It's My Story
Stories about the lives of everyday people
It's My Story - 18
Following a group of Bristol teenagers who are about to turn 18, hearing how they plan to mark the transition to adulthood.
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It's My Story - Accepting Jack - Six Years On...
Kim Normanton revisits a set of parents coming to terms with having a child with special needs to see how their stories have developed.
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It's My Story - After Woolworths
Following the fortunes of Steve, a former Woolworths employee, as he struggles to find a new job to feed his family after the company went into administration in late 2008.
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It's My Story - Bravo November
John McDonald presents the history of the Boeing Chinook Bravo November helicopter, which has served the RAF with distinction for over a quarter of a century.
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It's My Story - Classroom Babies and Beyond
Britain has the highest number of teenage pregnancies in Europe. Three schoolgirls who juggled nappy-changing with their GCSEs discuss parenthood.
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It's My Story - Daddy Dewick
Daddy Dewick: Nana Anto-Awuakye recalls her upbringing, along with nine other small children of West African origin, with a white foster family in rural Wiltshire.
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It's My Story - Earfull - From Silence into Sound
Following the journey of deaf actor Tim Barlow as he has tests, consultations and finally a cochlear implant to restore his hearing.
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It's My Story - Ethicists on Call
Ethicists on Call: As medical science progresses, doctors and families are often faced with complex ethical issues. Graham Easton follows two ethicists who assist them.
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It's My Story - Father Farewell
Tinu Adeniji Adele travels to Nigeria to attend the official celebrations of her father's life, a year after his death.
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It's My Story - Glad to be Grey?
Despite enormous advances in gay rights, Jane Hill discovers that institutional homophobia is making some dread the prospect of old age residential care.
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It's My Story - Ladies on The Door
Karole, a 55-year-old female bouncer, describes what it's like for women who work in the world of pub and club security.
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It's My Story - Living with Birdie
Living with Birdie: Birdie McDonald tells the extraordinary story of her life as a foster mother of more than 850 children over the last 35 years.
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It's My Story - Never Too Late to Seperate
Kim Normanton reports on the increasing divorce rate among the over 50s. She explores how to disentangle years of married life and how to start again.
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It's My Story - Political Interference
Roger Bolton recalls a Cold War battle between Soviet bloc radio engineers trying to jam radio signals coming from the West and their Western counterparts.
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It's My Story - School for Communists
Jim Riordan recalls his education in Russia during the height of the Cold War. As he wanders through a vastly changed Moscow, he finds the past ever more elusive and puzzling.
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It's My Story - Son of a Preacher Man
Broadcaster Darcus Howe, the son of an Anglican priest, talks to poets, comedians, actors and writers whose fathers were also in the clergy.
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It's My Story - Switzerland for a Franc
Miles Warde follows what happened when British businessman Bruno Prior responded to a newspaper advert offering a ski resort for sale for one Swiss franc.
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It's My Story - Teenage Kicks
Teenage Kicks: Profile of Patience Bush, who helps families combat their children's antisocial behaviour, especially physical abuse inflicted on parents.
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It's My Story - Teenage Kicks
Profile of Patience Bush, who helps families combat their children's antisocial behaviour, especially physical abuse inflicted on parents.
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It's My Story - The 99
DJ Bobby Friction tells the story of Dr Naif Al-Mutawa, the man who has created the first collection of Muslim comic book superheroes - The 99 - that are sweeping the Arab world.
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It's My Story - The Boxing Civil Servant
Journalist Jackie Ashley tells the story of how her friend, a high-flying civil servant, shocked friends and family when she began a new career as a boxing promoter.
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It's My Story - The Girl in the Picture
Kim Phuc, subject of an iconic picture from the Vietnam War, tells her story as she is reunited with Christopher Wain, the ITN reporter who helped save her life 38 years ago.
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It's My Story - The Imam of Peace
Nadene Ghouri profiles John Butt, a Muslim convert who became an imam, and his dangerous work of spreading a message of peace in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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It's My Story - The Man Whose Mind Exploded
Toby Amies meets Drako Oho Zarhazar, who has almost no short-term memory and has filled his Brighton flat with thousands of pieces of paper to remind him of who he is.
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It's My Story - The Tic Lady
The Tic Lady: For nearly 20 years, Pat Moore has been providing doorstep loans to people on Tyneside's poorer estates. Fran Abrams follows her on the rounds.
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It's My Story - Where Are You Really From?
Black, Irish and Catholic, journalist Tim Brannigan was told he was adopted. However, he later discovered that this was not the case.
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It's My Story - White Girl Running: Melanie Verwoerd
White Girl Running: Melanie Verwoerd. The story of the extraordinary political journey of a white Afrikaner woman who became an ANC member of parliament.
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