BBC Radio Podcasts from Lives Less Ordinary
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2
How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1
The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument
Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off
Bonus: The Black 14
The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence
Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape
How to talk to guerillas
Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them
Behind the locked door
The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children
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
Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
Holly’s life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean
The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel
Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past
Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger
My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run
Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape
After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out
A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together
Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted
Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy
Searching for the last man in the forest
Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2
Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1
Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics
Love in the time of revolution, part 2
Pepe and Lucía: the bonfire of young love, a long separation, and rise to presidency
Love in the time of revolution, part 1
Pepe and Lucía: the guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay
An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief
Scams and poetry in Moscow’s underbelly
Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was trafficked from Cameroon to Russia
Introducing Amazing Sport Stories
Sport but not as you know it. A brand new sports storytelling podcast
Unmasking my best friend
Reality TV producer Johnathan found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up
Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge
Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in
Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure
Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in
The fisherman and the 'spy whale'
Joar Hesten's mission to save a whale rumoured to have escaped from the Russian navy
Brazil's loneliest fan and his footballing fairytale
Tiago Rech went viral when he was the only supporter in the stands at his club's game
Love, Loss and 'Project 22'
Fleur Pierets and Julian Boom wanted to wed in every country that allowed gay marriage
38 days: a family adrift in the Pacific
The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast
"My friends were arrested, or simply disappeared"
Tahir Izgil is a Uyghur poet who lived through a Chinese state clampdown
Bringing home the prime minister’s gold tooth
Juliana Lumumba had to fight to reclaim the remains of her father, Patrice Lumumba.
The Godmother of Beirut's nightlife
Under the boot of the Syrian army, Nicole Moudaber brought raves to Lebanon
Dancing in the womb
A mother, a son, and the discovery of a shared dream
The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2
From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality
The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 1
A bond between brothers, a coming-out story, and an international song contest
Miracle on the ocean floor
Harrison Okene spent three days trapped in an air pocket in a sunken ship
Indiana Jones: The kids who remade a blockbuster
In 1982, two Mississippi boys recreated a $22m film, shot-for-shot, on their pocket money
The woman who fell from the sky, part 2
How a jump changed daring parachutist Tony Osornio's life forever
The woman who fell from the sky, part 1
Tony Osornio would go to dangerous extremes to keep skydiving
Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 2
Self-defence is no offence: how anti-racist activist Tariq Mehmood made UK legal history
Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 1
Immigrant teen Tariq Mehmood led a movement to resist violent racism in 1970s Britain
I save chimpanzees and they've saved me
Stany Nyandwi's rescued chimpanzees helped him through war and loneliness
Who is this kneeling man?
My search for the truth about my father and Martin Luther King’s assassination
How I survived a pirate hijack
Marine engineer Chirag Bahri was trapped for eight gruelling months on a chemical tanker
Love, war, and the cutting room floor
Mariam and Mohammed are Yemeni filmmakers who turned the lens on their own relationship
He was almost a mass shooter – an act of kindness stopped him
Aaron Stark now works to raise awareness around why mass attacks happen
Teenage dreams on the Indian Ocean
At the age of 13 Laura Dekker fought for her right to sail solo around the world
'Don't anger the monster', part 2
Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein
'Don't anger the monster', part 1
Rowena Chiu on surviving the Hollywood sexual predator Harvey Weinstein
Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending
Raised by addicts, Dr Katriona O'Sullivan defied the odds to become a university lecturer
Lola the bare-knuckle drag queen
Martial arts kept him out of jail, but drag artistry made him whole
I was there the night Emmett Till was taken
Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction
Tanzania’s hip-hop politician
Joseph Mbilinyi pioneered Swahili rap and then turned to politics, but ended up in jail
'Brother. do. you. love. me.' The SMS that changed our lives
Brothers Manni and Reuben Coe, and the text that prompted a lockdown rescue mission
'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island
Tricks from a hit TV show held the key to Jaivet Ealom’s audacious bid for freedom
The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid: Part 2
ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.
