Lives Less Ordinary

Lives Less Ordinary

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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How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune

How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune

Reggie Nelson grew up on an East London council estate in a British-Ghanaian family that struggled with alcoholism, domestic violence and money worries. After a brush with the law at a young age, he f...

10 Helmi 202539min

The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing

The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing

In April 2010, Cathy Terkanian received a letter that turned her world upside down. It revealed that her daughter, Alexis, whom she’d had to place for adoption in 1974, had gone missing. Then she was ...

3 Helmi 202537min

My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love

My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love

In 2020, Ellidy Pullin’s life was turned upside down when her partner, Olympic snowboarder Alex ‘Chumpy’ Pullin, died in a tragic accident. The couple had been trying for a baby, so in the deeply diso...

27 Tammi 202541min

Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’

Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’

On the night of December 15th, 1997, a fire broke out in the home of Luz Cuevas and Pedro Vera, a couple living in Philadelphia with their two young sons and their ten-day-old daughter, Delimar. She ...

20 Tammi 202540min

Black boy joy: defying stereotypes on the London stage

Black boy joy: defying stereotypes on the London stage

Ryan Calais Cameron dreamed of being an actor, but after a careers advisor told him this was unrealistic he took a different path as a tradesman. Unhappy, Ryan took a risk with acting and eventually l...

13 Tammi 202540min

The long climb back

The long climb back

In 2017 Australian Gus Taylor lost his lower leg in a terrible climbing accident. The climbing community rallied, hauled him out of depression and got him back on the mountains again. But then in 2022...

6 Tammi 202539min

The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company

The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company

Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety.British journalist Dan McCrum usually writes about businesses for the London-based newspaper, the Financial Times. In 20...

30 Joulu 202440min

The cricket star who learned to fly

The cricket star who learned to fly

Ricky Ellcock’s rollercoaster life as a fast bowler and airline pilotBarbados-born Ricky Ellcock had twin ambitions as a boy – to become a cricketer and fly airplanes. His father was, like Ricky, cric...

23 Joulu 202445min

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