大象传媒

Personal stories behind the news from all over the world. With Matthew Bannister.

Forgiving a violent husband and the Central Asians migrating to Siberia for work.

Forgiveness against the odds
When Shannon Moroney met Jason Staples he very quickly told her of her past - in particular that he had murdered a woman many years before. But Shannon believed Jason was a reformed character and they married in 2005. Yet just one month after they married Jason kidnapped and brutally attacked two women. Shannon explains how she has been able to forgive her former husband for his terrible crimes.

Migrant workers in the world's coldest city
We hear from the northern Siberian city of Yakutsk which is experiencing a building boom and draws migrants from Central Asia - thousands of miles away - who cannot find work at home.