Lives Less Ordinary

BBC World Service

Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and wondered, "What’s their story?" Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. Extraordinary stories from around the world.

1893 - Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano

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Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano

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The couple who foiled New Zealand’s biggest drugs plot

I bought Macclesfield FC while drunk and it saved my life

Colm Tóibín: How an Irish boy with a stammer found his voice

The gay Kenyan boyband star who refused to be defeated

Laughter saved me: the comedian turning tragedy into comedy

Living a lie: discovering my dad faked who he was

Fatima Whitbread: from abandoned baby to world champion

One suitcase, three kids: a broke scientist pursues a dream

I broke the most important rule: don't get attached

Tulisa: I wanted fame, but it almost destroyed me

The ragtag boy who was taken in by a football icon

My private trauma was leaked to the press – so I fought back

How Paramore’s singer revived her grandad’s lost album

Miriam Toews: A loud voice in a town once ruled by silence

Trapped underground: my 54-hour cave rescue

Stabbed as a boy – and becoming a poet for a lost generation

Tim Berners-Lee: The man who dreamed of a World Wide Web

The baby-dinosaur hunter who ended up in Hollywood

The escape from Vietnam that tore my family apart

Enter the new dragon: the Bruce Lee of Afghanistan

Jane Goodall: In her own words

Sweet surprise: I found my birth mother in my local bakery

Zarna Garg: The rise of an ‘unstoppable’ comedy star

I sent three innocent teenagers to prison for life

Cesar Millan: The ‘dog boy’ who became the Dog Whisperer

Sole survivor: Eight days in the jungle after my plane crashed

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Hold Fast! 2. I didn’t know the sea was so big

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