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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My Dad, Muhammad Ali
Sat 18 Jul 2020
What is it like to be the daughter of a man who called himself The Greatest?
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Why I talk to warlords
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers
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The day the music stopped
Wed 15 Jul 2020
Violinist Min Kym was at the height of her career when her priceless violin was stolen
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Chimps taught me how to be a mother
Tue 14 Jul 2020
Dr Jane Goodall's work with chimps has revolutionalised our understanding of primates
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The unmaking of a boy soldier
Mon 13 Jul 2020
As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?
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The literary heroes that helped me cope as a carer
Thu 9 Jul 2020
When Sam Mills became a carer for her schizophrenic father, fiction became her lifeline
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Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother
Wed 8 Jul 2020
Born into folk music royalty Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle
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The trailblazing nurse who began life in care
Tue 7 Jul 2020
How Elizabeth Anionwu went from life in a children's home to becoming a medical pioneer
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A girl on the run and a girl with no name
Mon 6 Jul 2020
Two listeners share extraordinary personal stories
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The mystery of Ecuador's lost mastertapes
Sat 4 Jul 2020
An eccentric grandfather and an old suitcase of songs and secret loves
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Caring for my dying father made me a better doctor
Thu 2 Jul 2020
Rachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor. When her dad got ill her work became personal
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"Look after her" - the story of a hidden WW2 child
Wed 1 Jul 2020
Lien de Jong was a Jewish child who hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
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The adventurer鈥檚 son who went missing in the jungle
Tue 30 Jun 2020
When adventurer Roman Dial's son went missing, he set out to find him
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I played violin during my brain surgery
Mon 29 Jun 2020
Dagmar Turner played to prevent any damage to her violin skills
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Ups and downs in a vertical world
Thu 25 Jun 2020
Ian Powell is a climbing hold designer who rebuilt his life after years of drug addiction
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Touched by magic
Wed 24 Jun 2020
Magicians who used their craft to overcome social awkwardness, sexism and bullying
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Fire and justice: my life after Grenfell
Tue 23 Jun 2020
Antonio Roncolato was one of the last survivors to escape London鈥檚 Grenfell Tower fire
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The deserted island and the lost graves
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Carina Hoang and her siblings ended up stranded on an island in the South China Sea
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Dynamo: turning illness into magic
Sat 20 Jun 2020
Crohn's disease has hampered the world-famous magician all his life
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We risked our lives to save my brother's heart
Thu 18 Jun 2020
Hamed Amiri鈥檚 family fled from Afghanistan to get a heart operation for his brother
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Hamilton: overcoming hearing loss to make its music
Wed 17 Jun 2020
Alex Lacamoire collaborated with Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the epic sound of Hamilton
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We missed our baby鈥檚 birth because of Covid-19
Tue 16 Jun 2020
How one couple travelled across the world to meet their baby son
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The lawyer, the chemical giant, and the contaminated water
Mon 15 Jun 2020
Robert Bilott took on a case for one farmer. It became a fight for 70,000 people.
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The teenager who survived the Manchester bombing
Sat 13 Jun 2020
Freya Lewis has rebuilt her life after the attack at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017
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Wrongfully convicted of murdering my parents
Fri 12 Jun 2020
After 17 years in prison Marty Tankleff has been sworn in as a lawyer.
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Voyage to the bitter deep
Wed 10 Jun 2020
Victor Vescovo and John Ramsay explored the deepest points of the world's five oceans
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My powerful sideburns and other beard stories
Tue 9 Jun 2020
MJ Johnson has an award winning beard, but due to coronavirus its days might be numbered
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The forbidden marriage and the legal loophole
Mon 8 Jun 2020
The clerical error that allowed two women to make LGBT history in Costa Rica.
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Heavy Metal's Groundbreaking Grandma
Sat 6 Jun 2020
Meet Inge Ginsberg: Holocaust survivor, Hollywood composer and heavy metal grandma
