Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

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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Episodes

I was forced to rob my own bank, part 2

I was forced to rob my own bank, part 1

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

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

Strangers to coworkers to friends to...sisters?

Taught to kill – my childhood under the Khmer Rouge

Bonus: Dear Daughter: Surviving my daughter's killing

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

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

Skepta’s Mum: How I raised a rap legend

Me, dad and the zombie chickens

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

Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano

Hercules: the grizzly bear who became family

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

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

The couple who foiled New Zealand’s biggest drugs plot

I bought Macclesfield FC while drunk and it saved my life

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

The gay Kenyan boyband star who refused to be defeated