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Lives Less Ordinary Episodes

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    Miracle on the ocean floor

    Harrison Okene spent three days trapped in an air pocket in a sunken ship

  2. Microcephaly hasn't held me back

    When Ana Carolina Caceres was born, her parents were told she would never walk or talk.

  3. Mexico's Missing Girls

    Two families who started their own investigations into their daughters' disappearances.

  4. Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony

    Judith Obina helped bring peace to Uganda with a secret weapon: Joseph Kony鈥檚 mother

  5. Medic on the frontline against IS

    Khanza Ali is treating hundreds of Yazidi refugees on Mount Sinjar in Iraq

  6. Man who Defected to Escape his Marriage

    Jang Yeong-jin only discovered he was gay when he left North Korea

  7. Making Movies in North Korea

    Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski had rare access to North Korea's film industry

  8. Love, war, and the cutting room floor

    Mariam and Mohammed are Yemeni filmmakers who turned the lens on their own relationship

  9. Love, war, and the cutting room floor

    Mariam and Mohammed are Yemeni filmmakers who turned the lens on their own relationship

  10. Love, Loss and 'Project 22'

    Fleur Pierets and Julian Boom wanted to wed in every country that allowed gay marriage

  11. Love, grief, and an AI chatbot

    Joshua created an AI simulation of his deceased fianc茅e to help him deal with his loss

  12. Love in the time of revolution, part 2

    Pepe and Luc铆a: the bonfire of young love, a long separation, and rise to presidency

  13. Love in the time of revolution, part 1

    Pepe and Luc铆a: the guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay

  14. Lost in lion country and saved by Spam

    Two friends stranded in the desert, only a discarded tin held the key to their escape

  15. Losing two sons to suicide

    Esther Alexander on why she broke the taboo of discussing hers sons suicide

  16. Looking for my son for 58 years, part 2

    Bestselling writer Lesley Pearse never stopped looking for her son

  17. Looking for my son for 58 years, part 1

    Bestselling writer Lesley Pearse's own story is wilder than any romance

  18. Lola the bare-knuckle drag queen

    Martial arts kept him out of jail, but drag artistry made him whole

  19. Life and Death Decisions in Yemen

    The Yemeni doctor forced to decide which patients to treat

  20. Life after the Peshawar school attack

    Ahmad Nawaz survived the Taliban attack on his school that killed 150 people

  21. Liberia's island of the chimps

    Scientist Betsy Brotman used the chimps for medical tests and cared for them for 30 years

  22. Leaving my family's homophobic church

    Megan Phelps-Roper belonged to a church famous for picketing the funerals of gay people

  23. Learning to live with the voices in my head

    Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control

  24. Kite Runner actor: Why I had to flee

    Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada was forced to leave Afghanistan after a controversial film scene.

  25. Kill or be killed: a climber鈥檚 dilemma, part 2

    Beth Rodden escaped her kidnappers, but the moment would haunt her in the years to follow

  26. Kill or be killed: A climber鈥檚 dilemma, part 1

    Beth Rodden was on the expedition of her dreams in Kyrgyzstan when she was kidnapped

  27. Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home

    A promise to return to his mother helped Antonio Salazar-Hobson through his darkest hours

  28. Kenya's pollution whistle blower

    The Kenyan woman who led a campaign to save her community from deadly pollution

  29. Kate Bornstein: Not-Man, Not-Woman

    American artist and writer Kate Bornstein identifies as not-man, not-woman

  30. Julia Gillard: Standing Up To Sexism

    Julia Gillard: Australia's first woman Prime Minister.

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