iPM: We Start With Your Stories

The first of two programmes from Islay, after iPM listener Chris suggested the Hebredian island for an outside broadcast.

Who lives there? What makes them tick? And how do they keep local traditions alive? We also hear from Ileachs - the residents there - about the booming whiskey industry, the impact its growth is having on Islay's infrastructure and how it attracts huge numbers of tourists to the island each year.

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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 London. He wants to give the young men working with him experience and skills they can use when they're released, and the prison governor tells iPM it's schemes like this that help cut re-offending rates.

Also - Jonathan Dimbleby reads our Your News bulletin.

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Social media companies are in the spotlight about the harmful content that can be found on their platforms. In this programme, an iPM listener explains why she used to seek out such images, and how she doesn't want to quit social media now she's recovered.

We'll have more news about our future programmes coming from Islay.

Also, Caroline Wyatt reads our Your News bulletin.

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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 she's made a full time career out of posting pictures, whether she gets paid to advertise brands, and what she makes of calls for social media companies to better protect vulnerable users.

Channel 4's Jon Snow reads our "Your News" bulletin.

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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 actually keeping her marriage together. And from another woman who’s gone down the same route to save her relationship.

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And Sue MacGregor reads our Your News Bulletin.

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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 run 26 marathons in 3 years, one for every letter of the alphabet. Twenty down, and six to go, she takes Luke for a training run.

Meanwhile, Mary wanted to make a difference so for 18 months has been protesting, on her own, outside a government department dressed in a badger outfit. Luke finds...

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 reunited soon.

We have news on the iPM Outside Broadcast "OB" not a competition chance to host a whole iPM programme.

And Sara Cox takes a break from her new Radio 2 Drivetime show to read our "Your News" bulletin.

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"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 find their daughter - who has cerebal palsy and learning difficulties - a flat because landlords wouldn't accept tenants who received housing benefits.

We find out why landlords are saying no to tenants who get Local Housing Allowance (LHA), the impact this has on vulnerable people like our ...

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, and over the seas to remote islands. We’ve also delved into divorce proceedings, surrogate pregnancies, online dating and into all manner of family secrets, surprises and upsets. Here are just a handful of some of the best from the year. And Stephen Fry returns to read our Your Ne...