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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The Day the Music Stopped
Mon 17 Apr 2017
The story of world-famous violinist Min Kym and the crime that broke her heart.
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Marrying The Firefighter Who Saved Me
Thu 13 Apr 2017
Four years after the Boston bombings, Roseann Sdoia is set to marry the man who saved her
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Finding love after an acid attack
Wed 12 Apr 2017
Aarti Thakur and Prashant Pingle are both survivors of acid attacks.
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The bus ride that changed a boy's life
Tue 11 Apr 2017
RG Williams was thirteen when he made a decision that altered the course of his life.
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Musicians flying the Haitian flag
Mon 10 Apr 2017
Haiti's hottest DJ on why electronic dance parties grew during political unrest.
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Outlook Weekend: Horse Power
Sat 8 Apr 2017
Two stories of men whose lives were changed by horses. Then they changed the world.
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The Jockey Who Cheated Death
Thu 6 Apr 2017
Declan Murphy's obituary was released after a severe riding accident. But he rode again.
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Syria's Monuments Man
Wed 5 Apr 2017
Isber Sabrine is a man on a mission to document Syria's priceless antiquities.
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Saving Lives After Haiti's Hurricane
Tue 4 Apr 2017
Stories from the heroes of Hurricane Matthew, and where they are six months on.
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Bringing Beauty to Haiti's No-Go Slum
Mon 3 Apr 2017
Daniel Tillias has created a garden in Haiti's notorious slum, Cite Soleil.
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Outlook Weekend: The Bodyguard
Sat 1 Apr 2017
Inside the turbulent, surprisingly intimate and often violent world of bodyguards.
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Joseph Kony called me "Mummy Bigombe"
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Betty Bigombe negotiated face to face with the notorious leader of the LRA
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Ahmed Kathrada: Anti-Apartheid Leader
Wed 29 Mar 2017
The life and times of the leading South African activist who died this week.
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Forced to teach the children of IS
Tue 28 Mar 2017
Iraqi primary school teacher Riyad Aljoboury on life in schools under IS.
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The female pilot on the frontline
Mon 27 Mar 2017
Mary Jennings Hegar survived being shot down by the Taliban.
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Outlook Weekend: Do The Hustle
Sun 26 Mar 2017
Stories of people hustling their way out of tough situations
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Teenager's Race To Save WW2 Stories
Thu 23 Mar 2017
19-year-old Rishi Sharma is on a mission to collect stories of WW2 American veterans.
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The Man Who Jumps off Tall Buildings
Wed 22 Mar 2017
Chris 'Douggs' McDougall has risked his life doing more than 3,600 base jumps.
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The Best Friends Who Became a Family
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Best friends Natasha Bakht and Lynda Collins became first co-parents of their kind.
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Writing My Cellmates' Names in Blood
Mon 20 Mar 2017
Mansour Omari risked his life to document the names of his cellmates in a Syrian prison.
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Outlook Weekend: Hospital Drama
Sun 19 Mar 2017
Two hospital drama stories about a nurse and a surgeon who each face a shocking dilemma
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The Pinball Champion Defying Expectations
Thu 16 Mar 2017
Canadian Robert Gagno's success has helped him prove that autism doesn't define him.
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Dr Miracle: I've restored 35,000 people's sight
Wed 15 Mar 2017
Helena Ndume fled apartheid Namibia but returned years later to tackle cataracts
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Paris' Frozen Zoo
Tue 14 Mar 2017
Prince Louis Albert De Broglie owns Deyrolle the famous taxidermy shop in Paris
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The Newly-weds Separated by Kidnap Ordeal
Mon 13 Mar 2017
Pakistani Shahbaz Taseer didn't see his wife for nearly five years after being kidnapped
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Outlook Weekend: Planes, Trains and Getaway Cars
Sun 12 Mar 2017
Stories of three people on life-changing journeys
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From Rio Favela to State Governor
Thu 9 Mar 2017
Benedita da Silva, Brazil's first black female senator
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Remembering My Missing Wife
Wed 8 Mar 2017
KS Narendran's wife was aboard the plane MH370, which mysteriously vanished.
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'Music is never enough - it has to be madness'
Tue 7 Mar 2017
Maestro Goran Bregovic on why he thinks Balkan gypsy music is the best in the world.
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Saving a lion in Mosul Zoo
Mon 6 Mar 2017
Dr Amir Khalil risked his life to treat a lion living in a warzone in Iraq.
