Sit back and listen to some of the most engaging stories to have appeared in Reader’s Digest magazine. RD Talks brings the real-life unforgettable crime investigations, dramas in real life, and inspirational and heart-warming moments you’ve come to expect from the magazine. Each one will amaze, stir your emotions and have you celebrating the courage of everyday heroes.
Burned beyond recognition, Franck’s only hope was his twin brother.
Skydiving instructor Sheldon McFarlane thought trainee jumper Christopher Jones’s first solo jump would be routine. Nothing prepared him for what unfolded in the skies over Western Australia.
If we could choose one thing to outlast all others, what better choice would there be but love?
The Broaddus family had just bought their dream home and couldn’t wait to move in. Until ominous letters began arriving in the mail.
A lesson in life – and music – from the most brilliant mind in the world.
Kristin Rossum’s husband committed suicide. Or did he?
With amateur helpers and homemade instruments, a Swedish medical student faced the test of a lifetime – to perform a complex eye operation on a fellow Antarctic explorer.
She spent three months in the hospital after a horrific bike accident. Almost dying is nothing close to what you’d imagine.
Success starts with the right idea and the conviction to stick to that idea. It can also mean disrupting established thinking, something property developer Harry Triguboff understands well.
Often called ‘The Lady of the Lamp’, this indomitable woman pioneered modern nursing in the midst of war.
Believing passionately that justice should know “no limits in time or distance”, Simon Wiesenthal has ferreted out more than 1000 Nazi war criminals.
The poignant story of a man who came face to face with some shattering truths
Desperate to save their child, the couple became detectives – searching for a stranger they had never wanted to need.
This is the real story of a prisoner at the infamous Alcatraz prison, incarcerated at the same time as mobster Al Capone.