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.
Almost immediately, the townspeople who volunteered to ease the young mother's last days realised that she was helping them.
Youngsters turned to baking to help save some tiny mountain marsupials.
Detectives were baffled by the savage killings. Then they found tiny specks of grey.
SImon Stephenson's older brother walked the world ahead of him. But when Dominic is caught by tragedy, how can the younger learn to take the lead?
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.