Lives Less Ordinary Episodes Available now

Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo
Mistaken for a terrorist, Ahmed Rabbani was detained without trial. Art became his refuge

How I convinced police my dad was a murderer
On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence

Balochistan鈥檚 mystery benjo man, part 2
How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star

Balochistan鈥檚 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

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鈥檚 life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean