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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My way out of the woods

My way out of the woods

A corporate high-flyer ended up living in a forest after a spiral of debt, shame and secrecy.After avoiding a mounting debt to his landlord, Australian Mic Whitty’s life started to crumble. Instead of...

28 Heinä 202541min

Sex, love, Rock 'n' Roll... and The Sopranos

Sex, love, Rock 'n' Roll... and The Sopranos

Robin Green is an American writer who has been dizzyingly successful, but she describes herself as a 'clueless girl'. At times, she didn't even realise she could actually write. In the early 1970s whe...

20 Heinä 202540min

Why I wore iron underwear on Kabul’s busiest street

Why I wore iron underwear on Kabul’s busiest street

Artist Kubra Khademi was so enraged by the constant sexual harassment faced by women in Afghanistan that she created a bespoke suit of armour, forged out of metal with exaggerated breasts and buttocks...

13 Heinä 202540min

Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home

Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home

After being kidnapped, a promise to return to his mother helped Antonio Salazar-Hobson through his darkest hours.Antonio Salazar-Hobson was four years old when he was kidnapped from his Mexican migran...

6 Heinä 202541min

The penguin that followed a teacher home

The penguin that followed a teacher home

While visiting friends in Uruguay, British teacher Tom Michell saw a penguin covered in oil and tar on a beach. Tom cleaned the bird as best he could and then tried to release it. The penguin refused ...

29 Kesä 202539min

Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony

Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony

In Judith Obina Okumu's imagination, Joseph Kony was a monster. As leader of the Lord's Resistance Army he'd fought a decades-long war against the government of Yoweri Museveni – displacing and destro...

22 Kesä 202539min

The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98

The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98

Opal Lee is now affectionately known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth. She led the campaign for the 19th June, the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas were finally told that they were free, to b...

15 Kesä 202536min

The man who woke up in the future

The man who woke up in the future

When Dr Pier Piccioni woke up after a car accident, 12 years of his life had been erased.Dr Pierdante Piccioni is an unwilling time-traveller. Twelve years of his life were completely wiped from his m...

8 Kesä 202539min

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