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Lives Less Ordinary

BBC World Service

Lives Less Ordinary is a podcast from the BBC World Service that brings you the most incredible true stories from around the world. Each episode a guest shares their most dramatic, moving, personal story. Listen for unbelievable twists, mysteries uncovered, and inspiring journeys - spanning the entire human experience. Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. Got a story to tell? Send an email to [email protected] or message us via WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784 You can read our privacy notice here:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5YD3hBqmw26B8WMHt6GkQxG/lives-less-ordinary-privacy-notice

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249 episodes

  1. Marlon James and the exorcism that changed him 40:06
  2. Rewind: The woman who brought down Elizabeth Holmes 2:32
  3. A shipwrecked sailor’s return from the dead 39:19
  4. The missionary linguist who lost his faith 39:32
  5. Why didn't they tell me I was black? Part 2 37:57
  6. Why didn't they tell me I was black? Part 1 39:59
  7. Forget Cool Runnings: Inside the real Jamaican bobsled team 39:32
  8. My mother made me ill for years until a doctor unmasked her 40:56
  9. America’s most wanted: my family on the run, part 2 32:24
  10. America’s most wanted: my family on the run, part 1 36:29
  11. Love Stories: Told by you 50:07
  12. Love Stories: The matchmaker 38:56
  13. Love Stories: Our own romcom 40:27
  14. Love Stories: My two husbands 45:46
  15. Love Stories: Do you remember me? 42:28
  16. Love Stories: Finding you in a warzone 44:38
  17. Introducing: Love Stories 2:12
  18. I crash-landed inside an active volcano 40:45
  19. Why I don't hate the person who tried to kill me 41:53
  20. The prisoner who was forced to celebrate a World Cup victory 39:06
  21. My father and the curse of the golden egg 40:23
  22. I had a baby – then lost my memory, part 2 39:11
  23. I had a baby – then lost my memory, part 1 41:19
  24. Could a sitcom save a man from death row? 39:36
  25. I was kidnapped by North Korea 33:26
  26. I was forced to rob my own bank, part 2 23:52
  27. I was forced to rob my own bank, part 1 38:56
  28. Kangaroo Dundee: I gave it all up to become a ‘kangaroo mum’ 40:12
  29. I'm a champion boxer, but couldn't tell my mum 40:15
  30. Strangers to coworkers to friends to...sisters? 39:43
  31. Taught to kill – my childhood under the Khmer Rouge 49:51
  32. Bonus: Dear Daughter: Surviving my daughter's killing 24:19
  33. I was taken as a baby…I didn’t know who I was, part 2 39:24
  34. I was taken as a baby, I didn’t know who I was, part 1 39:21
  35. Skepta’s Mum: How I raised a rap legend 21:56
  36. Me, dad and the zombie chickens 38:49
  37. Growing up black in a white family – the truth behind my birth 38:59
  38. Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano 39:22
  39. Hercules: the grizzly bear who became family 40:11
  40. Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 2 42:36
  41. Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 1 43:01
  42. The couple who foiled New Zealand’s biggest drugs plot 38:59
  43. I bought Macclesfield FC while drunk and it saved my life 42:12
  44. Colm Tóibín: How an Irish boy with a stammer found his voice 41:17
  45. The gay Kenyan boyband star who refused to be defeated 36:33
  46. Laughter saved me: the comedian turning tragedy into comedy 41:22
  47. Living a lie: discovering my dad faked who he was 44:20
  48. Fatima Whitbread: from abandoned baby to world champion 40:35
  49. One suitcase, three kids: a broke scientist pursues a dream 40:30
  50. I broke the most important rule: don't get attached 41:06