# Lives Less Ordinary

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Official site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s5rx7
Author: BBC
Episodes: 226

## Resource

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.

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## Episodes
- [Could a sitcom save a man from death row?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/could-a-sitcom-save-a-man-from-death-row) — 2026-06-15T00:30:00+00:00
- [I was kidnapped by North Korea](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/i-was-kidnapped-by-north-korea) — 2026-06-08T00:30:00+00:00
- [I was forced to rob my own bank, part 2](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/i-was-forced-to-rob-my-own-bank-part-2) — 2026-06-01T00:30:00+00:00
- [I was forced to rob my own bank, part 1](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/i-was-forced-to-rob-my-own-bank-part-1) — 2026-05-25T00:30:00+00:00
- [Kangaroo Dundee: I gave it all up to become a ‘kangaroo mum’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/kangaroo-dundee-i-gave-it-all-up-to-become-a-kangaroo-mum) — 2026-05-18T00:30:00+00:00
- [I'm a champion boxer, but couldn't tell my mum](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/i-m-a-champion-boxer-but-couldn-t-tell-my-mum) — 2026-05-11T00:30:00+00:00
- [Strangers to coworkers to friends to...sisters?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/strangers-to-coworkers-to-friends-to-sisters) — 2026-05-04T00:30:00+00:00
- [Taught to kill – my childhood under the Khmer Rouge](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/taught-to-kill-my-childhood-under-the-khmer-rouge) — 2026-04-27T00:30:00+00:00
- [Bonus: Dear Daughter: Surviving my daughter's killing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/bonus-dear-daughter-surviving-my-daughter-s-killing) — 2026-04-23T00:30:00+00:00
- [I was taken as a baby…I didn’t know who I was, part 2](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/i-was-taken-as-a-baby-i-didn-t-know-who-i-was-part-2) — 2026-04-20T00:30:00+00:00
- [I was taken as a baby, I didn’t know who I was, part 1](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/i-was-taken-as-a-baby-i-didn-t-know-who-i-was-part-1) — 2026-04-13T00:30:00+00:00
- [Skepta’s Mum: How I raised a rap legend](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/skepta-s-mum-how-i-raised-a-rap-legend) — 2026-04-06T00:30:00+00:00
- [Me, dad and the zombie chickens](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/me-dad-and-the-zombie-chickens) — 2026-03-30T00:30:00+00:00
- [Growing up black in a white family – the truth behind my birth](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/growing-up-black-in-a-white-family-the-truth-behind-my-birth) — 2026-03-23T01:30:00+00:00
- [Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/music-was-my-salvation-the-homeless-man-and-the-piano) — 2026-03-16T01:30:00+00:00
- [Hercules: the grizzly bear who became family](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/hercules-the-grizzly-bear-who-became-family) — 2026-03-09T01:30:00+00:00
- [Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 2](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/sects-lies-and-videotape-a-syrian-story-part-2) — 2026-03-02T01:30:00+00:00
- [Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 1](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/sects-lies-and-videotape-a-syrian-story-part-1) — 2026-02-23T09:48:00+00:00
- [The couple who foiled New Zealand’s biggest drugs plot](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/the-couple-who-foiled-new-zealand-s-biggest-drugs-plot) — 2026-02-16T01:30:00+00:00
- [I bought Macclesfield FC while drunk and it saved my life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/i-bought-macclesfield-fc-while-drunk-and-it-saved-my-life) — 2026-02-09T01:30:00+00:00
- [Colm Tóibín: How an Irish boy with a stammer found his voice](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/colm-t-ib-n-how-an-irish-boy-with-a-stammer-found-his-voice) — 2026-02-02T01:30:00+00:00
- [The gay Kenyan boyband star who refused to be defeated](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/the-gay-kenyan-boyband-star-who-refused-to-be-defeated) — 2026-01-26T01:30:00+00:00
- [Laughter saved me: the comedian turning tragedy into comedy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/laughter-saved-me-the-comedian-turning-tragedy-into-comedy) — 2026-01-19T01:30:00+00:00
- [Living a lie: discovering my dad faked who he was](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/living-a-lie-discovering-my-dad-faked-who-he-was) — 2026-01-12T01:30:00+00:00
- [Fatima Whitbread: from abandoned baby to world champion](https://stenobird.com/podcast/lives-less-ordinary-162239/fatima-whitbread-from-abandoned-baby-to-world-champion) — 2026-01-05T01:30:00+00:00

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