Lives Less Ordinary

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Introducing a new season of five remarkable true stories in which love rises above prejudice, waits decades, crosses oceans and survives war. From India to Ital...

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The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi contributed by Lukas · May 11, 2025
Searching for green in a concrete world contributed by Lukas · May 4, 2025
Painting faces in search of myself and my mum contributed by Lukas · Apr 27, 2025
The former wrestler who wants your brain contributed by Lukas · Apr 21, 2025
Swimming blind: my journey to self-acceptance contributed by Lukas · Apr 13, 2025
The painful secret I hid from my twin contributed by Lukas · Apr 6, 2025
Introducing Dear Daughter contributed by Lukas · Apr 2, 2025
Rewind: An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning contributed by Lukas · Mar 30, 2025
My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery contributed by Lukas · Mar 24, 2025
Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 2 contributed by Lukas · Mar 17, 2025
Rewind: The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid Part 1 contributed by Lukas · Mar 10, 2025
Held hostage by al-Qaeda: my desert odyssey contributed by Lukas · Mar 3, 2025
The unmaking of a child soldier contributed by Lukas · Feb 24, 2025
The WW2 spy and the little leaf that saved her contributed by Lukas · Feb 17, 2025
How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune contributed by Lukas · Feb 10, 2025
The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing contributed by Lukas · Feb 3, 2025
My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love contributed by Lukas · Jan 27, 2025
Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’ contributed by Lukas · Jan 20, 2025
Black boy joy: defying stereotypes on the London stage contributed by Lukas · Jan 13, 2025
The long climb back contributed by Lukas · Jan 6, 2025
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Introducing a new season of five remarkable true stories in which love rises above prejudice, waits decades, crosses oceans and survives war. From India to Italy, Syria to the Bahamas, and the UK to the US, these are unforgettable stories that reveal how love can survive against the odds, heal old wounds and transform lives forever.Lives Less Ordinary is a podcast from the BBC World Service that b...

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As of 2026-09-08, Lives Less Ordinary ranks #196 on Apple Podcasts in New Zealand, and appears on charts in 1 country.

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🇳🇿 New Zealand #196 Society & Culture #65 Apple
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First charted2025-08-20
Best ever#36 on Apple Podcasts (New Zealand) · 2025-08-26
Days on chart139
Countries now1
CategoriesSociety & Culture