1026 Episodes

  1. I was a teenager at Auschwitz

    Published: 1/23/2020

  2. The student who became my son

    Published: 1/22/2020

  3. Our secret tunnel that saved the city

    Published: 1/21/2020

  4. The virtuoso musician detained as a child

    Published: 1/20/2020

  5. The black woman who cared for a Klansman

    Published: 1/18/2020

  6. Life as a lone identical twin

    Published: 1/16/2020

  7. I was shot while performing a vasectomy

    Published: 1/15/2020

  8. Forced to teach in a ‘re-education’ camp

    Published: 1/14/2020

  9. ‘I’m going to say sorry to the whales’

    Published: 1/13/2020

  10. The first beauty queen in a free South Africa

    Published: 1/11/2020

  11. How I built a billion dollar business

    Published: 1/9/2020

  12. The pianist who learnt to play on a paper piano

    Published: 1/8/2020

  13. My nightmares about the policeman who framed me

    Published: 1/7/2020

  14. I prayed to God to make me a girl

    Published: 1/6/2020

  15. The Welsh miner who made wrestling glamorous

    Published: 1/4/2020

  16. Making horse-racing history in a hijab

    Published: 1/2/2020

  17. The Godfather of Hollywood sound

    Published: 1/1/2020

  18. 2020 The power of sight

    Published: 12/31/2019

  19. Inventing a surgery to cure myself

    Published: 12/30/2019

  20. The hunt for a calypso king's lost music

    Published: 12/28/2019

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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 Rio. And their stories can be about anything: tales of survival, humour, resilience and intrigue. From the mind-blowing account of the Japanese man trapped in his own reality TV show, to the Swedish women rescued from lions by a tin of spam. It’s life’s wild side, in stereo. Lives Less Ordinary is brought to you by the team behind Outlook, the home of true life storytelling on BBC World Service radio for nearly 60 years. 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