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    Lives Less Ordinary

    Lives Less Ordinary

    Lives Less Ordinary

    ratings:
    Length:
    930 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    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.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 930 episodes

    Title

    The astronaut who made a quilt in Space

    Dr Karen Nyberg has many talents. She's an engineer and astronaut, but she's also an av...

    23 minutes
    		Apr 12, 2022

    The drag queen who ran for president of the United States

    In the 1990s Terence Smith launched his campaign to run for United States president in ...

    29 minutes
    		Apr 11, 2022

    Lives Less Ordinary replaces the Outlook podcast

    An announcement from the Outlook team: From Monday 25th April, this feed will become Li...

    1 minute
    		Apr 09, 2022

    Drawing is my language: the artist who recreates cities from memory

    Stephen Wiltshire was born in London in 1974, and diagnosed with autism when he was thr...

    24 minutes
    		Apr 07, 2022

    How my father’s stories shielded me from civil war

    Wayétu Moore was just five years old in 1990, when Liberia's first civil war broke out....

    38 minutes
    		Apr 06, 2022

    Escaping a life on a dumpsite with classical music

    Like many young people in his community, Simon Karuiki Ndungu grew up scavenging for th...

    22 minutes
    		Apr 05, 2022

    Dressing Beyoncé: It started with a Barbie outfit

    Artist Osman Yousefzada grew up in Birmingham, England in the 1980s after his parents m...

    34 minutes
    		Mar 31, 2022

    The sisters reuniting separated siblings at camp

    Lynn Price and Andi Andree were separated as young children and raised with different f...

    22 minutes
    		Mar 30, 2022

    I’m a disaster expert – and it helped me get through my own

    Prof Lucy Easthope is a leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has spent tw...

    39 minutes
    		Mar 29, 2022

    My mum Poly Styrene, a punk icon

    Celeste Bell's mother Poly Styrene was a punk icon who'd made her mark on music history...

    37 minutes
    		Mar 28, 2022