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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Inspirations: I Grew a Tropical Forest
Wed 30 May 2018
Mbarouk Mussa Omar has planted over a million trees in the Zanzibar archipelago
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Trying to Prove My Father Was a Killer
Tue 29 May 2018
Sandra Brown believes her dad, a child rapist, was behind her schoolmate's disappearance
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Inspirations: Saving a life on Everest
Mon 28 May 2018
Mountaineer Leslie Binns gave up his dream of conquering Everest to save another climber
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Outlook Weekend: Am I Baby Paul?
Sat 26 May 2018
A kidnapped baby, an abandoned child and a web of secrets that spanned over 40 years
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Inspirations: Busting Taboos on My Motorbike
Thu 24 May 2018
Zenith Irfan is challenging stereotypes and fulfilling her father's dream in Pakistan
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Life as the Enemy of the Mafia
Thu 24 May 2018
Anti-mafia chief prosecutor Nicola Gratteri lives under 24/7 armed protection
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Inspirations: Me and My Wheelchair in Space
Wed 23 May 2018
South African activist Eddie Ndopu wants to be the first wheelchair user in space
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Flint: Exposing the Water Crisis that Poisoned my Kids
Tue 22 May 2018
Mother of four LeeAnne Walters helped to expose the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
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Inspirations: My School for Survivors
Mon 21 May 2018
Brisa de Angulo set up a charity for survivors of sexual assault in Bolivia
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My Son Didn't Talk to Me When I Fled Syria
Mon 21 May 2018
Musician Raghad Haddad claimed asylum in the UK and fought for her family to join her
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Outlook Weekend: What's Up Chapo?
Sat 19 May 2018
Drew Hogan made it his mission to take down the world's most wanted drug lord, El Chapo
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Inspirations: My Wheelchair Superhero
Thu 17 May 2018
Mohammad Sayed created a comic superhero called Wheelchair Man, based on his life story
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A Hitman was Hired to Kill Me
Thu 17 May 2018
Nancy Shore survived being shot in the head by a hitman at her home in Texas in 2012
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Top Indian runner's landmark win
Wed 16 May 2018
Dutee Chand - the fastest woman in India - won a historic case for the right to compete
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Inspirations: Namibia's Outcast Mayor
Tue 15 May 2018
Livey van Wyk went from being an HIV-positive teenager to the youngest mayor in Namibia
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Inspirations: Orchestra for the Dying
Mon 14 May 2018
Jorge Bergero is a cellist who performs for people who can't make it to concert halls
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Outlook Weekend: The Voyage of Meg and Elena
Sat 12 May 2018
The couple met online then had to battle the human and natural worlds to be together.
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I Forgive the Man Who Took Me Hostage
Thu 10 May 2018
Geert Kruit was a young boy when gunman Tom Polnaija took him hostage in a school siege
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The Female Hunter Tracking Boko Haram
Wed 9 May 2018
Aisha Bakari Gombi defied expectations when she took up arms against militants
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I Wrote an SOS Note in my Own Blood
Tue 8 May 2018
Minor Vidal was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest
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How an Alien and a BMX Changed My Life
Mon 7 May 2018
John Buultjens ended up playing the role of his violent father in a Hollywood film
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Outlook Weekend: The Mountain Between Us
Sat 5 May 2018
How two climbers become connected after a fateful expedition on a mountain in Tibet
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I forgot I loved my wife
Fri 4 May 2018
In 2016, Adam Gonzales woke up with no memory of having met his wife
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Making a Bollywood Film for My Village
Thu 3 May 2018
Gautam Singh made a Bollywood film to prove to his village that he really is a filmmaker
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The KGB Spy with Two Families
Wed 2 May 2018
The remarkable double life of Jack Barsky, an undercover agent in the US
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Losing My Baby and Learning to Laugh
Tue 1 May 2018
Stand-up comedian Lou Conran learnt to laugh again after giving birth to a stillborn baby
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How a Nun Infiltrated Ecuador's Gangs
Mon 30 Apr 2018
Nelsa Curbelo wanted to end gang violence, but had to befriend the gang members first
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Outlook Weekend: The Laws of Love
Sat 28 Apr 2018
Jim and John's union changed the course of US legal history
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America's African late-night host
Thu 26 Apr 2018
Trevor Noah's birth defied apartheid laws in South Africa in the 1980s
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How I Survived Kidnap and Rape at 14
Wed 25 Apr 2018
Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bed in 2002 and held for 9 months
