Our Lives
Celebrating life in the UK in all its diversity – as seen through the eyes of remarkable people doing extraordinary things.
Seasons
1. Big Love
Air Date: 2017-06-12
Documentary providing an emotional insight into the lives of two brothers, who both have a rare form of dwarfism, as they prepare to marry their wives-to-be.
2. Supersize Cabbies
Air Date: 2017-06-19
A group of overweight cabbies try to change the habits of a lifetime and go from supersize to superfit.
3. Growing Up with Cancer
Air Date: 2017-06-26
Teenagers share their experiences of coping with the effects of cancer and chemotherapy at the Teenage Cancer Trust Unit at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Children.
4. Bus Wars
Air Date: 2017-07-03
Documentary looking at the fierce competition between the big bus tour companies in Belfast as they fight for a share of the lucrative tourist market.
5. Mini Monet Millionaire
Air Date: 2017-07-10
Following 14-year-old artist Kieron Williamson as he prepares for his latest exhibition.
6. The World's Oldest Family
Air Date: 2017-07-17
Documentary following the Donnelly family from County Armagh, thought to be the oldest group of siblings in the world, with a collective age of 1,064 years.
7. Jodi's Lovely Letters
Air Date: 2017-07-24
Aled Jones meets Jodi Ann Bickley, founder of the One Million Lovely Letters project, who has written thousands of letters to people around the world in need of support.
8. Orkney: When the Boat Comes In
Air Date: 2017-07-31
Orkney is, officially, the UK’s cruise ship capital. With around 125,000 passengers expected this year, how does this small island community cope with the onslaught of tourists?
9. The Bug Grub Couple
Air Date: 2017-08-07
Documentary following insect expert Dr Sarah Beynon and award-winning chef Andy Holcroft as they try to bring insect-based food products to the mainstream market.
10. Land of the Giants
Air Date: 2017-08-23
From 20-stone pumpkins to man-sized marrows, this documentary digs into the colourful world of Welsh giant vegetable growers as they fight it out in the first show of the season.
1. The Great Cheese Chase
Air Date: 2018-08-06
A unique insight into one of the West Country’s craziest and most dangerous rural traditions – cheese rolling.
9. Role Model
Air Date: 2018-06-27
Nineteen-year-old Kate Grant wants to be a fashion model, but she's a model with a difference. Kate has Down's syndrome. This documentary follows Kate as she pursues her dream and takes her first steps on the catwalk.
6. Mad about Elvis
Air Date: 2018-06-20
Documentary looking at Porthcawl Elvis Festival, the largest Elvis festival in the world, and exploring why the lure of Elvis is still so intoxicating 40 years on from his death.
10. The Street Food Servants
Air Date: 2018-06-25
Randeep Singh started his small Southall charity with just a handful of volunteers but has now transformed it into a sophisticated national task force feeding thousands each week.
8. Elephants on the Move
Air Date: 2018-07-23
It’s not your typical removal job - transporting a herd of elephants from the Midlands to their new seaside home. There are delays and setbacks as Elephants on the Move made by BBC Birmingham discovers why such a mammoth task is being attempted and just how successful it’s been.
5. Lorry Ladies
Air Date: 2018-07-30
Documentary in which Angela Rippon travels to Northern Ireland to meet the women who drive for a living and spend their weekends at truck festivals across the country.
3. The Island That Saved My Life
Air Date: 2018-07-16
Documentary about the remote Scottish island of North Ronaldsay. The island saved Sarah Moore's life, but it is under threat, and she must do everything she can to help save it.
2. The Pope and I - Our Lives
Air Date: 2018-08-20
As Pope Francis prepares to visit Ireland this August, this documentary explores people's relationship with the Holy Father and how it has changed over the decades.
7. Snowdonia Shepherdess
Air Date: 2018-08-13
In the shadow of Snowdon, 26-year-old Teleri Fielden is given an opportunity to fulfil her dream of becoming an upland hill farmer. She’s won a scholarship to run the National Trust farm Llyndy Isaf.
