Life Changing Podcast
Dr Sian Williams talks to people who have lived through extraordinary events that have reshaped their lives in the most unpredictable ways.
In this series Dr Sian Williams talks to people who have lived through extraordinary events that have set their lives on an entirely different course.
This podcast is all about the human experience, how people deal with obstacles that turn their lives upside down. The journeys are not always straightforward and there are often some remarkable discoveries along the way.
Would you like to appear on the podcast? Do you have an extraordinary story to tell? We'd love to hear from you: lifechanging@bbc.co.uk
Episodes to download
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Introducing Lives Less Ordinary
Monday
Step into someone else鈥檚 life and expect the unexpected. Extraordinary personal stories
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Missing the bus
Wed 20 Nov 2024
An English boy goes from homelessness in LA's Skid Row to Basketball stardom.
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Buried Trauma
Wed 13 Nov 2024
A grandmother's final recognition and relief from a long buried childhood trauma.
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Hostage Survival
Wed 6 Nov 2024
A hostage survivor explains why survival is the first step on a long road.
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Introducing the new series of Life Changing
Tue 5 Nov 2024
Dr Sian Williams looks forward to another series of extraordinary stories.
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The crocodile, the twins and the bond that saved them
Wed 15 May 2024
Georgia and Melissa are swimming in a Mexican lagoon, when one of them is dragged under.
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'I will make amends'
Wed 8 May 2024
In 1988 experienced medical doctor Tony answers a call for help 鈥� it nearly breaks him.
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Excluded
Wed 1 May 2024
Marginalised his whole life, aged 24, Tier demands a reckoning with the education system.
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颁丑茅谤颈别
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Su鈥檚 in a race against time to finally meet her birth mother, on the last day of her life.
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Trading places
Wed 17 Apr 2024
Fundamentally unhappy as an oil trader, Dan takes a giant personal gamble.
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It's the little things
Wed 10 Apr 2024
As midwife Agnes鈥� third baby is delivered, she鈥檚 confronted by a profound need for change
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Witness
Wed 3 Apr 2024
Just 14 when her mum is murdered, Georgia vows that she will never be forgotten.
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Harriet: what happened next
Boxing Day 2023
A live audience hears how telling us her story was another life-changing experience.
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Hurting the one you love
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Full of teenage fury Connor lashes out at his mum 鈥� with far-reaching consequences.
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Bluebells on Bunny Hill
Wed 15 Nov 2023
In a children鈥檚 home in 1959, a unique friendship is forged 鈥� then cruelly ended.
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I knew I could never make it right
Wed 8 Nov 2023
In her 20s, Teresa Clark made a fatal decision that would impact multiple lives.
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Blink once
Wed 1 Nov 2023
Police officer Clodagh is used to dealing with emergency situations 鈥� until it鈥檚 her own.
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The Baroness
Wed 25 Oct 2023
Rachel had an aristocratic but poor upbringing, then came a deathbed confession.
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Dead calm
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Will is in the Solomon Islands surfing spectacular waves - then the sea disappears.
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It started as a perfect wedding day
Wed 11 Oct 2023
A chase begins - at the reins of her horse-drawn carriage, Emily fights to survive.
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If I panic I die
Wed 17 May 2023
A coffee shop becomes a crime scene and Stephen鈥檚 life hangs in the balance
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Speechless
Wed 10 May 2023
Polly鈥檚 put everything into her profession. Then in a moment on live TV it all goes wrong.
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Overheard
Wed 3 May 2023
Eight-year-old Hazel listens in as her teachers discuss her. Their words are devastating.
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From the rubble
Wed 26 Apr 2023
Jessica gets home with her two young boys. Minutes later their house explodes.
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The box under the bed
Wed 19 Apr 2023
Joe thought he knew his dad until he found a cache of documents revealing lie after lie.
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Taken: Lisa鈥檚 story
Wed 12 Apr 2023
Six-year-old Lisa boards a flight with her dad. She won鈥檛 see her mum for the next decade.
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Taken: Tracey鈥檚 story
Wed 5 Apr 2023
Her kids aren鈥檛 home, then her husband sends a text: 鈥楪ary and Lisa say goodbye forever'.
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Love and the law
Wed 16 Nov 2022
On a coach to be deported from the UK, time鈥檚 running out and Aderonke鈥檚 hope is fading.
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