Eye of the Storm
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Eye of the Storm
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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105 EpisodenMatthew 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 changed her lif...
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 Dubai...
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 mother wants...
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 Scottish...
Megan Phelps Roper
Megan Phelps Roper talks to Emma Barnett about growing up in the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, which preached hatred towards LGBT people and pick...
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 husband lost ev...
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 lose...
“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 hit her c...
“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 on a gran...
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 quashed...
"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 headlines...
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 alongside one...
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 has only rec...
Rotherham Whistleblower
Angie Heal, a former specialist drugs worker with South Yorkshire Police, talks to Emma Barnett about how she helped raise the alarm about the horrifi...
Surviving a terror attack
Ahmad Nawaz escaped the Taliban four years ago, when extremists stormed his school in 2014, killing 149 people, including his younger brother. He now...
NHS Whistleblower
Peter Duffy, the NHS surgeon who was accused of racism and 'forced out' of his job after raising concerns about three Asian colleagues. Peter, once vo...
Andy Grant
A man who survived being blown up in Afghanistan, and refused to let it ruin his life
Mark Oaten
The former Liberal Democrat MP who was at the centre of a tabloid sex scandal.
The inspiring legacy of Jane Tomlinson
Mike Tomlinson remembers the incredible life of his wife Jane Tomlinson, an amateur English athlete who raised £1.85 million for charity by completing...
Bataclan survivors
British couple Tony Scott and Justine Merton-Scott survived the horrific attack on the Bataclan Theatre in Paris on 13 November 2015. They tell Emma...
'I spent 25 years in prison for a murder I didn't commit'
In January 1977, Annie Walsh was murdered in her Manchester flat.
Four months later, neighbour Robert Brown was arrested. Within 36 hours he'd...
Karen Downes
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 coped with li...
Rogue trader
Kweku Adoboli, the trader jailed for the UK's biggest financial fraud, tells Anna Foster why he's now fighting deportation to Ghana, the country of hi...
Mid-Staffs whistleblower
Helene Donnelly, the nurse who revealed the scandal at Stafford Hospital, tells Anna Foster what prompted her to become a whistleblower, and what it w...
Utøya Attack Survivor
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 murder. She...
Pilot accused of lying
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 solo. In 2...
The first woman to accuse Larry Nassar
Rachael Denhollander on exposing the greatest sexual assault scandal in sports history. The American lawyer and former gymnast was the first woman to...
Paul Conroy
War photographer Paul Conroy on his final assignment in Syria with reporter Marie Colvin before she was killed by an airstrike in Homs in 2012. Paul m...
Hated for 'buying' twins
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 America. <...
Youngest person to swim the Channel
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 hours. He s...
The Bosnian Anne Frank
Zlata Filipovic, whose childhood diary, written during the war in Sarajevo, became a bestseller. Thousands of civilians were killed as hundreds of she...
Tiger Mom
Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, on being a tough parent. Her memoir outlines her strict "Chinese" style of parenting which saw he...