Lives Less Ordinary
Lives Less Ordinary is a podcast from the BBC World Service that brings you the most incredible true stories from around the world. Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. Each episode a guest shares their most dramatic, moving, personal story. Listen for unbelievable twists, mysteries uncovered, and inspiring journeys - spanning the entire human experience. Our guests come from every corner of the globe: from Burundi to Beverly Hills, New Zealand to North Korea, Rajasthan to Rio. And their stories can be about anything: tales of survival, humour, resilience and intrigue. From the mind-blowing account of the Japanese man trapped in his own reality TV show, to the Swedish women rescued from lions by a tin of spam. It’s life’s wild side, in stereo.
Lives Less Ordinary is brought to you by the team behind Outlook, the home of true life storytelling on BBC World Service radio for nearly 60 years. Got a story to tell? Send an email to liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or message us via WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784 You can read our privacy notice here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5YD3hBqmw26B8WMHt6GkQxG/lives-less-ordinary-privacy-notice
Latest Episode
Previous Episodes
- Introducing Cyber Hack: Evil Corp
- Trapped underground: my 54-hour cave rescue
- Stabbed as a boy – and becoming a poet for a lost generation
- Tim Berners-Lee: The man who dreamed of a World Wide Web
- The baby-dinosaur hunter who ended up in Hollywood
- The escape from Vietnam that tore my family apart
- Enter the new dragon: the Bruce Lee of Afghanistan
- Jane Goodall: In her own words
- Sweet surprise: I found my birth mother in my local bakery
- Zarna Garg: The rise of an ‘unstoppable’ comedy star
- I sent three innocent teenagers to prison for life
- Cesar Millan: The ‘dog boy’ who became the Dog Whisperer
- Sole survivor: Eight days in the jungle after my plane crashed
- Coming up in the new season of Lives Less Ordinary
- Hold Fast! 8. Our duty is done
- Hold Fast! 7. I want to hug a cow
- Hold Fast! 6. Unicorn poo
- Hold Fast! 5. No better mirror than the sea
- Hold Fast! 4. Taking the biscuit
- Hold Fast! 3. The world as you know it no longer exists
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