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Each week Emma Barnett meets the person at the heart of a news story to find out what really happened and how their life changed overnight.
Kerry Irving and Max the Miracle Dog.
Matthew Hahn talks to Emma Barnett about the moment he stole a safe and how that theft changed his life
Wajed Iqbal talks to Emma Barnett about repairing his life after a newspaper wrongly accused him of helping a paedophile ring.
Ella tripped while jogging and ended up having to have her leg amputated. She talks to Emma Barnett how coming through the ordeal has change...
Last year Matthew spent six months in prison in the United Arab Emirates after being accused of spying. Matthew was initially arrested at Du...
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 mot...
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...
Megan Phelps Roper talks to Emma Barnett about growing up in the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, which preached hatred towards LGBT peopl...
Trailblazing pilot who was grounded by 9/11.
I lost my family in a crash with a suicidal driver.
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 husba...
Rachel Dolezal remembers the controversy she faced for identifying as 'transracial'. She tells 5 Live's Adrian Chiles what it was like to lo...
Corinne Hutton on having a double hand transplant after losing her own hands to sepsis.
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 h...
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...
North Sea diver Chris Lemons was 100 metres below the surface when his oxygen hose snapped. He wasn't rescued for half an hour.
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 quash...
“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...
Clare McDonnell talks to Beth Nimmo whose daughter Rachel was of the twelve students who were murdered in the Columbine school shootings alo...
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 ha...
Angie Heal, a former specialist drugs worker with South Yorkshire Police, talks to Emma Barnett about how she helped raise the alarm about t...
Ahmad Nawaz escaped the Taliban four years ago, when extremists stormed his school in 2014, killing 149 people, including his younger brothe...
Peter Duffy, the NHS surgeon who was accused of racism and 'forced out' of his job after raising concerns about three Asian colleagues. Pete...
The winner of the first ever series of the X Factor.
A man who survived being blown up in Afghanistan, and refused to let it ruin his life
The former Liberal Democrat MP who was at the centre of a tabloid sex scandal.
Mike Tomlinson remembers the incredible life of his wife Jane Tomlinson, an amateur English athlete who raised £1.85 million for charity by...
British couple Tony Scott and Justine Merton-Scott survived the horrific attack on the Bataclan Theatre in Paris on 13 November 2015. They t...
In January 1977, Annie Walsh was murdered in her Manchester flat. Four months later, neighbour Robert Brown was arrested. Within 36 hours he...
Karen Downes, whose 14-year-old daughter went out with friends in 2003, and has never been seen since, tells Anna Foster about how she's cop...
Kweku Adoboli, the trader jailed for the UK's biggest financial fraud, tells Anna Foster why he's now fighting deportation to Ghana, the cou...
Helene Donnelly, the nurse who revealed the scandal at Stafford Hospital, tells Anna Foster what prompted her to become a whistleblower, and...
Lisa-Marie Husby loved her summer trips to Utøya Island - until the day Anders Breivik turned the idyllic retreat into the scene of a mass m...
Tracey Curtis-Taylor on being accused of being a fraud. She flies a vintage biplane around the world, but was accused of lying about flying...
Rachael Denhollander on exposing the greatest sexual assault scandal in sports history. The American lawyer and former gymnast was the first...
War photographer Paul Conroy on his final assignment in Syria with reporter Marie Colvin before she was killed by an airstrike in Homs in 20...
In 2001 Judith Silett was branded Britain's most hated woman. She and her then husband had paid a US agency £8,200 to adopt twin girls from...
Tom Gregory on swimming the English Channel aged 11 in 1988. He became the youngest person to swim the 32-mile crossing and it took him 32 h...
Zlata Filipovic, whose childhood diary, written during the war in Sarajevo, became a bestseller. Thousands of civilians were killed as hundr...
Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, on being a tough parent. Her memoir outlines her strict "Chinese" style of parenting wh...
Sean O'Brien, also known as 'Dancing Man' was fatshamed when pictures of him dancing were posted online by strangers. However his story took...
Michael Josephson on surviving his suicide attempt, where he broke nearly every bone in his body by jumping off a 60-foot high bridge. 20 ye...
Anne Scargill is the ex-wife of former NUM leader Arthur Scargill, and co-founded the Women Against Pit Closures. She says the miners’ strik...
Model Chloe Ayling was kidnapped in Milan and held captive for six days. But doubt was cast on her story when she returned to the UK. The do...
It’s fifteen years since Aron Ralston set off for a few days of fun and relaxation in Utah’s Bluejohn Canyon. He became trapped by a boulder...
Rebecca Black was just 13 years old in 2011, when she recorded a song and music video. ‘Friday’ became one of the biggest viral videos in Yo...
Neil Laybourn was heading to work, when he saw a man climbing over the railings, intending to end his life. That man was Jonny Benjamin, and...
Lyn Rigby is the mother of fusilier Lee Rigby, murdered outside a barracks in Woolwich in London by two Islamic extremists. The terror attac...
The murder of James Bulger in 1993 by two 10-year-old boys shocked the nation. His mother, Denise Fergus, alongside her husband Stuart, tell...
The mountain climber Simon Yates tells Anna Foster what really happened when he and fellow climber Joe Simpson attempted to climb a Peruvian...