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The Outlook Podcast Archive Episodes

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    I'm the Parkour Pioneer of Kashmir

    Zahid Shah gives young people a sense of freedom through street gymnastics.

  2. I Wrote an SOS Note in my Own Blood

    Minor Vidal was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest

  3. I Woke Up During Surgery

    Donna Penner woke up during an operation and found herself unable to alert the doctors

  4. I went through puberty at two years old

    Patrick Burleigh was born with precocious puberty, meaning his body developed too quickly

  5. I went backpacking and became an accidental celebrity

    Dan Tyler left England to get away from it all. He ended up finding a new course in life

  6. I was the sole survivor of a plane crash

    Stranded on a mountain, 11-year-old Norman Ollestad had to find a way to survive alone

  7. I was shot while performing a vasectomy

    Dr Andrew Rynne, an Irish contraceptive pioneer, was attacked by a disgruntled ex-patient

  8. I was shot by my student

    Kevin Lein was shot by his pupil, but campaigned to overturn his shooter's jail sentence.

  9. I was jailed for having a stillbirth

    Teodora V谩squez was jailed for murder in El Salvador after having a stillborn baby.

  10. I was blamed for the 9/11 attacks

    Virginia Buckingham ran the Boston airport from which two of the hijacked planes took off

  11. I was an Arms Dealer's 'Pleasure Wife'

    Former model Jill Dodd on joining the harem of Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.

  12. I was a teenager at Auschwitz

    Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus was only 14 when she was taken to a Nazi concentration camp

  13. I turned my cleaning obsession into a hit business

    Trauma led Lynsey Crombie to compulsive cleaning but now she鈥檚 sharing her skills on TV

  14. I Treated New York's First AIDS Patients

    Dr Joseph Sonnabend is an HIV/AIDS pioneer and a musical composer

  15. I trained to be a surgeon when I couldn鈥檛 read or write

    Ethiopian child bride Mamitu Gashe became a surgeon after she almost died in childbirth

  16. I Took on the London Bridge Attackers

    Geoff Ho was stabbed in the neck as he protected friends during the London Bridge attacks

  17. I Took on My Village Elders to End FGM

    Nice Leng'ete dared to confront the Maasai tradition of female genital cutting

  18. I Took Her Hand and Then We Jumped

    Rolf Sorman was one of the survivors of the Estonia ferry disaster 24 years ago

  19. I survived Joseph Kony - I want my children back

    Nakout Sylvia was abducted and held as a sex slave by the Lord鈥檚 Resistance Army.

  20. I survived Chechnya's 'gay purge'

    Amin Dzhabrailov escaped his homeland after being kidnapped and tortured

  21. I survived an avalanche, but the real challenge came after

    Joe Yelverton's life changed in an instant when he was hit by an avalanche in Alaska

  22. I survived a river exorcism

    Nuzo Onoh's mother arranged an exorcism for her when she was just thirteen

  23. I Studied the Brain but Lost My Mind

    Barbara Lipska had 18 brain tumours which she says turned her into a 'heartless monster'

  24. I Stopped Sewing and Started Striking

    Kalpona Akter is a former textile worker who is taking on global clothing giants.

  25. I stole a safe, and faced the dilemma of my life

    The burglar who discovered a terrible crime - but risked life in prison if he reported it

  26. I stole a plane to escape the military

    53 years ago Theo Van Eijck flew from Malta to Libya to start a new life

  27. I still believe I'm lucky even after breaking my neck

    Ed Jackson almost died after he mistakenly dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool

  28. I set up a radio station for aliens

    Electronics whizz John Shepherd spent years trying to contact alien life, with music

  29. I saw a smile on the suicide bomber's face

    In 2006 a suicide truck bomb left Iraqi teenager Qusay Hussein severely injured and blind

  30. I Saved 144 People From Militants

    Norodin Alonto Lucman led many people to safety in a city under siege in the Philippines

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