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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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    Nemone Lethbridge

    Thu 25 Jan 2018

    Leading female barrister in the 1950's.

  • Emily Maitlis

    Thu 18 Jan 2018

    The TV presenter鈥檚 first on-air interview about her stalking ordeal

  • Rebecca Loos

    Thu 18 Jan 2018

    The woman at the centre of tabloid allegations

  • June Steenkamp

    Thu 11 Jan 2018

    The mother of Reeva Steenkamp talks about her daughter, killed by Oscar Pistorius in 2013

  • The real-life Molly鈥檚 Game

    Thu 21 Dec 2017

    Molly Bloom, whose story inspired the film

  • Chennai Six

    Fri 8 Dec 2017

    Nick Dunn on his years in prison in India

  • Colin Stagg

    Thu 7 Dec 2017

    The man wrongly accused of Rachel Nickell鈥檚 murder in 1992.

  • Fake News Victim

    Thu 7 Dec 2017

    Jackie Teale on being on the wrong end of a website article.

  • Why I kept my rapist's baby

    Thu 23 Nov 2017

    Catherine became pregnant after being raped by a man she had considered her friend.

  • Macer Gifford

    Thu 23 Nov 2017

    The former City banker on fighting IS

  • Sylvia Lancaster

    Thu 16 Nov 2017

    Emma speaks to Sylvia the mother of Sophie Lancaster who was brutally attacked in 2007

  • Rogue trader Alexis Stenfors

    Thu 9 Nov 2017

    Former city trader Alexis Stenfors on what it鈥檚 like to lose 拢350 million

  • I survived a Taliban kidnap

    Thu 2 Nov 2017

    TV filmmaker Sean Langan on surviving being kidnapped

  • Hilda Matthews

    Thu 26 Oct 2017

    Woman who survived three back street abortions

  • Vicky Beeching and Tim Collins

    Thu 19 Oct 2017

    Emma Barnett finds out what it's like to suddenly have the world's media descend on you.

  • Paddy Armstrong

    Thu 12 Oct 2017

    Life after 15 years wrongly imprisoned in jail.

  • Jane Nicklinson

    Fri 29 Sep 2017

    The widow of right-to-die campaigner Tony Nicklinson

  • Charlie Webster

    Fri 22 Sep 2017

    The TV presenter talks about coming close to death

  • 鈥楪amergate鈥� controversy

    Fri 8 Sep 2017

    Zoe Quinn on the devastating impact of online harassment.

  • Child prodigy James/Lauren Harries

    Thu 31 Aug 2017

    The star of Wogan, aged 10, on life then, and since.

  • Sully's 'Miracle on the Hudson'

    Fri 25 Aug 2017

    The story of Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, who landed his Airbus A320 on the Hudson River.

  • Mark Austin & his daughter

    Thu 24 Aug 2017

    Newsreader Mark Austin and his daughter Maddy talk about her anorexia

  • Art forger

    Thu 24 Aug 2017

    The man who created fake works of art from his shed in Bolton

  • Sharon Shoesmith

    Thu 17 Aug 2017

    Emma Barnett speaks to Sharon Shoesmith about the death of baby Peter Connolly.

  • Tim Farron

    Sat 12 Aug 2017

    The outgoing Lib Dem leader tells Emma Barnett what led him to step down.

  • Struck by lightning

    Thu 3 Aug 2017

    The extraordinary story of Geordie Allen, who survived a lightning strike

  • Sacked 鈥榓nti-semitic鈥� columnist

    Wed 2 Aug 2017

    Kevin Myers tells Emma Barnett why he regrets his controversial column

  • Stutter Boy

    Sun 30 Jul 2017

    Hero of Educating Yorkshire, Mushy, tells Emma why he is proud to be known as Stutter Boy.

  • Prime Minister Theresa May

    Thu 13 Jul 2017

    Emma Barnett meets PM Theresa May a year on from taking office.

  • Blind Date 'hoaxer'

    Thu 22 Jun 2017

    Undercover journo Nicola Gill on being rumbled by Cilla Black

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