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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

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    A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 2

    Jim is deep undercover in North Korea β€” but will he find proof of illegal weapons deals

  2. A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 1

    Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network

  3. A Beslan Mother's Impossible Choice

    Aneta fled the 2004 school siege with her baby but left her elder daughter behind.

  4. 38 days: a family adrift in the Pacific

    The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast

  5. "My friends were arrested, or simply disappeared"

    Tahir Izgil is a Uyghur poet who lived through a Chinese state clampdown

  6. "I've survived three shark bites"

    Australian filmmaker Valerie Taylor shot the underwater shark footage for the movie Jaws

  7. "I Wrote a Whole Book on Toilet Paper"

    Egyptian Nawal El Saadawi on her extraordinary life as a writer and activist.

  8. "I Want to Go Back to North Korea"

    Kim Ryen-hi is a North Korean defector who's trying to return home.

  9. "He counted 3, 2, 1 – then stabbed me in the heart"

    Kieran Quinlan was on his way to a party when a man with a knife attacked him

  10. 'You Have to Help Him, He's Dying'

    The photographer who stepped in to help a Chinese miner struggling with lung disease

  11. 'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island

    Tricks from a hit TV show held the key to Jaivet Ealom’s audacious bid for freedom

  12. 'It's much easier for them to create a spy than catch a spy'

    Anoosheh Ashoori was imprisoned in Iran, having been falsely accused of espionage

  13. 'Don't anger the monster', part 2

    Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein

  14. 'Don't anger the monster', part 1

    Rowena Chiu on surviving the Hollywood sexual predator Harvey Weinstein

  15. 'Brother. do. you. love. me.' The SMS that changed our lives

    Brothers Manni and Reuben Coe, and the text that prompted a lockdown rescue mission

  16. 'Africa's youngest billionaire'

    At 34, Ashish Thakkar heads a business group but he started life as a refugee

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