iPM: We Start With Your Stories: Recent Episodes
BBC Radio 4
A weekly companion to PM where the expertise and insights of the BBC Radio 4 audience shape a programme that sees news differently. Presented by Luke Jones.
iPM's second programme from Islay, after listener Chris suggested the Hebredian island for an outside broadcast.
What's it like for the younger residents of the island? What makes non-Ileachs choose to move there? And what about the families who've been there for generations?
Plus, a bumper edition of our Your News bulletin, read by iPM favourites Martha Kearney, Paddy O'Connell, Jane Garvey and Simon Mayo.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
The first of two programmes from Islay, after iPM listener Chris suggested the Hebredian island for an outside broadcast.
Who lives there? What makes them tick? And how do they keep local traditions alive? We also hear from Ileachs - the residents there - about the booming whiskey industry, the impact its growth is having on Islay's infrastructure and how it attracts huge numbers of tourists to the island each year.
iPM is the programme that starts with your story - iPM@bbc.co.uk
And Newsnight's Kirsty Wark reads our Your News bulletin.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
iPM listener, Aiden, shows us round the business he set up in a prison, roasting and packaging coffee at Feltham Young Offenders Institute, South West London. He wants to give the young men working with him experience and skills they can use when they're released, and the prison governor tells iPM it's schemes like this that help cut re-offending rates.
Also - Jonathan Dimbleby reads our Your News bulletin.
iPM is the programme that starts with your story - email iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Social media companies are in the spotlight about the harmful content that can be found on their platforms. In this programme, an iPM listener explains why she used to seek out such images, and how she doesn't want to quit social media now she's recovered.
We'll have more news about our future programmes coming from Islay.
Also, Caroline Wyatt reads our Your News bulletin.
iPM is the programme that starts with your news - send us yours, in a sentence, to iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Listener, Alex, has a son with autism who's in a mainstream school. She explains how, after a difficult week, she was told to rethink how much she works in order to spend more time with her son.
Paddy O'Connell - presenter of BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House - reads our Your News bulletin.
iPM is the programme that starts with your story - email iPM@bbc.co.uk.
Presented by Becky Milligan. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
This week, an iPM listener explains how she came to sign a non-disclosure agreement with her employer, how it made her feel, and why she’s never quite gotten over it.
LBC’s Shelagh Fogarty reads our Your News bulletin.
iPM is the programme that starts with your story. Email us: iPM@bbc.co.uk.
Presented by Becky Milligan. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
iPM listener, Vicky, learned her father had died 10 days after it happened. She then found out the funeral had already taken place. She describes the impact this has had on her - and her family's - ability to grieve.
BBC 5Live's Emma Barnett reads our Your News bulletin.
iPM is the programme that starts with your stories - send us yours: iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Listener Sara Tasker first appeared on iPM in 2014, when she was a superuser on the photosharing platform, Instagram. Five years later, we hear how she's made a full time career out of posting pictures, whether she gets paid to advertise brands, and what she makes of calls for social media companies to better protect vulnerable users.
Channel 4's Jon Snow reads our "Your News" bulletin.
iPM is the show that starts with your story. iPM@bbc.co.uk is how to get in touch.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
iPM listeners often get in touch about their marriages and relationships. This week we hear form a woman how joining an extra-marital dating site is actually keeping her marriage together. And from another woman who’s gone down the same route to save her relationship.
iPM is the show that starts with your story. ipm@bbc.co.uk is how to get in touch.
And Sue MacGregor reads our Your News Bulletin.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Two iPM listeners take their hobby to extreme.
Rachel ran a marathon when she was a teenager. Then a few years ago she challenged herself to run 26 marathons in 3 years, one for every letter of the alphabet. Twenty down, and six to go, she takes Luke for a training run.
Meanwhile, Mary wanted to make a difference so for 18 months has been protesting, on her own, outside a government department dressed in a badger outfit. Luke finds out why.
