Lives Less Ordinary Episodes Episode guide
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Sam Lee: Reinventing Ancient Folk Songs
The British singer on a mission to collect folk songs in danger of dying out
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Running for the love of my husband
When Lisa Hallet's soldier husband was killed, she began running to cope with her grief
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Rugby Saved My Life
Ashwin Willemse went from Cape Town gang member to South African Springbok rugby star.
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Rocket Builder, Greek Hero, Activist
Eugene Awimbo, Kenyan shopkeeper with a passion for rockets; Antonis Deligiorgis, the...
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Risking My Life For a Kiss
Actor John Kani took the risky decision to play Othello in apartheid South Africa
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Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 2
ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.
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Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 1
Another chance to hear one of our favourite episodes, a story of spycraft in South Africa
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Rewind: 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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Recovering Bodies from Afghan River
The Afghan man who's devoted his life to recovering bodies from the Kunar River.
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Rebuilding the Everest Trail
Ang Kami Sherpa is risking his life to rebuild the climbers' path up Mount Everest
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Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
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Ramtin Ghazavi: Iran's Unlikely Opera Star
Ramtin Ghazavi was overheard singing by an Italian tourist, who helped launch his career
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Putting my rapists in jail
After being gang raped, South African Jes Foord set about helping other survivors.
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Prince Harry on Mental Health
Prince Harry opens up to reporter Bryony Gordon about the impact of losing his mother.
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Pioneering human rights lawyer Hina Jilani
She often defies death threats to do her job.
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Philippe Pozzo di Borgo
French aristocrat who lost the use of his limbs in a paragliding accident.
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Peshmerga fighter to women's campaigner
The former Peshmerga fighter campaigning for victims of so-called "honour killings"
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Paralympic athlete suspended from running
Blake Leeper was a medal winning Paralympic athlete when he made a devastating decision
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Pakistan's top cage fighter
The Pakistani cage fighter who's now training street kids in mixed martial arts.
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Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo
Mistaken for a terrorist, Ahmed Rabbani was detained without trial. Art became his refuge
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Painting faces in search of myself and my mum
Separated from his mum as a boy, Juano Diaz drew her face over and over again
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Outlook Weekend: What's in a name?
What's in a name? What it means to be a "Patel" in the USA or the son of Pablo Escobar
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Outlook Weekend: The Power of Things
How a simple object can reveal secrets, change minds and break hearts
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Outlook Weekend: Surprising Ideas
Surprising Ideas: Skiing in Afghanistan and Using Tents to Tackle Child Marriage in India
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Outlook Weekend: Shelter
Stories of desperately seeking, painfully losing and courageously providing shelter
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Outlook Weekend: Pick of the Year
Dreams: From building a plane in your garden to scaring off Polar Bears in the Arctic
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Outlook Weekend: Pick of the Year
New Start: from refugees in Europe to the assault victim who befriended his attacker
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Outlook Weekend: Pick of the Week
Extraordinary childhood homes: growing up on a boat in Alaska and in an Australian zoo
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Outlook Weekend: Pick of the Week
Patience: Catching frogs in India and recording history in Iran
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Outlook Weekend: Pick of the Week
Identity: Four thought-provoking perspectives - brains, forgiveness, and top hats.
