In 2016, when Jenny Söderqvist and Helene Åberg’s car exploded in the middle of the vast Kalahari desert, their supplies and only lifeline to the outside world went up in flames. No rescue would come. The two friends from Sweden would spend the next five harrowing days lost in the wilderness and stalked by lions, until their salvation appeared to them in the most unlikely of forms: a tin of Spam. Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Edgar Maddicott Get in touch: liveslessordinary@bbc.co.uk or WhatsApp: 0044 330 678 2784
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We weren't meant to die in the Kelleher horror game.
Reserve.
Rule number one is don't leave the car.
Don't ever leave the car.
And all of a sudden the car exploded.
I could feel myself starting to hyperventilate.
Now I'm panicking.
What are we going to do?
What are we going to do?
We're going to die here.
And then I turned to Jenny and looked at her face and it was just white.
I could hear a noise and I just know, is this a lion?
It's a lion.