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iPM: We Start With Your Stories Episodes

  1. 'Why I gave my kidney to a stranger'

    "I wanted to feel useful." A listener explains why she donated her kidney altruistically.

  2. 'Who makes decisions about my pacemaker?'

    After a listener got in touch with an ethical dilemma, we explore what the UK law says...

  3. 'We feel utterly and unavoidably protective towards her'

    More on the Elsie Frost case. Presented by Eddie Mair.

  4. 'Two guys in suits took us to one side'

    'Two guys in suits took us to one side'

  5. 'They'd clearly been hit by smoke'

    A listener's experience working with emergency services in Brussels after the attacks

  6. 'They tried to radicalise my son'

    'They tried to radicalise my son.'

  7. 'The last moments of peaceful perfection.'

    An iPM listener tells her story of surviving a natural disaster. Presented by Jennifer...

  8. 'The guilt of saying NO to charity'

    One listener's experience of feeling harassed by charities asking her to donate money.

  9. 'The devil of all drugs'

    A listener on rebuilding his life after drug abuse. ipm@bbc.co.uk

  10. 'New details on an unsolved murder.'

    Hear the results of Jon Manel's research into the unsolved murder of Elsie Frost.co.uk.

  11. 'Learn the art of patience'

    Becoming a full time carer

  12. 'It's time the law grew up about what sexual intimacy means today'

    'It's time the law grew up about what sexual intimacy means today'

  13. 'It's a conversation stopper'

    A childfree woman talks about her feelings of isolation.

  14. 'It was a very emotional discovery'

    'It was a very emotional discovery'. A listener finds his father's World War II album.

  15. 'It came as a complete and utter surpise'

    'It came as a complete and utter surpise'

  16. 'Is the mountain giving you a sign?'

    A listener's story of determination, as he climbs Everest after 2 failed attempts

  17. 'If dad had exercised he might still be alive'

    A listener's angry with her late father. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey.

  18. 'I'm not the sort of person who wants to live to 100, so 56 doesn't sound so bad'

    A listener talks about the cancer he's been told will kill him.

  19. 'I'm not ok'

    A listener stopped someone taking their own life, & news through an 8 year old's eyes.

  20. 'I'm don't want HIV, but I've stopped using condoms'

    A listener on why he's paying for pills to avoid the sexually-transmitted virus.

  21. 'I'm disgusted with my appearance'

    'I'm disgusted with my appearance'. A listener's experience of binge eating disorder.

  22. 'I'm a person who likes to know'

    If you could find out whether you're at risk for cancer, Alzheimer's or some other you...

  23. 'I'm a free range human again'.

    A listener on her experience of being sectioned.

  24. 'I'd rush home from school to start on the red wine.'

    How alcoholism crept up on a teacher, how she hit rock bottom, and then rebounded.

  25. 'I write things I wouldn't tell anyone else'

    We've been pen pals for 60 years.

  26. 'I was stalked for 10 years'

    'My stalker was at the door with a gun'. How a friendship turned into a decade of pain

  27. 'I loved the boogie woogie, but hated my wartime life'

    John Barnes suffered bereavement, separation, scorn and worse during World War II.

  28. 'I have an empty seat at my kitchen table'

    'I have an empty seat at my kitchen table'

  29. 'I hated being a mum'

    One listener hated being a mother, whilst another wishes he was a father. iPM@bbc.co.uk

  30. 'I hated being a mum'

    One listener hated being a mother, whilst another wishes he was a father. iPM@bbc.co.uk

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