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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

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    You wanted me dead, but look at me now

    Anne’s village thought her disability made her worthless. She had other ideas

  2. Woman on Frontline Against Al Shabaab

    Iman Elman is one of few women in the Somali National Army

  3. Why I wanted a Xhosa circumcision

    The white Afrikaans teenager who shared the traditional rituals of his black best friend

  4. Who is this kneeling man?

    My search for the truth about my father and Martin Luther King’s assassination

  5. We need to talk about Carlo

    Donna discovers her ex fiancé’s secret life

  6. We Lived with a Grizzly Bear

    How a Scottish couple lived with an eight feet tall, half tonne Grizzly called Hercules

  7. Unmasking my best friend

    Reality TV producer Johnathan found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up

  8. Undercover Cop: Fighting Gangsters

    Peter Bleksley the former British undercover policeman who infiltrated drug gangs

  9. Turkish TV star rescuing street kids

    Turgay TanΓΌlkΓΌ and his wife have fostered 100s of children

  10. Trisha and Sharon Shattuck

    The extraordinary journey of a father who wanted to live as a woman

  11. Trapped underground for 41 days

    The miner from Tanzania who went down to rescue his friends, and became trapped himself.

  12. Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape

    After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out

  13. Trailer: World of Secrets: Al Fayed, Predator at Harrods

    Women accuse Mohamed Al Fayed of rape. For the full series, search for World of Secrets

  14. Tracking Down Missing Moon Rocks

    Joe Gutheinz has investigated what happened to the moon rocks brought to earth by NASA.

  15. Township lawyer v gold giants, part 2

    Charles sues his country’s richest companies on behalf of black gold miners

  16. Township lawyer v gold giants, part 1

    Apartheid taught Charles to know his place, so how did he end up suing the gold industry?

  17. The world's first armless pilot

    Jessica Cox was born without arms - but that hasn't stopped her learning to fly a plane

  18. The woman who holds the key to the internet

    Anne-Marie Eklund-Lowinder: one of the 14 people in the world who safeguards the internet

  19. The woman who fell from the sky, part 2

    How a jump changed daring parachutist Tony Osornio's life forever

  20. The woman who fell from the sky, part 1

    Tony Osornio would go to dangerous extremes to keep skydiving

  21. The Wicker Man: Learning to love the film that broke us

    The director's obsessive quest to make this iconic horror film would devastate his family

  22. The War Zone Librarian

    The Syrian man risking his life to create a public library in a war zone

  23. The US’s first black astronaut trainee reaches space at 90

    In May 2024 Ed Dwight became the oldest person to travel to the edge of space

  24. The ukulele player who's gone viral

    Jake Shimabukuro's cover of a George Harrison song has been viewed fourteen million times

  25. The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by a bullet

    Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers

  26. The true impact of China's one-child policy

    Growing up without siblings - Xinran Xue on the reality of China's one-child policy.

  27. The trailer

    Astonishing true stories, jaw-dropping twists. The new podcast from Outlook from 25 April

  28. The Trailblazing Runner from Nepal

    Long walks collecting water as a child gave Mira Rai stamina to run 50km trail races.

  29. The student who found water on Mars

    Lujendra Ojha from Nepal was a student when he discovered signs of liquid water on Mars

  30. The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid: Part 2

    ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.

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