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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. Swimming for my life for 28 hours

    South African surfer Brett Archibald went overboard in the Indian Ocean at night.

  2. Swimming blind: my journey to self-acceptance

    Melanie Barratt, first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum鈥檚 ashes

  3. Surviving Arctic crash and polar bears

    The Russian helicopter pilot who survived ditching in the Arctic Ocean and polar bears

  4. Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending

    Raised by addicts, Dr Katriona O'Sullivan defied the odds to become a university lecturer

  5. Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor 鈥楳om鈥�

    A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart

  6. Standing Up for My Disabled Village

    A quarter of Eko Mulyardi's Indonesian home town are born with birth defects.

  7. Stabbed fighting for Mohawk rights

    Waneek Horn-Miller, the Olympian who was injured as a child standing up for Mohawk rights

  8. Speer's Daughter Opens 蜜芽传媒 to Refugees

    Hilde Schramm, daughter of Hitler's architect, giving refuge to Syrian war survivors

  9. Speaking Up for Canada's Indigenous Children

    Justice Murray Sinclair: speaking up for Canada's abused indigenous children.

  10. South Korea's first and only astronaut

    Soyeon Yi made history when she went into space, and even survived a crash landing.

  11. South Africa's HIV positive judge

    Justice Edwin Cameron - South Africa's top judge who is openly gay and HIV positive.

  12. South Africa's First Black Rugby Superstar

    Chester Williams was a star player of South Africa's rugby world cup winning team of 1995

  13. Sold into marriage in Yemen at 13

    The incredible story of Gaby Gillespie who overcame murder, suicide and domestic abuse

  14. Sisters' Council of the Swat Valley

    Tabassum Adnan is bringing justice to the Swat Valley

  15. Shocking Find in Search for My Parents

    Jenna Cook was abandoned as a baby and returned to China to look for her birth family

  16. Sex Change Boxing Promoter

    Kellie Maloney used to be Frank Maloney who was a big star in boxing - now she is a woman

  17. Separated From My Baby as I Fled Syria

    The Syrian doctor who took drastic measures to get to Europe with her baby daughter

  18. Sent to war aged six

    Deng Adut was raised in war torn Sudan but has now rebuilt his life in Australia

  19. Seeking forgiveness on Iran's death row

    The Iranian activist who tries to get the family of a murder victim to forgive the killer

  20. Searching for the last man in the forest

    Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders

  21. Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"

    Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family

  22. Searching for green in a concrete world

    After losing loved ones to violent crime, Kwesia X found peace in nature

  23. Scams and poetry in Moscow鈥檚 underbelly

    Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was trafficked from Cameroon to Russia

  24. Saving my conjoined twins

    One Pakistani father's struggle to help his conjoined twin baby girls

  25. Saving Lemurs By Sampling Their Calls

    An unlikely partnership between a New York beatboxer and a primatologist

  26. Saving Africa's lions

    A South African couple who've spent a lifetime trying to save Africa's big cats

  27. Saving a life at 35 000 feet

    How Dr Khurshid Guru saved a 2 year old who had an asthma attack over the Atlantic.

  28. Saving a Cuban Boy Changed my Life

    The fisherman who plucked a Cuban boy from the sea - and started an international row.

  29. Saved by goats after my fall from the sacred mountain

    When he slid off a 40-metre cliff in the jungle, Morgan Segui thought he was sure to die

  30. Saudi's First Female Editor-in-Chief

    Somayya Jabarti is editor of the English-language Saudi Gazette.

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