BBC World Service - Lives Less Ordinary

Tanzania’s hip-hop politician

Joseph Mbilinyi pioneered Swahili rap and then turned to politics, but ended up in jail

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

Tricks from a hit TV show held the key to Jaivet Ealom’s audacious bid for freedom

ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.

Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent

Natasha Lance Rogoff’s daunting task of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia

Amjed’s determined to teach kids in Gaza to swim no matter how many pools he has to build

Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers

When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away

Rejected by family and society, Alina Khan carved her own path to big screen fame