Lives Less Ordinary Episodes Episode guide
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Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2
Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics
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Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1
Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics
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Hunting Australia's Giant Crocodiles
In Australia's Northern Territory Mick Pitman is known simply as Crocodile Mick.
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How to talk to guerillas
Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them
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How my mysterious childhood became a best-selling novel
Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia’s biggest crime stories
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How I survived a pirate hijack
Marine engineer Chirag Bahri was trapped for eight gruelling months on a chemical tanker
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How I survived a mid-air collision
American skydiving instructor Mike Robinson, relives one death-defying jump in 2013
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How I fell in love with blindness
Itto Outini lost her sight but gained her freedom
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How I convinced police my dad was a murderer
On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence
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Honouring my dead cellmate
The former prisoner fighting for female inmates' rights
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Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 2
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
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
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He was almost a mass shooter – an act of kindness stopped him
Aaron Stark now works to raise awareness around why mass attacks happen
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He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'
How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy when she needed it most
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Happy Ending for Aurora Shooting Victim
How a romance was rekindled from the tragedy of the Aurora cinema shooting.
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Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old
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Grieving Mother Directs Delhi Traffic
Dorris Francis saves lives at the busy road junction where her daughter was killed
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Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
Holly’s life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean
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Giving birth as a hostage in Syria
Janina was pregnant when she set out to meet a school friend who’d become an extremist
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Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger
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From slum to soundman
Abdul Rahman grew up in Africa's biggest slum - he became a world class sound recordist
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From Slum Kid to Movie Director
George Stanley Nsamba grew up in a Ugandan ghetto, now teaches street kids to make films.
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From Peace Activist to Military Aide
Emma Sky - the peace campaigner who became a US military adviser in Iraq.
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From inmate to prison warden
The Brazilian police officer turned prison inmate, who became a reforming prison warden.
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From Goatherd to Top Geologist
The South African man who overcame many obstacles to get an education
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From Buddhist monk to catwalk model
The Thai boy who left temple life to join the fashion world, as a woman.
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Former monk Justo Gallego Martinez has spent 50 years building a cathedral near Madrid.
He's has been building the cathedral with his own hands using recycled materials.
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Former Child Fishing Slave Now Rescuing Others
James Kofi Annan was sold into slavery in Ghana.
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Forgiving the Neo-Nazi who Nearly Killed Me
American Matthew Boger made friends with his aggressor, former white supremacist Tim Zaal
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Forgiving my family's killers
As a boy in Cambodia, Reaksa Himm saw his family murdered by the Khmer Rouge
