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.
Joyce Scott freed her twin sister from an institution, and unlocked her own life as well.
Scott Dunn had vanished. Now his father and his super-sleuth friends had to prove he’d been murdered. They uncovered a shocking tale of manipulation and torture, and a most unexpected criminal.
The journey to becoming the world’s first full face transplant recipient was fraught with challenges.
One moment the helicopter was running perfectly. The next, it was hurtling towards the wind-whipped ocean.
‘It was comforting to know you were with her during her final moments. We couldn’t ask for a finer, more caring doctor,’ wrote the grieving son of one of Dr Harold Shipman’s older patients. But [...]
In a 1998 bush fire that tore through rural Victoria, five firefighters made the ultimate sacrifice.
The woman was dying, and the jumbo jet had no time to land. ‘I have to operate,’ the surgeon said.
Dodging the highway traffic, her runaway car was clocking more than 140km per hour.
A lightning strike at 10,000ft saw a 17-year-old girl free fall into Amazonian rainforest – and live to tell the tale.
It was thought that the baby girl was severely handicapped. But the love of her foster parents changed all that.
When a yacht sends out a call for help, it leads to a turn of events that three helicopter rescuers never saw coming.
Scrambling from the downed chopper, the three stunned survivors confronted vents of hissing steam and a boiling lava pit. Sulphurous fumes made them gasp. If there’s a hell, one thought, it’s [...]
A bond was broken by a thoughtless act years ago. Could all be forgiven with a simple “I’m sorry”?
For hours, no-one knew that Arick Baker had fallen into a 58°C grain bin and was slowly being squeezed to death.
It was a split-second decision. The predator had the young woman in its jaw and he might be her only chance of survival.