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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Farming and Phil Collins taught me about love
Wed 14 Oct 2020
Learning lessons about love and life from a ewe and a lamb
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The black reverend who bought a Ku Klux Klan shop
Tue 13 Oct 2020
How Reverend David Kennedy fought to shut down a shop selling racist paraphernalia
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Abducted in war, saving lives in peace
Mon 12 Oct 2020
Aminata Conteh-Biger was one of thousands of women abducted in Sierra Leone鈥檚 civil war
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Why I didn鈥檛 make a sound for 12 years
Sat 10 Oct 2020
Marie McCreadie on her agony becoming mute at 13 and her shock and joy learning the cause
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Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs
Thu 8 Oct 2020
How do you get Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to play in a warzone?
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We found our baby on the subway
Wed 7 Oct 2020
The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station
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My ancestors changed the lives of slaves in the US
Tue 6 Oct 2020
Nettie Washington Douglass unites the bloodlines of two ex-slaves who became iconic names
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Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star
Mon 5 Oct 2020
How personal loss and violent conflict shaped the career of Panshak Zamani aka Ice Prince
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I discovered my dad was a best-selling sex writer
Sat 3 Oct 2020
Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books
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"This is what a barrister looks like"
Thu 1 Oct 2020
Alexandra Wilson is the young black woman changing the face of Britain鈥檚 legal system
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Surviving a chemical attack by a doomsday cult
Tue 29 Sep 2020
How a bag leaking sarin in Tokyo led Atsushi Sakahara to seek answers from a cult member
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My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners
Mon 28 Sep 2020
How a black Victorian footballer led Malik Al Nasir to discover his own complex history
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Vietnam's first family of rock 鈥榥鈥� roll
Sat 26 Sep 2020
How a bunch of pre-teen kids became the biggest rock 'n' roll band in wartime Saigon
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Life without parole: Our fight for freedom
Thu 24 Sep 2020
A mother鈥檚 life sentence for a drug offence and the young lawyer who promised to free her
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How the tigress of basketball fought back
Tue 22 Sep 2020
Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed
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Documenting my cellmates' names in blood and rust
Mon 21 Sep 2020
Mansour Omari risked his life to record the names of his cellmates in a Syrian prison
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The boldest human experiment of the last century?
Sat 19 Sep 2020
Why eight people were sealed inside a glass dome in the Arizona desert in the 1990s
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My father and our time machine
Thu 17 Sep 2020
Creating a play for my theatre obsessed father, before he lost his memory
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I bought a ghost town - then got trapped there
Wed 16 Sep 2020
Brent Underwood was snowed in at an abandoned California mining town with a haunting past
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Becoming South Africa's first black rugby captain
Tue 15 Sep 2020
Siya Kolisi's journey from a poor South African township to Rugby World Cup victory
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My soldier dad's goodbye tape
Mon 14 Sep 2020
How Tricia Davies Nearn got to know a father lost in war
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The trans boxer learning the many ways to be a man
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Thomas Page McBee wanted to understand the relationship between masculinity and violence
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A descendant of chiefs: my long journey home
Wed 9 Sep 2020
How Jesse Thistle, a homeless Indigenous man, found his identity and his calling
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The girl who cycled her father 1,200km to safety
Tue 8 Sep 2020
When Covid hit, Jyoti Kumari and her injured dad had to return to their home village
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Disco and drama: The story of Ride on Time
Mon 7 Sep 2020
Worldwide fame came at a moral price for an Italian DJ who made a huge 1980s dance hit
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Sewing to protest in a Chilean prison camp
Sat 5 Sep 2020
Student Cristina Zamora found courage in creativity when she was taken from her baby
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The 'bride and groom of the Syrian revolution鈥�
Thu 3 Sep 2020
Noura and Bassel's secret prison wedding and their struggle for freedom in Syria
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The chess game that changed a homeless boy鈥檚 life
Wed 2 Sep 2020
Tani Adewumi fled Nigeria and became a chess champion in New York at just eight years old
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The rebel past of a Tibetan Lama
Tue 1 Sep 2020
Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche reflects on a life of conflict, hedonism and disco dancing.
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The woman who woke up in the future
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Naomi Jacobs went to bed aged 32 but woke up thinking she was 15, her adult memories gone
