Lives Less Ordinary Episodes Episode guide
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Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old
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Grieving Mother Directs Delhi Traffic
Dorris Francis saves lives at the busy road junction where her daughter was killed
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Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
Holly’s life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean
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Giving birth as a hostage in Syria
Janina was pregnant when she set out to meet a school friend who’d become an extremist
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Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger
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From slum to soundman
Abdul Rahman grew up in Africa's biggest slum - he became a world class sound recordist
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From Slum Kid to Movie Director
George Stanley Nsamba grew up in a Ugandan ghetto, now teaches street kids to make films.
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From Peace Activist to Military Aide
Emma Sky - the peace campaigner who became a US military adviser in Iraq.
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From inmate to prison warden
The Brazilian police officer turned prison inmate, who became a reforming prison warden.
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From Goatherd to Top Geologist
The South African man who overcame many obstacles to get an education
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From Buddhist monk to catwalk model
The Thai boy who left temple life to join the fashion world, as a woman.
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Former monk Justo Gallego Martinez has spent 50 years building a cathedral near Madrid.
He's has been building the cathedral with his own hands using recycled materials.
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Former Child Fishing Slave Now Rescuing Others
James Kofi Annan was sold into slavery in Ghana.
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Forgiving the Neo-Nazi who Nearly Killed Me
American Matthew Boger made friends with his aggressor, former white supremacist Tim Zaal
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Forgiving my family's killers
As a boy in Cambodia, Reaksa Himm saw his family murdered by the Khmer Rouge
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Forced to 'surf' a tsunami
The photographer who survived a tsunami by riding the wave in a tiny boat.
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Fleeing Communism in a Hot Air Balloon
In 1979 Günter Wetzel devised a daring plan to escape East Germany with his family
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Fishing for a New Life
After leaving the US Navy American Chad Brown says he swapped his gun for a fishing rod
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Fisherman Who Saved Drowning Migrants
Muhammad Ibrahim rescued a boat crammed with Rohingya refugees off the coast of Malaysia.
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Family Secret of Nobel Prize Winner
Sir Paul Nurse, the prize-wining geneticist who discovered a secret in his own genetics
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Eyes on the prize: Pakistan’s first trans film star
Rejected by family and society, Alina Khan carved her own path to big screen fame
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Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off
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Ex Drug Mule: Prison Set Me Free
The South African drug smuggler who turned his life around in a British prison.
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Ex Drug Mule: Prison Set Me Free
The South African drug smuggler who turned his life around in a British prison.
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Enter the new dragon: the Bruce Lee of Afghanistan
Abbas Alizada copied his hero’s kung fu moves – and look – and became an overnight star
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Elderly Couple on Ukraine's Front Line
Anatoliy and Svetlana Kosse live in the abandoned town of Peski
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Ebola: Tales of Survival
Extraordinary personal stories from people whose lives have been changed Ebola.
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Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy
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Dentist Treating Greeks Too Poor To Pay
Greek dentist helping those too poor to pay for healthcare.
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Death in the Deep
Don Shirley was 250 metres underwater cave diving when his equipment failed
