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Lives Less Ordinary

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC World Service 1913 - I crash-landed inside an active volcano

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

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Published 27 Jul 2026

Duration 40:45

Episodes

1913-

I crash-landed inside an active volcano

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27 Jul 2026

1912-

Why I don't hate the person who tried to kill me

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20 Jul 2026

1911-

The prisoner who was forced to celebrate a World Cup victory

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13 Jul 2026

1910-

My father and the curse of the golden egg

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06 Jul 2026

1909-

I had a baby – then lost my memory, part 2

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29 Jun 2026

1908-

I had a baby – then lost my memory, part 1

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22 Jun 2026

1907-

Could a sitcom save a man from death row?

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15 Jun 2026

1906-

I was kidnapped by North Korea

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08 Jun 2026

1905-

I was forced to rob my own bank, part 2

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01 Jun 2026

1904-

I was forced to rob my own bank, part 1

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25 May 2026

1903-

Kangaroo Dundee: I gave it all up to become a ‘kangaroo mum’

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18 May 2026

1902-

I'm a champion boxer, but couldn't tell my mum

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11 May 2026

1901-

Strangers to coworkers to friends to...sisters?

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04 May 2026

1900-

Taught to kill – my childhood under the Khmer Rouge

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27 Apr 2026

1899-

Bonus: Dear Daughter: Surviving my daughter's killing

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23 Apr 2026

1898-

I was taken as a baby…I didn’t know who I was, part 2

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20 Apr 2026

1897-

I was taken as a baby, I didn’t know who I was, part 1

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13 Apr 2026

1896-

Skepta’s Mum: How I raised a rap legend

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06 Apr 2026

1895-

Me, dad and the zombie chickens

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30 Mar 2026

1894-

Growing up black in a white family – the truth behind my birth

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23 Mar 2026

1893-

Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano

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16 Mar 2026

1892-

Hercules: the grizzly bear who became family

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09 Mar 2026

1891-

Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 2

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02 Mar 2026

1890-

Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 1

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23 Feb 2026

1889-

The couple who foiled New Zealand’s biggest drugs plot

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16 Feb 2026

1888-

I bought Macclesfield FC while drunk and it saved my life

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09 Feb 2026

1887-

Colm Tóibín: How an Irish boy with a stammer found his voice

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02 Feb 2026

1886-

The gay Kenyan boyband star who refused to be defeated

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26 Jan 2026

1885-

Laughter saved me: the comedian turning tragedy into comedy

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19 Jan 2026

1884-

Living a lie: discovering my dad faked who he was

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12 Jan 2026

1883-

Fatima Whitbread: from abandoned baby to world champion

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05 Jan 2026

1882-

One suitcase, three kids: a broke scientist pursues a dream

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29 Dec 2025

1881-

I broke the most important rule: don't get attached

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22 Dec 2025

1880-

Tulisa: I wanted fame, but it almost destroyed me

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15 Dec 2025

1879-

The ragtag boy who was taken in by a football icon

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08 Dec 2025

1878-

My private trauma was leaked to the press – so I fought back

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01 Dec 2025

1877-

How Paramore’s singer revived her grandad’s lost album

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24 Nov 2025

1876-

Miriam Toews: A loud voice in a town once ruled by silence

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17 Nov 2025

1874-

Trapped underground: my 54-hour cave rescue

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10 Nov 2025

1873-

Stabbed as a boy – and becoming a poet for a lost generation

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03 Nov 2025

1872-

Tim Berners-Lee: The man who dreamed of a World Wide Web

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28 Oct 2025

1871-

The baby-dinosaur hunter who ended up in Hollywood

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20 Oct 2025

1870-

The escape from Vietnam that tore my family apart

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13 Oct 2025

1869-

Enter the new dragon: the Bruce Lee of Afghanistan

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06 Oct 2025

1868-

Jane Goodall: In her own words

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02 Oct 2025

1867-

Sweet surprise: I found my birth mother in my local bakery

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29 Sep 2025

1866-

Zarna Garg: The rise of an ‘unstoppable’ comedy star

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22 Sep 2025

1865-

I sent three innocent teenagers to prison for life

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15 Sep 2025

1864-

Cesar Millan: The ‘dog boy’ who became the Dog Whisperer

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08 Sep 2025

1863-

Sole survivor: Eight days in the jungle after my plane crashed

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01 Sep 2025

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