Podcast

Lives Less Ordinary

Author: BBC
Feed episode count: 226
Official site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s5rx7
RSS: https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02s5rx7.rss
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Summary

Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and wondered, "What’s their story?" Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. Extraordinary stories from around the world.

Episodes

Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

Could a sitcom save a man from death row?

Duration seconds: 2376
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nrgnpv

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Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

I was kidnapped by North Korea

Duration seconds: 2006
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nqcc4s

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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

I was forced to rob my own bank, part 2

Duration seconds: 1432
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nntcpc

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May 25, 2026 · not_requested

I was forced to rob my own bank, part 1

Duration seconds: 2336
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nmkv8g

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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

Kangaroo Dundee: I gave it all up to become a ‘kangaroo mum’

Duration seconds: 2412
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nl7tth

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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

I'm a champion boxer, but couldn't tell my mum

Duration seconds: 2415
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0njwxdf

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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

Strangers to coworkers to friends to...sisters?

Duration seconds: 2383
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nhk30p

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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

Taught to kill – my childhood under the Khmer Rouge

Duration seconds: 2991
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ngc0b7

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Apr 23, 2026 · not_requested

Bonus: Dear Daughter: Surviving my daughter's killing

Duration seconds: 1459
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nd6q6x

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Apr 20, 2026 · not_requested

I was taken as a baby…I didn’t know who I was, part 2

Duration seconds: 2364
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nds42z

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Apr 13, 2026 · not_requested

I was taken as a baby, I didn’t know who I was, part 1

Duration seconds: 2361
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ncrd42

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Apr 6, 2026 · not_requested

Skepta’s Mum: How I raised a rap legend

Duration seconds: 1316
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0nb9fvn

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Mar 30, 2026 · not_requested

Me, dad and the zombie chickens

Duration seconds: 2329
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n94g8c

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Mar 23, 2026 · not_requested

Growing up black in a white family – the truth behind my birth

Duration seconds: 2339
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n7ttzw

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Mar 16, 2026 · not_requested

Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano

Duration seconds: 2362
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n689t8

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Mar 9, 2026 · not_requested

Hercules: the grizzly bear who became family

Duration seconds: 2411
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n4w728

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Mar 2, 2026 · not_requested

Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 2

Duration seconds: 2556
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n2xr81

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Feb 23, 2026 · not_requested

Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 1

Duration seconds: 2581
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n2cj98

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Feb 16, 2026 · not_requested

The couple who foiled New Zealand’s biggest drugs plot

Duration seconds: 2339
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n1cw03

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Feb 9, 2026 · not_requested

I bought Macclesfield FC while drunk and it saved my life

Duration seconds: 2532
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mzm3fb

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Feb 2, 2026 · not_requested

Colm Tóibín: How an Irish boy with a stammer found his voice

Duration seconds: 2477
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0my58m6

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Jan 26, 2026 · not_requested

The gay Kenyan boyband star who refused to be defeated

Duration seconds: 2193
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mwg1sk

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Jan 19, 2026 · not_requested

Laughter saved me: the comedian turning tragedy into comedy

Duration seconds: 2482
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mv5yyg

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Jan 12, 2026 · not_requested

Living a lie: discovering my dad faked who he was

Duration seconds: 2660
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0msvk9y

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Jan 5, 2026 · not_requested

Fatima Whitbread: from abandoned baby to world champion

Duration seconds: 2435
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0mp5wgz

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