Lives Less Ordinary

Supporting Content

• Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run

  In the boxing ring Blair Cobbs finds calm amidst the chaos of his life

  

  Duration: 3:46

• 'Brother. do. you. love. me.' The SMS that changed our lives

  Brothers Manni and Reuben Coe, and the text that prompted a lockdown rescue mission

  

  Duration: 3:06

• I see my son in the Northern Lights

  Chasing the aurora helps Hugo grieve

  

  Duration: 2:42

• The Olympic hopeful turned bike-riding bank robber

  If Tom Justice's bike skills wouldn’t win medals, then he’d use them to rob banks instead

  

  Duration: 4:11

• Mobeen Azhar

  Mobeen is a BAFTA, Grierson and RTS award-winning journalist. He has produced and presented content across BBC television, radio and online for almost 20 years. His specialist areas of insight also include sex work, addiction and Pakistan. He loves horror movies, Pomeranians and has encyclopaedic knowledge of the music of Prince. 

  

• India Rakusen

  India is an award-winning audio and TV presenter. Her work focuses on exploring our fast-changing world, and she loves spending time with people and getting under the skin of what makes us all tick. She’s worked on multiple big narrative podcast series, and outside of work she's found striding into the hills in the rain, or dancing in the kitchen. 

  

• Jo Fidgen

  Jo has been presenting BBC radio programmes for more than 20 years, and has lived in and reported from Zambia and Sweden. She was cheekily dubbed the BBC’s ‘sex correspondent’ after a slew of documentaries on sexual mores. These days, living in a small rural village and with two allotments to tend, she spends more time on country matters.

  

• Emily Webb

  Emily’s first job at the BBC was as an actor in a radio drama, but a stint as a local radio reporter gave her the bug for listening to other people’s stories. Subsequent highlights include chasing deer around with a microphone in Japan and hanging out with diamond detectives in Antwerp.