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.
Behind the inspirational poem "If–" lies the story of a father's love and a son's sacrifice.
A devastating fire nearly destroyed Notre Dame de Paris two years ago. Now scientists are leading the effort to restore the beloved cathedral to its former glory.
Downtown New York can be a crazy place. But not usually this crazy.
How I nearly died at 4.34pm on a very ordinary Tuesday.
For 15 years, Anne McDonnell lived in limbo, not knowing whether her Jim was dead or alive. Then, one Christmas, the impossible happened.
A traffic accident left a young photographer badly injured on the road where he would have died, until finally a car pulled up.
After a tragic loss, a young woman finally found comfort in other people's stories.
The avalance ripped the Italian hotel from its foundation and reduced it to rubble. How could anyone inside have survived?
Her climbing rope had malfunctioned. Now, 275 metres above the floor of Wyoming’s Death Canyon, Lauren McLean clung to a ledge barely wide enough to support her broken body. And a storm was [...]
What would you look at if you had just three days of sight? Helen Keller, blind and deaf from infancy, gives her answer.
How a global disaster paved the way for inventors to ‘reinvent the wheel’ into the much-loved vehicle we call 'the bicycle'.
On a run in the Rocky Mountains, the author's dog, Merle, fell more than 240 metres, injured beyond hope. But he wasn't done yet.
How shall I sum up what it meant to have known Einstein and his works? There are no adequate words. It was akin to the revelation of great art that lets one see what was formerly hidden.
A van shoots off the levee, explodes into the water and sinks like an anchor. Can the rescue workers save everyone inside?
The two boys saw themselves as big-time bad guys, serious criminals who would be infamous from coast to coast. A life of crime requires cash, though, and the easy way to get cash is to take it. [...]