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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. Former Child Fishing Slave Now Rescuing Others

    James Kofi Annan was sold into slavery in Ghana.

  2. Forgiving the Neo-Nazi who Nearly Killed Me

    American Matthew Boger made friends with his aggressor, former white supremacist Tim Zaal

  3. Forgiving my family's killers

    As a boy in Cambodia, Reaksa Himm saw his family murdered by the Khmer Rouge

  4. Forced to 'surf' a tsunami

    The photographer who survived a tsunami by riding the wave in a tiny boat.

  5. Fleeing Communism in a Hot Air Balloon

    In 1979 G眉nter Wetzel devised a daring plan to escape East Germany with his family

  6. Fishing for a New Life

    After leaving the US Navy American Chad Brown says he swapped his gun for a fishing rod

  7. Fisherman Who Saved Drowning Migrants

    Muhammad Ibrahim rescued a boat crammed with Rohingya refugees off the coast of Malaysia.

  8. Family Secret of Nobel Prize Winner

    Sir Paul Nurse, the prize-wining geneticist who discovered a secret in his own genetics

  9. Eyes on the prize: Pakistan鈥檚 first trans film star

    Rejected by family and society, Alina Khan carved her own path to big screen fame

  10. Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud

    Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off

  11. Ex Drug Mule: Prison Set Me Free

    The South African drug smuggler who turned his life around in a British prison.

  12. Ex Drug Mule: Prison Set Me Free

    The South African drug smuggler who turned his life around in a British prison.

  13. Elderly Couple on Ukraine's Front Line

    Anatoliy and Svetlana Kosse live in the abandoned town of Peski

  14. Ebola: Tales of Survival

    Extraordinary personal stories from people whose lives have been changed Ebola.

  15. Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star

    A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam鈥檚 forgotten musical legacy

  16. Dentist Treating Greeks Too Poor To Pay

    Greek dentist helping those too poor to pay for healthcare.

  17. Death in the Deep

    Don Shirley was 250 metres underwater cave diving when his equipment failed

  18. Dead Man Walking: The US nun who took on the death penalty

    When Helen Prejean wrote to a death row inmate, she had no idea what was coming

  19. Danny Trejo: The ex-con who cracked Hollywood

    He鈥檚 played the tough guy in a long list of films but in his 20s faced the death penalty

  20. Dancing in the womb

    A mother, a son, and the discovery of a shared dream

  21. Dancing in Iraq

    The dangerous business of dancing in Baghdad.

  22. Dancing in Baghdad

    The dangerous business of dancing in Baghdad

  23. Cycling through grief

    A personal tragedy motivated Juliana Buhring to cycle around the world solo.

  24. Could This Man Have Saved the World?

    Stanislav Petrov; the man who had to decide whether to launch a nuclear strike

  25. Competing to bury Iraq's war dead

    Jabar Amir is a gravedigger at Wadi Al-Salaam, the world's largest cemetery.

  26. Coming out as India鈥檚 first gay prince

    Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society

  27. Colombia's Mixed Up Twins

    In Colombia, two sets of twins have been reunited after they were swapped at birth.

  28. Collecting bodies from Ukraine battlesites

    Yaroslav Zhilkin leads a team of volunteers to retrieve the bodies of fallen soldiers.

  29. Claressa Shields, Top US Female Boxer

    Living out my father's dream to become an Olympic boxer

  30. Chimps taught me how to be a mother

    Legendary primatologist Dr Jane Goodall reflects on 55 years studying chimpanzees.

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