iPM: We Start With Your Stories Podcast
A weekly companion to PM where the expertise and insights of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 audience shape a programme that sees news differently. Presented by Luke Jones.
Episodes to download
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Infidelity
Sat 7 Jan 2017
A special podcast with interviews with a wife, a husband and a relationship therapist.
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The husband
Sat 31 Dec 2016
A husband explains why he cheated on his wife of 28 years. iPM@bbc.co.uk
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Two Christmas stories
Fri 23 Dec 2016
We hear two stories from listeners who have very different Christmases. iPM@bbc.co.uk
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All the world's a stage
Sat 17 Dec 2016
A listener's investigation into a lonely life, and reflections from the original Poldark.
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The hitchhiker's guide to the UK
Sat 10 Dec 2016
iPM's Manveen Rana finds out if it's still possible to hitchhike in the UK. iPM@bbc.co.uk
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The finger wagging cure
Sat 3 Dec 2016
How finger wagging can help victims of bullying. iPM@bbc.co.uk
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Yes, no, maybe?
Sat 26 Nov 2016
Jennifer Tracey on why she absolutely needs to leave the iPM show. iPM@bbc.co.uk
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To e safety, and beyond!
Sat 19 Nov 2016
Jennifer Tracey visits a school where children lead the way on e safety. iPM@bbc.co.uk
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Finding love at Hellfire Corner
Fri 4 Nov 2016
Jenny Nater met a sailor in wartime Dover, that relationship has echoed through her life.
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'If dad had exercised he might still be alive'
Sat 29 Oct 2016
A listener's angry with her late father. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey.
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'I'm don't want HIV, but I've stopped using condoms'
Sat 22 Oct 2016
A listener on why he's paying for pills to avoid the sexually-transmitted virus.
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'I'm not the sort of person who wants to live to 100, so 56 doesn't sound so bad'
Sat 15 Oct 2016
A listener talks about the cancer he's been told will kill him.
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Why drinking fountains have dried up
Sat 8 Oct 2016
iPM investigates why there aren't more usable drinking fountains in the UK. iPM@bbc.co.uk
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Living in Antarctica
Sat 1 Oct 2016
A listener has decided to quit his job to live and work in Antarctica.
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The listener who fought for her pacemaker to be turned off
Sat 24 Sep 2016
A dying woman and a US doctor talk about how human hearts are sometimes stopped.
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"I'm not a boy or a girl. I'm both." A ten-year-old talks about being gender non-binary.
Sat 17 Sep 2016
Leo has lived as a girl, but he's just told his family that gender identity feels wrong.
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'I can't switch off my army brain, so haven't slept properly in 30 years'
Sat 10 Sep 2016
A soldier and an aid worker share stories of how their careers left mental scars.
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'I'd rush home from school to start on the red wine.'
Sat 3 Sep 2016
How alcoholism crept up on a teacher, how she hit rock bottom, and then rebounded.
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"I wanted to explode." Women with binge eating disorder share their secret stories.
Sat 27 Aug 2016
"I wanted to explode." Women with binge eating disorder share their secret stories.
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How a wife's heart attack returned her husband to World War Two
Sat 20 Aug 2016
Psychologist Janie Penn-Barwell remembers the fear & guilt her patients have carried.
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'I loved the boogie woogie, but hated my wartime life'
Sat 13 Aug 2016
John Barnes suffered bereavement, separation, scorn and worse during World War II.
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'After the war I found peace as a pig farmer'
Sat 6 Aug 2016
An ex-serviceman explains adjusting to civilian life after a tough tour of Afghanistan.
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Orson Welles, Judi Dench... Eddie Mair: Actress Thelma Ruby looks back over 70 years.
Sat 30 Jul 2016
From performing for wounded servicemen to showing her legs on stage at 91.
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The dead should be names not statistics
Sat 23 Jul 2016
Reporter Hugh Sykes on assignment in Turkey considers an email from an iPM listener.
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How to listen; becoming a good Samaritan
Tue 19 Jul 2016
An iPM listener talks about his experiences as a volunteer for the Samaritans.
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'He came home from Iraq and he was dead behind the eyes'
Fri 8 Jul 2016
A mother describes her son's experience of the Iraq war.
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How traumatised jury members can seek help
Fri 1 Jul 2016
A retired judge on how he ensured jurors wouldn't be distressed by graphic evidence.
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Jury duty trauma
Fri 24 Jun 2016
A listener's traumatic experience of serving on a murder trial jury.
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Finding evidence for historic abuse cases
Sat 18 Jun 2016
A QC explains the difficulties of prosecuting historical sex abuse cases.
