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Eye of the Storm with Emma Barnett
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.
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20 of 105 episodesMatthew Hahn
Matthew Hahn talks to Emma Barnett about the moment he stole a safe and how that theft changed his life
'I was wrongly accused of being "fixer" for paedophile gang'
Wajed Iqbal talks to Emma Barnett about repairing his life after a newspaper wrongly accused him of helping a paedophile ring.
Ella Dove
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...
Matthew Hedges and his wife Daniela Tejade
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
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: Why I smuggled cocaine into Peru
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
Megan Phelps Roper talks to Emma Barnett about growing up in the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, which preached hatred towards LGBT peopl...
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
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: How the world reacted to race row
Rachel Dolezal remembers the controversy she faced for identifying as 'transracial'. She tells 5 Live's Adrian Chiles what it was like to lo...
“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'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...
“I was scammed by my con artist friend”
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...
Diver who cheated death
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'
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 exploited by TV producers"
“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...
Twentieth Anniversary of the Columbine Shootings
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
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...