iPM: We Start With Your Stories
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iPM: We Start With Your Stories
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.
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"A civilised life"
iPM's second programme from Islay, after listener Chris suggested the Hebredian island for an outside broadcast.
What's it like for the younger...
"Everybody here is important"
The first of two programmes from Islay, after iPM listener Chris suggested the Hebredian island for an outside broadcast.
Who lives there? What...
From Crime to Coffee
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...
My relationship with social media
Social media companies are in the spotlight about the harmful content that can be found on their platforms. In this programme, an iPM listener explain...
Should I have to quit my job?
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 wor...
My secret NDA
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...
I can't grieve my dad's death yet
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...
How to influence people
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 sh...
"It's taken all the stress out of the relationship"
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 a...
My extreme hobbies
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 ru...
Pained at being apart
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...
Why won't anyone rent to our daughter?
"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...
The diagnosis which made me quit my job and put me on stage
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@...
Ring out the old
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,...
Here's a church, here's a steeple...
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....
'You will do it naked, won't you?'
A listener on the deathbed promise she made, and whether she fulfilled it.
Another listener describes finding parents halfway around the world...
Carrying my friend's baby
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...
The Generation Game
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...
Living in sin
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. iP...
We went right to the edge of adoption breakdown
"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 t...
Inside the high-risk pregnancy clinic
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...
Elderly, female and trailblazing
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.
Present...
The charity inspired by my Houdini husband
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 ch...
Slowing the flow
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, volun...
'I can't go through it again'
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 dec...
Arrested for giving my daughter medicine
Who knows best: the parents or medical professionals? This iPM listener bought her daughter thyroid medicine on the internet, but she was later arrest...
Married, divorced, married
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...
Family Secrets
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...
Faulty divorce?
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 ag...
I'm not looking to be a father
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 wha...
Finding my real dad
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 pl...
I couldn't reach my wife
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 turne...
Struggling to divorce
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-fau...
Will my daughter fall behind at school?
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...
My son was too big to bury
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 rea...
The advert that ended my relationship
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 ne...
Last chance at justice
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 sho...
The final frontier
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...
What I finally said to my boss
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...
Shutting up shop
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 Z...