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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Why I want combat armour made for women
Thu 23 May 2019
Battlefield lawyer Rebecca Lipe鈥檚 campaign for US servicewomen to have better body armour
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I鈥檓 more than my husband鈥檚 shameful crime
Wed 22 May 2019
Maddie Corman stayed with her husband after he was caught with child abuse material
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Aleppo: In love and under siege with a newborn
Tue 21 May 2019
Filmmaker Waad and her medic husband, Hamza, documented their life during the Syrian war
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How to give up
Mon 20 May 2019
Why extreme swimmer Beth French doesn鈥檛 regret giving up on her life鈥檚 ambition
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Interviewing Mumbai's Mafia Don
Fri 17 May 2019
Journalist Hussain Zaidi risked everything to document his city's criminal underworld
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I trained to be a surgeon when I couldn鈥檛 read or write
Thu 16 May 2019
Ethiopian child bride Mamitu Gashe became a surgeon after she almost died in childbirth
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'Honour' made my father a murderer
Wed 15 May 2019
Amina鈥檚 father brutally attacked her and her sister for 鈥榮haming鈥� their Jordanian family
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I can't make long-term memories
Tue 14 May 2019
Hum Fleming has epilepsy. A side effect means her memories mostly fade after six months
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The designer who won鈥檛 wear yellow
Mon 13 May 2019
Why China鈥檚 most famous fashion designer Guo Pei wasn鈥檛 allowed to wear yellow as a child
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Elza Soares: invincible queen of samba
Sat 11 May 2019
Singer Elza Soares survived poverty and public scandal to become a music legend in Brazil
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The heiress giving away her Disney fortune
Thu 9 May 2019
Abigail Disney felt her family was ruined by the wealth from their Hollywood empire
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What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'
Wed 8 May 2019
The true story behind an infamous social experiment
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The perfect stranger and the ice lake rescue
Tue 7 May 2019
Timofey Yuriev was possibly the best person to save two dogs trapped in an icy lake
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The secrets uncovered by a body detective
Mon 6 May 2019
Sue Black can tell from a cadaver what the deceased's mother ate during pregnancy
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How I turn prisoners into violin virtuosos
Sat 4 May 2019
Tito Quiroz found himself in a tough Mexican prison, tasked with teaching music lessons
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Opioid crisis: the doctor who got addicted
Thu 2 May 2019
Lou Ortenzio got addicted to opioids as he was prescribing them to his patients in the US
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The friendship born of murder
Wed 1 May 2019
How the father of a victim became buddies with the killer's family
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Survivor 195: Taking down Larry Nassar
Tue 30 Apr 2019
Elite US gymnast Rachel Haines was abused by convicted paedophile Larry Nassar for years
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The massacre that made me a mortician
Mon 29 Apr 2019
Camilo Jaramillo survived a massacre and found solace in becoming a mortician
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The words that saved John Dwayne Bunn
Sat 27 Apr 2019
A wrongfully convicted illiterate teenager found his freedom in books and letters
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Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs
Fri 26 Apr 2019
How do you get Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to play in a warzone?
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From homeless child to top firefighter
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Sabrina Cohen Hatton survived homelessness to become a leading firefighter in the UK
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Keeping wrestling alive in Afghanistan
Wed 24 Apr 2019
Teacher Abbas and his wrestling gym are back with a vengeance after a terror attack
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How did this diver cheat death?
Tue 23 Apr 2019
Diver Chris Lemons was trapped on the North Sea bed for around 35 minutes without air
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The voyage of The Fisherman鈥檚 Friends
Mon 22 Apr 2019
How a group of friends went from singing in their local pub to national stardom
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Life as a Nepalese 'living goddess'
Sat 20 Apr 2019
Rashmila Shakya on life after growing up in a temple where she was worshipped as a goddess
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Using comedy to unpick my past on air
Thu 18 Apr 2019
Comedian Rosie Waterland started a podcast with her mum to examine their difficult past
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Losing my dad in the Challenger space disaster
Wed 17 Apr 2019
Richard Scobee watched as the Space Shuttle Challenger took off, it would change his life
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The backflip that shocked the Olympics
Tue 16 Apr 2019
Surya Bonaly performed an 鈥榠llegal鈥� move that cemented her name in figure skating history
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The family murder that began our campaign
Mon 15 Apr 2019
Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse
