Lives Less Ordinary
A podcast by BBC World Service - Mondays
987 Episodes
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Fighting the apartheid my grandfather created
Published: 20/11/2021 -
I still believe I'm lucky even after breaking my neck
Published: 18/11/2021 -
Harvard Law School’s first Deafblind graduate
Published: 17/11/2021 -
Hostage: A spider, starvation and solitude in the desert
Published: 15/11/2021 -
The Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok star
Published: 10/11/2021 -
'Love finds a way' - a bond that overcame decades of separation
Published: 9/11/2021 -
'Honour' made my father a murderer
Published: 8/11/2021 -
The medical textbook that inspired me to flee my homeland
Published: 4/11/2021 -
The man and the shark
Published: 3/11/2021 -
Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history
Published: 1/11/2021 -
I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped
Published: 30/10/2021 -
Miss Pat: The Chinese-Jamaican matriarch of reggae
Published: 28/10/2021 -
People used to stare at me. I fight back with my paintbrush
Published: 27/10/2021 -
"I'm a fighter": The Dalit lawyer taking on the caste system
Published: 25/10/2021 -
Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star
Published: 23/10/2021 -
The secret that nearly destroyed our marriage
Published: 21/10/2021 -
The locked-in boy and the brain experiment
Published: 20/10/2021 -
The spy who pretended to be homeless
Published: 19/10/2021 -
‘Born lucky’: Escaping the Khmer Rouge
Published: 18/10/2021 -
The uncomfortable truth hidden in my DNA
Published: 16/10/2021
Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and wondered, "What’s their story?" Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. Extraordinary stories from around the world.