Summer Listens

Actor John Kani took the risky decision to play Othello in apartheid South Africa

In 2012, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team became their country's first Paralympians.

Paul McCartney joins John Wilson and an invited audience to discuss songwriting

How 72-year-old Ann Rodgers managed to survive in the Arizona desert.

Father Dave Smith is using his boxing skills to help young people in Australia and Syria

Around one in two people are introverts - but it's usually the extroverts who get heard.

Andrea Sella on the scientific reasons why water is the most crucial component of a cuppa

Australian truck owner Heather Jones on what it's like to handle a 170 tonne vehicle.

The practicalities of pretending to live on Mars for a year by the scientists who did it

Marguerite Barankitse, "the Angel of Burundi", on adopting children displaced by war.

An Earth-sized exoplanet has been discovered to be orbiting our nearest star, Proxima

The man who takes toys to the children of Aleppo. And the secret language of prisoners.