Lives Less Ordinary Podcast
Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and wondered, "What鈥檚 their story?" Step into someone else鈥檚 life and expect the unexpected. Extraordinary stories from around the world.
Episodes to download
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Coming out as India鈥檚 first gay prince
Mon 2 Jan 2023
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society
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The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp
Boxing Day 2022
Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history
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Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"
Mon 19 Dec 2022
Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family
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Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant鈥檚 story
Mon 12 Dec 2022
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old
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The Palestinian tapes, part 2
Mon 5 Dec 2022
Disco, protest and poetry 鈥� Hanan and Riad鈥檚 story of making the Intifada album
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The Palestinian tapes, part 1
Mon 28 Nov 2022
Mo鈥檓in Swaitat鈥檚 magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette
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I hit puberty, then burned down my family home
Mon 21 Nov 2022
At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home 鈥� and she didn鈥檛 know why
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He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'
Mon 14 Nov 2022
How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy when she needed it most
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My father鈥檚 hidden crimes
Mon 7 Nov 2022
Anal铆a鈥檚 father was accused of being a government torturer 鈥� he said it was a lie
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The child spy and her secret agent parents
Mon 31 Oct 2022
Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War
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A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 2
Sun 23 Oct 2022
Jim is deep undercover in North Korea 鈥� but will he find proof of illegal weapons deals
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A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 1
Sun 16 Oct 2022
Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network
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Opiyo鈥檚 law: Never let fear rule your life
Sun 9 Oct 2022
Nicholas Opiyo survived civil war to become one of Uganda鈥檚 top human rights lawyers
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Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 2
Sun 2 Oct 2022
Silibil N鈥� Brains found fame as fake American rappers - but how long can you live a lie?
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Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 1
Sun 25 Sep 2022
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
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I was the voice of Bambi 鈥� and kept it secret for years
Sun 18 Sep 2022
Donnie Dunagan was a Disney child star in the 1930s before becoming a US Marine
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Black, Korean, stateless: a Slickyboy鈥檚 American dream, part 2
Sun 11 Sep 2022
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by 7, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
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Black, Korean, stateless: A Slickyboy鈥檚 American dream, part 1
Sun 4 Sep 2022
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by seven, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
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The brain tumour that taught me how to live
Sun 21 Aug 2022
How extreme kayaker Scott Lindgren's illness forced him to face his past
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The family that went to war with a military dictatorship
Sun 14 Aug 2022
Hafsat Abiola Costello's dad was nearly Nigeria's president - but he had powerful enemies
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Nailed into a boat: Escaping Mao鈥檚 China
Sun 31 Jul 2022
Dr Andrew Kwong fled famine and persecution as a child
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The legendary goalkeeper forced to pawn her gold medals
Sun 24 Jul 2022
Briana knew it was her destiny to win Olympic gold. Then one game changed everything
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A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2
Sun 17 Jul 2022
JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscathed
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A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 1
Sun 17 Jul 2022
JP Bimeni risked his life to save a book of his verse
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My husband thought I was an imposter
Sun 3 Jul 2022
Abi Morgan鈥檚 husband woke from a coma and didn鈥檛 recognise her
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A family lost at sea
Sun 19 Jun 2022
Fleeing Vietnam Lauren鈥檚 family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers
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Giving birth as a hostage in Syria
Sun 12 Jun 2022
Janina was pregnant when she set out to meet a school friend who鈥檇 become an extremist