4. Fight Like a Girl
Air Date: 2018-06-11
Documentary following Kimberly Benson - aka Viper - a top female wrestler from Scotland, as she fights in some of the most important matches of her career.
1. Battle of the Bands
Air Date: 2019-05-27
Documentary celebrating brass banding in Wales. It follows the Cory and Tredegar Bands as they prepare to battle it out to be crowned Welsh Champions at the national finals.
2. Behind the Mascara: Jamie Genevieve
Air Date: 2019-06-10
Jamie Genevieve is Scotland’s biggest internet personality. Here, cameras follow Jamie’s meteoric rise and the build up to her big wedding in Italy.
3. Punjab United
Air Date: 2019-06-17
Our Lives follows the fortunes of Punjab United, a semi-professional football team in Gravesend run by British Sikhs, as they face their toughest season yet.
4. Life of Pies
Air Date: 2019-07-24
Life of Pies celebrates the perfect pastry parcel and lifts the lid at the British Pie Awards. Bragging rights and regional pride are at stake in this Our Lives documentary.
5. Mountain Rescue
Air Date: 2019-07-01
An insight into the volunteers of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team as they save lives.
6. The Last Showmen
Air Date: 2019-07-22
The Cullen family have been bringing all the fun of the fair to people's doorsteps since 1860. Our Lives looks at this unique way of life and explores whether it's in danger of becoming extinct or if the next generation of Cullens can keep the family tradition alive.
7. Taking on the Irish Sea
Air Date: 2019-07-29
A dozen west Wales sea rowers, eight women and four men, from all walks of life and with a 47-year age span, take on a challenge of a lifetime - a race across the Irish Sea.
8. White Van Gogh Man
Air Date: 2019-08-05
Ruddy Muddy is a white van man with a difference. He's an artist who uses mud to create amazing paintings on the side of his van.
9. Splendid Isolation - the Bardsleys
Air Date: 2019-08-12
Following the Scharer family, the new wardens of Bardsey, a remote island off north west Wales. Arriving alone and totally isolated, they immediately face many challenges.
10. From Syria to Scotland
Air Date: 2019-08-19
This Our Lives documentary follows the new lives of the Syrian refugee families who have made the small Scottish island of Bute their home.
1. Sink or Skim
Air Date: 2020-05-20
The World Stone Skimming Championship is held on the tiny Scottish island of Easdale every year. Two obsessed skimmers show us what it takes to become the world's best.
2. Soul Boy
Air Date: 2020-05-27
A teenager in care finds a home on Nottingham’s Northern Soul scene.
3. Highland Road Rescue
Air Date: 2020-06-03
An intimate portrait of a family-run roadside recovery business in the Scottish Highlands, as they rescue stranded motorists on some of the most remote roads in Britain.
4. Big Night at the Bingo
Air Date: 2020-06-10
Our Lives goes inside a bingo hall in the heart of West Belfast, meeting some of the regulars who have known each other through thick and thin.
5. Defying Gravity
Air Date: 2020-06-17
When Lily Rice became the first person in Britain to land a wheelchair backflip, her life was transformed. Now she must overcome her greatest fear.
6. Bhangra or Bust
Air Date: 2020-08-05
Indian folk dance gets competitive in this Our Lives documentary which goes behind the silk and sequins at the world’s biggest bhangra dance contest.
7. Desperate to Drive
Air Date: 2020-08-12
In Cardiff, a unique driving centre has the power to decide if higher-risk drivers who’ve lost their licence through illness or accident are safe to be back behind the wheel.
8. Shankill by the Sea
Air Date: 2020-08-19
An intimate portrait of caravan life on the Ards Peninsula in Northern Ireland, telling the personal stories of those who leave their problems behind in the city and escape to the seaside.
9. Pink Dreams
Air Date: 2020-08-26
Pink Dreams follows grandmother Lorraine as she performs her tribute act to a megastar 20 years younger, Pink.
10. Saving Our Eco-Village
Air Date: 2020-09-02
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.
11. Zoo Mum
Air Date: 2020-09-09
Whatever is happening in the outside world, life in Colchester zoo goes on. Curator Sarah Forsyth is heading into the busiest summer of her life keeping countless animals happy.
1. The Merthyr Mermaid
Air Date: 2021-08-10
At the age of 47, Cath Pendleton has decided to try to swim a mile in the icy waters of Antarctica. With no real money or support team behind her, will her determination be enough to see her through?
3. Keeping Up with the Maileys
Air Date: 2021-08-17
Tricia Mailey and two of her children were born with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism. Their experiences have given them a very different perspective on the world.
4. Aberdeen Harbour
Air Date: 2021-08-20
Documentary following the expansion of Aberdeen Harbour, one of Britain’s busiest ports.
5. The City of Horses
Air Date: 2021-08-24
For generations horses have been part of life around Swansea. Times are changing, but there’s one thing that still binds the horse communities together – the drives.
7. Lambing Life
Air Date: 2021-09-01
Young sheep farmer Chloe Hallam has to juggle her beauty therapy business with delivering over a thousand new lambs in the hope of preserving the future of the family farm.
8. For Peat's Sake
Air Date: 2021-09-08
The stories of interwoven lives during the peat-cutting season on the stunning Isle of Lewis.
9. The Long Walk Home
Air Date: 2021-09-15
As Christian Lewis nears the finish line of his five-year-long walk round the UK, Our Lives looks back at the early stages of his remarakble journey.
10. The Girl with the Colourful Leg
Air Date: 2021-09-29
Charity ambassador, model and actress, Bernadette Hagans celebrates the 'inclusion revolution' and makes history as the first amputee to take part in Miss Northern Ireland.
11. Boots and Beards
Air Date: 2021-10-06
This documentary reveals the story of the Scots Asian-run hillwalking group helping people from ethnic minority backgrounds explore the great outdoors.
12. Finding My Family
Air Date: 2021-10-11
Leah was abandoned as a baby in a Manchester hospital toilet. Twenty-six years later, she is determined to find out who she is and where she came from.
6. Pride of Place
Air Date: 2021-08-25
Documentary following an LGBTQ+ committee planning the first rural Pride parade in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland's conservative and evangelical heartland.
2. Life on the High Wire
Air Date: 2021-08-11
High wire walker Chris Bullzini risks death to wow the crowds. Now he faces his biggest challenge yet.
1. Born Deaf, Raised Hearing
Air Date: 2022-05-06
Jonny Cotsen is an actor and a father of two children, and he’s deaf. He wants to know why he was brought up as if he could hear and whether it’s too late to embrace his deaf identity.
2. Speed Kids
Air Date: 2022-05-13
The kids dreaming of becoming motorcycle superstars. Northern Ireland has produced some of the world’s most famous racers, but have the demands of the sport gone too far?
3. Cornwall's Wildest Wave
Air Date: 2022-05-20
Cornwall has a secret giant wave. Champion surfer Tom Butler is on a mission to find this monster off the wild north Cornish coast, but will it be too dangerous to ride?
4. You Shall Go to the Ball
Air Date: 2022-05-23
The Queen Charlotte’s Ball is the most prestigious debutante ball in the world. This is the story of Jasleen, the first debutante of Indian heritage at the London season.
5. Darts Dreams
Air Date: 2022-06-10
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? This film follows her attempt to break into the Scottish ladies' team for the first time.
6. Supergran and the Garden of Justice
Air Date: 2022-06-17
Our Lives follows Dena Murphy, a wisecracking 93-year-old helping young offenders back onto the straight and narrow as they do community service on an allotment in Manchester.
7. Sarah the Lumberjill
Air Date: 2022-06-24
Sarah is the fourth generation of her family to 'take up the saw', working across the forests of the Central Highlands of Scotland with her family.