Richard Madeley reads our Your News bulletin.
iPM is the show that starts with your story. ipm@bbc.co.uk is how to get in touch.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth
iPM listener Robert describes the six months he's spent without his wife while they wait for her visa to settle in the UK, and find out if they'll be reunited soon.
We have news on the iPM Outside Broadcast "OB" not a competition chance to host a whole iPM programme.
And Sara Cox takes a break from her new Radio 2 Drivetime show to read our "Your News" bulletin.
iPM is the show that starts with your story. ipm@bbc.co.uk is how to get in touch.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth
"In the same way that they were saying 'no pets, no smokers', they were saying 'no LHA'."
Listeners Graham and Sara tell how difficult it was to find their daughter - who has cerebal palsy and learning difficulties - a flat because landlords wouldn't accept tenants who received housing benefits.
We find out why landlords are saying no to tenants who get Local Housing Allowance (LHA), the impact this has on vulnerable people like our listeners' daughter and how they found her a home in the end.
Jeremy Vine reads our Your News bulletin - email your sentence of news to iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
iPM listener, Nicola on why a cancer diagnosis gave her the impetus to try something new. Dame Esther Rantzen reads our Your News Bulletin. IPM@bbc.co.uk Another listener shares a letter she found from her grandfather, written on the front line in World War One. Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
iPM listeners take the programme around the country - in 2018 we’ve been wild swimming in Cumbria, up tower blocks in Manchester, in to outer space, and over the seas to remote islands. We’ve also delved into divorce proceedings, surrogate pregnancies, online dating and into all manner of family secrets, surprises and upsets.
Here are just a handful of some of the best from the year.
And Stephen Fry returns to read our Your News bulletin. Email your sentence of news to iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
With news that Shetland is set to lose two thirds of their churches, iPM takes a closer look at the houses that God built. Sue Lawley reads Your News. Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Scott Adam. iPM@bbc.co.uk
A listener on the deathbed promise she made, and whether she fulfilled it.
Another listener describes finding parents halfway around the world and overcoming the guilt she's felt about it all her life.
Plus Stephen Fry reads our Your News. Send us your news: ipm@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
How one woman became a surrogate for her childhood friend, and Sarah Jones from Surrogacy UK explains how it all works in the UK. Adam Boulton from Sky News reads our Your News bulletin.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth Send us your news Ipm@bbc.co.uk
Retirees and teenagers who meet once a fortnight for a chat. iPM@bbc.co.uk Evan Davis reads our Your News bulletin. And we have an update from the iPM listener who hadn't yet fulfilled the deathbed promise she'd made to her stepmother - has she done it now?
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
After suddenly losing her husband after 30 years of years of marriage, our listener Ann tells us about moving on.
iPM starts with your story. iPM@bbc,.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth
"People just didn't get it... He was in a lovely family now, he had lots of support from loving parents, it was in the past. It was already starting to be in the past. But no; this is our present".
A listener explains how her son's adoption in infancy affects him as a teenager, and the impact it has on the family.
Send us a sentence of Your News: ipm@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth
iPM visits a pre-term pregnancy clinic at St.Thomas' Hospital in London, which tries to prevent miscarriages and help mothers carry to term.
A few weeks ago we spoke to a listener who had decided not to try again for a baby after miscarrying. A trainee doctor heard this and invited us to the clinic which might be able to help.
iPM starts with your story. Let us know yours on iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones
Produced by Frankie Tobi
How a group of women built the UK's first senior co housing project.
Let us know what's happening in your world - ipm@bbc.co.uk.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Scott Adam.
When Eileen's husband started suffering from dementia, she couldn't take him out anywhere. After his death, the experience inspired her to set up a charity.
Michael Buerke reads Your News. Let us know what's happening in your world - ipm@bbc.co.uk. Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Scott Adam.
The residents trying to protect their Yorkshire town from flooding. Hebden Bridge was badly hit by floods in 2015. In the valley above the town, volunteers have taken up saws and pickaxes to try and ensure it doesn't happen again.