The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1
Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent
Bringing the Muppets to Moscow
Natasha Lance Rogoff’s daunting task of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia
Introducing: Love, Janessa
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My life in seven swimming pools
Amjed’s determined to teach kids in Gaza to swim no matter how many pools he has to build
The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by a bullet
Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers
I didn’t know I was part of an experiment
When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away
Eyes on the prize: Pakistan’s first trans film star
Rejected by family and society, Alina Khan carved her own path to big screen fame
Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2
In the ring, Blair finds calm amidst the chaos of his life
Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 1
From Beverly Hills to hiding from the law with his dad, Blair’s seen it all
The mystery of the tartan twins
A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why
Breaking my addiction to war
Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop
The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses
From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya will stand up for herself, and you
Learning to live with the voices in my head
Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control
Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
Coming out as India’s first gay prince
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society
The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp
Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history
Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"
Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family
Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old
The Palestinian tapes, part 2
Disco, protest and poetry – Hanan and Riad’s story of making the Intifada album
The Palestinian tapes, part 1
Mo’min Swaitat’s magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette
I hit puberty, then burned down my family home
At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why
He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you'
How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy when she needed it most
My father’s hidden crimes
Analía’s father was accused of being a government torturer — he said it was a lie
The child spy and her secret agent parents
Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War
A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 2
Jim is deep undercover in North Korea — but will he find proof of illegal weapons deals
A fake billionaire in North Korea, part 1
Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network
Opiyo’s law: Never let fear rule your life
Nicholas Opiyo survived civil war to become one of Uganda’s top human rights lawyers
Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 2
Silibil N’ Brains found fame as fake American rappers - but how long can you live a lie?
Hip hop, lies and the ultimate prize, part 1
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
I was the voice of Bambi – and kept it secret for years
Donnie Dunagan was a Disney child star in the 1930s before becoming a US Marine
Black, Korean, stateless: a Slickyboy’s American dream, part 2
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by 7, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
Black, Korean, stateless: A Slickyboy’s American dream, part 1
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by seven, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
I see my son in the Northern Lights
Chasing the aurora helps Hugo grieve
The brain tumour that taught me how to live
How extreme kayaker Scott Lindgren's illness forced him to face his past
The family that went to war with a military dictatorship
Hafsat Abiola Costello's dad was nearly Nigeria's president - but he had powerful enemies
How I fell in love with blindness
Itto Outini lost her sight but gained her freedom
Nailed into a boat: Escaping Mao’s China
Dr Andrew Kwong fled famine and persecution as a child
The legendary goalkeeper forced to pawn her gold medals
Briana knew it was her destiny to win Olympic gold. Then one game changed everything
A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 2
JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscathed
A poet in a Burundi war zone, part 1
JP Bimeni risked his life to save a book of his verse
My husband thought I was an imposter
Abi Morgan’s husband woke from a coma and didn’t recognise her
My dream holiday turned to horror
Pirates attacked us as we slept
A family lost at sea
Fleeing Vietnam Lauren’s family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers
Giving birth as a hostage in Syria
Janina was pregnant when she set out to meet a school friend who’d become an extremist
Taking on the witch hunters
Blamed for killing my father through witchcraft, I fought back by saving others like me
Township lawyer v gold giants, part 2
Charles sues his country’s richest companies on behalf of black gold miners
Township lawyer v gold giants, part 1
Apartheid taught Charles to know his place, so how did he end up suing the gold industry?
We need to talk about Carlo
Donna discovers her ex fiancé’s secret life
You wanted me dead, but look at me now
Anne’s village thought her disability made her worthless. She had other ideas
Bike-riding bank robber, part 2
The FBI close in. “It’s a wake-up call when police are trying to shoot you.”
Bike-riding bank robber, part 1
Olympic hopeful to audacious thief – the racing cyclist who turned to crime
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