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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. Behind the locked door

    The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children

  2. Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge

    Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in

  3. Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure

    Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in

  4. Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2

    In the ring, Blair finds calm amidst the chaos of his life

  5. Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 1

    From Beverly Hills to hiding from the law with his dad, Blair鈥檚 seen it all

  6. Basketball was My Escape From Syria

    Syrian basketball star Michael Madanly on being in exile

  7. Balochistan鈥檚 mystery benjo man, part 2

    How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star

  8. Balochistan鈥檚 mystery benjo man, part 1

    The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument

  9. Australia's Pioneering Aboriginal MP

    Linda Burney is the one of Australia's first Aboriginal members of parliament.

  10. Archaeologist... and stand-up comedian

    Ella Al-Shamahi specialises in cave digs in war zones. She's also a stand-up comedian.

  11. An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning

    How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief

  12. An American lawyer in Afghanistan

    Kimberley Motley on representing Farkhunda's family

  13. An Afghan taekwondo champion's fight for freedom

    Afghan Tae Kwon Do champion Marzieh Hamidi鈥檚 hard road to freedom

  14. All My Friends Were Buried Beneath Me

    Sherpa Dawa Tashi was the only one of his group to survive an avalanche on Everest.

  15. Albino man who confronted witchdoctor

    The albino journalist who challenged a witchdoctor using albino body parts in his potions

  16. Albie Sachs: Freedom Fighter to Judge

    The anti-apartheid activist that was imprisoned, tortured and almost killed for his work

  17. Al-Shabab beach attack survivor

    Somali student Nasro Dahir Abubakar was on a beach in Mogadishu when militants attacked

  18. Al-Qaeda took my sight, not my spirit

    Kenyan Douglas Sidialo was blinded by an al-Qaeda bomb

  19. After doomsday: I outgrew a cult and became a professor

    When the world fails to end Jerald Walker is left searching for something to believe in

  20. Afghanistan's Ski Club

    Swiss journalist Christoph Zuercher was inspired to start a ski club in Bamiyan

  21. Afghan Soldier Who Saved Parliament

    Esa Khan single-handedly ended a Taliban attack on parliament in Kabul

  22. Adopting Arthur the jungle dog

    Mikael Lindnord struck up an unlikely friendship with a stray dog in Ecuador.

  23. Acid attack survivor wins new law

    Colombian Natalia Ponce de Leon ran a successful campaign for a new law on acid attacks

  24. Acid attack survivor signed as model

    Laxmi Saa was left badly disfigured when acid was thrown over her on a busy Delhi street.

  25. Abandoned as a baby because of my face

    Howard Shulman was born with an infection that destroyed part of his face.

  26. A White Supremacist Killed My Father

    Pardeep Kaleka's father was shot dead at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, USA in 2012

  27. A story of life after Ebola.

    Ebola has returned to Liberia - we hear from a survivor.

  28. A star in her teens, a star in her 70s

    How Bettye LaVette found and lost her music career five times

  29. A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2

    JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscathed

  30. A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 1

    JP Bimeni risked his life to save a book of his verse

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