Lives Less Ordinary

BBC World Service

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.

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Lives Less Ordinary

Episodes (210)

Monday Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 2
Feb 23rd Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 1
Feb 23rd Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 1

Lives Less Ordinary

Mar 2, 2026
43½ minutes
20 MB

While filming in rebel-held Syria, Loubna Mrie is falsely accused of being a spy – an accusation that spirals into a life-threatening ordeal, triggering the deepest loss of her life. In 2011, Loubna Mrie broke from her loyalist family to join Syria’s underground network of activists. She used her Alawite identity – the same minority sect as the ruling Assads – to move through checkpoints and secretly film anti-government protests, even as it put her in conflict with her powerful father and the regime that had shaped her childhood. But Loubna’s Alawite background made her a target for both s...

Lives Less Ordinary

Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 2

BBC World Service

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