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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Life as the UK's first black TV reporter
Thu 7 Nov 2019
Broadcasting legend Sir Trevor McDonald looks back on his life and career
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Finding the whale that nearly killed me
Wed 6 Nov 2019
The epic search for the whale that landed on a filmmaker鈥檚 kayak and changed his life
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The inside story of a Muslim drag queen
Tue 5 Nov 2019
Amrou Al-Kadhi on their complex identity: Muslim, gay, non-binary drag queen
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Why I love the woman who killed my son
Mon 4 Nov 2019
Tiki Finlayson forgave the woman who killed her son in a drink-driving accident
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The 'deepest man on earth'
Sat 2 Nov 2019
Herbert Nitsch broke the record for deepest free dive but fell asleep on the way back up
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The rebel lawyer transforming Malaysia
Fri 1 Nov 2019
Cecil Rajendra set up the first legal aid clinics in shacks
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The diver trapped inside an iceberg
Wed 30 Oct 2019
Jill Heinerth was exploring submerged frozen caves when crisis hit
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Joining the racist gang that tormented me
Tue 29 Oct 2019
Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joined a racist gang as a teenager for his own protection
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The priest who came out at 91
Mon 28 Oct 2019
After a life of hiding his sexuality, former priest Stanley Underhill finally feels free
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The making of the 'Wish Man'
Sat 26 Oct 2019
How a poor boy who was abandoned by his mother grew up to grant children鈥檚 dying wishes
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The struggle of Soweto's 'Lion King'
Thu 24 Oct 2019
It was a long road to the recording studio for Lebo M who wrote songs for the hit movie
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The rescue dog that rescued me
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Sean Laidlaw rescued Barrie from Syria in 2018 and now she helps him to overcome his PTSD
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I stole a plane to escape the military
Tue 22 Oct 2019
53 years ago Theo Van Eijck flew from Malta to Libya to start a new life
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My child and spouse came out as trans
Mon 21 Oct 2019
The story of how a family coped with two seismic revelations and are now closer than ever
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The painful secret I hid from my twin
Sat 19 Oct 2019
When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them
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How cooking landed me in a Syrian prison
Thu 17 Oct 2019
Chef Majeda Khouri got arrested for cooking food for displaced people in Damascus
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鈥楧ad please don鈥檛 sell my sister, sell me鈥�
Wed 16 Oct 2019
Shari Ho from Taiwan was sold as a slave by her father when she was just seven years old
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How we pulled off 'the rescue of the century'
Tue 15 Oct 2019
Vernon Unsworth oversaw the huge operation to save 12 Thai schoolboys trapped in a cave
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The Afghan physio who survived a landmine
Mon 14 Oct 2019
Shukrullah Zeerak wanted to help others after he lost his leg in a landmine explosion
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How Superman saved my life
Sat 12 Oct 2019
Screenwriter Joe Straczynski wished for a hero to rescue him from his abusive childhood
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Mental Health Day: Dancing and delusions
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Dancer Kevin Turner and his mum Avis tell us how they coped with his bipolar disorder
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Curing my own deadly disease
Wed 9 Oct 2019
David Fajgenbaum was nicknamed 'The Beast' before he became ill with a deadly disease
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Pirates stole my son
Tue 8 Oct 2019
Howie Truong was separated from his baby son Kai as they fled Vietnam by boat
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The accident that taught me how to die
Mon 7 Oct 2019
After being electrocuted by 11,000 volts, Dr BJ Miller now devotes his life to the dying
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Why I didn鈥檛 make a sound for 12 years
Sat 5 Oct 2019
Marie McCreadie on her agony becoming mute at 13 and her shock and joy learning the cause
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London bus driver fighting crime with music
Thu 3 Oct 2019
Justin Finlayson turned his bus into a music studio to keep youths out of trouble
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Exposing the scandal that's cost me my life
Wed 2 Oct 2019
Vicky Phelan on the medical scandal that gave 221 women inaccurate smear test results
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Learning to sing by copying divas on DVDs
Tue 1 Oct 2019
Rising star Vuvu Mpufo discovered opera as a teenager at her home in South Africa
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Scammed by my friend, the fake heiress
Mon 30 Sep 2019
Rachel DeLoache Williams was conned out of tens of thousands of dollars by Anna Sorokin
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The false confessions of a serial killer
Sat 28 Sep 2019
Thomas Quick was Sweden鈥檚 most notorious serial killer. Then he retracted his confessions
