Lives Less Ordinary Episodes Available now
José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic
The surprising life story of the ex-President of Uruguay who died this month
The true story behind Brazil’s Oscar winner, I’m Still Here
Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men took his father away
The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi
Lothar Hermann found out his neighbour was ‘architect of the Holocaust’ Adolf Eichmann
Searching for green in a concrete world
After losing loved ones to violent crime, Kwesia X found peace in nature
Painting faces in search of myself and my mum
Separated from his mum as a boy, Juano Diaz drew her face over and over again
The former wrestler who wants your brain
Wrestling with Hulk Hogan and The Rock, Chris Nowinski’s dream job ended after an injury
Swimming blind: my journey to self-acceptance
Melanie Barratt, first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum’s ashes
The painful secret I hid from my twin
When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them
Introducing Dear Daughter
A bonus episode of Dear Daughter - stories of family and parenting from around the world
Rewind: An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief