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The Eddie Mair Interview

Eddie Mair speaks at length to people with interesting things to say, for Radio 4's PM.

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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

17mins

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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

15mins

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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

33mins

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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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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

12mins

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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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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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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

14mins

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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

38mins

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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

21mins

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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

9mins

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'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

20mins

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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

24mins

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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

14mins

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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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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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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

27mins

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'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

9mins

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'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

22mins

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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

41mins

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