Lives Less Ordinary

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• The township kid who took on the gold industry

  Apartheid taught Charles to know his place, so how did he end up suing the gold industry?

  Duration: 3:38

• My neighbours wanted me dead

  Anne’s village thought her disability made her worthless. She had other ideas.

  Duration: 3:45

• The Olympic hopeful turned bike-riding bank robber

  If Tom Justice's bike skills wouldn’t win medals, then he’d use them to rob banks instead

  Duration: 4:11

• Emily Webb

  Emily’s first job at the BBC was as an actor in a radio drama, but a stint as a local radio reporter gave her the bug for listening to other people’s stories. Subsequent highlights include chasing deer around with a microphone in Japan and hanging out with diamond detectives in Antwerp.

  

• Jo Fidgen

  Jo has been presenting BBC radio programmes for more than 20 years, and has lived in and reported from Zambia and Sweden. She was cheekily dubbed the BBC’s ‘sex correspondent’ after a slew of documentaries on sexual mores. These days, living in a small rural village and with two allotments to tend, she spends more time on country matters.

  

• Mobeen Azhar

  Mobeen Azhar is a BAFTA, Grierson and RTS award-winning journalist. He has produced and presented content across BBC television, radio and online for almost 20 years. His specialist areas of insight also include sex work, addiction and Pakistan. He loves horror movies, Pomeranians and has encyclopaedic knowledge of the music of Prince.