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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Befriending a princess - and helping her escape
Mon 9 Mar 2020
In 2018, Tiina Jauhianen agreed to help her close friend Sheikha Latifa escape from Dubai
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The choir without vocal cords
Sat 7 Mar 2020
The Belgian chorister turned doctor who conducts a choir for people without vocal cords
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Thai cave doctor: 'I feared I'd killed them'
Thu 5 Mar 2020
Richard Harris anaesthetised the trapped boys believing they had no chance of survival
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Signing to save lives in the Australian bushfires
Wed 4 Mar 2020
Sean Sweeney interprets major emergency announcements into sign language
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From child bride to literary sensation
Tue 3 Mar 2020
Indian writer Baby Halder overcame difficult circumstances to become a global best-seller
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The prison escape and the wooden keys
Mon 2 Mar 2020
Anti-apartheid activist Tim Jenkin's remarkable escape from a South African prison
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Photographing firefighters on the streets of Lagos
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Akintunde Akinleye has won awards for his photographs of pipeline explosions in Lagos.
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The Superheroes of Lagos
Thu 27 Feb 2020
In Lagos, Nigeria young cartoonists are creating a new kind of superhero.
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Killing on campus: Nigeria's criminal fraternities
Wed 26 Feb 2020
How Nigeria's university fraternities morphed into violent criminal gangs
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Lagos road trip challenge
Tue 25 Feb 2020
One day, four extraordinary individuals, nine hours of Lagos traffic
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Nigeria鈥檚 rebel artist families
Mon 24 Feb 2020
Outlook is in Lagos with rebel artists Wole Soyinka, Femi Kuti, and Afrobeats star Falz.
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鈥楳y heart goes out to the mums鈥�
Sat 22 Feb 2020
The mum who鈥檚 found compassion for the mothers of murderers after her own family tragedy
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My father was killed by 'Prime Evil'
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Candice Mama forgave her father鈥檚 killer, notorious apartheid murderer Eugene de Kock.
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The rapper who woke up deaf
Wed 19 Feb 2020
Dutch rapper Sor was on the brink of stardom when he suddenly lost his hearing.
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My family are sex workers - education saved me
Tue 18 Feb 2020
Eliska Tanzer grew up illiterate in a family of sex workers, but defied all expectations
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The mother choosing to love her 'enemy'
Mon 17 Feb 2020
A mother who stepped into the world of her son's killer to stop further acts of violence
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Flying my South African flag at the top of Everest
Sat 15 Feb 2020
Saray Khumalo on what it took to become the first black African woman to summit Everest
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I survived Joseph Kony - I want my children back
Fri 14 Feb 2020
Nakout Sylvia was abducted and held as a sex slave by the Lord鈥檚 Resistance Army.
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For the love of radio
Thu 13 Feb 2020
How radio around the world has helped communities and listeners in unexpected ways
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How a stage-fight nearly ended my acting career
Wed 12 Feb 2020
Actor Conor Madden suffered a brain injury when a stage-fight went wrong.
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How I ended up marrying 'my mother'
Tue 11 Feb 2020
A gay couple from California technically became mother and daughter as a legal workaround
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The star student with an agonising secret
Mon 10 Feb 2020
Dan-el Padilla Peralta went from an undocumented US immigrant to a Princeton professor.
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The Canadian cop who uncovered a police scandal
Sat 8 Feb 2020
When a First Nations teenager was found frozen to death Ernie Louttit wanted answers
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Michael Johnson: how the world's fastest man learned to walk again
Thu 6 Feb 2020
US Olympic champion Michael Johnson had to learn to walk again following a stroke.
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Discovering my dad was a music superstar
Wed 5 Feb 2020
Anoushka Shankar found out that her father was Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar.
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The avid hunter turned pioneering conservationist
Tue 4 Feb 2020
An encounter with a Bobwhite Quail made Lebanese hunter Assad Serhal rethink his life.
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I knocked out sexism in British boxing
Mon 3 Feb 2020
Jane Couch fought both in the ring and in court to make women鈥檚 boxing legal in Britain
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The making of a disco star
Mon 3 Feb 2020
Marcia Barrett was a lead singer of the chart-conquering disco band, Boney M
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I brought my daughter鈥檚 killer down
Thu 30 Jan 2020
Karen Edwards on the anguish she felt after the murder of her daughter Becky.
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The film tickets that destroyed a family
Wed 29 Jan 2020
When Neelam Krishnamoorthy鈥檚 two children died in a fire, she began a fight for justice.
