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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Can my robot save my country?
Fri 12 Apr 2019
Richard Yim has invented a robot to try to rid Cambodia of landmines
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My revenge against 'revenge porn'
Thu 11 Apr 2019
Ana Baquedano fought to change the law in Mexico after an ex shared her nude selfie
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The sailor and the secret
Wed 10 Apr 2019
Guy Oliver鈥檚 secret took him from being on a warship to designing superyachts
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Leaving America's 'most hated family'
Tue 9 Apr 2019
Libby Phelps grew up in the infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church
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The wrestling star helping a grieving mum
Mon 8 Apr 2019
Kendo Nagasaki has helped Lyn Rigby cope after her son was killed in an extremist attack
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The African girl raised by Kim Il-sung
Sat 6 Apr 2019
Monica Macias had two dads: Equatorial Guinea's brutal leader and the North Korean despot
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The Iranian Avocado Quest that led to prison
Thu 4 Apr 2019
The struggle to free journalist Jason Rezaian from Iran鈥檚 most notorious prison
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We found love in the wake of 9/11
Wed 3 Apr 2019
In the wake of tragedy, Nick and Diane Marson were able to find each other and love
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Risking my life to see mum
Tue 2 Apr 2019
The reporter in Mogadishu who fears attack when he travels the six miles to visit his mum
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The masterplan that got me out of prison
Mon 1 Apr 2019
How an inmate serving life in prison came up with a masterplan to turn his life around
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The 鈥楲ion Mama鈥� who fought off three rapists
Sun 31 Mar 2019
Nokubonga Qampi stepped in when her daughter was attacked
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Inside the minds and chat rooms of IS
Thu 28 Mar 2019
Rukmini Callimachi is a US reporter whose work has brought her close to so-called IS
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Having a baby with a man who died years ago
Wed 27 Mar 2019
How an Israeli man鈥檚 dying wish to father a child was fulfilled
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The world champ who didn't want to box
Tue 26 Mar 2019
Michael Bentt made it to the top of his game, but he never actually wanted to box
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Sketching celebrities in the courtroom
Mon 25 Mar 2019
Jane Rosenberg has sketched everyone from 'El Chapo' to Harvey Weinstein in court
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The secret world of our dying son
Sun 24 Mar 2019
Mats Steen found friendship and escape in a fantasy online land
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Fighting Ebola in a war zone
Thu 21 Mar 2019
Facing militias and machetes, the DRC doctor trying to stop Ebola in a war zone
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Taking on America's rich and famous
Wed 20 Mar 2019
Gloria Allred has represented the accusers of Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and R Kelly.
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An epic walk home from school
Tue 19 Mar 2019
Tsering and Nima risked their lives to get home in a gruelling trek across the Himalayas
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My daughter鈥檚 killer feels like 鈥榝amily鈥�
Mon 18 Mar 2019
Eddy Hekman has forged an unlikely relationship with the man who killed his daughter
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Soweto Uprising: what happened to my dad?
Sun 17 Mar 2019
Janet Goldblatt's father was murdered, but the full story would take decades to emerge
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The Mormon mums of gay sons
Thu 14 Mar 2019
We meet the Mama Dragons - the Mormon mums 'breathing fire' for their gay sons
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Fifteen and alone at sea
Wed 13 Mar 2019
After a traumatic incident, Australian Susan Berg overcame a fear of water and swam again
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Befriending the woman I'd have to dissect
Tue 12 Mar 2019
How anatomist Vic Spitzer got to know the woman who donated her body to him for research
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The detective and the diamond heist
Sun 10 Mar 2019
Belgian detective Patrick Peys had to solve the biggest diamond robbery in history
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Held captive by a cult for 30 years
Thu 7 Mar 2019
Katy Morgan-Davies was born into a cult in south London and held as a virtual prisoner.
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I went through puberty at two years old
Wed 6 Mar 2019
Patrick Burleigh was born with precocious puberty, meaning his body developed too quickly
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Surviving death row after being tricked into drug trafficking
Tue 5 Mar 2019
Nokwazi Memela was tricked into becoming a drug mule
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The Korean athlete exposing sexual abuse
Mon 4 Mar 2019
Former tennis player Eunhee Kim has lifted the lid on sexual abuse in South Korean sport
