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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

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    Learning to live with the voices in my head

    Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control

  2. Kite Runner actor: Why I had to flee

    Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada was forced to leave Afghanistan after a controversial film scene.

  3. Kill or be killed: a climber’s dilemma, part 2

    Beth Rodden escaped her kidnappers, but the moment would haunt her in the years to follow

  4. Kill or be killed: A climber’s dilemma, part 1

    Beth Rodden was on the expedition of her dreams in Kyrgyzstan when she was kidnapped

  5. Kenya's pollution whistle blower

    The Kenyan woman who led a campaign to save her community from deadly pollution

  6. Kate Bornstein: Not-Man, Not-Woman

    American artist and writer Kate Bornstein identifies as not-man, not-woman

  7. Julia Gillard: Standing Up To Sexism

    Julia Gillard: Australia's first woman Prime Minister.

  8. Johannesburg's homeless book seller

    Philani Dladla who sold books on the streets of Johannesburg

  9. Japan’s Forgotten Country Music Star

    Tomi Fujiyama, Japan's first female country music star.

  10. Japan's prison guard dance troupe

    MGirls is a group of female guards who dance to some of Japan's most popular girl bands

  11. Jailed for a Murder that Never Happened

    The Ugandan man who spent 20 years on death row for a murder that never happened

  12. Italian hostage picked lock to escape

    Filippo Calcagno escaped his captors in Libya by picking the lock of his cell.

  13. Iraq's most popular satirist on risking his life to mock IS

    True life stories

  14. Introducing: Love, Janessa

    All episodes of our catfishing podcast are now available. Hear the Love, Janessa trailer

  15. Introducing Lives Less Ordinary

    Enter other people’s worlds. A new weekly podcast from Outlook. From 25 April

  16. Introducing Amazing Sport Stories

    Sport but not as you know it. A brand new sports storytelling podcast

  17. Indiana Jones: The kids who remade a blockbuster

    In 1982, two Mississippi boys recreated a $22m film, shot-for-shot, on their pocket money

  18. India's foster care revolutionary

    The Indian adoptee who has returned home to reform the country's foster care system.

  19. Imprisoned with my attacker

    Bangladeshi blogger Asif Mohiuddin met the man who had tried to kill him in prison.

  20. I'm 29 and mum to 51 Nepali kids

    American Maggie Doyne on the challenges facing her orphanage in the mountains of Nepal.

  21. I Wed the Tutsi Woman I Saved

    The former Rwandan soldier who risked his life to smuggle Tutsis to safety

  22. I was there the night Emmett Till was taken

    Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction

  23. I was the voice of Bambi – and kept it secret for years

    Donnie Dunagan was a Disney child star in the 1930s before becoming a US Marine

  24. I was the target of 'revenge porn'

    The young woman whose ex-boyfriend posted intimate pictures of her online

  25. I was sold for sex by IS

    Nadia Murad escaped after months of abuse by fighters of the so-called Islamic State

  26. I was shot in the Charlie Hebdo attack

    Journalist Philippe Lancon on the day Islamist gunmen attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices

  27. I was groomed online and kidnapped

    Alicia Kozakiewicz is on a mission to protect children and now has a law named after her.

  28. I Was Groomed by a Paedophile Gang

    Sarah Wilson was one of the underage girls abused by gangs in Rotherham, UK

  29. I was attacked by a leopard

    Sanjay Gubbi was called in to catch a leopard when it ran amok at a school in Bangalore

  30. I was abducted by my father

    The woman who grew up living a secret life on the run with her father

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