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'If dad had exercised he might still be alive'
A listener's angry with her late father. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey.

'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.

'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.

Why drinking fountains have dried up
iPM investigates why there aren't more usable drinking fountains in the UK. iPM@bbc.co.uk

Living in Antarctica
A listener has decided to quit his job to live and work in Antarctica.

The listener who fought for her pacemaker to be turned off
A dying woman and a US doctor talk about how human hearts are sometimes stopped.

"I'm not a boy or a girl. I'm both." A ten-year-old talks about being gender non-binary.
Leo has lived as a girl, but he's just told his family that gender identity feels wrong.

'I can't switch off my army brain, so haven't slept properly in 30 years'
A soldier and an aid worker share stories of how their careers left mental scars.

'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.

"I wanted to explode." Women with binge eating disorder share their secret stories.
"I wanted to explode." Women with binge eating disorder share their secret stories.