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Phone-ins are a harmless part of many radio shows, but not on Alghad Radio, a rebel broadcaster set up in Mosul to challenge the so-called Islamic State who controlled the Iraqi city for three years from June 2014. As Ashley Byrne reports, one caller paid with his life. 

More and more people are identifying as bisexual yet bi-phobia is rife and the world's media remains guilty of regular bi-erasure. Journalist and writer Nichi Hodgson who is openly bisexual herself, examines what it is like to be bisexual for both men and women in different parts of the world. 

Paul O'Grady celebrates life before Radio 2 with the first of a two-part series on the history of The Light Programme. The Story Of The Light looks back at more than 20 years of ground-breaking variety from 1945 to 1967 - a time when comedy and light entertainment mixed with music and drama to create a truly British take on the post-war world.

Having fought to keep their musical traditions alive amid years of conflict, musicians from Syria are now continuing their work abroad. Ashley Byrne went to Manchester's Celebrating Syria festival to meet one of the artists boosting Britain's Arab music scene. 

In August 1991, the maverick golfer John Daly became a superstar overnight by winning the US PGA tournament as a rookie. Daly's ferocious hitting and hard-living lifestyle had not been seen in the sport before and earned him a legion of fans. Ashley Byrne talks to two golfers who were on the course with the most controversial player in golf. 

Actor Huw Garmon goes on a journey across Wales to rediscover the young poet Ellis Evans, better known as Hedd Wyn who was killed in the First World War and posthumously awarded the National Eisteddfod Chair in 1917 - Wales' highest honour for poetry. Huw portrayed Hedd Wyn in the Oscar-nominated Welsh language film of the same name produced in 1992 and exactly 100 years after his death charts Hedd Wyn's story from shepherd, to poet and eventually to soldier. 

The Famicom gaming console was a breakthrough in the world of computer games. Launched in Japan in 1983, it brought games out of arcades and into people's living rooms. When it reached markets in the West it was renamed the Nintendo Entertainment System. Lead designer Masayuki Uemura discusses how it was developed. 

In 1997, Sheryl Swoopes became one of the first stars of the newly-formed Women's NBA in America. Regarded as one of the greatest female basketball players of all time, Swoopes is also an Olympic gold medallist and a trailblazer for the women's game. 

In 2002 Steve Fossett succeeded in flying solo around the world in a hot air balloon. He touched down in Australia on the 4th of July. Ashley Byrne has been speaking to his chief engineer and project manager, Tim Cole, about the man and his record-breaking journey. 

Top Irish crime journalist Paul Williams presents Europe’s Drugs Wars. Paul is a friend and colleague of Veronica Guerin the Irish journalist murdered 21 years ago for her work in uncovering the crimes of drugs gangs in Dublin. Two decades on from Veronica’s assassination and Dublin is once again besieged by gangland violence with journalists receiving death threats and needing police protection. But the bloodshed in Ireland has its tentacles across Europe where law enforcers struggle to contain an out of control drugs problem. 

In 1973, seven teams of women cricketers took part in the first ever Women's Cricket World Cup in England. The successful tournament changed perceptions of the women's game and blazed a trial for the men's version of the World Cup. Ashley Byrne talks to June Stephenson of England and Dorothy Hobson of the West Indies.

How are men affected by abortion? There are around 200,000 legal abortions carried out in England, Scotland and Wales every year and it's estimated that 1 in 3 women will have a termination at some point in their lifetime. Women are offered support and counselling through the process - but do we do enough to help the many men affected by the experience? Fifty years after abortion was decriminalised in most of the UK, Aasmah Mir discovers there's still a lot of stigma around it and the experience of men is often a closed topic.