8. Wedding Day Curves
Air Date: 2022-07-22
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.
9. Rescuing Dad
Air Date: 2022-07-25
Dai Chant, the legendary coxswain of the St Davids lifeboat, returns to the sea after 30 years ashore to revisit the scene of his most daring rescue.
10. Who Needs Banksy
Air Date: 2022-08-12
An extraordinary organic explosion of street art in Port Talbot, inspired by Banksy, sees the creation of over 40 new murals that transform the town.
11. 33 Families, One Big Build
Air Date: 2022-08-19
To escape rising house prices, 33 families decide to build their own street in Leeds. But sharing cars and deciding what colour to paint the front doors proves problematic.
12. The World's Most Expensive Sheepdogs
Air Date: 2022-08-22
Sheepdogs from Wales are currently in demand all over the world and reach record breaking prices. We follow mid Wales's top trainers to see what makes our sheepdogs so special.
13. Trick Pony Club
Air Date: 2022-08-26
Jousting knights on horseback and gun-slinging, acrobatic cowboys. Behind the scenes with Scotland’s stunt horse team.
14. Searching for My Other Mam
Air Date: 2022-09-02
Years after being adopted by white Welsh parents, Gerallt Wyn Jones goes looking for the black father he’s never known, and for the young white mother who felt that she had to give him away.
15. Hell's Belles
Air Date: 2022-09-05
Will the women motorcyclists of Wales be part of a successful world record attempt and inspire a new generation of bikers?
16. We Are Strong Women
Air Date: 2022-09-18
With the Wales Strong Woman competition coming up, two Aberdare women share the highs and the lows of competing in a sport that has given them so much more than physical strength.
17. Rat Woman
Air Date: 2022-09-26
Patricia Page wages war on rats and other pests that are wreaking havoc across homes and business premises in Northern Ireland.
1. My Husband the MMA Fighter
Air Date: 2023-06-02
Natalie Ray is a 30-year-old mum of four, married to cage-fighting pro Stevie 'Braveheart' Ray. This is the tale of his one million dollar fight, told through Natalie's eyes.
2. Rhys McClenaghan: Chasing Gold
Air Date: 2023-06-09
The stakes have never been higher for elite gymnast Rhys McClenaghan as he prepares for three major competitions that could make or break his career – but can he bring home gold?
3. The Girl Who Sails with Her Breath
Air Date: 2023-06-16
Natasha can't use her arms or legs, but she's determined to sail the Atlantic. Her dad invents a way to control a boat with her breath, and the family set out across the world.
4. Yarnbombers
Air Date: 2023-06-23
It's knitting, but not as we know it. A warm-hearted documentary profiling the colourful lives and creations of the Swansea Yarnbombers.
5. My Life-Saving Dog
Air Date: 2023-06-30
Koda, a gorgeous golden retriever, is training to be an assistance dog. But if she's to help her owner Mei, she needs to stay awake on the job.
6. Cycling Saved My Life
Air Date: 2023-07-28
Suicide survivor turned record-breaking cyclist Josh Quigley found redemption by cycling around the world. Now, he's pushing himself to qualify for the world championships.
7. Britain's Busiest Mountain
Air Date: 2023-08-04
Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) attracts around 750,000 visitors each year, and the race is on to prepare for the busiest season yet.
8. Fast Track to Glory
Air Date: 2023-08-11
A determined young islander chases her first season as a racing driver. Isla Mackenzie from Scotland's Outer Hebrides has been signed up by an F3 team.
9. One Man and His Island
Air Date: 2023-08-18
Ex-aircraft engineer Simon begins a completely new life on his own as the warden of Flat Holm Island. The more he learns about the island, the more he learns about himself too.
10. Our Sea Forest
Air Date: 2023-09-08
The destruction of an underwater forest and its remarkable return to life, seen through the eyes of 74-year-old freediver Eric Smith.
