I'm Rory Stewart and I grew up wanting to be a hero and I'm still fascinated by the ideas of heroism.

In my new series, I'm taking in the long sweep of history from Achilles to Zelensky and asking, what is a hero?

Simply doing your job, being a decent human being.

A true hero is someone who just kind of shines by

their own light and that light is to be recognised by others. The long history of heroism

with me, Rory Stewart. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello, Mubin here dropping into your feed to give you a

heads-up about what's coming up from this September and beyond on Lives Less Ordinary.

I hope you've been loving our mini-series Hold Fast as much as I have.

Now, with the crew safely back on dry land, our regular Lives Less Ordinary episodes are back back to with a brand new look

and a new season of breathtaking, heartwarming

and edge of your seat stories.

He looks at me, I look at him,

he grabs my hand and everything goes black.

Next, I wake up to chaos.

We've been searching the globe for individuals with an extraordinary personal story to tell.

I'm going in thinking that I'm going to get rushed with tactical squad coming in with guns,

arresting me, and hauling me off the prison, or to a secret location where I may never be seen again.

You don't trust these people. You see what they do behind the scenes.

We hear about life journeys where chance and circumstance have led to hair-raising twists and turns.

He told me that you look like Bruce Lee.

So I decided to put my hair same look like Bruce Lee's.

I train really hard.

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