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Series 8: 7. The Omagh Hum

Our Lives - Series 8: 7. The Omagh Hum

The story of a hum that has been keeping the people of Omagh awake for months. \n\nWith the town exhausted and exasperated, local journalist Emmet McElhatton wants to get to the ...

02-10-2024

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Series 8: 6. Our Yorkshire Stately Home

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One of England's grandest stately homes, Wentworth Woodhouse, was going to rack and ruin when it was saved for local people in a former mining community. This inspiring document ...

24-09-2024

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Series 8: Homing Instinct

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Noone quite understands exactly how a pigeon finds its way home, having been driven hundreds of miles in the back of a lorry to be released and race back to its loft. But acro ...

17-09-2024

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Series 8: 5. Dinohunters

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Anyone can be a fossil hunter. Amateur enthusiasts and professional palaeontologists are joining forces, unearthing secrets from a time when dinosaurs walked the land. What they ...

16-09-2024

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Series 8: 10. The Journey To Scotland's Remotest Pub

Our Lives - Series 8: 10. The Journey To Scotland's Remotest Pub

Documentary that tells the story of the inspiring, thriving, Scottish village of Inverie on the Knoydart peninsula. Twenty-five years ago, the local community pulled together to ...

11-09-2024

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Series 8: 3. The Seal Whisperer

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Witness magical scenes in a documentary that explores Ben Burville’s extraordinary relationship with the seals of the Farne Islands. By day, this busy GP is hard at work s ...

06-09-2024

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Series 8: 2. Darts City

Our Lives - Series 8: 2. Darts City

This Our Lives film follows the fortunes of four players as they aim for a place in the final in one of the biggest darts leagues in Europe. The city of Newry’s league is ...

28-08-2024

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Series 8: 1. Two Sisters, One Goal

Our Lives - Series 8: 1. Two Sisters, One Goal

Sisters Katy Yeandle and Emma Rees, who are from Brynamman, on the edge of the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons), have set themselves an almost impossible task. They want to a ...

23-08-2024

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Series 7: The Lottery Millionaire And The Spirit Of Belfast

Our Lives - Series 7: The Lottery Millionaire And The Spirit Of Belfast

A character study of Peter Lavery, a Belfast bus driver who won £10.2m on the lottery in 1996 and has several new business enterprises launching this year, including the f ...

20-09-2023

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Series 7: Our Sea Forest

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The story of one of Britain’s great underwater forests and one man's quest to protect it.\n\nIn the 1950s, the Sussex coast was a treasure trove of adventure for freediver ...

08-09-2023

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Series 7: 1. Art Behind Bars

Our Lives - Series 7: 1. Art Behind Bars

How art saves lives, told through the eyes of former prisoner Stephen Greer and current inmates at Magilligan Prison in Northern Ireland.\n\nStephen Greer served many years in p ...

01-09-2023

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Series 7: One Man And His Island

Our Lives - Series 7: One Man And His Island

Living on your own on an island is a fantasy that has come real for one man. After suffering some traumatic events in his life, ex-Royal Air Force aircraft engineer Simon Parker ...

30-08-2023

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Series 7: Britain's Busiest Mountain

Our Lives - Series 7: Britain's Busiest Mountain

Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) is a mountain that people keep coming back to. It’s the most popular mountain in Britain, and it’s getting busier each year. People are prepared ...

23-08-2023

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Series 7: My Life-saving Dog

Our Lives - Series 7: My Life-saving Dog

At 20, Mei from Norfolk has already had a tough life. She spent much of her teens in care, suffering from anxiety, an eating disorder and self-harm. Enter Koda, Mei’s trai ...

16-08-2023

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Series 7: Fast Track To Glory

Our Lives - Series 7: Fast Track To Glory

A determined young Formula One dyno technician chases her dream to be a racing driver. Isla Mackenzie has a sought-after role at one of the world's top Formula One teams, testin ...

11-08-2023

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Series 7: Yarnbombers

Our Lives - Series 7: Yarnbombers

It's knitting, but not as we know it. The extraordinary creations of the Swansea Yarnbombers adorn postboxes across the city. This group of women, united by their passion for wo ...

09-08-2023

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Series 7: The Girl Who Sails With Her Breath

Our Lives - Series 7: The Girl Who Sails With Her Breath

Natasha has cerebral palsy. She can’t walk across a road on her own, but she can sail a 46 foot yacht. \n\nAfter discovering a love for sailing on an activity holiday, Nat ...

