Steve Hewlett chronicled his experience with oesophageal cancer weekly on PM in 2016.

Steve believed that by using his journalistic skills to investigate and understand his own cancer, he would be doing some good for himself and perhaps for people listening to PM.

He was right on both counts.

Lisa Griffith wrote to the programme about her husband Paul. After hearing about the symptoms on PM, Paul went to the doctor and was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.

(Photo: Paul Griffith. Credit: Lisa Griffith)

The film producer Harvey Weinstein has been accused of a string of sexual assaults after the New York Times reported previously undisclosed allegations against him stretching over nearly three decades. He has "unequivocally denied" any allegations of non-consensual sex.

She told Eddie Mair about her experiences of Harvey Weinstein.

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Most people would probably not want to see what the firefighters who attended Grenfell Tower fire saw, or do what they did. All of the firefighters who were there received counselling after their shift had finished. Some are still having treatment, including the woman who is the London Fire Brigade Commissioner, Dany Cotton.

Clifford Thompson is a journalist at the BBC but his boyhood dream was to be a firefighter: a dream he realised when he was stationed in East London at the age of 18.

In this interview he reflects on his life as a firefighter, some of the big disasters he attended and how the support now offered to firefighters in dealing with traumatic events has changed.

(Photo: Clifford Thompson Credit: Clifford Thompson)

Eddie Mair hears one man's story of his asexuality - discovering he was asexual, telling friends and family, and negotiating relationships.

This podcast contains sexually explicit material.

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For a handful of people in the world, remembering things is not a problem.

They have a condition called HSAM or Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory, which means they can remember everything that has happened to them, often in great detail.

Very little is known about why some people have it, but Rebecca Sharrock from Australia is one of those helping researchers learn more about her condition.

(Photo: An illustration of the brain. Credit: Getty Images)

Abortion in the United States continues to spark fierce debate and cause division, ever since the Supreme Court made it legal in 1973 following the Roe v Wade case.

Individual states still have a lot of power to influence the availability of abortions and in almost every state there are campaigns and protests for and against.

In our two-part podcast we hear from people on either side of the debate.

For part one we heard from Dr Willie Parker, who provides abortion services in Georgia and Alabama.

In part two Eddie speaks to Esther Ripplinger, who campaigns against abortions in her home state of Washington, not least because of her own experience of having one.

(Photo: Esther Ripplinger. Credit: Esther Ripplinger)

Abortion in the United States continues to spark fierce debate and cause division, ever since the Supreme Court made it legal in 1973 following the Roe v Wade case.

Individual states still have a lot of power to influence the availability of abortions and in almost every state there are campaigns and protests for and against.

In our two-part podcast we hear from people on either side of the debate.

For part one we speak to Dr Willie Parker, who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian family in Alabama. He now exclusively provides abortion services to women in his home state and neighbouring Georgia, both of which have more restrictive laws on abortion.

(Photo: Dr Willie Parker. Credit: Getty Images)

For 16 years, David Drew and Neil Carmichael have campaigned against each other to be MP for Stroud.

The constituency in Gloucestershire is known as a bell-weather because it often goes the same way as the national result.

In 1997 David won for Labour, and Tony Blair moved into No.10. The next general election in 2001 saw Neil enter the race but David held on, as did the Labour government. The same happened in 2005. Then in 2010 Neil beat David and the Conservatives formed a coalition government with the Lib Dems. Neil's second success in 2015 was mirrored by the Conservatives, but in 2017 David Drew retook the parliamentary seat.

Eddie Mair speaks to the pair about what it is like going up against the same person for so many years.

(Photo: David Drew (l) and Neil Carmichael (r). Credit: BBC)

For six months on PM, we heard from Steve Hewlett every Monday as he chronicled his experience of oesophageal cancer. In his very first conversation, last September, he introduced us to the "cold cap".

Many listeners told us they also experienced the "cold cap", but they're not available in every part of the UK.

"Cold caps" or "scalp cooling" can prevent or lessen hair loss which occurs during chemotherapy.

Claire McQuillan is having chemotherapy for a second time. She tells Eddie Mair she can’t have "cold cap" treatment in Northern Ireland.

The Health and Social Care Board (HSCNI) there says the evidence on the clinical and cost effectiveness of the caps is not sufficient for them to be routinely commissioned.

(Photo courtesy of the McQuillan family)

This week in our podcast, Eddie Mair speaks to Henry Hendron.

He was very much a rising star, a barrister in London with some high profile clients and media coverage to go with it. He represented the Conservative MP Nigel Evans when he was cleared of rape in 2014. Some people thought Henry Hendron himself had a bright political future.

But things changed for him in 2015 when his 18-year-old boyfriend Miguel Jimenez died after taking chemsex drugs.

Mr Hendron was arrested and admitted possessing the drugs that killed his boyfriend. The Bar Standards Board suspended him from practicing, but in May said he could return to the bar after three years.

Details of organisations offering information and support with addiction are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 155 947.

(Photo: Miguel Jimenez (l) and Henry Hendron (r). Credit: Henry Hendron)