Ranked #1
Picking up my paint brushes...20 years on
Picking up my paint brushes...20 years on
Geoffrey Harris overcame years of stress and anxiety to make a bus journey from his home in Neath to Swansea. It was on ... Read more
9 Jun 2016
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17mins
Ranked #2
Dealing with cancer
Dealing with cancer
Steve Hewlett, a well known voice on Radio 4, was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus earlier this year.He talks abo... Read more
19 Sep 2016
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15mins
Ranked #3
A doctor's experience in Aleppo
A doctor's experience in Aleppo
Dr Samer Attar is an orthopaedic surgeon. He lives and works in Chicago, but takes time away from his day job to use his... Read more
27 Jul 2016
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33mins
Ranked #4
Getting to know extremists
Getting to know extremists
How do you stop people joining radical terrorist groups? The UK government offers an intensive one-to-one mentoring prog... Read more
19 Aug 2016
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13mins
Ranked #5
My twenty-two months of 'hell' in a Dubai prison
My twenty-two months of 'hell' in a Dubai prison
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is an increasingly popular destination for international sun-worshippers and shoppers.... Read more
1 Dec 2017
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12mins
Ranked #6
A refugee and the cadet who helped rescue her
A refugee and the cadet who helped rescue her
As the migrant crisis continues we look back at the parallels with the late 1970s and one of the great migrations by the... Read more
26 Aug 2016
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13mins
Ranked #7
A mother's experience of Downs syndrome
A mother's experience of Downs syndrome
Carolyn Quinn speaks to Angie Emrys-Jones whose 9-year-old son, Ted, has Downs syndrome. She tells Carolyn that not all ... Read more
16 Sep 2016
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6mins
Ranked #8
How to get the right cancer care
How to get the right cancer care
Steve Hewlett, a well known voice on Radio 4, was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus earlier this year.He talks abo... Read more
26 Sep 2016
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14mins
Ranked #9
An interview with surgeon David Nott
An interview with surgeon David Nott
Eddie Mair first spoke to David Nott in 2013. His regular job is at three hospitals in London but for the past 20 years ... Read more
5 Aug 2016
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38mins
Ranked #10
Eddie reunites an Ebola Survivor with his parents
Eddie reunites an Ebola Survivor with his parents
Will Pooley is a British nurse who became infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone, received treatment back in the UK and the... Read more
17 Jun 2016
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21mins
Ranked #11
My journey as a Rohingya
My journey as a Rohingya
The treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has led to worldwide condemnation, with the US threatening sanctions. Bangl... Read more
24 Nov 2017
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9mins
Ranked #12
'Those tweets were from someone lashing out at the world around him'
'Those tweets were from someone lashing out at the world around him'
The magazine Gay Times has sacked its new editor over comments he made on social media in the past.Josh Rivers was appoi... Read more
16 Nov 2017
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20mins
Ranked #13
The power of the cello
The power of the cello
In April 2015 a car bomb went off in Baghdad. At least ten people were killed. Karim Wasfi conductor of the Iraqi Nation... Read more
15 Jul 2016
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24mins
Ranked #14
The 'Battle-Scarred' comedian
The 'Battle-Scarred' comedian
As we approach Armistice Day, followed by Remembrance Sunday, we talk to an American army veteran who is the host of a n... Read more
8 Nov 2017
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14mins
Ranked #15
The woman who killed her violent husband
The woman who killed her violent husband
Archers' fans have been gripped by the trial of Helen Titchener for the attempted murder of her husband. It's a fiction... Read more
9 Sep 2016
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13mins
Ranked #16
Stourhead in autumn is 'a living work of art'
Stourhead in autumn is 'a living work of art'
Since 2008 Alan Power, head gardener at Stourhead in Wiltshire, has joined Radio 4's PM programme to tell us about the a... Read more
31 Oct 2017
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8mins
Ranked #17
Radio 4 helped diagnose my cancer
Radio 4 helped diagnose my cancer
Steve Hewlett chronicled his experience with oesophageal cancer weekly on PM in 2016. Steve believed that by using his j... Read more
16 Oct 2017
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27mins
Ranked #18
'I operated a policy of protecting women around Harvey'
'I operated a policy of protecting women around Harvey'
The film producer Harvey Weinstein has been accused of a string of sexual assaults after the New York Times reported pre... Read more
12 Oct 2017
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9mins
Ranked #19
'I couldn’t carry on firefighting'
'I couldn’t carry on firefighting'
Most people would probably not want to see what the firefighters who attended Grenfell Tower fire saw, or do what they d... Read more
6 Oct 2017
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22mins
Ranked #20
I don't want to have sex
I don't want to have sex
Eddie Mair hears one man's story of his asexuality - discovering he was asexual, telling friends and family, and negotia... Read more
28 Sep 2017
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41mins