Eye of the Storm with Emma Barnett

BBC

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.

  • 17 minutes 7 seconds
    Kerry Irving

    Kerry Irving and Max the Miracle Dog.

    3 March 2020, 4:40 pm
  • 22 minutes 25 seconds
    Matthew Hahn

    Matthew Hahn talks to Emma Barnett about the moment he stole a safe and how that theft changed his life

    11 February 2020, 1:47 pm
  • 16 minutes 11 seconds
    'I was wrongly accused of being "fixer" for paedophile gang'

    Wajed Iqbal talks to Emma Barnett about repairing his life after a newspaper wrongly accused him of helping a paedophile ring.

    11 February 2020, 1:42 pm
  • 23 minutes 12 seconds
    Ella Dove

    Ella tripped while jogging and ended up having to have her leg amputated. She talks to Emma Barnett how coming through the ordeal has changed her life.

    15 January 2020, 4:04 pm
  • 21 minutes 12 seconds
    Matthew Hedges and his wife Daniela Tejade

    Last year Matthew spent six months in prison in the United Arab Emirates after being accused of spying.

    Matthew was initially arrested at Dubai Airport in May 2018 as he tried to leave the country and sentenced to life in prison on 21st November, but was pardoned and released 1 week later. He spent most of his time there in solitary confinement.

    26 November 2019, 4:50 pm
  • 23 minutes 7 seconds
    Marie McCourt

    Marie McCourt speaks to Emma Barnett about the night her daughter Helen went missing in 1988. Helen's body has never been found, and her mother wants there to be no parole for murderers who refuse to say where their victims' bodies are.

    19 November 2019, 3:03 pm
  • 23 minutes 58 seconds
    Michaella McCollum: Why I smuggled cocaine into Peru

    Michaella McCollum (pictured, left) was just 20, when she was caught with 11 kilos of cocaine at the airport in Peru in 2013. Along with her Scottish accomplice, Melissa Reid, she spent almost three years behind bars there, before she was allowed to return home to Northern Ireland in 2016. She’s been speaking to Emma Barnett.

    14 November 2019, 5:02 pm
  • 28 minutes 6 seconds
    Megan Phelps Roper

    Megan Phelps Roper talks to Emma Barnett about growing up in the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, which preached hatred towards LGBT people and picketed the funerals of dead soldiers.

    14 November 2019, 4:12 pm
  • 20 minutes 40 seconds
    Beverley Bass

    Trailblazing pilot who was grounded by 9/11.

    5 November 2019, 4:45 pm
  • 19 minutes 9 seconds
    Elber Twomey

    I lost my family in a crash with a suicidal driver.

    22 October 2019, 12:41 pm
  • 18 minutes 50 seconds
    Diane Modahl: Life after being banned

    In 1994 the former Olympic athlete tested positive in a drugs test and was banned for four years. She won the appeal - but she and her husband lost everything in the process.

    8 October 2019, 1:50 pm
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