Ranked #1
Family Secrets
Family Secrets
Family secrets feature a lot on iPM. The listener who hated her stepsons but couldn't tell anyone. The listener whose mu... Read more
21 Sep 2018
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26mins
Ranked #2
The refugees' crisis
The refugees' crisis
A listener and 70 year old art student on being inspired by foreign reporting. iPM is the programme which starts with it... Read more
14 Jul 2017
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16mins
Ranked #3
After the affair: the daughter's view
After the affair: the daughter's view
After hearing the infidelity series on iPM, a listener tells Eddie Mair about the impact her mother's affair had on her ... Read more
23 Feb 2018
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13mins
Ranked #4
Mind the gap
Mind the gap
Finding love when he was 17 and she was 37.ipm@bbc.co.uk
21 Apr 2017
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26mins
Ranked #5
Why stalkers stalk
Why stalkers stalk
After our listener's experience of being stalked for 10 years, Jennifer Tracey speaks to a woman who's worked with hundr... Read more
9 Apr 2016
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30mins
Ranked #6
"I'm not a boy or a girl. I'm both." A ten-year-old talks about being gender non-binary.
"I'm not a boy or a girl. I'm both." A ten-year-old talks about being gender non-binary.
For most of his life, Leo has lived as a girl, but this summer he began to speak openly about his sense that that gender... Read more
17 Sep 2016
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24mins
Ranked #7
In the classroom
In the classroom
Two listeners on the challenges of teaching. One has been at the chalkface for 25 years, the other has been teaching alm... Read more
11 May 2018
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29mins
Ranked #8
To Russia with love
To Russia with love
Learning Russian with Bridget Kendall and the Russian Ambassador to the UK.iPM is the news programme that starts with it... Read more
24 Mar 2017
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16mins
Ranked #9
My son was too big to bury
My son was too big to bury
A listener on the problems she faced after her son died suddenly and why it might be something which might affect others... Read more
3 Aug 2018
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23mins
Ranked #10
Hello, is it me you're looking for?
Hello, is it me you're looking for?
We hear from listeners taking a second chance on love. Jilly Cooper reads our Your News bulletin plus we hear from a lis... Read more
18 May 2018
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26mins
Ranked #11
'The devil of all drugs'
'The devil of all drugs'
A listener, who heard our series with a mother and daughter whose lives were changed by heroin, tells us about his exper... Read more
15 Jun 2018
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17mins
Ranked #12
It's never too late to take up the piano
It's never too late to take up the piano
You've been meaning to take up piano for ages. Meet the iPM listeners who already have.iPM is the news programme that st... Read more
10 Mar 2017
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14mins
Ranked #13
How to influence people
How to influence people
Listener Sara Tasker first appeared on iPM in 2014, when she was a superuser on the photosharing platform, Instagram. Fi... Read more
8 Feb 2019
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13mins
Ranked #14
'Learn the art of patience'
'Learn the art of patience'
One iPM listener's story of becoming a full time carer for his grandfather with dementia.
11 Jun 2016
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15mins
Ranked #15
'I loved the boogie woogie, but hated my wartime life'
'I loved the boogie woogie, but hated my wartime life'
Listener John Barnes suffered bereavement, separation, scorn and worse growing up during World War Two. He takes Eddie M... Read more
13 Aug 2016
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24mins
Ranked #16
Married, divorced, married
Married, divorced, married
A couple on why their divorce was almost too amicable. Plus iPM listener Charlotte on why childcare meant she couldn't g... Read more
28 Sep 2018
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24mins
Ranked #17
My house is falling in the sea
My house is falling in the sea
Our listener Malcolm on trying to save his house. Another listener suggests we go wing walking with them but unfortunate... Read more
4 May 2018
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27mins
Ranked #18
Vice Unit
Vice Unit
A listener on policing sex work.iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: ... Read more
14 Apr 2017
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26mins
Ranked #19
My referendum
My referendum
As is the fashion, an iPM listener holds a referendum. ipm@bbc.co.uk
17 Mar 2017
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15mins
Ranked #20
Ring out the old
Ring out the old
iPM listeners take the programme around the country - in 2018 we’ve been wild swimming in Cumbria, up tower blocks in M... Read more
28 Dec 2018
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23mins