One to One

Razia speaks to 'Sonia', a French Muslim, about the discrimination she's faced since wearing a muslim headscarf.

Razia Iqbal talks to the German journalist and writer, Hilal Sezgin about what it means to be a European Muslim post 9/11.

Razia Iqbal talks to Hanif Qadir about what it means to a Muslim in Europe post 2012.

Mary Ann Sieghart concludes her series of interviews with people who have taken someone else's life, by talking to Charles Hanson, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife.

Mary Ann Sieghart continues her series of interviews with people who have taken another life, by talking to Andrew, who killed a young mother in a driving accident.

Mary Ann Sieghart explores what it means to take another person's life. In this first programme in the series she talks to Chantelle Taylor, the first know British female soldier to kill in combat.

Fi Glover continues to talk to the start up entrepreneurs of Silicon Roundabout in Hackney, London. Here she meets Tom Allason.

Fi Glover talks to the tech start up entrepreneur, Alice Taylor.

Fi Glover talks to the start up entrepreneurs of Silicon Roundabout in Hackney, London. Here she meets Dan Crowe, a veteran of Silicon Valley.

In today’s One to One, Samira Ahmed speaks to Murray Melvin, best known for his role alongside Rita Tushingham in the controversial, ground-breaking film, A Taste of Honey.

Samira Ahmed meets Konstanty Gebert one of Poland's best-known and most respected journalists. During Poland's Communist dictatorship, he operated underground; laboriously hand-printing documents which were secretly distributed; avoiding the police who would constantly follow his movements. In One to One he recalls those years, and describes what it was like when he and his colleagues were eventually able to join a free press. He makes comparisons with journalists in Arab spring countries, and discusses what they could possibly glean from his experiences.

The journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed is taking over the One to One interviewer's microphone for the next three weeks. Her first guest (former Newsround presenter, turned opthalmologist) Lucy Mathen, tells a tale of charitable endeavour, with a surprising twist.

For personal reasons, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, has chosen to explore the impact of divorce on families. This week she speaks to Megan, a young woman whose parents split-up when she was six years old.

For personal reasons, the journalist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, has chosen to explore the impact of family breakdown for 'One to One'. Yasmin divorced over twenty years ago, and - although happily re-married - often contemplates the fall-out of divorce, and the resulting emotional ripples which inevitably reach further than the separating couple. In these programmes she's hearing the stories of a grandparent, a parent and a young person who have all lived through a family break-up. Last week Yasmin spoke to a grandmother who hasn't seen her granddaughter for four years, and this week she speaks to the author Louis de Bernieres. He talks from the position he holds as patron of the charity Families Need Fathers, but also from the very personal point of view of a father of two children, who has now separated from their mother.

The journalist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has chosen, for personal reasons, to explore the impact of divorce on families. Yasmin divorced over twenty years ago, and - although happily re-married - often contemplates the fall-out of divorce, and the resulting emotional ripples which reach further than the separating couple. Over three editions of One to One, she's hearing the stories of a grandparent, a parent and a young person who have all lived through a family break-up In this, the first programme, she speaks to Jane, a grandparent who hasn't seen her 11 year old granddaughter for four years. When her son divorced he maintained a relationship with his ex-wife which allowed contact with his daughter - Jane's granddaughter. But eventually that contact was withdrawn, resulting in what Jane describes as a living bereavement.