Lives Less Ordinary

Lives Less Ordinary

Introducing a new season of five remarkable true stories in which love rises above prejudice, waits decades, crosses oceans and survives war. From India to Italy, Syria to the Bahamas, and the UK to the US, these are unforgettable stories that reveal how love can survive against the odds, heal old wounds and transform lives forever.

Lives Less Ordinary is a podcast from the BBC World Service that brings you the most incredible true stories from around the world. 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. Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. 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

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Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo

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, labelled a terrorist and spent 21 years in US detention, including...

12 Touko 202441min

How I convinced police my dad was a murderer

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 father, a rich and well-respected town doctor, had something to do with i...

28 Huhti 202450min

Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2

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 ethnomusicologist Daniyal Ahmed finally finds Ustad Noor Bakhsh, an elderly shep...

21 Huhti 202438min

Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1

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 anthropologist who spends his time searching out and documenting folk music ...

14 Huhti 202440min

Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud

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 work hard, growing up in a one-bedroom trailer, she dreamed of pursuing her passion for science a...

7 Huhti 202449min

My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence

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 both among the Stolen Generation, removed from their...

31 Maalis 202440min

How to talk to guerillas

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 area called Bojaya, where clusters of small villages are spread along isolate...

25 Maalis 202437min

Behind the locked door

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 and 80s Austria. But even when she started a new life in the US, she was haunted by trau...

18 Maalis 202448min

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