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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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Family Secrets

Family Secrets

Family secrets feature a lot on iPM. The listener who hated her stepsons but couldn't tell anyone. The listener whose mu... Read more

21 Sep 2018

26mins

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The refugees' crisis

The refugees' crisis

A listener and 70 year old art student on being inspired by foreign reporting. iPM is the programme which starts with it... Read more

14 Jul 2017

16mins

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After the affair: the daughter's view

After the affair: the daughter's view

After hearing the infidelity series on iPM, a listener tells Eddie Mair about the impact her mother's affair had on her ... Read more

23 Feb 2018

13mins

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Mind the gap

Mind the gap

Finding love when he was 17 and she was 37.ipm@bbc.co.uk

21 Apr 2017

26mins

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Why stalkers stalk

Why stalkers stalk

After our listener's experience of being stalked for 10 years, Jennifer Tracey speaks to a woman who's worked with hundr... Read more

9 Apr 2016

30mins

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"I'm not a boy or a girl. I'm both." A ten-year-old talks about being gender non-binary.

"I'm not a boy or a girl. I'm both." A ten-year-old talks about being gender non-binary.

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... Read more

17 Sep 2016

24mins

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In the classroom

In the classroom

Two listeners on the challenges of teaching. One has been at the chalkface for 25 years, the other has been teaching alm... Read more

11 May 2018

29mins

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To Russia with love

To Russia with love

Learning Russian with Bridget Kendall and the Russian Ambassador to the UK.iPM is the news programme that starts with it... Read more

24 Mar 2017

16mins

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My son was too big to bury

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... Read more

3 Aug 2018

23mins

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Hello, is it me you're looking for?

Hello, is it me you're looking for?

We hear from listeners taking a second chance on love. Jilly Cooper reads our Your News bulletin plus we hear from a lis... Read more

18 May 2018

26mins

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'The devil of all drugs'

'The devil of all drugs'

A listener, who heard our series with a mother and daughter whose lives were changed by heroin, tells us about his exper... Read more

15 Jun 2018

17mins

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It's never too late to take up the piano

It's never too late to take up the piano

You've been meaning to take up piano for ages. Meet the iPM listeners who already have.iPM is the news programme that st... Read more

10 Mar 2017

14mins

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How to influence people

How to influence people

Listener Sara Tasker first appeared on iPM in 2014, when she was a superuser on the photosharing platform, Instagram. Fi... Read more

8 Feb 2019

13mins

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'Learn the art of patience'

'Learn the art of patience'

One iPM listener's story of becoming a full time carer for his grandfather with dementia.

11 Jun 2016

15mins

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'I loved the boogie woogie, but hated my wartime life'

'I loved the boogie woogie, but hated my wartime life'

Listener John Barnes suffered bereavement, separation, scorn and worse growing up during World War Two. He takes Eddie M... Read more

13 Aug 2016

24mins

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Married, divorced, married

Married, divorced, married

A couple on why their divorce was almost too amicable. Plus iPM listener Charlotte on why childcare meant she couldn't g... Read more

28 Sep 2018

24mins

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My house is falling in the sea

My house is falling in the sea

Our listener Malcolm on trying to save his house. Another listener suggests we go wing walking with them but unfortunate... Read more

4 May 2018

27mins

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Vice Unit

Vice Unit

A listener on policing sex work.iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners. Email ipm@bbc.co.uk. Twitter: ... Read more

14 Apr 2017

26mins

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My referendum

My referendum

As is the fashion, an iPM listener holds a referendum. ipm@bbc.co.uk

17 Mar 2017

15mins

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Ring out the old

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 M... Read more

28 Dec 2018

23mins

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