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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. South Korea's first and only astronaut

    Soyeon Yi made history when she went into space, and even survived a crash landing.

  2. South Africa's HIV positive judge

    Justice Edwin Cameron - South Africa's top judge who is openly gay and HIV positive.

  3. South Africa's First Black Rugby Superstar

    Chester Williams was a star player of South Africa's rugby world cup winning team of 1995

  4. Sold into marriage in Yemen at 13

    The incredible story of Gaby Gillespie who overcame murder, suicide and domestic abuse

  5. Sisters' Council of the Swat Valley

    Tabassum Adnan is bringing justice to the Swat Valley

  6. Shocking Find in Search for My Parents

    Jenna Cook was abandoned as a baby and returned to China to look for her birth family

  7. Sex Change Boxing Promoter

    Kellie Maloney used to be Frank Maloney who was a big star in boxing - now she is a woman

  8. Separated From My Baby as I Fled Syria

    The Syrian doctor who took drastic measures to get to Europe with her baby daughter

  9. Sent to war aged six

    Deng Adut was raised in war torn Sudan but has now rebuilt his life in Australia

  10. Seeking forgiveness on Iran's death row

    The Iranian activist who tries to get the family of a murder victim to forgive the killer

  11. Searching for the last man in the forest

    Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders

  12. Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"

    Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family

  13. Scams and poetry in Moscow’s underbelly

    Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was trafficked from Cameroon to Russia

  14. Saving my conjoined twins

    One Pakistani father's struggle to help his conjoined twin baby girls

  15. Saving Lemurs By Sampling Their Calls

    An unlikely partnership between a New York beatboxer and a primatologist

  16. Saving Africa's lions

    A South African couple who've spent a lifetime trying to save Africa's big cats

  17. Saving a life at 35 000 feet

    How Dr Khurshid Guru saved a 2 year old who had an asthma attack over the Atlantic.

  18. Saving a Cuban Boy Changed my Life

    The fisherman who plucked a Cuban boy from the sea - and started an international row.

  19. Saved by goats after my fall from the sacred mountain

    When he slid off a 40-metre cliff in the jungle, Morgan Segui thought he was sure to die

  20. Saudi's First Female Editor-in-Chief

    Somayya Jabarti is editor of the English-language Saudi Gazette.

  21. Sam Lee: Reinventing Ancient Folk Songs

    The British singer on a mission to collect folk songs in danger of dying out

  22. Running for the love of my husband

    When Lisa Hallet's soldier husband was killed, she began running to cope with her grief

  23. Rugby Saved My Life

    Ashwin Willemse went from Cape Town gang member to South African Springbok rugby star.

  24. Rocket Builder, Greek Hero, Activist

    Eugene Awimbo, Kenyan shopkeeper with a passion for rockets; Antonis Deligiorgis, the...

  25. Risking My Life For a Kiss

    Actor John Kani took the risky decision to play Othello in apartheid South Africa

  26. Recovering Bodies from Afghan River

    The Afghan man who's devoted his life to recovering bodies from the Kunar River.

  27. Rebuilding the Everest Trail

    Ang Kami Sherpa is risking his life to rebuild the climbers' path up Mount Everest

  28. Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies

    Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.

  29. Ramtin Ghazavi: Iran's Unlikely Opera Star

    Ramtin Ghazavi was overheard singing by an Italian tourist, who helped launch his career

  30. Putting my rapists in jail

    After being gang raped, South African Jes Foord set about helping other survivors.

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