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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. I jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge

    Kevin Hines survived the jump and now helps others turn their backs on suicidal thoughts

  2. I invented the Super Soaker

    Lonnie Johnson made millions from inventing a toy water gun, the Super Soaker.

  3. I hit puberty, then burned down my family home

    At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home 鈥� and she didn鈥檛 know why

  4. I Helped My Mother To Die

    Sean Davison was charged with attempted murder for helping to end his mother's life

  5. I have given a voice to civil war survivors

    Recording the oral history of Sierra Leone's bloody conflict.

  6. I had to eat my friends to survive

    Pedro Algorta was a passenger on a Uruguayan plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972

  7. I didn鈥檛 know I was part of an experiment

    When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away

  8. I didn't tell my mum I was her child

    Nurse Phyllis Whitsell spent years caring for her mother, who'd given her up for adoption

  9. I didn't realise I was in a cult

    Alexandra Stein spent ten years living in a secretive political group.

  10. I didn't know my name until I was 18

    Poet Lemn Sissay grew up in foster care unaware of his real name and identity

  11. I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

    A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt

  12. I Became Friends with my FARC Captors

    Laura Ulloa was kidnapped by the FARC when she was 11 years old

  13. I Became a Temporary Bride in Iran

    Jennifer Klinec travelled to Iran to learn cookery but ended up meeting her husband.

  14. I am Pablo Escobar's Son

    Life as the son of notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar.

  15. Husband for Hire

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  16. Husband for Hire

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  17. Hunting the Lockerbie Bombers

    When his brother died in the Lockerbie bombing, Ken Dornstein tried to find his killer

  18. Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell

    Claire Martin was abandoned at two days old. For years she searched for blood relatives

  19. Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2

    Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics

  20. Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1

    Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics

  21. Hunting Australia's Giant Crocodiles

    In Australia's Northern Territory Mick Pitman is known simply as Crocodile Mick.

  22. How鈥檇 you get so rich? A dream to change my family鈥檚 fortune

    Reggie Nelson knocked on the poshest doors in London and asked a million-dollar question

  23. How to talk to guerillas

    Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them

  24. How my mysterious childhood became a best-selling novel

    Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia鈥檚 biggest crime stories

  25. How I survived a pirate hijack

    Marine engineer Chirag Bahri was trapped for eight gruelling months on a chemical tanker

  26. How I survived a mid-air collision

    American skydiving instructor Mike Robinson, relives one death-defying jump in 2013

  27. How I fell in love with blindness

    Itto Outini lost her sight but gained her freedom

  28. How I convinced police my dad was a murderer

    On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence

  29. Honouring my dead cellmate

    The former prisoner fighting for female inmates' rights

  30. Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 2

    Silibil N鈥� Brains found fame as fake American rappers - but how long can you live a lie?

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