Let us know what's happening in your world. ipm@bbc.co.uk
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Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
iPM listener Sophie always wanted a big family. But after losing two babies late on during the pregnancies, she and her partner made the agonising decision to not try again.
And Tony Blackburn reads our Your News bulletin. Email IPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Who knows best: the parents or medical professionals? This iPM listener bought her daughter thyroid medicine on the internet, but she was later arrested and spent nearly two years on bail. The case has now been dropped, but should she have been more cautious?
Plus Kirsty Wark reads your news bulletin. iPM@bbc.co.uk is how to send us your sentences of news.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
A couple on why their divorce was almost too amicable.
Plus iPM listener Charlotte on why childcare meant she couldn't go back to work and how that impacted her life.
Mariella Frostrup reads our bulletin of your news. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Family secrets feature a lot on iPM. The listener who hated her stepsons but couldn't tell anyone. The listener whose mum had secretly remarried. That time we heard from the wife and then the husband on the mistress.
Here one listener, Steven, on how his family secret was kept from him for 50 years, and what happened when the truth came out.
We also hear from Jo, a listener with another suggestion for our outside broadcast. She explains what she's been doing in her area to reduce plastic use.
And Broadcasting House's Paddy O'Connell reads our Your News bulletin.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Should the idea of 'fault' be taken out of the divorce process? The government has announced a consultation and iPM listeners weigh in. A few weeks ago Carole and Peter told us fault should go, but a listener who is a divorce barrister has doubts.
Our latest suggestion for where we should do an outside broadcast from is poo and Charlotte Green has our bulletin of your news.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
iPM listener, James, told us how he'd finally made contact with his biological father, who'd donated his sperm 30 years ago. Now that man explains what led him to be a donor in the first place, and what he expects when he meets James for the first time.
Radio 2's Simon Mayo reads our Your News bulletin.
And we hear from our listener Fabida who's returned from Kerala, where the worst flooding in a century left thousands homeless.
Let us know your story on iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Our listener James only learned as an adult that he'd been conceived by sperm donation. Ten years later, he's now found his biological father. They plan to meet next week.
Plus Simon Jack reads our Your News bulletin.
Let us know your story on iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Our iPM listener Noushad watched as India's heaviest monsoon rains in a century destroyed the place he had called home for 30 years. But concern turned to anguish when he lost contact with his wife who had been visiting family in Kerala. Here he tells us how he watched and waited.
Also this week our Your News bulletin and suggestions from two iPM listeners about where we should choose to do an outside broadcast from, in our highly competitive non competition.
Let us know your story on iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones and Sarah Smith. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
After a landmark case saw a woman told she couldn't divorce her husband, two iPM listeners tell us about trying to end their marriages. Should "no-fault" divorces be introduced?
We've also got our Your News bulletin and alpacas. Let us know your story on iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones and Chris Mason. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Our listener Sarah got in touch about her daughter Isla who is deaf and until recently received extra funding at school to help her. But Sarah doesn't yet know if that will continue in the new school year.
Our Your News bulletin is read by BBC Weather's Carol Kirkwood.
And iPM is taking suggestions from where we could broadcast an entire programme. A recommendation from one listener takes us to Chiswick in London, to see what the RNLI lifeboat team do there. Send us your ideas to iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
A listener on the problems she faced after her son died suddenly and why it might be something which might affect others.
Plus Jim Naughtie reads our bulletin of Your News.
Presented by Luke Jones and produced by Cat Farnsworth.
This is the programme that starts with your story. Let us know yours. ipm@bbc.co.uk
One listener explains how a TV advert made him see that he was in an emotionally abusive relationship, and how he moved on.
Let us know your news. iPM@bbc.co.uk
Katie Derham reads the Your News bulletin. Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
A listener on half a decade of trying to find out what happened to his teenage sister.
