Inspiring stories
Lives Less Ordinary. Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies. Audio, 39 minutes
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted4 January 2023
Lives Less Ordinary. Coming out as India’s first gay prince. Audio, 39 minutes
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted28 December 2022
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- Posted26 December 2022
Lives Less Ordinary. The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp. Audio, 41 minutes
Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Lives Less Ordinary. Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories" Audio, 24 minutes
Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted14 December 2022
Lives Less Ordinary. Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story. Audio, 56 minutes
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted9 December 2022
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- Posted7 December 2022
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- Posted6 December 2022
Lives Less Ordinary. The Palestinian tapes, part 2. Audio, 35 minutes
Disco, protest and poetry – Hanan and Riad’s story of making the Intifada album
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted2 December 2022
Lives Less Ordinary. The Palestinian tapes, part 1. Audio, 33 minutes
Mo’min Swaitat’s magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Lives Less Ordinary. I hit puberty, then burned down my family home. Audio, 42 minutes
At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted16 November 2022
Lives Less Ordinary. He knocked on my door and said: 'I believe you' Audio, 48 minutes
How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy when she needed it most
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Green Lions: Cameroon 90. Video, 77 minutes
The story of the astonishing achievements of Cameroon at the 1990 World Cup.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for 3 months
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- Posted11 November 2022
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- Posted8 November 2022
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- Posted1 November 2022
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- Posted29 October 2022
