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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Held Hostage on the Chechen Frontline
Wed 31 Oct 2018
Elena Nikitina was kidnapped off the street after a night out
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Kony 2012: My Breakdown After Viral Fame
Tue 30 Oct 2018
Jason Russell on the public breakdown that followed his viral Kony 2012 campaign
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Coming Out of a Coma to a Media Storm
Mon 29 Oct 2018
Being attacked by a deer was just the beginning of the nightmare for Dr Kate Stone
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The Mafia Bride Who Fought Back
Mon 29 Oct 2018
After Piera Aiello鈥檚 Sicilian Mafia husband was murdered, she decided to turn informer
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The Fraud and the Missing Boy
Thu 25 Oct 2018
Meet the private investigator who helped expose the man who posed as a missing boy.
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Trapped Inside a Flooding Elevator
Wed 24 Oct 2018
The race against time to escape an elevator that's filling with water
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Confessions of an Art Forger
Tue 23 Oct 2018
How a talented art forger imitated some of the greatest artists of all time
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The Stalker Inside My House
Mon 22 Oct 2018
Amanda Playle's stalker turned out to be the person she least suspected
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The Mystery of Ecuador's Lost Mastertapes
Sat 20 Oct 2018
An eccentric grandfather and an old suitcase of songs and secret loves.
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Inside the Mind of a Forensic Pathologist
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Dr Richard Shepherd has worked on some of Britain's most high profile crime scenes.
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Our Near-Death Sub-Zero Border Crossing
Wed 17 Oct 2018
Razak Iyal and Seidu Mohammed got frostbite as they crossed into Canada undetected
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Bringing Down the Man Who Gave Us HIV
Tue 16 Oct 2018
Diane Reeve's boyfriend infected her and other women with HIV in the US
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Fighting Discrimination with a Fairytale
Mon 15 Oct 2018
Valeriu Nicolae is a European diplomat from a Roma background
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My Dad, Muhammad Ali
Sat 13 Oct 2018
What is it like to be the daughter of a man who called himself The Greatest?
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Injured By A Boat Propeller
Fri 12 Oct 2018
The Australian Mum who was trapped under a boat in a crocodile infested river
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Refusing To Be Ashamed After Rape
Thu 11 Oct 2018
After Sohaila Abdulali was raped in Mumbai, she was determined not to let it define her.
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Crossing Continents to Find my Parents
Wed 10 Oct 2018
Tuy Gentry Buckner鈥檚 epic search to find his birth family in Vietnam
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Opening my Romanian Secret Police File
Tue 9 Oct 2018
Anthropologist Katherine Verdery found out Romania's secret police thought she was spy
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Helping Pakistan's Forgotten Prisoners
Mon 8 Oct 2018
Haya Zahid is a top human rights lawyer fighting for justice in Pakistan鈥檚 prisons
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Heavy Metal's Groundbreaking Grandma
Sat 6 Oct 2018
Meet Inge Ginsberg: Holocaust survivor, Hollywood composer and heavy metal grandma.
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The 35 Year Game of Tag
Thu 4 Oct 2018
How a close knit group of friends go to extreme lengths to keep playing Tag forever
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Saving My Cellmates From Death Row
Tue 2 Oct 2018
Kenyan Pete Ouko was a prison inmate turned lawyer who got six people off death row
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Fighting for a Woman's Right to Love
Mon 1 Oct 2018
Khalida Brohi started campaigning after her cousin died in a so-called honour killing
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Awake but Trapped Inside My Body
Sat 29 Sep 2018
Victoria Arlen woke up in hospital, locked into her body. All she had were her thoughts
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The Love That Survived IS
Thu 27 Sep 2018
Hezni and Jilan Murad were separated when so-called Islamic State targeted Yazidis
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The Stranger Who Rescued Me
Wed 26 Sep 2018
Rukhiya Budden's life changed when she left the Kenyan orphanage where she grew up
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Coaching the death row football team
Tue 25 Sep 2018
Moses Akatugba managed a football club in a Nigerian prison
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I Took Her Hand and Then We Jumped
Mon 24 Sep 2018
Rolf Sorman was one of the survivors of the Estonia ferry disaster 24 years ago
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The Photo That Exposed Apartheid
Sat 22 Sep 2018
The Soweto Uprisings and the story behind South Africa鈥檚 most iconic photo
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Harlem's Legendary Ballet Dancer
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Looking back on the life of Arthur Mitchell, pioneering African-American ballet dancer.