Colin Frost, the brother of Elsie Frost, has one last shot at getting information.
ipm@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Eddie Mair and Luke Jones
Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
One listener tells of how she discovered a project to establish an independent "space nation" - Asgardia - and how she's now been elected as an MP for it.
Kathy Clugston reads Your News.
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
A listener on an unexpected encounter with her boss and how she had the last word. Presented by Luke Jones.
Let us know what his happening with you on ipm@bbc.co.uk
A listener closes his bookshop after 40 years on the high street. We have an update on the ashes Sheila has been keeping in her broom cupboard. Plus Zeb Soanes has Your News. Get in touch ipm@bbc.co.uk or @bbcipm
Presented by Luke Jones and produced by Kate Collins.
We're looking for somewhere to broadcast from. Small horses or small islands. iPM is the show that starts with your story.
ipm@bbc.co.uk is how to get in touch.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Kate Collins.
A listener, who heard our series with a mother and daughter whose lives were changed by heroin, tells us about his experience with drug abuse.
He lost his job and was admitted to rehab. But now things are looking better.
ipm@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Eddie Mair and Luke Jones
A listener takes us round the Red Room club in Ealing, West London. In the 1960s, the venue was called the Ealing Club and was where The Rolling Stones and The Who played some of their earliest gigs. But there are fears that regeneration in the area will mean the club will have to close its doors forever. Is enough done to protect grass roots music venues?
Plus Annie Nightingale reads our Your News bulletin and reminisces about the iconic Maida Vale studios.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Email: ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM.
The week the inquiry into the the Grenfell Tower fire starts, iPM talks again to a listener and former firefighter, who investigated his own high-rise tower block in Manchester.
Plus Susan Rae reads our Your News bulletin. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Email: ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM.
Listeners on making homes, making gardens and living in a shed.
Peter Gibbs from Gardeners' Question Time reads our Your News bulletin.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Email: ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM.
We hear from listeners taking a second chance on love.
Jilly Cooper reads our Your News bulletin plus we hear from a listener in Jersey who was so frustrated by a local problem she decided to stand in the general election there this week. ipm@bbc.co.uk if you want to get in touch.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Kate Collins.
Two listeners on the challenges of teaching. One has been at the chalkface for 25 years, the other has been teaching almost a year.
Plus Fi Glover from Fortunately reads Your News.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
Our listener Malcolm on trying to save his house. Another listener suggests we go wing walking with them but unfortunately due to rules we can't, so what a shame we'll just have to ask them about it instead. Plus BBC Radio 1's Alice Levine reads our Your News Bulletin.
Get in touch on ipm@bbc.co.uk or @BBCiPM
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
After 50 years of struggling to cope, a diganosis means the world no longer seems so strange for our listener.
Get in touch on ipm@bbc.co.uk or @BBCiPM
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
iPM listeners tell of their encounters with potholes and share their expertise on how we can improve Britain's roads. And a listener rediscovers her family's connection with Enoch Powell, 50 years after his Rivers of Blood speech.
Plus Sarah Montague reads Your News.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Eddie Mair and Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
A listener reignites an old flame, only to find himself cut off from her by her family.
Plus what is wild swimming? Presented by Eddie Mair and Luke Jones. The producer is Scott Adam.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM.
Listener Eamon Goodfellow on why he decided to give stand-up comedy a try, and why iPM should broadcast live from an open mic night.
The Your News bulletin is read by Sky News' Kay Burley.
And a listener who's a barrister specialising in mental capacity cases explains some of the problems that arise when people with dementia want to marry, after hearing our previous interviews.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Eddie Mair and Luke Jones. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
With the news that Colman's will be closing its mustard factory in Norwich - after 160 years on the Carrow Works site - listener Robert Ashton has plans to keep making the condiment in the city.
And Sue Lawley reads our Your News bulletin.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Eddie Mair. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
With people's attention well and truly focused on cutting down the amount of plastics we use, a listener puts the case forward for the much maligned material.
