Lives Less Ordinary Episodes Episode guide
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Teen wrongly accused of two murders
As a teen, Henry was jailed without trial in Uganda. US Lawyer Jim Gash helped acquit him
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Tanzania鈥檚 hip-hop politician
Joseph Mbilinyi pioneered Swahili rap and then turned to politics, but ended up in jail
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Taking on the witch hunters
Blamed for killing my father through witchcraft, I fought back by saving others like me
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Syrian space hero living in exile
Muhammed Faris was Syria's first astronaut but fled after defying President Assad
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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
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Swimming for my life for 28 hours
South African surfer Brett Archibald went overboard in the Indian Ocean at night.
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Swimming blind: my journey to self-acceptance
Melanie Barratt, first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum鈥檚 ashes
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Surviving Arctic crash and polar bears
The Russian helicopter pilot who survived ditching in the Arctic Ocean and polar bears
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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
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Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor 鈥楳om鈥�
A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart
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Standing Up for My Disabled Village
A quarter of Eko Mulyardi's Indonesian home town are born with birth defects.
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Stabbed fighting for Mohawk rights
Waneek Horn-Miller, the Olympian who was injured as a child standing up for Mohawk rights
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Speer's Daughter Opens 成人快手 to Refugees
Hilde Schramm, daughter of Hitler's architect, giving refuge to Syrian war survivors
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Speaking Up for Canada's Indigenous Children
Justice Murray Sinclair: speaking up for Canada's abused indigenous children.
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South Korea's first and only astronaut
Soyeon Yi made history when she went into space, and even survived a crash landing.
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South Africa's HIV positive judge
Justice Edwin Cameron - South Africa's top judge who is openly gay and HIV positive.
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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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Sold into marriage in Yemen at 13
The incredible story of Gaby Gillespie who overcame murder, suicide and domestic abuse
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Sisters' Council of the Swat Valley
Tabassum Adnan is bringing justice to the Swat Valley
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Shocking Find in Search for My Parents
Jenna Cook was abandoned as a baby and returned to China to look for her birth family
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Sex Change Boxing Promoter
Kellie Maloney used to be Frank Maloney who was a big star in boxing - now she is a woman
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Separated From My Baby as I Fled Syria
The Syrian doctor who took drastic measures to get to Europe with her baby daughter
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Sent to war aged six
Deng Adut was raised in war torn Sudan but has now rebuilt his life in Australia
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Seeking forgiveness on Iran's death row
The Iranian activist who tries to get the family of a murder victim to forgive the killer
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Searching for the last man in the forest
Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders
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Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"
Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family
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Searching for green in a concrete world
After losing loved ones to violent crime, Kwesia X found peace in nature
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Scams and poetry in Moscow鈥檚 underbelly
Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was trafficked from Cameroon to Russia
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Saving my conjoined twins
One Pakistani father's struggle to help his conjoined twin baby girls
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Saving Lemurs By Sampling Their Calls
An unlikely partnership between a New York beatboxer and a primatologist
