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 murder that stopped me writing crime fiction
Wed 18 Dec 2019
Fact and fiction blurred for writer Mads Peder Nordbo when he came across a murder
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I believed I was my dead sister
Tue 17 Dec 2019
After Gail Gallant鈥檚 sister died, her mother told Gail she was her sister reborn
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Footballer Mark Bright: What I鈥檝e learnt about love
Mon 16 Dec 2019
What British player Mark Bright learnt from being fostered as a young child
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Fighting the apartheid my grandfather created
Sat 14 Dec 2019
Wilhelm Verwoerd's grandfather was the prime minister of South Africa in the 1960s
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Harvard Law School鈥檚 first Deafblind graduate
Thu 12 Dec 2019
While Haben Girma was at Harvard she developed new technology to help her communicate
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The dark truth behind my songs
Wed 11 Dec 2019
A murder-suicide devastated Allison Moorer鈥檚 youth but now inspires her country music
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The Somali pirate tapes
Tue 10 Dec 2019
Danish ship owner Per Gullestrup had to learn how to negotiate with Somali pirates
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A tale of two video games
Mon 9 Dec 2019
The creators behind one of the best and one of the worst computer games ever made
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A star is gone: Judy Garland's last act
Sat 7 Dec 2019
Behind the scenes at Judy Garland鈥檚 final UK shows with the woman who got her on stage
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The uncomfortable truth hidden in my DNA
Thu 5 Dec 2019
Hiram Johnson embarked on a quest to solve a family mystery
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I was jailed for having a stillbirth
Wed 4 Dec 2019
Teodora V谩squez was jailed for murder in El Salvador after having a stillborn baby.
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My life as an undercover CIA agent: Part Two
Tue 3 Dec 2019
After being recruited by the CIA Amaryllis Fox became an undercover spy
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My life as an undercover CIA agent: Part One
Tue 3 Dec 2019
Before Amaryllis Fox was a CIA agent, she smuggled a rare interview out of Burma
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Telling jokes about my refugee past
Mon 2 Dec 2019
Comedian Hung Le fled Vietnam as a child and grew up in Australia
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Giving birth during a genocide
Sat 30 Nov 2019
The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home
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The man who makes Singapore laugh
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Comedian Hossan Leong on how he kept smiling while facing a life threatening illness
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Sunburnt, starving and stranded at sea
Wed 27 Nov 2019
John Low spent four days stranded at sea, with only a flotation ring to cling on to
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Girls don鈥檛 fight? I became a champion
Tue 26 Nov 2019
As a child, May Ooi was not allowed to practise martial arts. She is now a champion
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How hunger made me a top chef
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Singaporean Ang Song Kang started working in a kitchen because he had no food at home
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The heavy metal boys from the dump
Sat 23 Nov 2019
The heavy metal band who grew up on Cambodia's biggest rubbish dump.
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The policewoman fighting fake news
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Rema Rajeshwari is using storytelling to combat the spread of deadly rumours in India
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Our parents' secret gay porn empire
Wed 20 Nov 2019
Rachel and Josh Mason had no idea their unassuming parents ran an iconic gay porn shop
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Pulling a plane doesn鈥檛 make me strong
Tue 19 Nov 2019
How police officer Grant Edwards, once Australia鈥檚 strongest man, faced his inner trauma
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The Treasure Hunters
Mon 18 Nov 2019
Stories of two very different men recovering lost and stolen treasures
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The secret world of our dying son
Sat 16 Nov 2019
Mats Steen found friendship and escape in an online fantasy land
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Confronting my grandma and my nation over FGM
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Ifrah Ahmed went through FGM as a child. Now she fights to ban the practice in Somalia
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Why my mother lied about her race
Wed 13 Nov 2019
In her 40s Gail Lukasik discovered that her 鈥榳hite鈥� mother was in fact multiracial
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The street kid and the plastic camera
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Photographer Vicky Roy got his break taking photos of his friends on the streets of Delhi
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Remembrance 2019: in love and under siege
Mon 11 Nov 2019
For Remembrance Day, we're re-visiting this remarkable story of love in war-zone
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A mother's battle for her son's education
Sat 9 Nov 2019
At risk of losing her son Virginia Walden Ford fought to change the US education system
