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Lives Less Ordinary

Lives Less Ordinary is a podcast from the BBC World Service that brings you the most incredible true stories from around the world. Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. 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. Our guests come from every corner of the globe: from Burundi to Beverly Hills, New Zealand to North Korea, Rajasthan to

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42:23
The mortician, the "werewolf" and the keeper of brains
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/06/01
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37:11
José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/05/25
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33:27
The true story behind Brazil’s Oscar winner, I’m...
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/05/18
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38:55
The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/05/11
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41:41
Searching for green in a concrete world
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/05/04
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39:12
Painting faces in search of myself and my mum
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/04/27
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36:21
The former wrestler who wants your brain
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/04/21
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38:45
Swimming blind: my journey to self-acceptance
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/04/13
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31:26
The painful secret I hid from my twin
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/04/06
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26:44
Introducing Dear Daughter
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/04/02
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41:14
Rewind: An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/03/30
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40:11
My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved...
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/03/24
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41:46
Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid...
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/03/17
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40:47
Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid...
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/03/10
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62:51
Held hostage by al-Qaeda: my desert odyssey
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/03/03
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40:22
The unmaking of a child soldier
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/02/24
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40:20
The WW2 spy and the little leaf that saved her
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/02/17
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39:24
How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s...
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/02/10
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37:37
The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/02/03
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41:32
My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love
Lives Less Ordinary ·
2025/01/27
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