The 10 Best Lives Less Ordinary Podcast Episodes
1) The Australian who woke up speaking Mandarin
Ben McMahon from Melbourne, Australia, has had an unlikely career in Chinese reality TV after waking up from a coma speaking Mandarin. When he was 18 years old, Ben suffered a head injury during a car...Show More
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The brain is a fascinating organ.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) The mayor and the art heist mystery
Knut Kreuch was a 13-year-old schoolboy in 1979 when his town in East Germany was shaken by an audacious and baffling art heist. Five very old and valuable paintings were stolen from a museum within t...Show More
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A mini art heist mystery in 20 minutes! 5 very valuable paintings were stolen from a museum in Germany. Almost three decades later, a mayor ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Hamilton: Overcoming hearing loss to make its music
Alex Lacamoire is the award-winning orchestrator, arranger and conductor for the hit musical Hamilton. This hip hop homage to the revolutionary US statesman Alexander Hamilton - which was created by L...Show More
Hamilton: Overcoming hearing loss to make its music
40:24 | Jun 17th, 2020
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AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) I was blamed for the 9/11 attacks
On 11th September 2001, Virginia Buckingham was head of Boston’s Logan Airport when two planes were hijacked after taking off from Logan and flown into New York’s World Trade Center. She immediately r...Show More
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She did not ask for this...imagine being blamed for 9/11 attacks...
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Brazil's loneliest fan and his footballing fairytale
Tiago Rech went viral when he was the only supporter in the stands at his club's game. In 2012 Tiago Rech was the only fan at a big away match for his beloved football team Santa Cruz FC. When they s...Show More
6) How the Donut King lost his crown
Ted Ngoy was among the first Cambodians to find refuge in America from the Khmer Rouge. He was scratching a living at a petrol station when he got a whiff of a donut and something clicked in him. He l...Show More
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A Cambodian refugee lives the American dream and became the Donut King of his donut empire while helping fellow Cambodian refugees along the...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1
Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relicsIn 1974 Tasoula's country, Cyprus, was torn in two by war. Distraught and unable to return home she ended up in the ...Show More
8) How’d you get so rich? A dream to change my family’s fortune
Reggie Nelson grew up on an East London council estate in a British-Ghanaian family that struggled with alcoholism, domestic violence and money worries. After a brush with the law at a young age, he f...Show More
9) The mystery of the tartan twins
A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why. When he was just a baby, David McBride made headline news in Northern Ireland. He had been discovered in the f...Show More
10) Naked and alone: the comedian trapped in a reality TV show
Nasubi had no idea his 15-month fight to survive was being broadcast on Japanese TV.In the late 1990s aspiring comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, lived inside a small room for 15 months survi...Show More