Mariella Frostrup reads Your News. Plus we hear from a listener who set up a vineyard in South Africa, despite knowing nothing about making wine. Will that be the location of the iPM outside broadcast?
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
After finding out her mother had remarried weeks before she died, despite having dementia, a listener explains how she ended up in court and why she didn't go to the funeral. Plus 5Live's Rachel Burden reads Your News.
Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
A listener on what she discovered after her mother's death. Plus Ken Bruce reads Your News.
Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Cat Farnsworth.
Is it harder for over 50s to find jobs? One listener on approaching retirement but starting a new business. Plus Vanessa Feltz reads Your News.
Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Cat Farnsworth
After hearing the infidelity series on iPM, a listener tells Eddie Mair about the impact her mother's affair had on her childhood and the family.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email: ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close and Cat Farnsworth.
A mother on her struggle to find a school for her son after 13 rejections.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close and Cat Farnsworth.
A listener on escaping her 'God' and recovering from the abuse she says she suffered.
Tweet us @bbcipm or email ipm@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones. Produced by Emma Close.
A listener on how loneliness and an interest in spirituality led her a cult. On iPM next week we'll hear how she left.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones.
A listener on fighting for justice plus a suggestion for our outside broadcast. iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones.
After our infidelity series, listeners got in touch with stories of trying to find love. We speak to two listeners; one in their 50s, one in their 20s.
This is the podcast which starts with its listeners. If you've got an interesting story to tell, get in touch - ipm@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
Listeners with a new identity in 2018. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
What happened to the wife and husband we spoke to about infidelity? A year on from his last interview, Manveen Rana talks again to the husband.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
What happened to the wife and husband we spoke to about infidelity? A year on from her last interview, Eddie talks to the wife. Next week we'll hear again from the husband.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
Listen again to the wife and husband who spoke to us about the affair which was threatening their marriage. Next week on iPM we go back to them to hear what happened next.
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It got one listener shot, it gave one a new hobby and another lied to her whole family.
iPM listeners on what deathbed promises they've made. iPM@bbc.co.uk @BBCiPM
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
We revisit a camp in Greece which is now being closed and follow where some of the residents go next. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk
A listener responds to last week's interview with a sex offender... and tells her own story.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
A massage therapist on why he sexually abused his clients, how he was caught and how his neighbours reacted when he was released.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
Our listener Robert hasn't. We hear from the consultants who told him not to.
All our stories start with listeners. Email us ipm@bbc.co.uk or we're on Twitter @BBCiPM
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
A listener on her frosty relationship with her stepmother.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
The Greek camp we've been following was shut down last week by the Greek government. We follow where some of the residents go next.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
A listener on what she can't tell her husband or her friends. iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
Jenny meets the American man who helped cure her son's leukemia.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
In Spain, our listener and former holiday rep Stuart on Catalan independence.
iPM is the news programme which starts with its listeners. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk or tweet @bbcipm
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
Listeners Roy and Goretti on voting, violence and their guest house.
iPM is the programme which starts with its listeners. Get in touch iPM@bbc.co.uk
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
In iPM's second programme on asexuality, one listener's story of identifying as asexual. iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
The A in LGBTQIA stands for asexual - listeners tell us what it means for them. iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
It's 6.02 and the text message on a listener's phone reads North Korea has launched a missile - take cover. iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
More university students are reporting mental health issues. Should parents be told?
We hear from parents who wish they'd been informed; and from a university counselor who says they shouldn't be.
ipm@bbc.co.uk @BBCiPM
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
A mother on the conversation she wished she'd had.
iPM starts with it's listeners. Email us at ipm@bbc.co.uk.
Presented by Luke Jones.
An iPM listener is inspired by the words of a teacher in Syria.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Manveen Rana.
Why do we regret things? iPM listeners on what they wish they'd said and a psychoanalyst on dealing with regret.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
Tell us what you wish you'd said. Call 020 3614 1010.
