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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 2

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

  2. The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1

    Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent

  3. The sports scandal scoop that almost destroyed me

    In 1998 Finnish journalist Johanna Aatsalo published a story that made her a hate figure

  4. The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp

    Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history

  5. The School for Sex Workers' Children

    Robin Chaurasiya co-founded a school in Mumbai's red light district

  6. The Piano Man on the Front Line

    Ihor, the pianist who played for his captors in the Ukraine conflict.

  7. The Palestinian tapes, part 2

    Disco, protest and poetry – Hanan and Riad’s story of making the Intifada album

  8. The Palestinian tapes, part 1

    Mo’min Swaitat’s magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette

  9. The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel

    Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past

  10. The Orthodox Jewish fashion designers

    The Hasidic Jewish sisters in Australia who affirm their identity through fashion design

  11. The Nun Campaigning for Gay Rights

    When Sister Jeannine Gramick joined a convent, she had never heard the word "homosexual".

  12. The mystery of the tartan twins

    A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why

  13. The man who negotiates with Boko Haram

    Australian Dr Stephen Davis tried to rescue Chibok girls kidnapped by Nigerian militants.

  14. The man who finds water in the desert

    Why Alain Gachet quit a lucrative career in oil to search for water underground

  15. The Man Saving Syria's Antiquities

    True life stories

  16. The man behind Disney's legendary songs

    Oscar-winning composer Richard M. Sherman reflects on a lifetime of music

  17. The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 2

    Salva Dut returns to Sudan to find his dad and decides to get clean water to his village

  18. The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 1

    As a survivor of Sudan's civil war, Salva Dut's will to keep going has taken him far

  19. The legendary goalkeeper forced to pawn her gold medals

    Briana knew it was her destiny to win Olympic gold. Then one game changed everything

  20. The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company

    Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety

  21. The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2

    From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality

  22. The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 1

    A bond between brothers, a coming-out story, and an international song contest

  23. The hypermarchΓ© hero

    The Malian living in Paris who saved Jewish shoppers under attack from an Islamist gunman

  24. The hungry boy who devoted his life to muscle

    Gilbert Alaskadi was sick of being bullied; he wanted to be invincible.

  25. The Hiroshima survivor who's still shouting for peace

    Setsuko Thurlow knows what nuclear war looks like

  26. The Godmother of Beirut's nightlife

    Under the boot of the Syrian army, Nicole Moudaber brought raves to Lebanon

  27. The fisherman and the 'spy whale'

    Joar Hesten's mission to save a whale rumoured to have escaped from the Russian navy

  28. The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses

    From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya will stand up for herself, and you

  29. The family that went to war with a military dictatorship

    Hafsat Abiola Costello's dad was nearly Nigeria's president - but he had powerful enemies

  30. The family hiding in the bush after leaking Russian secrets

    Nick Stride said too much about his former boss, one of Putin’s closest allies

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