Eye of the Storm Podcast
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.
Episodes to download
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'I was wrongly accused of being "fixer" for paedophile gang'
Tue 11 Feb 2020
Wajed Iqbal was wrongly accused by a newspaper of helping a paedophile ring.
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Matthew Hedges and his wife Daniela Tejade
Tue 26 Nov 2019
Matthew spent six months in a United Arab Emirates prison after being accused of spying.
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Michaella McCollum: Why I smuggled cocaine into Peru
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Michaella McCollum talks to Emma Barnett about her time in jail in Peru for smuggling.
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Megan Phelps Roper
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Megan Phelps Roper talks to Emma Barnett about life in the Westboro Baptist Church.
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Diane Modahl: Life after being banned
Tue 8 Oct 2019
Former athlete tested positive in a drugs test. She won the appeal but lost everything.
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Rachel Dolezal: How the world reacted to race row
Tue 10 Sep 2019
Rachel Dolezal remembers the controversy she faced for identifying as 'transracial'.
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Tue 20 Aug 2019
Corinne Hutton on having a double hand transplant after losing her own hands to sepsis.
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Tragic school sports day
Tue 13 Aug 2019
Lis Cashin on the tragic death of her classmate at a school sports day in 1983.
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鈥淚 was scammed by my con artist friend鈥�
Tue 30 Jul 2019
Rachel Deloache Williams on losing thousands to her fake friend
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Diver who cheated death
Tue 4 Jun 2019
North Sea diver Chris Lemons was 100 metres below the surface when his oxygen hose broke.
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'Death Row is the only place I didn鈥檛 experience racism'
Mon 29 Apr 2019
Anthony Ray Hinton spent 28 years on death row for a crime he didn鈥檛 commit.
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"I was exploited by TV producers"
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Big Brother contestant Caroline Wharram says she should never have been allowed on TV.
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Twentieth Anniversary of the Columbine Shootings
Thu 18 Apr 2019
Clare McDonnell talks to Beth Nimmo whose daughter Rachel was murdered in Columbine.
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Surviving a terror attack
Thu 21 Feb 2019
Ahmad Nawaz escaped the Taliban four years ago when extremists stormed his school in 2014
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NHS Whistleblower
Thu 14 Feb 2019
Peter Duffy, the NHS surgeon who was accused of racism and 'forced out' of his job.
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Andy Grant
Mon 14 Jan 2019
A man who survived being blown up in Afghanistan, and refused to let it ruin his life
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Mark Oaten
Mon 14 Jan 2019
The former Liberal Democrat MP who was at the centre of a tabloid sex scandal.
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The inspiring legacy of Jane Tomlinson
Thu 13 Dec 2018
The amateur athlete and fundraiser's husband, Mike, remembers her incredible life.
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'I spent 25 years in prison for a murder I didn't commit'
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Robert Brown tells his story - and explains why he's trying to change the justice system.
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