Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20070807 | Michael Buerk talks to soldier Joe Darby, who exposed Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20070814 | Alistair Little talks about his journey from sectarian murderer to peace worker. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20070828 | Gene Robinson explains his choice to become the first openly gay Anglican bishop. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20070904 | Lawrence Anthony explains why he went to war-torn Iraq to save the animals of Baghdad Zoo. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20070911 | An interview with a convicted paedophile and his wife, who helped him to seek treatment. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20070918 | Michael Buerk talks to Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20070925 | Michael Buerk talks to journalist Laura Blumenfeld, who found the man who shot her father. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20071002 | Michael Buerk cotinues his interviews with people who have made life-altering decisions. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20080805 | Dutch politician Geert Wilders discusses why he made a provocative anti-Islamic film. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20080805 | 20090215 (R4) | Dutch politician Geert Wilders discusses why he made a provocative anti-Islamic film. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | |
| 20080812 | Melanie Allen talks about her decision to hand back a child she had adopted. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20080902 | Michael Buerk interviews people who have made life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole process, from the original dilemma to living with the consequences.
Richard McCann, whose mother was murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper, talks about his decision to make a suicide pact with his sister.
Richard McCann talks about his decision to make a suicide pact with his sister. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20080909 | Canon Andrew White talks about his decision to work in war-torn Baghdad. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20080916 | Roderick Young discusses his decision to become a Rabbi. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20080923 | Mike Newell talks about his decision to blow the whistle on illegal payments in football. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20080930 | Featuring Dylan More, who was born a woman but chose to become a man - and have a baby. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20081007 | Iraqi translator Ahmed Ali talks about his choice to leave his home town of Baghdad. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20091020 | Michael Buerk talks to Father Aidan Troy about facing sectarian violence in Belfast. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20091027 | Michael Buerk talks to Alex Bell about her choice to adopt children with Down's syndrome. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20091103 | Michael Buerk talks to ex-banking executive Paul Moore about blowing the whistle on HBOS. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20091110 | Michael Buerk talks to Miranda Ponsonby about her decision to change sex. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20091124 | Cathy O'Dowd on the choice she had to make when she saw a dying climber on Everest. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20091201 | Michael talks to ex social worker Nevres Kemal, who blew the whistle on Haringey Council. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20091208 | Dr Warren Hern talks about his choice to carry out abortions despite death threats. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20100812 | Michael Buerk talks to Heather Pratten about her decisions to help her terminally ill sons Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20100819 | On The Choice this week, Micahel Buerk talks to Romy Tiongco.
He spent a lifetime fighting poverty - first as a Catholic priest, then as a Christian Aid worker. Where he comes from - the Philippines - poverty is made worse by violence and corruption. He'd taken it on as a young man, before moving to this country with his wife. When he decided to return to the Philippines he did not realise it would draw him back into a dangerous and murky world and present him with the most difficult choice of his life. After his best friend was killed, the people called on him to challenge corruption by standing for political office - a choice that would put his own life on the line.
Romy Tiongco talks about his dangerous choice to challenge corruption in the Philippines. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20100826 | On The Choice this week Michael Buerk talk to Elissa Wall who was born into the strange, narrow world of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints - an American sect that had broken away from the Mormon church.
It was a group that believed in religious devotion, hard work, female subservience, the virtues and the clothes of the prairie puritans - and polygamy. Elissa was married off at 14 to a 19-year-old cousin - a relationship she hated. After several miscarriages, and a stillbirth, she faced the toughest choice of her young life - to stay with the community and the church, which was all she knew, or to leave. That would mean, not only separation from her mother and sisters, maybe for ever, but taking on the man who had ruled her life, the cult leader Warren Jeffs.
Michael Buerk talks to Elissa Wall about her decision to break away from a polygamous sect Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| 20100902 | On The Choice this week Michael Buerk talks to Frank Evans, a butchers boy from Salford who dreamt of becoming a bullfighter after a holiday in Spain.
Michael Buerk talks to Frank Evans about his choice to become a bullfighter. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | ||
| Di Franks | 20110531 | When Di Franks asked her doctor about donating her kidney, she wasn't sure she would be taken seriously. Because Di wasn't giving her healthy organ to a sick and needy relative.. she wanted to donate it to a complete stranger. Five years ago it was illegal to give a kidney to someone you didn't know in this country. When it was made legal, inspired by a friend in the US who had themselves donated a kidney, Di was faced with the extraordinary choice. Should she undergo a major operation to remove a vital organ to help someone she would probably never know ? Not only was she was risking her own life, the choice could have consequences for her son and the rest of her family if they ever needed her organ... Michael Buerk talks to Di Franks about her decision to give a kidney to a stranger. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | |
| Joe Glenton | 20110607 | Joe Glenton was a bright young soldier, destined for leadership and intent on helping the local people, when he made his first trip to Afghanistan in 2006. But what he experienced there led him to make the hardest choice of his life.. to honour his commitment to his colleagues and the people of Afghanistan or abandon his men, break his promise and run away to the other side of the world. Michael Buerk talks to Joe Glenton about his choice to go AWOL. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | |
| Mikey Walsh | 20110524 | A new series of The Choice begins this week with the story of Mikey Walsh. He grew up in the closed world of the Romany gypsies. Rarely at school, he seldom mixed with anyone outside his community with its colourful characters and strict family code. And despite its violence and hardships, it was the life that Mikey loved. Eventually he was faced with the agonising decision of whether to turn his back on everyone and everything he knew .....and face an alien world with no education and support... knowing he would never be able to return. Michael Buerk talks to gypsy Mikey Walsh about leaving his community behind. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions | |
| Prof Kevin Warwick | 20110614 | Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions. | |
| Stuart Howarth | 20091013 | Michael Buerk talks to Stuart Howarth about his decision to kill his abusive father. Series featuring people who have made life-altering decisions |