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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. The trailer

    Astonishing true stories, jaw-dropping twists. The new podcast from Outlook from 25 April

  2. The Trailblazing Runner from Nepal

    Long walks collecting water as a child gave Mira Rai stamina to run 50km trail races.

  3. The student who found water on Mars

    Lujendra Ojha from Nepal was a student when he discovered signs of liquid water on Mars

  4. The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid: Part 2

    ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.

  5. The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 2

    ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.

  6. The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1

    Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent

  7. The sports scandal scoop that almost destroyed me

    In 1998 Finnish journalist Johanna Aatsalo published a story that made her a hate figure

  8. The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp

    Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history

  9. The School for Sex Workers' Children

    Robin Chaurasiya co-founded a school in Mumbai's red light district

  10. The Piano Man on the Front Line

    Ihor, the pianist who played for his captors in the Ukraine conflict.

  11. The penguin that followed a teacher home

    Tom Michell on the lessons he learned from his adopted rescue bird

  12. The Palestinian tapes, part 2

    Disco, protest and poetry 鈥� Hanan and Riad鈥檚 story of making the Intifada album

  13. The Palestinian tapes, part 1

    Mo鈥檓in Swaitat鈥檚 magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette

  14. The painful secret I hid from my twin

    When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them

  15. The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel

    Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past

  16. The Orthodox Jewish fashion designers

    The Hasidic Jewish sisters in Australia who affirm their identity through fashion design

  17. The Nun Campaigning for Gay Rights

    When Sister Jeannine Gramick joined a convent, she had never heard the word "homosexual".

  18. The mystery of the tartan twins

    A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why

  19. The mortician, the "werewolf" and the keeper of brains

    Alexandra Morton-Hayward unlocks the secrets of the human brain but her own betrays her

  20. The man who woke up in the future

    When Dr Pier Piccioni woke up after a car accident, 12 years of his life had been erased

  21. The man who negotiates with Boko Haram

    Australian Dr Stephen Davis tried to rescue Chibok girls kidnapped by Nigerian militants.

  22. The man who finds water in the desert

    Why Alain Gachet quit a lucrative career in oil to search for water underground

  23. The Man Saving Syria's Antiquities

    True life stories

  24. The man behind Disney's legendary songs

    Oscar-winning composer Richard M. Sherman reflects on a lifetime of music

  25. The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 2

    Salva Dut returns to Sudan to find his dad and decides to get clean water to his village

  26. The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 1

    As a survivor of Sudan's civil war, Salva Dut's will to keep going has taken him far

  27. The long climb back

    It started as a magical day for two friends but then a rock came loose

  28. The legendary goalkeeper forced to pawn her gold medals

    Briana knew it was her destiny to win Olympic gold. Then one game changed everything

  29. The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company

    Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety

  30. The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2

    From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality

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