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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Derren Brown: the magician鈥檚 secrets
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Illusionist Derren Brown聽on how he used magic to overcome his social awkwardness
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My partner killed our baby
Wed 25 Sep 2019
Hera McLeod has used her grief and anger to become an advocate for child protection
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I defaced a picture of Assad and knew I had to flee
Tue 24 Sep 2019
Reading Virginia Woolf inspired a Syrian woman to lead protests against the president
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'Honey, I brought home a crocodile'
Mon 23 Sep 2019
Gilberto 鈥楥hito鈥� Shedden adopted a wild crocodile in Costa Rica
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Modern birth: The man who had a baby
Fri 20 Sep 2019
Freddy McConnell is a transgender man who decided to have a baby
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Modern birth: Having a dead man鈥檚 baby
Fri 20 Sep 2019
Liat Malka fulfilled a dead man鈥檚 dream of having a baby by using his sperm and IVF
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Modern birth: The fertility doctor who impregnated his patients
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Matthew White and Heather Woock found out they were siblings and uncovered a scandal
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Modern birth: Why I gave my sister my womb
Wed 18 Sep 2019
Lolita W盲sterlund was born without a uterus, so her sister Linda offered up hers
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The TV action hero fighting bullies
Tue 17 Sep 2019
Why German action star Carsten Stahl became an anti-bullying crusader
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How I fixed my own brain
Mon 16 Sep 2019
Sarah Vallance鈥檚 fight to put her life together after suffering traumatic brain injury
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Discovering my 鈥榤um鈥� stole me at birth
Sat 14 Sep 2019
In 1997 a baby is stolen from a Cape Town hospital, 17 years later she learns the truth
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The acid attack meant for someone else
Thu 12 Sep 2019
Andreas Christopheros had acid thrown in his face in a case of mistaken identity
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I raised 1,000 children but gave my own away
Wed 11 Sep 2019
Sindhutai Sapkal is known as the 鈥榤other of orphans鈥�, but had to give her own child away
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Dr Palipana, the quadriplegic ER medic
Tue 10 Sep 2019
How a car accident turned Dinesh Palipana into a quadriplegic emergency doctor
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How not to be a rock star
Mon 9 Sep 2019
Cora Bissett got a five album deal when she was just 17, but then faced a huge backlash
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The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons
Sat 7 Sep 2019
Why a terminally ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal
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The love story behind a lost Leonardo
Thu 5 Sep 2019
How a long-lost painting was restored, attributed to da Vinci and sold for $450,000,000
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From homeless kid to hero of Africa's biggest slum
Wed 4 Sep 2019
Kennedy Odede is known by some as the unofficial mayor of Kibera
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Keeping my country's burned past alive
Tue 3 Sep 2019
How Brazilians are coping with the loss of the National Museum and their history
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'If you want to live, squeeze my hand'
Mon 2 Sep 2019
How scientist Steffanie Strathdee saved her husband from a deadly superbug
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Spain's fearless barnacle-hunting sisters
Fri 30 Aug 2019
Isabel and Susana Gonz谩lez risk their lives to collect barnacles along Spain's coastline
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How Springsteen became my lifeline
Thu 29 Aug 2019
The working class British-Pakistani teen who found a musical hero in The Boss
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Why I thanked the man who shot me
Wed 28 Aug 2019
Wesley Hamilton says that getting shot was 鈥渢he best thing that ever happened to me鈥�
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Forgiving myself after killing a classmate
Tue 27 Aug 2019
Lis Cashin accidentally killed a friend with a javelin and spent years overcoming guilt
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Building a hospital on a rubbish dump
Mon 26 Aug 2019
Aged 82, Edna Adan Ismail works 14 hour days in a Somaliland hospital she fought to build
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An unlikely friendship in Guantanamo Bay
Sat 24 Aug 2019
How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie
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The male countertenor who replaced a leading lady
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Polish singer Jakub Jozef Orlinski is something of a rarity in the operatic world
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鈥楶lease... need rescue鈥� SOS!鈥�
Wed 21 Aug 2019
When Beatrice De Smet got a desperate SMS from her husband, she knew she had to act fast
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My baby was swapped at birth
Tue 20 Aug 2019
A South African family continues their search after a hospital mix-up 21 years ago
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Bassem Youssef: Egypt鈥檚 revolutionary comedian
Mon 19 Aug 2019
From heart surgeon to Arab Spring satirist 鈥� the rise and fall of Bassem Youssef