31-07-2023

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Series 7: Cycling Saved My Life

Our Lives - Series 7: Cycling Saved My Life

Josh Quigley, a suicide survivor turned record-breaking cyclist, was pushed to the brink by alcohol. However, his life took a remarkable turn when he embarked on a transformativ ...

28-07-2023

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Series 7: Rhys Mcclenaghan: Chasing Gold

Our Lives - Series 7: Rhys Mcclenaghan: Chasing Gold

Newtownards native Rhys competes in different international competitions for both Ireland and Northern Ireland on the pommel horse - one of gymnastics’ most challenging di ...

18-07-2023

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Series 7: My Husband The Mma Fighter

Our Lives - Series 7: My Husband The Mma Fighter

Natalie Ray is a 30-year-old mum of four, married to MMA fighter Stevie 'Braveheart' Ray. Right now he’s just one fight away from becoming Scotland’s first world cha ...

12-07-2023

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Series 6: Rat Woman

Our Lives - Series 6: Rat Woman

Observational documentary following Patricia Page, known as the Rat Woman, who is on a mission to rid homes, businesses and streets of Northern Ireland of rats, cockroaches and ...

13-10-2022

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Series 6: Searching For My Other Mam

Our Lives - Series 6: Searching For My Other Mam

Having been raised Welsh by his adoptive white parents, Gerallt Wyn Jones finds the courage at last to go looking for his birth parents. In 1973, born black to a white unwed mot ...

02-09-2022

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Series 6: Trick Pony Club

Our Lives - Series 6: Trick Pony Club

Jousting knights on horseback and gun-slinging, acrobatic cowboys. This is the life of Scotland’s stunt horse team. They travel the length of the UK performing exhilaratin ...

30-08-2022

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Series 6: 33 Families, One Big Build

Our Lives - Series 6: 33 Families, One Big Build

Building your own street is a radical solution to rising house prices. But for 33 families in Leeds, it’s about to become reality. It has taken 12 years to get this far, a ...

23-08-2022

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Series 6: Who Needs Banksy

Our Lives - Series 6: Who Needs Banksy

When a mural by the world’s best-known street artist, Banksy, appeared overnight in Port Talbot, it caused a sensation - but also a problem. Despite a local campaign, Seas ...

16-08-2022

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Series 6: Wedding Day Curves

Our Lives - Series 6: Wedding Day Curves

Bridal shop owner Rebecca is a champion of body positivity as she helps plus-size brides-to-be celebrate their curves and find their dream wedding dresses.

09-08-2022

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Series 6: Sarah The Lumberjill

Our Lives - Series 6: Sarah The Lumberjill

Sarah the Lumberjill is the fourth generation of her family to 'take up the saw', working across the forests of the Central Highlands of Scotland, where her family have worked f ...

05-07-2022

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Series 6: Supergran And The Garden Of Justice

Our Lives - Series 6: Supergran And The Garden Of Justice

Welcome to the inspiring world of Dena Murphy and a charity-run vegetable allotment in Manchester, where everyone gets a second chance.\n\nOur Lives follows Dena, a wise-crackin ...

28-06-2022

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Series 6: Darts Dreams

Our Lives - Series 6: Darts Dreams

Chloe O'Brien is an 18-year-old from Perthshire, and darts is her life. She was a serial winner as a junior, but can she cope with the highs and lows of life in the adult ranks? ...

21-06-2022

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Series 6: Cornwall's Wildest Wave

Our Lives - Series 6: Cornwall's Wildest Wave

Tom Butler is a big wave surfer and for the last ten years, the 33-year-old has ridden some of the largest in the world, but he has been ignoring what’s in his backyard, o ...

01-06-2022

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Series 5: Speed Kids

Our Lives - Series 5: Speed Kids

Northern Ireland has produced some of the world’s most famous racers, who have inspired a new generation of boys and girls who are revving at the grid and hoping to follow ...

23-05-2022

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Series 5: Born Deaf, Raised Hearing

Our Lives - Series 5: Born Deaf, Raised Hearing

Jonny Cotsen is an actor and a father of two children, and he’s deaf. Though he was born deaf, he was made to adapt to be part of the hearing world, and this hasn’t ...

08-05-2022

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Series 4: Highland Road Rescue

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An intimate insight into the difficulties faced by a tight-knit family business in the Scottish Highlands. Jamie and his sister Jean run the roadside recovery company their pare ...

