Lives Less Ordinary Podcast
Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and wondered, "What’s their story?" Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. Extraordinary stories from around the world.
Episodes to download
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Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2
Mon 20 Feb 2023
In the ring, Blair finds calm amidst the chaos of his life
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Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 1
Mon 13 Feb 2023
From Beverly Hills to hiding from the law with his dad, Blair’s seen it all
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The mystery of the tartan twins
Mon 6 Feb 2023
A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why
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Breaking my addiction to war
Mon 30 Jan 2023
Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop
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The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses
Mon 23 Jan 2023
From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya will stand up for herself, and you
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Learning to live with the voices in my head
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control
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Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Mon 9 Jan 2023
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
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Coming out as India’s first gay prince
Mon 2 Jan 2023
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society
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The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp
Boxing Day 2022
Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history
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Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family
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Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old
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The Palestinian tapes, part 2
Mon 5 Dec 2022
Disco, protest and poetry – Hanan and Riad’s story of making the Intifada album
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The Palestinian tapes, part 1
Mon 28 Nov 2022
Mo’min Swaitat’s magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette
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I hit puberty, then burned down my family home
Mon 21 Nov 2022
At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why
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He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'
Mon 14 Nov 2022
How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy when she needed it most
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My father’s hidden crimes
Mon 7 Nov 2022
AnalΓa’s father was accused of being a government torturer β€” he said it was a lie
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The child spy and her secret agent parents
Mon 31 Oct 2022
Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War
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A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 2
Sun 23 Oct 2022
Jim is deep undercover in North Korea β€” but will he find proof of illegal weapons deals
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A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 1
Sun 16 Oct 2022
Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network
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Opiyo’s law: Never let fear rule your life
Sun 9 Oct 2022
Nicholas Opiyo survived civil war to become one of Uganda’s top human rights lawyers
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Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 2
Sun 2 Oct 2022
Silibil N’ Brains found fame as fake American rappers - but how long can you live a lie?
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Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 1
Sun 25 Sep 2022
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
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I was the voice of Bambi – and kept it secret for years
Sun 18 Sep 2022
Donnie Dunagan was a Disney child star in the 1930s before becoming a US Marine
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Black, Korean, stateless: a Slickyboy’s American dream, part 2
Sun 11 Sep 2022
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by 7, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
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Black, Korean, stateless: A Slickyboy’s American dream, part 1
Sun 4 Sep 2022
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by seven, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
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The brain tumour that taught me how to live
Sun 21 Aug 2022
How extreme kayaker Scott Lindgren's illness forced him to face his past
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The family that went to war with a military dictatorship
Sun 14 Aug 2022
Hafsat Abiola Costello's dad was nearly Nigeria's president - but he had powerful enemies
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Nailed into a boat: Escaping Mao’s China
Sun 31 Jul 2022
Dr Andrew Kwong fled famine and persecution as a child
