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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Covering My Racist Tattoos
Tue 11 Jul 2017
Former Neo-Nazi Angela King left prejudice behind when she was jailed for a hate crime
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I was an Arms Dealer's 'Pleasure Wife'
Mon 10 Jul 2017
Former model Jill Dodd on joining the harem of Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.
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Outlook Weekend: The Art of Lying
Sat 8 Jul 2017
A musician and a painter who became famous thanks to a lie.
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Cassandro, the Cross-dressing Wrestler
Thu 6 Jul 2017
How wrestling helped Cassandro overcome the trauma of sexual abuse
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Face To Face With An IS Leader
Wed 5 Jul 2017
Journalist Souad Mekhennet risks her life to talk to extremists.
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The refugee who returned to the stage
Tue 4 Jul 2017
Jasmin Geljo, was a famous actor in the former Yugoslavia until war broke out in 1992.
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Defusing 119 bombs in Afghanistan
Mon 3 Jul 2017
Kim Hughes is the British Army's most highly decorated bomb disposal expert.
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Outlook Weekend: Waking Up In Strange Places
Sat 1 Jul 2017
Donna Penner wasn't meant to wake up during her surgery
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From Refugee to MBE
Thu 29 Jun 2017
Akuja De Garang is the first person from South Sudan to receive the British honour.
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I Made North Korean Propaganda
Wed 28 Jun 2017
Song Byeok worked as an artist for the regime in North Korea before fleeing the country.
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Surviving Columbine Made Me an Addict
Mon 26 Jun 2017
Austin Eubanks hid under a table during the notorious school shooting.
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Outlook Weekend: The Letter
Sat 24 Jun 2017
A bottle washes up on a beach with a letter inside - but who wrote it?
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Delhi's Sharp Shooting Hero
Thu 22 Jun 2017
Medal-winning shooter Ayisha Falaq rescued her brother-in-law who was being held hostage.
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'Please Baba don't go out'
Tue 20 Jun 2017
The journalist risking everything to document the effects of war in Yemen.
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'It's very hard to sob and run'
Mon 19 Jun 2017
Sex trafficking survivor Norma Bastidas completes world record triathlon.
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Outlook Weekend: Emergency In The Grocery Store
Sat 17 Jun 2017
Christine has a 'brain drain' in the supermarket
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From Troubled Teenager to Opera Star
Thu 15 Jun 2017
Ryan Speedo Green went from juvenile detention to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
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The Secret Life of Ronnie O'Sullivan
Wed 14 Jun 2017
Snooker star Ronnie O'Sullivan on his relationship with his dad who was jailed for murder
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The Night My Club Was Attacked
Tue 13 Jun 2017
A year after the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando we speak to the club's owner
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How Trash Bags Changed My Life
Mon 12 Jun 2017
One man's personal mission to restore dignity to the lives of foster children
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Outlook Weekend: Dress Codes
Sat 10 Jun 2017
Jo Fidgen tells the curious story of an African-American woman living with a neo-Nazi
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Living With My Mother's Murder
Thu 8 Jun 2017
Alex Hanscombe was 2 years old when his mum was killed in front of him in a London park
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Nigeria's pioneering furniture boss
Wed 7 Jun 2017
Ibukun Awosika went from helping at her granny's salt stall to running a furniture empire
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Mandela inspired me to be a rugby star
Tue 6 Jun 2017
Zimbabwean Tonderai Chavhanga grew up in poverty but became a record-breaking Springbok.
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Restaurateur who escaped sex trade
Mon 5 Jun 2017
Neli Delgado set up a chicken restaurant in Mexico City after her trafficking ordeal.
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I've Eaten Thousands of Exotic Plants
Thu 1 Jun 2017
Joseph Simcox is a 'botanical explorer' who travels the world eating rare plants.
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Get Clean or I'll Take Your Leg
Wed 31 May 2017
The businessman who gave an addict a prosthetic leg on the condition he change his life.
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The Tower of London's Ravenmaster
Tue 30 May 2017
Chris Skaife spends more time with ravens than with his own family.
