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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Outlook Weekend: A Way Out
Sun 18 Sep 2016
Three stories about people looking for a way out of a desperate situation.
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Taking on my stabbed son's work
Thu 15 Sep 2016
Pastor Lorraine Jones runs a boxing gym in memory of her son who was killed in 2014
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I'm the Parkour Pioneer of Kashmir
Wed 14 Sep 2016
Zahid Shah gives young people a sense of freedom through street gymnastics.
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From Drug Dealer to Falconer
Tue 13 Sep 2016
Rodney Stotts says his life of crime and drug abuse was turned around by birds of prey.
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Nurse who adopted an Ebola orphan
Mon 12 Sep 2016
Donnell Tholley took in the child of a woman who died in his Sierra Leone Ebola clinic
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Outlook Weekend: Afterlives
Sun 11 Sep 2016
Nigerian ghosts, living on as a vinyl record and surviving a near-death experience
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Outlook Weekend: Shelter
Sun 4 Sep 2016
Stories of desperately seeking, painfully losing and courageously providing shelter
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I survived a river exorcism
Thu 1 Sep 2016
Nuzo Onoh's mother arranged an exorcism for her when she was just thirteen
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Mother to 20,000 Children
Wed 31 Aug 2016
Marguerite Barankitse, "the Angel of Burundi", on adopting children displaced by war.
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Friends with man who tried to kill me
Tue 30 Aug 2016
The Colombian man who became friends with the Farc commander who almost killed him.
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The man behind Japan's music scandal
Thu 25 Aug 2016
Takashi Niigaki secretly composed some of Japan's most popular symphonies
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Reuniting families with lost war medals
Wed 24 Aug 2016
Major Zachariah Fike is on a mission to reunite lost war medals with their owners.
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'They haunt me, day and night'
Tue 23 Aug 2016
Dr Nagham Hasan has been helping Yazidi women and girls who've escaped from so-called IS.
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The bullfighter who switched sides
Mon 22 Aug 2016
Alvaro Munera was a bullfighter in Colombia until a dramatic development in his own life.
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Outlook Weekend: Criminal Minds
Sun 21 Aug 2016
Inside the mind of a criminal: a repentant bomber and a reformed armed robber
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'If I cried the River Nile, let it be'
Thu 18 Aug 2016
Kujiek Kuajien was reunited with his mother in South Sudan after 16 years
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I Dressed as a Boy to go to School
Wed 17 Aug 2016
To overcome the Taliban's ban on girls' education, Zahra disguised herself for six years
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Undercover in a Colombian Drug Cartel
Tue 16 Aug 2016
Robert Mazur infiltrated drug lord Pablo Escobar's criminal organisation.
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'I'm Sorry for Racist Bomb Attack'
Mon 15 Aug 2016
Stefaans Coetzee was a racist killer in South Africa, he's now searching for forgiveness.
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Outlook Weekend: Fateful Attractions
Sun 14 Aug 2016
Fateful Attractions: Mum who died climbing K2, and a love story that shook Russian sport
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Back to the mountain that killed mum
Thu 11 Aug 2016
Julie Tullis died after climbing K2. Her son travelled to the mountain in her memory.
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Child refugee to Liberian police chief
Wed 10 Aug 2016
Gregory Coleman on the challenges of keeping Monrovia safe during the chaos of Ebola.
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The love story that exposed doping
Tue 9 Aug 2016
Yuliya and Vitaly Stepanov blew the whistle on Russian doping
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Fighting slavery for my father
Mon 8 Aug 2016
Biram dah Abeid's struggle to abolish slavery in Mauritania
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Outlook Weekend: beyond the call of duty
Sun 7 Aug 2016
Going beyond the call of duty: saving hostages in Iraq and the surgeon in a war zone
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Surgeon who tried to save Dallas cops
Thu 4 Aug 2016
Dr Brian Williams spoke out after treating officers shot in Black Lives Matter protest
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I hid my mum in my Harvard dorm
Wed 3 Aug 2016
Thai martial arts millionaire Chatri Sityodtong saved his family from poverty.
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My battle for bravery recognition
Tue 2 Aug 2016
Rabia Siddique was working as a British army lawyer in Iraq when she was taken hostage.
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The identical twins who speak together
Mon 1 Aug 2016
Twins Paula and Bridgette Powers are so identical they even speak at the same time.
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Outlook Weekend: Fight or Flight
Sun 31 Jul 2016
The penguin, cage fighter and an airman with a secret
