scottish grandmother ‘Nour Abdullah’ talks about surviving the so-called Islamic State.

Simon Thomas

TV presenter Simon Thomas talks about the impact of the death of his wife

Ben Dunne

Ben Dunne, father of Viola Beach band member River Reeves, talks about his son's death.

Emma Slade

The banker who became a monk.

John Nichol

The British Gulf War hostage remembers the events of 1991

Nemone Lethbridge

Leading female barrister in the 1950's.

Emily Maitlis

The TV presenter’s first on-air interview about her stalking ordeal

Rebecca Loos

The woman at the centre of tabloid allegations

June Steenkamp

The mother of Reeva Steenkamp talks about her daughter, killed by Oscar Pistorius in 2013

The real-life Molly’s Game

Molly Bloom, whose story inspired the film

Chennai Six

Nick Dunn on his years in prison in India

Colin Stagg

The man wrongly accused of Rachel Nickell’s murder in 1992.

Fake News Victim

Jackie Teale on being on the wrong end of a website article.

Why I kept my rapist's baby

Catherine became pregnant after being raped by a man she had considered her friend.

Macer Gifford

The former City banker on fighting IS

Sylvia Lancaster

Emma speaks to Sylvia the mother of Sophie Lancaster who was brutally attacked in 2007

Rogue trader Alexis Stenfors

Former city trader Alexis Stenfors on what it’s like to lose £350 million

I survived a Taliban kidnap

TV filmmaker Sean Langan on surviving being kidnapped

Hilda Matthews

Woman who survived three back street abortions

Vicky Beeching and Tim Collins

Emma Barnett finds out what it's like to suddenly have the world's media descend on you.

Paddy Armstrong

Life after 15 years wrongly imprisoned in jail.

Jane Nicklinson

The widow of right-to-die campaigner Tony Nicklinson

Charlie Webster

The TV presenter talks about coming close to death

‘Gamergate’ controversy

Zoe Quinn on the devastating impact of online harassment.

Child prodigy James/Lauren Harries

The star of Wogan, aged 10, on life then, and since.

Mark Austin & his daughter

Newsreader Mark Austin and his daughter Maddy talk about her anorexia

Art forger

The man who created fake works of art from his shed in Bolton

Sharon Shoesmith

Emma Barnett speaks to Sharon Shoesmith about the death of baby Peter Connolly.

Struck by lightning

The extraordinary story of Geordie Allen, who survived a lightning strike

Sacked ‘anti-semitic’ columnist

Kevin Myers tells Emma Barnett why he regrets his controversial column

Tim Farron

The outgoing Lib Dem leader tells Emma Barnett what led him to step down.

Prime Minister Theresa May

Emma Barnett meets PM Theresa May a year on from taking office.

Sully's 'Miracle on the Hudson'

The story of Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, who landed his Airbus A320 on the Hudson River.

Blind Date 'hoaxer'

Undercover journo Nicola Gill on being rumbled by Cilla Black

‘My son cut off his penis’

‘Nick’ tells Emma Barnett why his son cut off his penis while high on skunk

Nuremberg prosecutor

98-year-old Ben Ferencz on being a prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial.

“Piegate” goalie

Sacked goalie Wayne Shaw on the personal disaster that was “piegate”

Royal Prank DJs

Australian DJ Mel Greig tells Emma about the prank call that went tragically wrong.

Alice Wells

Alice Wells on the horror of discovering that her husband was a paedophile.

Vicky Beeching

Christian singer Vicky Beeching on how the church reacted to two little words: “I’m gay”.

Rio Ferdinand

Football star Rio Ferdinand on the death of his wife, Rebecca, from cancer.

Stutter Boy

Hero of Educating Yorkshire, Mushy, tells Emma why he is proud to be known as Stutter Boy.

The 'Angel of Woolwich'

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the passer-by who confronted the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby.

Leah Betts' Dad

Paul Betts talks about his daughter's death after taking an ecstasy tablet.

First Millionaire winner

Emma Barnett meets the person at the heart of a news story to find out what happened.

Accused of child sex abuse

Teacher Simon Warr on what it was like to be wrongly charged with child sex abuse.

Airport bomb tweeter

Fake bomb tweeter Paul Chambers tells Emma Barnett about the battle to clear his name.

Jailed planespotters

Planespotters on being jailed for six weeks in Greece after arrest for spying.

Conkergate!

A headteacher on the truth behind the story he’d banned conkers in his school playground.

Gerald Ratner

Jewellery boss Gerald Ratner tells Emma Barnett why he called his shops' products 'crap'.