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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What I found in the minds of serial killers
Sat 6 Jul 2019
John E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals
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My fugitive dad made me get a nose job
Thu 4 Jul 2019
Margo Perin has spent years unravelling her mysterious childhood and her family's secrets
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Uncovering my family's showbiz past
Wed 3 Jul 2019
In a Paris cab, Claire Belhassine discovered that her grandad was a Tunisian singing star
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The unmasking of China's secret cartoonist
Tue 2 Jul 2019
Badiucao has paid a high price for the dissident cartoons he made in secret
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Thrown overboard: a stowaway's survival
Mon 1 Jul 2019
The extraordinary story of Jemal Damtawe, an Eritrean man who spent a lifetime on the run
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Overcoming IS terror with books
Thu 27 Jun 2019
Dr Alaa Hamdon is on a mission to rebuild a library destroyed by the Islamic State group
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My Mormon mum, my gay rights hero
Wed 26 Jun 2019
Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black鈥檚 mum inspired him to fight for marriage equality
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The child who saved my life 鈥� and vanished
Tue 25 Jun 2019
The story of an 11-year-old Iraqi girl and the man whose life she inadvertently saved
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Becoming a star: the busker with albinism
Mon 24 Jun 2019
Lazarus Chigwandali went from performing on the streets of Malawi to working with Madonna
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The man who stole the president's secrets
Sat 22 Jun 2019
One writer risked prison to leak material about Uzbekistan's authoritarian former leader
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My dad the unlikely meth dealer
Thu 20 Jun 2019
James Lubbock watched his dad transform from clean-living family man to major drug-dealer
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My brother鈥檚 sickle cell disease made me a doctor
Wed 19 Jun 2019
After Tartania鈥檚 brother Christopher had three strokes, she decided to become a doctor
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The failed escape and the 鈥榮tolen鈥� son
Wed 19 Jun 2019
After a disastrous effort to flee East Germany, Andreas Laake was set on finding his son
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The online post designed to ruin my life
Tue 18 Jun 2019
How a scandalous lie made Monika Glennon fight back against anonymous internet trolls
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The war in Iraq and the war inside my head
Mon 17 Jun 2019
After the Iraq War, a US marine鈥檚 inner battle to adapt to civilian life
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Raising my baby in a Thai prison
Thu 13 Jun 2019
A Miss South Africa contestant jailed in Thailand, facing the death penalty and pregnant
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Born the wrong colour - so I had to die
Wed 12 Jun 2019
A South African woman who discovered a letter that revealed the shame around her birth
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From bedridden granny to dancing queen
Tue 11 Jun 2019
Cathrine Mathebe went from being bedbound to leading a squad of dancing pensioners
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The secrets of a Soweto chef鈥檚 success
Mon 10 Jun 2019
Fine dining chef Lesego Semenya is on a mission to kick snobbery out of Joburg鈥檚 kitchens
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The Cuban aristocrat with a revolutionary secret
Sat 8 Jun 2019
Natalia Bolivar, a rich socialite, used her high class status to help topple a dictator
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My dream of ballooning over Iraq
Thu 6 Jun 2019
Murtada al-Hachimi fought for years to organise a hot air balloon festival in Iraq
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My children were injected with HIV
Wed 5 Jun 2019
Jennifer Merry鈥檚 haemophiliac sons were infected by contaminated blood in a UK hospital
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Why I wrote an apology to myself
Tue 4 Jun 2019
Playwright Eve Ensler鈥檚 father abused her. Writing his apology has helped her find peace
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The amateur sleuth and the lost babies
Mon 3 Jun 2019
Historian Catherine Corless uncovered a national scandal in Ireland
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In bed with an assassin
Sat 1 Jun 2019
Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret
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The scientist in the treetops
Thu 30 May 2019
Nalini Nadkarni is a tree canopy scientist who works with prisoners
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The song that helped me grieve
Wed 29 May 2019
Music journalist Jayson Greene kept a grief journal after the death of his daughter
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Why an ex-jihadist embraced an Islamophobe
Tue 28 May 2019
The friendship between a former extremist and a reformed anti-Islamist protester
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Looking for the Liberian sister I left behind
Mon 27 May 2019
After fleeing Liberia, Helene Cooper later decided to return to find her sister
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The Welsh miner who made wrestling glamorous
Sat 25 May 2019
Exotic Adrian Street received abuse for his flamboyant outfits - but they made him a star
