1022 Episodes

  1. My way out of the woods

    Published: 28/07/2025

  2. Sex, love, Rock 'n' Roll... and The Sopranos

    Published: 20/07/2025

  3. Why I wore iron underwear on Kabul’s busiest street

    Published: 13/07/2025

  4. Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home

    Published: 06/07/2025

  5. The penguin that followed a teacher home

    Published: 29/06/2025

  6. Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony

    Published: 22/06/2025

  7. The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98

    Published: 15/06/2025

  8. The man who woke up in the future

    Published: 08/06/2025

  9. The mortician, the "werewolf" and the keeper of brains

    Published: 01/06/2025

  10. José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic

    Published: 25/05/2025

  11. The true story behind Brazil’s Oscar winner, I’m Still Here

    Published: 18/05/2025

  12. The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi

    Published: 11/05/2025

  13. Searching for green in a concrete world

    Published: 04/05/2025

  14. Painting faces in search of myself and my mum

    Published: 27/04/2025

  15. The former wrestler who wants your brain

    Published: 21/04/2025

  16. Swimming blind: my journey to self-acceptance

    Published: 13/04/2025

  17. The painful secret I hid from my twin

    Published: 06/04/2025

  18. Introducing Dear Daughter

    Published: 02/04/2025

  19. Rewind: An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning

    Published: 30/03/2025

  20. My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery

    Published: 24/03/2025

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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

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