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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I grew up in a secret nuclear city
Tue 28 Jan 2020
Nadezhda Kutepova exposed the deadly legacy of a secret nuclear plant in Soviet Russia.
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Saving my zoo from Australian wildfires
Mon 27 Jan 2020
Zookeeper Chad Staples took animals into his own home to save them from the raging fires
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The daughter and the double agent
Sat 25 Jan 2020
The Latvian forced to make an agonising choice in a world of Soviet-era spying
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I was a teenager at Auschwitz
Thu 23 Jan 2020
Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus was only 14 when she was taken to a Nazi concentration camp
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The student who became my son
Wed 22 Jan 2020
Tim King was a teacher in Chicago who took in a student after their mother died
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Our secret tunnel that saved the city
Tue 21 Jan 2020
Edis Kolar guarded a lifesaving tunnel built in his basement during the siege of Sarajevo
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The virtuoso musician detained as a child
Mon 20 Jan 2020
South African double bassist Leon Bosch was arrested for protesting against apartheid
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The black woman who cared for a Klansman
Sat 18 Jan 2020
The temping job that took a young African-American woman into the home of a KKK member
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Life as a lone identical twin
Thu 16 Jan 2020
David Loftus on rebuilding his life after the tragic death of his twin brother
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I was shot while performing a vasectomy
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Dr Andrew Rynne, an Irish contraceptive pioneer, was attacked by a disgruntled ex-patient
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Forced to teach in a 鈥榬e-education鈥� camp
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Sayragul Sauytbay says she was made to work in a detention camp for Chinese Muslims
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鈥業鈥檓 going to say sorry to the whales鈥�
Mon 13 Jan 2020
Vittorio Fabris鈥� treacherous journey from Venice to Nantucket was inspired by Moby Dick.
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The first beauty queen in a free South Africa
Sat 11 Jan 2020
Basetsana Kumalo was crowned Miss South Africa after the country's first democratic vote
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How I built a billion dollar business
Thu 9 Jan 2020
Janice Bryant Howroyd: the first African-American woman to run a billion dollar company
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The pianist who learnt to play on a paper piano
Wed 8 Jan 2020
Andrew Garrido鈥檚 family couldn鈥檛 afford a piano so he taught himself on a paper keyboard
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My nightmares about the policeman who framed me
Tue 7 Jan 2020
Winston Trew was falsely accused of stealing and spent 50 years trying to clear his name
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I prayed to God to make me a girl
Mon 6 Jan 2020
Abby Stein grew up in a Hasidic family and was born male but she felt she was a girl
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The Welsh miner who made wrestling glamorous
Sat 4 Jan 2020
"Exotic Adrian Street" got abuse for his flamboyant outfits - but they made him a star
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Making horse-racing history in a hijab
Thu 2 Jan 2020
Teenager Khadijah Mellah became the first Muslim woman to ride and win in Britain
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The Godfather of Hollywood sound
New Year's Day 2020
Walter Murch is a superstar sound designer. His ingenuity transformed cinema forever
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2020 The power of sight
Tue 31 Dec 2019
'Seeing' maths; changing how the world sees you; and helping to restore sight.
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Inventing a surgery to cure myself
Mon 30 Dec 2019
Doug Lindsay鈥檚 mystery illness baffled doctors, so he had to cure himself
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The hunt for a calypso king's lost music
Sat 28 Dec 2019
Costa Rica's 100-year-old calypso king and the worldwide search for his lost recordings
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Shooting hoops in South Sudan
Boxing Day 2019
Malat Wei and Jess Markt are taking wheelchair basketball and their story to South Sudan
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Why I risked my life to present a TV programme
Christmas Day 2019
Presenter Mozhdah Jamalzadah鈥檚 focus on women鈥檚 rights made her some dangerous enemies
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Finding the perfect hairdresser changed two lives
Christmas Eve 2019
Troy Winget and Andrea Quint Fleck found there was more between them than a good haircut
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The barefoot tennis player who turned pro
Mon 23 Dec 2019
Sam Jalloh鈥檚 war-torn journey to becoming a top tennis player in Sierra Leone
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The family story that became a TV novela
Sat 21 Dec 2019
A Brazilian tale of love, betrayal and revenge
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Why I announced I had cancer, on the radio
Fri 20 Dec 2019
DJ Mark Radcliffe tells us why he told listeners he had cancer, live on his radio show
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Don鈥檛 call me the 'Indiana Jones' of Syria
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Amr al-Azm leads a network of archaeologists battling to save Syria鈥檚 monuments
