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 Great Escape of Bonga
Sat 29 Aug 2020
Bonga Kuenda, the man who sang 鈥� and sprinted 鈥� for Angolan independence
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Surfing and sisterhood - making waves in Jamaica
Thu 27 Aug 2020
How one of Jamaica鈥檚 top surfers Imani Wilmot empowers women to ride the tide
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The man giving former extremists a second chance
Wed 26 Aug 2020
Why do people become radicalised? Noor Huda Ismail was on a mission to find out
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The life and crimes of a bearded lady: part two
Tue 25 Aug 2020
From prisoner to recording artist 鈥� how BL Shirelle found love, happiness and success
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The life and crimes of a bearded lady: part one
Mon 24 Aug 2020
Selling crack and writing poetry 鈥� BL Shirelle鈥檚 turbulent childhood in Philadelphia
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A Nightmare in Joshua Tree
Sat 22 Aug 2020
Claire Nelson聽was hiking in the US wilderness when she slipped and fell into a canyon
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My life in the eye of the storm
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Russel Honor茅 was the black army General who led the Hurricane Katrina relief effort
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The war story that led to our love story
Wed 19 Aug 2020
Eva and Sami鈥檚 love for each other grew as he shared his experiences of the war in Syria
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The detective and the diamond heist
Tue 18 Aug 2020
Belgian detective Patrick Peys had to solve the biggest diamond robbery in history
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The first date that led to a dramatic mountain rescue
Mon 17 Aug 2020
Rachel Colenso and her partner were stranded on a Swiss mountain in a fierce blizzard
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The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons
Sat 15 Aug 2020
Why a terminally-ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal
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The narcotics cop and a daughter hooked on heroin
Thu 13 Aug 2020
Kevin Simmers' heart-breaking dilemma when he discovered his daughter was a heroin addict
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The barber saving lives one haircut at a time
Wed 12 Aug 2020
British hairdresser Tom Chapman gets men to share their problems in his barber's chair.
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Conjoined twins can now look into each other鈥檚 eyes
Tue 11 Aug 2020
It took almost two years to separate two sisters conjoined at the back of their heads.
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The supermodel who escaped a cult
Mon 10 Aug 2020
Hoyt Richards was a jet-setting supermodel, but he became enthralled by a doomsday cult
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When trash met thrash: Paraguay's landfill musicians
Sat 8 Aug 2020
How a youth orchestra of tin-can violins and X-ray drums got the attention of Megadeth
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Fosse and Verdon: the legacy of a dancing family
Thu 6 Aug 2020
Two superstars of dance, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, remembered by their daughter Nicole
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I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped
Wed 5 Aug 2020
Li Jingzhi's child was abducted in 1988. They鈥檝e finally been reunited 32 years later
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The tycoon who became 'Mr Toilet'
Tue 4 Aug 2020
Jack Sim is a Singaporean multi-millionaire who grew up without a working toilet
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The 25 day sit-in that changed history
Mon 3 Aug 2020
Judy Heumann on the longest ever occupation of a federal building in US history
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Discovering my grandfather's secret Nazi past
Sat 1 Aug 2020
Growing up Julie Lindahl had been forbidden from looking into her family history
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The stolen Picasso and the forest quest
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Why writer Mira Feticu looked for a stolen Picasso in a Romanian forest
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23 years longing to find my mum
Wed 29 Jul 2020
Omar and Hassan Mohamed are two Somali brothers who never stopped looking for their mum
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Name, shame and jail: Ghana's undercover journalist
Tue 28 Jul 2020
Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas uses some impressive disguises to go undercover.
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The coral crusaders: finding beauty in a murky world
Mon 27 Jul 2020
How two punk rocker best friends created the world's first urban reef webcam
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Making movies helped me heal after my dad's murder
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Rwandan director Jo毛l Karekezi explores the trauma he experienced during the 1994 genocide
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How did this diver cheat death?
Wed 22 Jul 2020
Diver Chris Lemons was trapped on the North Sea bed for around 35 minutes without air
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Mean streets to sporting elite
Tue 21 Jul 2020
Racism, gang life and the quest to build America's first black high school rowing team
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