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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

  1. Not Angry With My Daughter's Killer

    British father Nick Gazzard now protects other women from domestic abuse.

  2. New life for Berlin Tempelhof Airport

    Berlin's historic Tempelhof Airport is now being used to house thousands of migrants.

  3. Never ever give up: how Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida

    American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad's thirty-year dream to swim from Cuba to Florida

  4. Nepal's Pioneering Muslim Lawyer

    Mohna Ansari is the first woman Muslim lawyer in Nepal

  5. Neo-Nazis Tried To Take Over Our Town

    Americans Sherrill and Bobby Harper resisted a white supremacist take-over of their area.

  6. Nailed into a boat: Escaping Mao鈥檚 China

    Dr Andrew Kwong fled famine and persecution as a child

  7. Mystery of the wetsuit migrants

    Identifying two dead bodies washed up in identical wetsuits in Norway and the Netherlands

  8. My Son was Shot Dead for Playing Loud Music

    Ron Davis's son was shot dead in 2012 in a dispute over loud music.

  9. My Son Was killed by an Online Predator

    Lorin LaFave campaigns for internet safety after her son's killer groomed him on the web

  10. My son the suicide bomber

    Jordanian MP Mazen Dalaeen's son was radicalised and joined the Islamic State group.

  11. My secret mother

    Irish journalist Caitriona Palmer has kept her relationship with her birth mother hidden.

  12. My school for sex abuse survivors

    Alice Achan gave an education to girls who'd been kidnapped by the LRA in Uganda

  13. My romantic holiday ended in disaster

    Annette Herfkens shares her remarkable story of survival in the Vietnamese jungle

  14. My Mother Was Killed For Being HIV+

    Mandisa Dlamini returned to her community in South Africa to meet her mother's killers

  15. My Mission to Unite Somali Clans

    Adam Matan is working to break down tribal barriers between Somalis around the world.

  16. My life in seven swimming pools

    Amjed鈥檚 determined to teach kids in Gaza to swim no matter how many pools he has to build

  17. My husband thought I was an imposter

    Abi Morgan鈥檚 husband woke from a coma and didn鈥檛 recognise her

  18. My Greek restaurant became a refuge

    The Greek restaurant owner caring for thousands of migrants

  19. My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence

    Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape

  20. My Girlfriend Murdered Before My Eyes

    Claudia Brenner was hiking with her girlfriend when they were attacked by a gunman

  21. My friend, James Foley, beheaded by IS

    Brian Oakes on reclaiming the legacy of journalist James Foley who was killed in Syria

  22. My Friend Became an Islamist Leader

    How extremism in Mali shut down Manny Ansar's desert festival and radicalised his friend

  23. My firefight with elephant poachers

    Eric Mararv was shot on the frontline of DRC's battle against elephant poaching.

  24. My fight for life after croc attack

    Ofir Drori had to crawl for two days to get help after a crocodile bit his leg.

  25. My father鈥檚 hidden crimes

    Anal铆a鈥檚 father was accused of being a government torturer 鈥� he said it was a lie

  26. My father was killed defending Palmyra

    Zenobia al-Asaad's father Khaled, head of antiquities at Palmyra, was beheaded by IS.

  27. My father Faiz: Pakistan鈥檚 revolutionary poet, part 2

    How Salima Hashmi and Faiz defied a dictatorship through satire and poetry

  28. My father Faiz: Pakistan鈥檚 revolutionary poet, part 1

    Salima Hashmi grew up with puppets and poetry, inspiring her own career in performance

  29. My dream holiday turned to horror

    Pirates attacked us as we slept

  30. My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'

    Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run

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