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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.

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

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    Rogue trader

    Fri 2 Nov 2018

    Kweku Adoboli, the trader jailed for the UK's biggest financial fraud

  • Mid-Staffs whistleblower

    Thu 25 Oct 2018

    Helene Donnelly, the nurse who revealed the NHS scandal

  • Ut酶ya Attack Survivor

    Thu 18 Oct 2018

    Lisa-Marie Husby escaped Anders Breivik's terror attack.

  • Pilot accused of lying

    Thu 11 Oct 2018

    Tracey Curtis-Taylor on being accused of being a fraud.

  • The first woman to accuse Larry Nassar

    Thu 4 Oct 2018

    The first woman to accuse Larry Nassar

  • Paul Conroy

    Thu 13 Sep 2018

    War photographer Paul Conroy on Marie Colvin's death

  • Hated for 'buying' twins

    Thu 6 Sep 2018

    Branded Britain's most hated for 'buying' twins

  • Youngest person to swim the Channel

    Thu 30 Aug 2018

    Tom Gregory on swimming the Channel aged 11 in 1988.

  • The Bosnian Anne Frank

    Thu 23 Aug 2018

    Zlata Filipovic, whose childhood diary became a bestseller.

  • Tiger Mom

    Thu 16 Aug 2018

    Amy Chua on being the original Tiger Mom.

  • Dancing Man: Sean O'Brien

    Thu 9 Aug 2018

    Sean was fat-shamed online over his dancing pictures. Here's why he had the last laugh...

  • Surviving jumping off a bridge

    Thu 2 Aug 2018

    Michael Josephson on surviving his suicide attempt.

  • Anne Scargill

    Thu 26 Jul 2018

    Anne Scargill shares her memories of the miners鈥� strike of 1984-5.

  • Chloe Ayling

    Thu 12 Jul 2018

    Model Chloe Ayling was kidnapped in Milan and held captive for six days.

  • Aron Ralston

    Thu 28 Jun 2018

    The man who cut off his own arm to save his life.

  • Rebecca Black

    Thu 7 Jun 2018

    The teenage singer on facing abuse online after releasing her viral song, Friday.

  • The Stranger on the Bridge

    Thu 24 May 2018

    The man who planned to end his life - and the passer-by who saved him.

  • Lee Rigby's mother

    Thu 17 May 2018

    Lyn Rigby, the mother of fusilier Lee Rigby.

  • James Bulger's mother

    Thu 3 May 2018

    Denise Fergus on the murder of her son

  • Touching The Void climber

    Thu 3 May 2018

    Simon Yates on the true story behind the film

  • Fab from Milli Vanilli

    Mon 30 Apr 2018

    What really happened in the infamous lipsync scandal.

  • Rhys Jones鈥檚 parents

    Thu 19 Apr 2018

    Mel and Steve Jones

  • Fashion designer murder

    Thu 19 Apr 2018

    Lucy Braham鈥檚 father on the death of his daughter

  • Jonathan Aitken

    Thu 29 Mar 2018

    The disgraced former Cabinet minister on his time in prison

  • Gurpal Virdi

    Thu 22 Mar 2018

    Anna speaks to former policeman Gurpal Virdi, accused of racial discrimination and abuse.

  • Islamic State survivor

    Thu 1 Mar 2018

    Scottish grandmother 鈥楴our Abdullah鈥� talks about surviving the so-called Islamic State.

  • Simon Thomas

    Tue 27 Feb 2018

    TV presenter Simon Thomas talks about the impact of the death of his wife

  • Ben Dunne

    Thu 22 Feb 2018

    Ben Dunne, father of Viola Beach band member River Reeves, talks about his son's death.

  • Emma Slade

    Thu 15 Feb 2018

    The banker who became a monk.

  • John Nichol

    Thu 8 Feb 2018

    The British Gulf War hostage remembers the events of 1991

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