What Goes On Here with Sam Walker

What Goes On Media

We all have times when we feel like we don't quite fit with the world around us.

  • 38 minutes 40 seconds
    Craig: Because the fall is the most exhilarating part.

    Craig Stone was working in a job he hated, living in a squalid studio flat which he couldn't even afford and was lonely and single.  
    He had big dreams of a life where he had a loving family,  a fulfilling creer and his own home  But he didn't know how to acheive any of it.
    So he took a huge risk.  
    This is his story.

    As told to Sam Walker

    27 August 2024, 12:00 am
  • 40 minutes 17 seconds
    Arno: The truth is, I don’t know how many people I left for dead.

    Why couldn't Arno Michaelis watch his favourite film?  
    Why didn't he want to go to his local burger joint anymore? 
    And how did Chicago house music change everything?
    From Hatred to Hope, this is Arno Michaelis' Journey of Transformation and Redemption.




    As told to Sam Walker

    27 August 2024, 12:00 am
  • 34 minutes 2 seconds
    Abigail: I lay on the bed and waited for the angels to come.

    Abigail Eaton Masters would tell her teachers that her black eyes were caused by her little brother throwing his toys around.  
    She told nurses her suicide attempt were because her boyfriend had cheated. What happens when you finally find the courage to tell a truth that makes you feel ashamed?

    As told to Sam Walker

    27 August 2024, 12:00 am
  • 31 minutes 45 seconds
    Mastin: Why was I living in an 8ft square room? Because that was the size of my faith.

    Oprah Winfrey has called Mastin Kipp  a “thought leader for the next generation” 

    He’s also a man who has stolen, gambled, used drugs, failed in business and been homeless.  

    He regrets none of it.

    As told to Sam Walker

    27 August 2024, 12:00 am
  • 41 minutes 12 seconds
    Lemn: I closed the curtains of myself. I was really scared of everybody.

    What was your worst nightmare as a child?  
    Waking up to find your family gone?  
    How would you have coped?  
    Who would you have become?  
    How would you have thrived? 
    Ask Lemn Sissay.

    As told to Sam Walker

    27 August 2024, 12:00 am
  • 36 minutes 29 seconds
    Paul: I even took that football to church with me.

    Paul Lake was lucky enough to be born with an exceptional talent.  

    His hard work and dedication over more than a decade turned his talent into a fantastically successful career as Captain of Manchester City football club.

    Then, a split second changed everything and left him, in his eyes, without any future at all.

    As told to Sam Walker

    26 August 2024, 11:00 pm
  • 44 minutes 18 seconds
    Dan-El

    Dan-el Padilla Peralta has the sort of intellectual clout most of us can only dream of.

    He's assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton and has taught at more of the greatest universities in the world.

    He was educated in New York's private school system, whilst also being homeless and living in condemned buildings in the midst of gang violence.

    And what's more he carried a secret, which he feared could tear his world apart.

    As told to Sam Walker

    31 July 2019, 8:36 pm
  • 44 minutes 23 seconds
    Colin

    Colin Parry is a husband and father.

    He's also a mentor and motivational speaker and founded a charity that works tirelessly towards resolving conflict.

    Colin also, along with his family, endured the horror of the death of his twelve year old son at the hands of terrorists.

    This is the story of a man who fought to see beyond his grief to create something incredible.

    As told to Sam Walker

    31 July 2019, 8:32 pm
  • 34 minutes 42 seconds
    Kevin

    Kevin Shird is a writer. He also works with young people, especially those who other people have given up on.

    He's a good guy.

    He's also a man who has served more than a decade in prison for dealing drugs on the streets of Baltimore, a lifestyle made famous by the TV show The Wire.

    What happens inside someone's head to switch them on to the potential of a different future?

    And how do they shake off the reputation of violence that's defined their life?

    As told to Sam Walker

    31 July 2019, 8:24 pm
  • 41 minutes 22 seconds
    Anthony

    Anthony Crolla is a boxer. Since the age of eleven he dreamed of being a world champion.

    Everything in his life for more than a decade was focussed on this one goal. Then his chance came to be the WBA lightweight champion.

    But then less than a month before the fight he lost that chance and nearly his life.

    When your dreams are crushed and you're told the one thing you love to do may be taken away from you, how do you cope? 

    This is the story of the mental and physical strength of a man who refused to give up.  

    As told to Sam Walker

    28 June 2019, 9:24 pm
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