10-04-2022

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Series 5: Finding My Family

Our Lives - Series 5: Finding My Family

The story of Leah, a young woman from Manchester who made the news in 1994 when she was abandoned as a newborn baby in a hospital toilet. Now, with the help of her filmmaker cou ...

04-11-2021

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Series 5: Boots And Beards

Our Lives - Series 5: Boots And Beards

This Our Lives documentary tells the story of Boots and Beards, a Scots Asian-run hillwalking group helping people from ethnic minority backgrounds explore the great outdoors. W ...

26-10-2021

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Series 5: The Girl With The Colourful Leg

Our Lives - Series 5: The Girl With The Colourful Leg

In 2018, Bernadette Hagans from Belfast was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma, a very rare cancer that develops in cells around joints and tendons. Her right leg was amputated fro ...

19-10-2021

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Series 5: The Long Walk Home

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The remarkable story of one man and his walk round the coast of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, including all the offshore islands, a journey, he reckons, of almost 20,000 m ...

12-10-2021

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Series 5: For Peat's Sake

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From ancient rituals to its associations with whisky, peat continues to have an historical and cultural importance in the Scottish way of life, and nowhere more so than on the s ...

05-10-2021

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Series 5: Lambing Life

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Young sheep farmer Chloe Hallam faces the most dramatic weeks of the farming calendar. Working day and night, she juggles delivering over 1,000 new lambs with running her beauty ...

28-09-2021

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Series 5: Pride Of Place

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Documentary following an LGBTQ+ committee planning the first rural Pride parade in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland's conservative and evangelical heartland. With the help of a loca ...

22-09-2021

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Series 5: The City Of Horses

Our Lives - Series 5: The City Of Horses

An intimate observational documentary film following members of the horse communities in Swansea, south Wales. \n\nOverlooking the city centre are the old housing estates of May ...

14-09-2021

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Series 5: Aberdeen Harbour

Our Lives - Series 5: Aberdeen Harbour

Aberdeen Harbour is one of Britain’s oldest businesses and busiest ports. Today’s harbour is undergoing a multi-million-pound extension, involving some of the world& ...

07-09-2021

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Series 5: Keeping Up With The Maileys

Our Lives - Series 5: Keeping Up With The Maileys

Primary school teacher Tricia Mailey is mum to Cara, twelve, Noah, five, and one-year-old Bethany. Tricia and husband Sean run a home filled with laughter and love, but what mak ...

31-08-2021

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Series 5: Life On The High Wire

Our Lives - Series 5: Life On The High Wire

Chris Bullzini is Britain’s top high wire walker. One slip could mean death. After running away and joining the circus as a teenager, Chris turned a love of street perform ...

24-08-2021

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Series 5: The Merthyr Mermaid

Our Lives - Series 5: The Merthyr Mermaid

The story of Cath Pendleton from Merthyr in south Wales. At the age of 47, she has decided to attempt to swim a mile in the icy waters of Antarctica. A health worker with no rea ...

10-08-2021

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Series 3: Mountain Rescue

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Embedding in mid-winter with one of the busiest mountain rescue teams in the UK, Our Lives reveals the extraordinary characters who are the volunteers saving lives in the notori ...

19-03-2021

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Series 4: Bhangra Or Bust

Our Lives - Series 4: Bhangra Or Bust

The bruising battle to be crowned Britain’s best bhangra dancers. Indian folk dance gets competitive in this Our Lives documentary which goes behind the silk and sequins a ...

16-12-2020

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Series 4: Saving Our Ecovillage

Our Lives - Series 4: Saving Our Ecovillage

Off-grid with their own food, animals, power, water and waste disposal, a Welsh eco-community try to come up with a plan to save their homes and their future.\n\nSaving Our Ecov ...

19-11-2020

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Series 4: Pink Dreams

Our Lives - Series 4: Pink Dreams

Fifty-seven-year-old grandmother Lorraine Colville came to singing late in life. But her tribute act to US megastar Pink, 20 years her junior, has set Lorraine free. \n\nPink Dr ...

19-11-2020

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Series 4: Highland Road Rescue

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Our Lives offers an intimate insight into the difficulties faced by a tight-knit family business in the Scottish Highlands. Jamie and his sister Jean run the roadside recovery c ...

07-10-2020

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