BBC Radio Podcasts from Out of the Ordinary

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How advertisers are trying to use neuroscientific techniques to hack our brains.

How the world of 'memory sports' was rocked by a group of North Korean teenage girls.

You can buy a piece of the cross Jesus died on for £400. But all is not what it seems

If we find other intelligent life in the universe, what should we expect it to look like?

What should scientists do if they come across possible evidence of extraterrestrial life?

Can people who haven't spoken for years have lucid conversations just before they die?

Might humans have an inbuilt compass like homing pigeons? If so, how can we rediscover it?

Jolyon Jenkins explores Esperanto, the language designed to bring world peace and harmony.

Who do you want to read your old emails when you die? Are the dead entitled to privacy?

Jolyon Jenkins meets the people who want whistling to be taken seriously as a musical art.

Jolyon Jenkins meets the men trying to build free energy machines in their garages.

The people who think drilling a hole in the head can revitalise them and prevent dementia.

Jolyon Jenkins meets rebels not paying their tax because they think the Queen is a traitor

Jolyon Jenkins meets the people who want to swim a mile through freezing cold water.

Jolyon Jenkins investigates the UK's private schools teaching fundamentalist Christianity.

Fifty years after LSD was banned, Jolyon Jenkins tries to expand his mind without drugs.

Jolyon Jenkins reports on the extreme treatments bald men are putting themselves through.

Jolyon Jenkins investigates the shadowy world of online unregulated sperm donation.

Jolyon Jenkins meets the people zapping their brains with DIY electrical devices.

Jolyon Jenkins investigates the world of mousetrap inventors. Can there be a better trap?

Can the dead talk to us? Jolyon Jenkins looks into EVP - alleged voices from the far side.

Jolyon Jenkins on men fighting a liberation war against what they see as female oppression

Jolyon Jenkins reports on one man's attempt to create a new nation - a libertarian utopia.