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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

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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鈥檚 forgotten musical legacy

  2. Dentist Treating Greeks Too Poor To Pay

    Greek dentist helping those too poor to pay for healthcare.

  3. Death in the Deep

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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Dancing in the womb

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

  7. Dancing in Iraq

    The dangerous business of dancing in Baghdad.

  8. Dancing in Baghdad

    The dangerous business of dancing in Baghdad

  9. Cycling through grief

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

  10. Could This Man Have Saved the World?

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

  11. Competing to bury Iraq's war dead

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

  12. Coming out as India鈥檚 first gay prince

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

  13. Colombia's Mixed Up Twins

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

  14. Collecting bodies from Ukraine battlesites

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

  15. Claressa Shields, Top US Female Boxer

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

  16. Chimps taught me how to be a mother

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

  17. Challenging HIV Stigma in Bhutan

    The couple who braved stigma in Bhutan by going public as both being HIV positive

  18. Cartoonist helping Syria's kids

    The Syrian illustrator creating images of hope for children traumatised by the conflict

  19. Capturing history with a baby in my arms

    Iranian photographer who documented the Islamic Revolution on the streets of Tehran

  20. Buried under bodies in Mali attack

    Leon Aharra Gnama on how he survived the mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali

  21. Buddhist chants and Ibiza trance: A Spanish boy鈥檚 odyssey

    Osel Hita Torres was a baby when he was recognised as a reincarnated spiritual leader

  22. British music icon David Bowie

    A rare interview with singer David Bowie from 2002

  23. Britain鈥檚 infected blood scandal, my quest for the truth

    When he was four, Jason Evans鈥� dad died after contracting HIV from contaminated blood

  24. Bringing the Muppets to Moscow

    Natasha Lance Rogoff鈥檚 daunting task of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia

  25. Bringing schools to Bangladeshi hills

    The Harvard student from the Bangladeshi hills bringing education to hundreds of children

  26. Bringing sanitary pads to refugees

    Yoga teacher Amy Peake on her mission to start a sanitary pad factory in a refugee camp

  27. Bringing home the prime minister鈥檚 gold tooth

    Juliana Lumumba had to fight to reclaim the remains of her father, Patrice Lumumba.

  28. Breaking World Records From Prison Gym

    Whilst in prison for planning an armed robbery, John McAvoy broke sporting world records.

  29. Breaking my addiction to war

    Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop

  30. Brazil's loneliest fan and his footballing fairytale

    Tiago Rech went viral when he was the only supporter in the stands at his club's game

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