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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.

Radio 5 Live,105 episodes

Episodes

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Kerry Irving
Kerry Irving and Max the Miracle Dog.
03 Mar 2020,17 mins
Matthew Hahn
Matthew Hahn on committing a burglary which changed his life
11 Feb 2020,22 mins
'I was wrongly accused of being "fixer" for paedophile gang'
Wajed Iqbal was wrongly accused by a newspaper of helping a paedophile ring.
11 Feb 2020,16 mins
Ella Dove
I had to have my leg amputated after falling while out for a run.
15 Jan 2020,23 mins
Matthew Hedges and his wife Daniela Tejade
Matthew spent six months in a United Arab Emirates prison after being accused of spying.
26 Nov 2019,21 mins
Marie McCourt
I speak to the mother of Helen McCourt, who went missing in 1988.
19 Nov 2019,23 mins
Michaella McCollum: Why I smuggled cocaine into Peru
Michaella McCollum talks to Emma Barnett about her time in jail in Peru for smuggling.
14 Nov 2019,23 mins
Megan Phelps Roper
Megan Phelps Roper talks to Emma Barnett about life in the Westboro Baptist Church.
14 Nov 2019,28 mins
Beverley Bass
Trailblazing pilot who was grounded by 9/11.
05 Nov 2019,20 mins
Elber Twomey
I lost my family in a crash with a suicidal driver
22 Oct 2019,19 mins
Diane Modahl: Life after being banned
Former athlete tested positive in a drugs test. She won the appeal but lost everything.
08 Oct 2019,18 mins
Rachel Dolezal: How the world reacted to race row
Rachel Dolezal remembers the controversy she faced for identifying as 'transracial'.
10 Sep 2019,23 mins
“My donor had obviously been very good to them”
Corinne Hutton on having a double hand transplant after losing her own hands to sepsis.
20 Aug 2019,19 mins
Tragic school sports day
Lis Cashin on the tragic death of her classmate at a school sports day in 1983.
13 Aug 2019,18 mins
“I was scammed by my con artist friend”
Rachel Deloache Williams on losing thousands to her fake friend
30 Jul 2019,27 mins
Diver who cheated death
North Sea diver Chris Lemons was 100 metres below the surface when his oxygen hose broke.
04 Jun 2019,22 mins
'Death Row is the only place I didn’t experience racism'
Anthony Ray Hinton spent 28 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit.
29 Apr 2019,41 mins
"I was exploited by TV producers"
Big Brother contestant Caroline Wharram says she should never have been allowed on TV.
25 Apr 2019,27 mins
Twentieth Anniversary of the Columbine Shootings
Clare McDonnell talks to Beth Nimmo whose daughter Rachel was murdered in Columbine.
18 Apr 2019,24 mins
Willy Phillips Junior
A man who survived a plane crash which killed his father.
15 Apr 2019,25 mins
Rotherham Whistleblower
Angie Heal on helping reveal the grooming scandal
21 Mar 2019,23 mins
Surviving a terror attack
Ahmad Nawaz escaped the Taliban four years ago when extremists stormed his school in 2014
21 Feb 2019,11 mins
NHS Whistleblower
Peter Duffy, the NHS surgeon who was accused of racism and 'forced out' of his job.
14 Feb 2019,16 mins
Steve Brookstein
The winner of the first ever series of the X Factor.
17 Jan 2019,17 mins
Andy Grant
A man who survived being blown up in Afghanistan, and refused to let it ruin his life
14 Jan 2019,21 mins
Mark Oaten
The former Liberal Democrat MP who was at the centre of a tabloid sex scandal.
14 Jan 2019,27 mins
The inspiring legacy of Jane Tomlinson
The amateur athlete and fundraiser's husband, Mike, remembers her incredible life.
13 Dec 2018,24 mins
Bataclan survivors
A British couple who survived the Paris attacks
29 Nov 2018,21 mins
'I spent 25 years in prison for a murder I didn't commit'
Robert Brown tells his story - and explains why he's trying to change the justice system.
22 Nov 2018,25 mins
Karen Downes
The mother of a 14-year-old girl who disappeared in 2003
02 Nov 2018,20 mins