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Lives Less Ordinary
Lives Less Ordinary
BBC World Service

Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and wondered, "What’s their story?" Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected.... more

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Episodes

Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo

Mistaken for a terrorist, and detained without trial. Art became his refuge.Pakistani taxi driver Ahmed Rabbani was arrested in 2002,... more

12 May 2024 · 41 minutes
Introducing… Different

In this podcast, Nicky Campbell talks to extraordinary people and explores what it means to be different. Is it how... more

08 May 2024 · 1 minute
How I convinced police my dad was a murderer

On the day his mother disappeared in December 1989, 11-year-old Collier Landry started looking for evidence. He suspected his... more

28 Apr 2024 · 50 minutes
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2

How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music starAfter hunting for four years, Pakistani... more

21 Apr 2024 · 38 minutes
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1

The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrumentDaniyal Ahmed is a flute player and... more

14 Apr 2024 · 40 minutes
Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud

Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off.She knew how to... more

07 Apr 2024 · 49 minutes
Bonus: The Black 14

A bonus episode from the Amazing Sport Stories podcast – The Black 14. Sport, racism and protests are about to... more

04 Apr 2024 · 32 minutes
My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence

Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape.As children Maria Pilkington's mother and grandmother were... more

31 Mar 2024 · 40 minutes
How to talk to guerillas

Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups, so he learned to negotiate with them.He comes from a remote forested... more

25 Mar 2024 · 37 minutes
Behind the locked door

The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children.Evy Mages grew up in and out of foster care in 1970s... more

18 Mar 2024 · 48 minutes
Lives Less Ordinary
Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo
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