The Outlook Podcast Archive Podcast
Extraordinary first-person stories from around the world. An archive of Outlook podcasts from 2016-2022. For new episodes from the team, subscribe to Lives Less Ordinary.
Episodes to download
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The photo that exposed apartheid
Sun 29 Nov 2020
The Soweto Uprisings and the story behind South Africa's most iconic photo.
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Zero-gravity highs and history-making lows
Thu 26 Nov 2020
Kathy Sullivan is a former US astronaut who has made history both at sea and in space
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The firefighting vets of Brazil
Wed 25 Nov 2020
Carla Sassi and her team have been rescuing animals as wildfires burn around them
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Separated from my kids at the US-Mexico border
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Guatemalan Rosayra Pablo Cruz was helped by a surprise visitor while she was in detention
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The IS orphans rescued by their grandpa
Sat 21 Nov 2020
He couldn鈥檛 save his daughter after she joined IS but could he rescue her seven children?
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Fire, ice and thunder: a chase on the high seas
Thu 19 Nov 2020
Taking down the Thunder, the world's most notorious poaching ship
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Skin: the scream that made me a rock star
Wed 18 Nov 2020
How Skin, lead singer of the ground-breaking British band, Skunk Anansie, found her voice
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A scandal at the Oscars: Marlon Brando & me
Mon 16 Nov 2020
Millions watched Sacheen Littlefeather refuse an Oscar in a stand against stereotyping
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In bed with an assassin
Sat 14 Nov 2020
Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret.
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Unmasking a horror film icon
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Kane Hodder is best known as on-screen killer Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th films
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James Rhodes: My love letter to music
Wed 11 Nov 2020
The British pianist is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Music became his lifeline
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The wild ride of a Tamil comic book pioneer
Tue 10 Nov 2020
The Indian comic book enthusiast bringing his favourite characters to a Tamil audience.
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CJ Daugherty鈥檚 world of literary escapism
Mon 9 Nov 2020
Books were the best-selling author鈥檚 鈥渕agic carpet ride out鈥� of an abusive childhood home
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The twists and turns of the Rubik's Cube
Sat 7 Nov 2020
Meet champion cuber Feliks Zemdegs, and the inventor behind the puzzle Erno Rubik
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Revelations from El Salvador that healed my family
Thu 5 Nov 2020
Discovering the history of his homeland helped Roberto Lovato understand his father
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'She came back to the clinic dancing'
Wed 4 Nov 2020
The Sierra Leonean doctor whose life-changing work earned her screen time with the Queen
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Painting for our lives
Mon 2 Nov 2020
Three fascinating portraits of people who used a paintbrush to transform their lives
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The celestial treasure hunters
Sat 31 Oct 2020
An unlikely duo鈥檚 insatiable and dangerous hunt for space rocks
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The stay-at-home mum who became a bodybuilding star
Thu 29 Oct 2020
Kiran Dembla is an Indian celebrity trainer 鈥� but it's a long way from where she started
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I set up a radio station for aliens
Wed 28 Oct 2020
Electronics whizz John Shepherd spent years trying to contact alien life, with music
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On the frontline against chemical warfare
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon braves bombs and bullets investigating chemical weapon attacks
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The black child raised by white supremacists
Mon 26 Oct 2020
How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing
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Adventures of the of the bootleg-busting brothers
Sat 24 Oct 2020
Rob and Jason Holmes were first recruited as undercover agents when they were children
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The Guatemalan grandparents storming the disco
Thu 22 Oct 2020
Love, grief and fame: how disco has shaped the lives of Favio Vasquez and Maria Moreno
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Half a rotten apple: growing up in 70s China
Wed 21 Oct 2020
Writer Xiaolu Guo on a childhood in the aftermath of China鈥檚 Cultural Revolution
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A dangerous obsession
Tue 20 Oct 2020
Why women鈥檚 rights advocate Julie Lalonde stayed silent about being stalked for a decade
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The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth
Mon 19 Oct 2020
How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband
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The downfall of "The Screamers"
Sat 17 Oct 2020
Atlantis was a fringe psychotherapy commune who moved to guerrilla controlled Colombia
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The actor who鈥檚 been saying the same lines for 32 years
Thu 15 Oct 2020
Catherine Russell has played the same part more than 13,000 times 鈥� without a sick day
