The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by...

Maggie Robin raised a bear cub who grew into an extraordinary companion.When Maggie Robin and her wrestler husband Andy brought home a bear cub in 1970s Scotland, their friends thought they were mad. But the couple raised him as one of the family. Named Hercules, the tiny cub gre ...  Show more

While filming in rebel-held Syria, Loubna Mrie is falsely accused of being a spy – an accusation that spirals into a life-threatening ordeal, triggering the deepest loss of her life.In 2011, Loubna Mrie broke from her loyalist family to join Syria’s underground network of activis ...  Show more

The incredibly story of Ivan Skyba, the sole survivor of one of the worst atrocities of the war in Ukraine. In March 2022, Russian troops shot dead eight unarmed men in a mass execution in the town of Bucha, outside Kiev. But incredibly, one man who the Russians thought they’d ki ...  Show more

Sergiy Larionov tiene 33 años y trabajaba en un hotel de Donestk cuando en 2014 las tropas de Putin invadieron el este del país. Sergiy huyó a Kiev. Y ocho años más tarde, la segunda ofensiva rusa le pilló refugiado en la capital. Volvió a escapar de las bombas, esta vez hacia ...

Hundreds of Ukrainians are waiting for prosthetic limbs after being injured in the war, according to a medic working in the US, Dr Yakov Gradinar. He works with a charity that is giving prostheses to Ukrainians who need them. He tells the incredible story of a soldier who walked ...  Show more

On the 24th of February 2022, after months of military build-up and increasingly grave warnings, Vladimir Putin stepped over the brink and ordered the invasion of Ukraine.In this episode, Jonny Dymond tells the story of the crucial first month of the war, as Putin’s ambitions fir ...  Show more