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.
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The artist who started out drawing war as a child refugee
Thu 10 Feb 2022
Petrit Halilaj was just 13 years old when his drawings were beamed all over the world
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Gaming with Tourette鈥檚: Sweet Anita鈥檚 success story
Wed 9 Feb 2022
Sweet Anita overcame loneliness and isolation to become a famous gamer online
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The refugee pilot who helped Afghans flee the Taliban
Tue 8 Feb 2022
Zak Khogyani was forced to flee his home. Now he's helping others in the same position
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The first African in Greenland
Mon 7 Feb 2022
It took T茅t茅-Michel Kpomassie eight years to reach the Arctic from his home in Togo
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"No equality - even in death"
Sat 5 Feb 2022
Reclaiming the lost history of an African American cemetery
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How books helped me bond with my captors
Thu 3 Feb 2022
Mar铆a Antonia Garc茅s was a hostage in Colombia. Her love of literature helped her survive
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Mafia, a murder cover-up and a sister鈥檚 battle for justice
Wed 2 Feb 2022
Who was behind Perween Rahman鈥檚 murder? Her sister was determined to uncover the truth
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The crumbling old house that hid a treasure trove of art
Tue 1 Feb 2022
It was a tiny, dilapidated cottage but inside the garage was something truly remarkable
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My love affair with the instrument that reminds me of home
Mon 31 Jan 2022
Syrian virtuoso musician Maya Youssef fell in love with the qanun as a child
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Anne Frank鈥檚 stepsister: How I survived Auschwitz, part 2
Thu 27 Jan 2022
How Anne Frank鈥檚 diary led Eva Schloss to find her brother鈥檚 hidden Holocaust paintings
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Anne Frank鈥檚 stepsister: How I survived Auschwitz, part 1
Wed 26 Jan 2022
The extraordinary Holocaust testimony of Eva Schloss and her memories of Anne Frank
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Solving the puzzle: Crosswords, anorexia, and me
Tue 25 Jan 2022
How Anna Shechtman recovered from anorexia and changed the world of crosswords
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The freediver who found salvation underwater
Thu 20 Jan 2022
Alenka Artnik overcame grief and pain to become a world champion freediver
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Caring for my mum & the secrets of her sickness
Wed 19 Jan 2022
After a lifetime of caring for her ill mother Helen Naylor began to ask was it all a lie?
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My surprise Paralympic entry
Tue 18 Jan 2022
Marie Harrower鈥檚 mother taught her not to let her blindness hold her back
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Family and forgiveness, the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Mon 17 Jan 2022
Celebrating the life of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu with an interview he did in 2014
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I sailed the oceans in a Scientology jazz band
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Neil Sarfati toured on board a ship with Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard
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Looking for the Liberian sister I left behind
Tue 11 Jan 2022
Civil war separated Helene Cooper from her sister. Years later she went back to find her
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The factory worker who became Chile's first blind senator
Mon 10 Jan 2022
How a tear gas cannister changed the course of Fabiola Campillai鈥檚 life
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A mother's battle for her son's education
Sat 8 Jan 2022
At risk of losing her son Virginia Walden Ford fought to change the US education system.
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A quizmaster鈥檚 accidental route to fame
Thu 6 Jan 2022
How quizmaster Jay Flynn started the UK's most in-demand pub quiz by accident
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The tip-off and the 30-year treasure hunt
Wed 5 Jan 2022
A story told over drinks in the 1980s set two metal detectorists on a very long hunt
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The shocking truth about my three dads
Tue 4 Jan 2022
DNA tests revealed that Eve Wiley's biological father was not the man she thought
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Kidnapped by Nazis as a baby
Mon 3 Jan 2022
Ingrid Von Oelhafen discovered she'd been part of an experiment during World War II
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I lost my heart to a herd of reindeer
Christmas Eve 2021
Tilly Smith went to Scotland to look after a herd of reindeer 40 years ago and never left
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Falling for the stranger who saved me
Thu 23 Dec 2021
When Nupur Gupta found herself in trouble out at sea, Attila Bosnyak appeared at her side
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Lessons in grief from the South African wilderness
Wed 22 Dec 2021
Working as a wilderness guide helped Sicelo Mbatha confront the loss of his best friend
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"We were going to hold our ground": Behind the lines of a Mohawk protest
Tue 21 Dec 2021
Tracey Deer's community were involved in a 78 day siege with the Canadian government
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Alaska: Drag, drugs and fighting the fame monster
Mon 20 Dec 2021
Dream chasing and Drag Racing with Alaska 5000, and the restorative power of Catwoman
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Gerald and the giant vegetables
Sat 18 Dec 2021
Septuagenarian Gerald Stratford went viral with videos of his enormous vegetables
