How I convinced police my dad was a murderer
On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence
- 50 mins
- 28 Apr 2024
BBC Sounds - Lives Less Ordinary - Available Episodes
Lives Less Ordinary
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.
Episodes (110 Available)
- Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2
How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star
- 38 mins
- 21 Apr 2024
- Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1
The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument
- 40 mins
- 14 Apr 2024
- Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off
- 49 mins
- 07 Apr 2024
Bonus: The Black 14The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
- 32 mins
- 04 Apr 2024
- My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence
Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape
- 40 mins
- 31 Mar 2024
- How to talk to guerillas
Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them
- 37 mins
- 25 Mar 2024
- Behind the locked door
The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children
- 48 mins
- 18 Mar 2024
- I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university
A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt
- 42 mins
- 11 Mar 2024
- Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
Holly’s life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean
- 41 mins
- 04 Mar 2024
- The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel
Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past
- 40 mins
- 26 Feb 2024
- Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger
- 43 mins
- 19 Feb 2024
- My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run
- 38 mins
- 12 Feb 2024
- Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape
After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out
- 41 mins
- 05 Feb 2024
- A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together
Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted
- 43 mins
- 29 Jan 2024
- Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy
- 39 mins
- 22 Jan 2024
- Searching for the last man in the forest
Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders
- 35 mins
- 15 Jan 2024
- Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2
Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics
- 29 mins
- 08 Jan 2024
- Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1
Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics
- 38 mins
- 01 Jan 2024
- Love in the time of revolution, part 2
Pepe and Lucía: the bonfire of young love, a long separation, and rise to presidency
- 36 mins
- 25 Dec 2023
