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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. The doctor who changed American Football

    Nigerian doctor Bennet Omalu found a link between American football and brain injuries.

  2. The child spy and her secret agent parents

    Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War

  3. The child gold miner buried alive

    The Ugandan man who was forced to work in an illegal gold mine at the age of 10

  4. The brain tumour that taught me how to live

    How extreme kayaker Scott Lindgren's illness forced him to face his past

  5. The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 2

    Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor

  6. The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 1

    Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor

  7. The Boy Forced to Wear a Suicide Vest

    Hilal Hamidi was kidnapped by the Taliban and trained to be a suicide bomber

  8. The Boxer who Defied Gaddafi

    The champion boxer from Libya whose career was halted when Gaddafi banned the sport.

  9. The blind man who hiked 6,000 miles

    Trevor Thomas has hiked more than 6,000 miles, despite being blind.

  10. The Animal Sound Man from Cape Town

    Street performer William Jafta entertains the crowds with his animal impressions.

  11. The Afghan woman training imams

    Jamila Afghani is an Afghan woman who teaches imams in her country about women's rights

  12. The Afghan MP Who Ran Against Her Husband And Won

    Shukria Barakzai is a politician and women's rights campaigner in Afghanistan.

  13. The Afghan Cosmonaut Stuck in Orbit

    Abdul Ahad Mohmand was returning from a space mission when his engines failed

  14. The 33: Chile's Rescued Miners

    The story of how 33 Chilean miners survived 69 days trapped in a mine, and life since

  15. Teenage dreams on the Indian Ocean

    At the age of 13 Laura Dekker fought for her right to sail solo around the world

  16. Teen wrongly accused of two murders

    As a teen, Henry was jailed without trial in Uganda. US Lawyer Jim Gash helped acquit him

  17. Tanzania鈥檚 hip-hop politician

    Joseph Mbilinyi pioneered Swahili rap and then turned to politics, but ended up in jail

  18. Taking on the witch hunters

    Blamed for killing my father through witchcraft, I fought back by saving others like me

  19. Syrian space hero living in exile

    Muhammed Faris was Syria's first astronaut but fled after defying President Assad

  20. Syria: a portrait of a marriage

    The couple who fell in love in a Syrian prison and the man who made a film of their story

  21. Swimming for my life for 28 hours

    South African surfer Brett Archibald went overboard in the Indian Ocean at night.

  22. Surviving Arctic crash and polar bears

    The Russian helicopter pilot who survived ditching in the Arctic Ocean and polar bears

  23. 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

  24. Standing Up for My Disabled Village

    A quarter of Eko Mulyardi's Indonesian home town are born with birth defects.

  25. Stabbed fighting for Mohawk rights

    Waneek Horn-Miller, the Olympian who was injured as a child standing up for Mohawk rights

  26. Speer's Daughter Opens 成人快手 to Refugees

    Hilde Schramm, daughter of Hitler's architect, giving refuge to Syrian war survivors

  27. Speaking Up for Canada's Indigenous Children

    Justice Murray Sinclair: speaking up for Canada's abused indigenous children.

  28. South Korea's first and only astronaut

    Soyeon Yi made history when she went into space, and even survived a crash landing.

  29. South Africa's HIV positive judge

    Justice Edwin Cameron - South Africa's top judge who is openly gay and HIV positive.

  30. South Africa's First Black Rugby Superstar

    Chester Williams was a star player of South Africa's rugby world cup winning team of 1995

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