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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Outlook Weekend: The Indestructibles
Sun 22 Jan 2017
The mystery of a 30-year-old black box recorder and a mayor changing attitudes to HIV.
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I Woke Up During Surgery
Thu 19 Jan 2017
Donna Penner woke up during an operation and found herself unable to alert the doctors
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Morehouse: Black to the Future
Wed 18 Jan 2017
The college that aims to turn out America's next black leaders.
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I felt so guilty for being kidnapped
Tue 17 Jan 2017
Colombian priest Ana Victoria Bastidas, who was kidnapped for helping girls.
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The pianist who escaped a shipwreck
Mon 16 Jan 2017
Antimo Magnotta was entertaining guests on board the Costa Concordia when it hit a reef.
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Outlook Weekend: Something Doesn't Add Up
Sun 15 Jan 2017
A case of stolen identity, betrayal and a secret life
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Reading the President's Letters
Thu 12 Jan 2017
Fiona Reeves reads the thousands of letters sent to President Obama by Americans.
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Phoning My Brother's Killer
Wed 11 Jan 2017
Sikh Rana Singh Sodhi's brother was shot in a hate crime after the 9/11 attacks on NYC
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How Two Friends Found a Lost Plane
Tue 10 Jan 2017
Americans Dan Futrell and Isaac Stoner tried to solve a 30-year-old mystery in Bolivia.
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I Offer Extreme Marriage Counselling in China
Mon 9 Jan 2017
Zhu Lifei from China has set up a business to break up extra-marital affairs.
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Outlook Weekend: Love Against the Odds
Sun 8 Jan 2017
Five countries, four husbands, three relationships, two women, one theme: love.
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Former Child Fishing Slave Now Rescuing Others
Fri 6 Jan 2017
James Kofi Annan was sold into slavery in Ghana.
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Kenya's Karate Grannies
Thu 5 Jan 2017
Elderly women in Nairobi are using martial arts as self-defence against sexual assault
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The screams 'sound like war cries'
Wed 4 Jan 2017
Greek coastguard Kyriakos Papadopoulos works on Lesbos saving people fleeing war by sea.
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From Refugee to British Baroness
Tue 3 Jan 2017
Arminka Helic went from fleeing war in Bosnia to joining the British House of Lords.
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The Lawyer Fighting Back Against Revenge Porn
Mon 2 Jan 2017
Carrie Goldberg was once harassed online by an ex-partner, she now defends other victims
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Outlook Weekend: They Said I Was Crazy
New Year's Day 2017
Two amazing women both told they were crazy, but whose actions changed their countries.
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The secret link between two gymnasts
Thu 29 Dec 2016
Jennifer Bricker was born without legs and idolised the Olympic gymnast Dominique Moceanu
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Finding Love in Wartime Iraq
Tue 27 Dec 2016
US Army interpreter Nayyef Hrebid met Iraqi soldier Btoo Allami during the Iraq War
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Ex-President: The Day I Was Shot
Boxing Day 2016
Jose Ramos Horta survived being shot at his home in Dili, East Timor.
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Outlook Weekend: Miracle Child
Christmas Day 2016
A girl born under gunfire, the only survivor of a plane crash and a very lost boy.
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The real Caster Semenya
Thu 22 Dec 2016
The unheard personal story of a great athlete and the controversial matter of her sex
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The nurse who saved a starving town
Wed 21 Dec 2016
Khaled Naanaa left his family behind to show the world that Syria was starving.
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How we hunted Pablo Escobar
Tue 20 Dec 2016
Why two American agents joined the hunt for one of the world's biggest drug lords.
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How Outlook solved a WW2 mystery
Mon 19 Dec 2016
Thanks to an Outlook interview, Theresa Kownacki discovered what happened to her brother.
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Outlook Weekend: Talking Sense
Sun 18 Dec 2016
Discover a whole new way of sensing the world with your nose, your eyes and your ears
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Moroccan Actor Who Fled for Her Life
Thu 15 Dec 2016
Loubna Abidar had to leave Morocco after she played a sex worker in a film.
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The father taking on the Sandy Hook trolls
Wed 14 Dec 2016
Lenny Pozner challenges conspiracies after his son was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting.
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A bank error made me a millionaire
Tue 13 Dec 2016
After a bank error gave Australian Luke Moore a limitless overdraft, he spent millions.
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My husband's kiss could kill me
Mon 12 Dec 2016
A rare condition means Johanna Watkins is allergic to just about everyone and everything
