<p>This extra edition of Lives Less Ordinary is to remember the remarkable conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall, who has died at 91. The life she lived alongside great apes revolutionised the way we see them – and ourselves.
It was 65 years ago that a young Jane left England to travel to the Gombe Stream National Park on the shores of Lake Tangani ... Show More
Nov 24
How Paramore’s singer revived her grandad’s lost album
<p>Hayley Williams’ grandpa Rusty nurtured her musical dreams – now, she’s returning the favour.</p><p>As the lead singer of American rock band Paramore, Hayley Williams has won three Grammy Awards and toured the world. Behind the scenes, her grandad Rusty has been her biggest su ... Show More
38m 8s
Nov 17
Miriam Toews: A loud voice in a town once ruled by silence
<p>The award-winning author who used her strict Mennonite upbringing to tell its unspoken stories.</p><p>Miriam Toews is one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists, but her journey began far from the literary world. Raised in the conservative Mennonite town of Steinbach, Manitoba, ... Show More
41m 38s
Mar 2020
Unsolved: Did the US abandon soldiers in the Vietnam War?
<p>At the close of the Paris Peace Accords, the US and Vietnam agreed to return any POWs to their home country -- however, for decades after the close of the conflict, people in country reported seeing missing American soldiers, sometimes held by foreign officials, sometimes on t ... Show More
57m 26s
Aug 2024
178. The Vietnam War: Nixon, Vietnamisation, and the Fall of Saigon
With Richard Nixon now in the White House and not wanting to have his presidency consumed by Vietnam like his predecessor’s was, he begins to search for ways to disentangle America from the war. It begins with Vietnamisation and an attempt to reduce South Vietnamese reliance on t ... Show More
55m 13s
Oct 2022
Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me" (Belt Publishing, 2022)
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes Runaway: Notes in the Myths that Made Me (Belt Publishing, 2022), a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen year ... Show More
1h 10m
Jul 2025
Special: Real Life Heroes
<p>Original Air Date: April 4, 2007. Oprah honors extraordinary everyday people who showed incredible courage in moments of crisis. She speaks with Rachel Supplee, who survived a bear attack, and her daughter Daphne, who fought the bear to save her. Alena Yokum recounts being tra ... Show More
34m 8s