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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. All My Friends Were Buried Beneath Me

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

  2. Albino man who confronted witchdoctor

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

  3. Albie Sachs: Freedom Fighter to Judge

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

  4. Al-Shabab beach attack survivor

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

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

    Kenyan Douglas Sidialo was blinded by an al-Qaeda bomb

  6. 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

  7. Afghanistan's Ski Club

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

  8. Afghan Soldier Who Saved Parliament

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

  9. Adopting Arthur the jungle dog

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

  10. Acid attack survivor wins new law

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

  11. Acid attack survivor signed as model

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

  12. Abandoned as a baby because of my face

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

  13. A White Supremacist Killed My Father

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

  14. A story of life after Ebola.

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

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

    How Bettye LaVette found and lost her music career five times

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

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

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

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

  18. A love story and a battle cry in the Ecuadorian rainforest

    Nemonte Nenquimo is an indigenous leader who fought back against the oil giants

  19. A Life Dedicated to Teaching Refugees

    Aqeela Asifi - the Afghan teacher who set up a school in a Pakistani refugee camp

  20. A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together

    Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted

  21. A footballing legend's secret addiction

    How Steph Shilton saved husband Peter from a 45-year gambling addiction

  22. A family lost at sea

    Fleeing Vietnam Lauren鈥檚 family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers

  23. A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 2

    Jim is deep undercover in North Korea 鈥� but will he find proof of illegal weapons deals

  24. A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 1

    Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network

  25. A Beslan Mother's Impossible Choice

    Aneta fled the 2004 school siege with her baby but left her elder daughter behind.

  26. 38 days: a family adrift in the Pacific

    The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast

  27. "My friends were arrested, or simply disappeared"

    Tahir Izgil is a Uyghur poet who lived through a Chinese state clampdown

  28. "I've survived three shark bites"

    Australian filmmaker Valerie Taylor shot the underwater shark footage for the movie Jaws

  29. "I Wrote a Whole Book on Toilet Paper"

    Egyptian Nawal El Saadawi on her extraordinary life as a writer and activist.

  30. "I Want to Go Back to North Korea"

    Kim Ryen-hi is a North Korean defector who's trying to return home.

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