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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Episoder(228)

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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 202448min

I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university

A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt.At the age of 24 he had reached a crossroads in his life. Having failed his final year secondary school exams five times in...

11 Mar 202442min

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