Lives Less Ordinary

BBC World Service

Lives Less Ordinary is a podcast from the BBC World Service that brings you the most incredible true stories from around the world. Each episode a guest shares their most dramatic, moving, personal story. Listen for unbelievable twists, mysteries uncovered, and inspiring journeys - spanning the entire human experience. Step into someone else’s life and expect the unexpected. Got a story to tell? Send an email to liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or message us via WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784 You can read our privacy notice here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5YD3hBqmw26B8WMHt6GkQxG/lives-less-ordinary-privacy-notice

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Lives Less Ordinary

Episodes (249)

Monday Marlon James and the exorcism that changed him
Monday Rewind: The woman who brought down Elizabeth Holmes
Mon Nov 2nd A shipwrecked sailor’s return from the dead

Lives Less Ordinary

Nov 9, 2026
40 minutes
18 MB

Growing up gay in Jamaica, the Booker Prize winning writer fought against his sexuality. Marlon James is now one of the world’s most celebrated writers, but he grew up feeling like an outsider. Fearing ostracisation for being gay, he voluntarily entered into an exorcism at church, but the process didn’t work as intended, and Marlon broke with organised religion. His burgeoning career as a writer took him away from Jamaica, to newfound freedoms, and eventually literary acclaim. His new Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Disappearers, is about the Jamaican underground gay scen...

Lives Less Ordinary

Marlon James and the exorcism that changed him

BBC World Service

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