A listener on caring for pregnant women on board a migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean and whether the presence of the NGO boats could be encouraging people to make the risky crossing.
Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. For the next few week's we're asking listeners to call 020 3614 1010 and complete the sentence "I wish I'd said...". Tell us what you wished you'd said and leave your name and number.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
A psychiatrist in Iraq tells us he's one of only 200 in the country. How does he try and get mental health patients in hospital and out of the hands of faith healers?
ipm@bbc.co.uk
For the next few weeks we're asking listeners to complete the sentence 'I wish I'd said...'. Call us on 020 3614 1010 and tell us what you wished you'd said.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
A doctor on swapping a hospital in wartime Baghdad for psychiatry in Norfolk. Our listener, Dr Yasir Hameed was born and raised in Baghdad. During the 2003 invasion he was working in the last functioning hospital. After his father was kidnapped he finally decided to leave Iraq, settling in the UK.
All our stories start with listeners. iPM@bbc.co.uk is our email and we're on Twitter @BBCiPM
Presented by Eddie Mair and Luke Jones.
A listener and 70 year old art student on being inspired by foreign reporting. iPM is the programme which starts with its listeners. Email us at ipm@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @bbcipm
iPM has a look around listener Phil's tower block as work starts to fire proof it. We start with our listeners. Email us at ipm@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @BBCiPM.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
After the Grenfell tragedy, a former firefighter investigates his own high-rise tower block in Manchester.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
After 33 years of being a nun, iPM listener Marion is starting a new life.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
How to celebrate Father's Day if your father is no longer around.
Listeners' stories presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Email your thoughts, stories and comments to ipm@bbc.co.uk or tweet @BBCiPM
How do you buy a Mother's Day card for a mother you don't know? A listener, who was adopted as a baby, on dealing with new family members.
On iPM we start with our listeners. Email us on ipm@bbc.co.uk or tweet @BBCiPM.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
After the Manchester bombing, a former police inspector on managing the aftermath of an attack.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
This is both parts one and two of our story following migrant children in Greece. iPM listener Isabel teaches in a school set up the camp. Some of her pupils are now starting lessons at the local Greek school.
Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Manveen Rana. Produced by Emma Close.
Migrants living in camps in Greece join the Greek education system.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
A listener on the twists and turns in her family history.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
A school on starting sex and relationship education early.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners.
Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
A mother of three children with autism and author Michael Blastland talk about the challenges of raising children with the disorder. Michael's son Joe was diagnosed with autism when he was a young child.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
A listener on policing sex work.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
Produced by Emma Close.
An iPM listener on his unusual discovery.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
A psychiatrist on leaving addiction treatment and Stephen Fry with Your News.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
Learning Russian with Bridget Kendall and the Russian Ambassador to the UK.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
You've been meaning to take up piano for ages. Meet the iPM listeners who already have.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM.
Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
How class A drugs took over a young woman's life. The full interview.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair.
Produced by Emma Close.
A young woman on recovering from her class A drug problem.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: @BBCiPM. Presented by Luke Jones and Eddie Mair. Produced by Emma Close.
A woman explains why she had a 12 year affair with a married man and how it wasn’t always vanilla. ipm@bbc.co.uk
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A husband explains why he cheated on his wife of 28 years. Colin Blane reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk
We hear two stories from listeners who have very different upcoming Christmases, and highlights from Your News over the year. iPM@bbc.co.uk
One listener's investigation into a lonely life, and reflections from the original Poldark. Peter Gibbs reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk
iPM's Manveen Rana finds out if it's still possible to hitchhike in the UK. Kevin Connolly reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk
"I've felt a sense of calm that I've not felt since I was four years old."
How finger wagging can help victims of bullying. iPM@bbc.co.uk
Before Jennifer Tracey takes a break from co-presenting iPM, she selects some stand out interviews and moments from her nine years on the programme. iPM@bbc.co.uk
Jennifer Tracey visits a school where children lead the way on e safety. The actor James Macpherson reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk
Jenny Nater met a handsome sailor in wartime Dover - the relationship that began there has echoed powerfully through her long life. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Readings by Jess Murphy. iPM@bbc.co.uk.
