Lives Less Ordinary Episodes Episode guide
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Black boy joy: defying stereotypes on the London stage
Ryan Calais Cameron鈥檚 stories and characters shattered convention in UK theatre
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Black boy joy: defying stereotypes on the London stage
Ryan Calais Cameron鈥檚 stories and characters shattered convention in UK theatre
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Bitten Six Times by Poisonous Snakes
Bitten 6 times by poisonous snakes - why one snake handler has invented a new anti-venom
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Bike-riding bank robber, part 2
The FBI close in. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a wake-up call when police are trying to shoot you.鈥�
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Bike-riding bank robber, part 1
Olympic hopeful to audacious thief 鈥� the racing cyclist who turned to crime
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Bhutan's Happiness Guru
Saamdu Chetri has been tasked by the government with making people happy.
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Bhutan's condom man
One man's journey through Bhutan distributing condoms to the nation
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Behind the locked door
The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children
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Behind the locked door
The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children
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Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge
Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in
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Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure
Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in
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Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2
In the ring, Blair finds calm amidst the chaos of his life
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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
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Basketball was My Escape From Syria
Syrian basketball star Michael Madanly on being in exile
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Balochistan鈥檚 mystery benjo man, part 2
How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star
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Balochistan鈥檚 mystery benjo man, part 1
The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument
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Australia's Pioneering Aboriginal MP
Linda Burney is the one of Australia's first Aboriginal members of parliament.
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Archaeologist... and stand-up comedian
Ella Al-Shamahi specialises in cave digs in war zones. She's also a stand-up comedian.
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An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief
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An American lawyer in Afghanistan
Kimberley Motley on representing Farkhunda's family
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An Afghan taekwondo champion's fight for freedom
Afghan Tae Kwon Do champion Marzieh Hamidi鈥檚 hard road to freedom
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All My Friends Were Buried Beneath Me
Sherpa Dawa Tashi was the only one of his group to survive an avalanche on Everest.
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Albino man who confronted witchdoctor
The albino journalist who challenged a witchdoctor using albino body parts in his potions
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Albie Sachs: Freedom Fighter to Judge
The anti-apartheid activist that was imprisoned, tortured and almost killed for his work
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Al-Shabab beach attack survivor
Somali student Nasro Dahir Abubakar was on a beach in Mogadishu when militants attacked
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Al-Qaeda took my sight, not my spirit
Kenyan Douglas Sidialo was blinded by an al-Qaeda bomb
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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
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Afghanistan's Ski Club
Swiss journalist Christoph Zuercher was inspired to start a ski club in Bamiyan
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Afghan Soldier Who Saved Parliament
Esa Khan single-handedly ended a Taliban attack on parliament in Kabul
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Adopting Arthur the jungle dog
Mikael Lindnord struck up an unlikely friendship with a stray dog in Ecuador.
