Lives Less Ordinary Episodes Available now

The fearless former nun fighting for India's seamstresses
From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya will stand up for herself, and you

Learning to live with the voices in my head
Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control

Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.

Coming out as India’s first gay prince
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society

The secrets of a slave ship in an Alabama swamp
Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history

Searching for my sister, the "keeper of memories"
Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family

Guns, guards, snarling dogs: a child migrant’s story
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old

The Palestinian tapes, part 2
Disco, protest and poetry – Hanan and Riad’s story of making the Intifada album

The Palestinian tapes, part 1
Mo’min Swaitat’s magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette

I hit puberty, then burned down my family home
At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why