Finding love at Hellfire Corner - Jenny Nater met a handsome sailor in wartime Dover - the relationship that began there has echoed powerfully through her long life. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Readings by Danny Millar. iPM@bbc.co.uk
A listener remains angry that her late father didn't change his lifestyle when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Plus Newsnight's John Sweeney reads the Your News bulletin. iPM@bbc.co.uk
A listener on why he's paying for PrEP pills to avoid the sexually-transmitted virus, but not following the safe sex messages he grew up with in the 1980s. With Eddie Mair. And Woman's Hour's Jane Garvey reads the bulletin of listener's stories, Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk
A listener talks about the cancer he's been told will kill him and the effect that's had on him and his family. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. And Today programme legend John Humphrys reads the bulletin about the lives of listeners, Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk
If you're looking for the details of organisations offering information and support in dealing with cancer they're available at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or you can call for free, at any time, to hear recorded information on 08000 560 190.
iPM investigates why there aren't more usable drinking fountains in the UK. Dame Jenni Murray reads Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk
After hearing weatherman Peter Gibb's adventures in Antarctica on PM, listener Doug Stacey decided to quit and job to take a job at the end of the earth. iPM joins him at a training day. Radio 3's Sarah Walker reads Your News.
The listener who fought for her pacemaker to be turned off and the US doctor who helps to stop his dying patients' hearts. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Plus Barry Cryer's favourite parrot joke. iPM@bbc.co.uk
For most of his life, Leo has lived as a girl, but this summer he began to speak openly about his sense that that gender identity wasn't quite right. With research help for his parents, he's decided he is non-binary - both masculine and feminine - though for the moment he dresses as a boy and has taken a male name. With Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk
A soldier and an aid worker share stories of how their experiences in Northern Ireland and Rwanda left them with mental scars. With Jennifer Tracey. And LBC's Steve Allen reads the bulletin compiled from listeners' lives, Your News. iPM@bbc.co.uk
How alcoholism crept up on a teacher, how she finally hit rock bottom and then rebounded. With Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk
"I wanted to explode." Women with binge eating disorder share their secret stories as iPM visits a unique therapy group. Reporter Becky Milligan goes to see listener Zoe Hepburn who brings patients together to explore the roots of what makes them eat to incredible excess. For advice on binge eating disorder: https://www.b-eat.co.uk/ Presented by Paddy O'Connell iPM@bbc.co.uk
How a wife's heart attack returned her husband to World War Two. iPM listener and clinical psychologist Janie Penn-Barwell remembers the fear, guilt and sadness her patients carried with them for decades. And Mishal Husain reads the bulletin about our listeners, Your News. Presented by Eddie Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk
Listener John Barnes suffered bereavement, separation, scorn and worse growing up during World War Two. He takes Eddie Mair on a bittersweet musical trip back to "the worst years" of his long life. And Radio 2 star Ken Bruce reads the Your News bulletin - keeping you updated on what's happening in the lives of fellow listeners. iPM@bbc.co.uk
An ex-serviceman explains the trouble he had adjusting to civilian life after a tough tour of Afghanistan. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk
From performing for wounded servicemen to showing her legs on stage at 91, Thelma's stories inspired one iPM listener to write in demanding that we interview the star. Neil Nunes reads the bulletin made up of news sent in by the Radio 4 audience. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk
Reporter Hugh Sykes on assignment in Turkey considers an email from an iPM listener asking why the victims of terror attacks are seldom named. With Eddie Mair.
An iPM listener talks about his experiences as a volunteer for the Samaritans over the past twenty years. He describes how he got into the Samaritans by accident, after discovering the power of emotion following a traumatic incident at sea. His time with the charity has taught him that active listening can often give people all the support they need.
Listener Jean Lord's son was serving in the Navy in Iraq when he was involved in an explosion that killed his colleague and friend, Matthew Bacon. She describes his ongoing trauma after returning, and gives her views on the Chilcot report into the Iraq war.
iPM listener and retired judge The Honourable Peter Morrell explains how he kept lines of communication open to jurors who might be finding the evidence in a case distressing. He also advises jury members to consult a medical professional after a trial has concluded, if they're still experiencing difficulties as a result of hearing gruesome details of a crime.
Is there enough support available for jurors in cases of extreme violence? An iPM listener describes the trauma he experienced after serving on the jury of a murder trial, and listening to graphic details about the crime. He's concerned that unlike other people in the courtroom, jurors are left alone to deal with what they've seen in evidence, and he believes more should be done to prepare them for "the horrors they'll face".
A QC explains the difficulties of prosecuting historical sex abuse cases. Radio 2's Steve Wright reads Your News.
One iPM listener's story of becoming a full time carer for his grandfather with dementia.
Nick Talbot reached the summit of Everest in May 2016. After being on the mountain when it was closed in 2014 and 2015, we hear what drove him to try again.
Norwell Roberts became Britain's first black police officer in 1967. Jennifer Tracey speaks to him about his experiences. This programme contains some strong and racially offensive language.
After one iPM listener told us about his father's experience of Parkinson's disease medication turning him into a compulsive gambler, Professor Paula Piccini explains what's happening in the brain to cause such a significant change in behaviour.
A side-effect of Parkinson's medication turned a listener's father into a gambling addict
Sometimes it's just one simple thing that can make all the difference. We hear from a husband and wife who saw a problem and did something about it. David Carney-Haworth, a retired Police Sergeant and his wife Elizabeth, a Headteacher have set up Operation Encompass. It's an early warning system to help children who are victims of domestic abuse. This is the story of how they did it.
iPM listener Chris Hope knew he was entitled to Shared Parental Leave when his baby was born. When he was told he'd be paid at the statutory rate, rather than the same as female colleagues on maternity leave, he decided to challenge it. He tells Jennifer Tracey how he put a case together and won.
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Two iPM listeners who knew from an early age how they felt about having children and took two very different courses of action.
After finding some old cine film in his loft, we hear the story of one listener's tale of discovery as he set about identifying two unknown Kindertransport children who appeared in it.
After our listener's experience of being stalked for 10 years, Jennifer Tracey speaks to a woman who's worked with hundreds of stalkers, trying to work out why they do it.
One iPM listener's story of how a perfectly normal friendship turned into something she never expected.
Ambulance convoys, fluorescent uniforms and complete focus, Cailin Mackenzie describes her day volunteering with the Red Cross in the aftermath of the Brussels attacks
'Who will look after him when I'm gone?' Listener Brenda Boyd explains the emotional and practical difficulties she faces as her disabled son turns 21.
Sir Robin Murray, is a Professor of Psychiatric Research at Kings College London. He explains the links between cannabis and psychosis, whether it can treat schizophrenia and if it's less dangerous than alcohol.
The number of burglaries in England and Wales has dropped by 30% in the last 10 years, however more than 500,000 homes were broken into last year. We hear from a listener who was targeted, and from a woman who's spent 20 years studying burglars. She says faking occupancy is the single best security measure you can take.
From his role in the liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp to a 30 year friendship with Neil Armstrong; Jennifer Tracey speaks to Eric 'Winkle' Brown about his remarkable life. First broadcast in April 2013.
How teenage letter writing turned into a life long friendship. We hear from an iPM listener and her American pen pal who've been writing to each other since 1956.
Sian Stacey has cut herself off from the rat race. The new manager of Bardsey island has to climb a mountain to get phone signal, catch a boat to buy vegetables, but she has managed to find love on a island of just 4 people...
A listener's experience of curing his prostate cancer. Bridget Kendall reads Your News.