11. The Lottery Millionaire and the Spirit of Belfast
Air Date: 2023-09-15
Lottery winner Peter Lavery looks back on the day that changed his life and races to finish the ambitious conversion of the Titanic Pumphouse into a whiskey distillery.
12. Ballroom Dreams
Air Date: 2023-10-02
Train, compete, sleep, repeat! Welcome to the world of competitive ballroom, as we follow Caerphilly's top teenage dancers to Wales’s first ever world championships. (iPlayer only except Wales)
13. The Extreme Hairdresser
Air Date: 2023-11-24
Hairdressing, but not as you know it. Aberkenfig hairdresser Shelley Lane loves cutting her regular clients' hair, but she has a completely different side to her work – creating stunning avant-garde hair designs. She competes around the world with the best but always loves coming home to Aberkenfig. (iPlayer only except Wales)
1. Two Sisters, One Goal
Air Date: 2024-08-16
Two sisters from Brynamman, Carmarthenshire, face the challenge of their lives as they arrange a star-studded Wales v England charity football match. Will they succeed?
2. Darts City
Air Date: 2024-08-23
Four top darts players battle for a place at finals night. Can they keep their cool at the oche in one of Ireland’s oldest leagues?
3. The Seal Whisperer
Air Date: 2024-08-30
Northumberland GP Ben Burville has struck up a unique relationship with the Farne Islands grey seals. He takes us under the waves to share the secrets of these beautiful creatures.
4. The Journey to Scotland's Remotest Pub
Air Date: 2024-09-06
Two friends take on a journey to Scotland's remotest pub, interwoven with stories from some of the residents of the magical Knoydart peninsula.
5. Dinohunters
Air Date: 2024-09-13
Anyone can be a fossil hunter. Both amateur and professional palaeontologists are unearthing secrets from when dinosaurs walked the land and changing what we know about evolution in Wales.
6. Our Yorkshire Stately Home
Air Date: 2024-09-20
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 documentary follows the dedicated workers and volunteers as they battle to restore this South Yorkshire gem to its former glory.
7. The Omagh Hum
Air Date: 2024-09-27
Up against the rumour mill and conspiracy theories, Omagh locals uncover the mystery of a hum that has made headlines around the world.
8. The Secret Lives of Lighthouse Keepers
Air Date: 2024-10-11
A rare glimpse into the working world of the teams who keep the lights on in 208 lighthouses round the coast of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
9. The Lakes: Our Life on the Edge
Air Date: 2024-10-18
Like most couples, Anna and Mat are just trying to figure life out. Unlike most couples, they’ve decided the best way to do this is a 100-mile epic climbing challenge in the Lakes.
10. Pets Saving Lives
Air Date: 2024-10-25
Family pets with a special calling. These specially trained search and rescue dogs and their volunteer handlers risk everything to help find Northern Ireland’s missing people.
11. Secrets of the Lost Mines
Air Date: 2024-11-01
Historian Ioan Lord and dairy farmer Al Tansey are unlikely friends with a shared passion for the past. Together, they explore the abandoned metal mines of Mid Wales.
12. The Boy Who Can Fly
Air Date: 2024-11-08
The uplifting story of a young Scotsman defying conventional expectations and gravity. Since he was young, growing up in Stonehaven, Liam Byrne has dreamt of flying like a bird.
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Rating
0.0/10
Release Date
2017-06-12
Episodes
95 (8 seasons)
Status
Returning Series
Cast
Production Companies
Cwmni Da
Tern TV
Boom Cymru
Raise the Roof Productions
DoubleBand Films
Bees Nees Media Ltd
Small World Productions
Caledonia TV Productions
Matchlight
Wildflame Productions
Hall of Mirrors
Candour Productions
Carlam Limited
Below the Radar Ltd
Eye Film and TV
Full Fat TV
Tyrone Productions
Gritty
Rondo Media Production
Big Wave Productions Ltd.
Elephant Shoe Films
Brown Bob Productions
Waddell Media
Wander Films
Afanti Media
Storyboard Studios