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 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 liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk 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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- Hold Fast! 5. No better mirror than the sea 18.08.2025
- Hold Fast! 4. Taking the biscuit 11.08.2025
- Hold Fast! 3. The world as you know it no longer exists 11.08.2025
- Hold Fast! 2. I didn’t know the sea was so big 04.08.2025
- Hold Fast! 1. Signs from the universe 04.08.2025
- My way out of the woods 28.07.2025
- Sex, love, Rock 'n' Roll... and The Sopranos 21.07.2025
- Why I wore iron underwear on Kabul’s busiest street 14.07.2025
- Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home 07.07.2025
- The penguin that followed a teacher home 30.06.2025
- Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony 23.06.2025
- The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98 16.06.2025
- The man who woke up in the future 09.06.2025
- The mortician, the "werewolf" and the keeper of brains 02.06.2025
- José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic 26.05.2025
- The true story behind Brazil’s Oscar winner, I’m Still Here 19.05.2025
- The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi 12.05.2025
- Searching for green in a concrete world 05.05.2025
- Painting faces in search of myself and my mum 28.04.2025
- The former wrestler who wants your brain 21.04.2025
