The Outlook Podcast Archive Episodes Episode guide
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Discovering I’d Been Sterilised
Navajo woman Jean Whitehorse learned she’d been sterilised when her appendix was removed
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Disco and drama: The story of Ride On Time
Worldwide fame came at a moral price for an Italian DJ who made a huge 1980s dance hit
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Disco and drama: The story of Ride on Time
Worldwide fame came at a moral price for an Italian DJ who made a huge 1980s dance hit
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Disaster Metres From Everest Summit
Mountaineer Leslie Binns gave up his dream of conquering Everest to save another climber.
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Derren Brown: the magician’s secrets
Illusionist Derren Brown on how he used magic to overcome his social awkwardness
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Delivering Babies on the Run
When Nigerian midwife Dada Nguru fled Boko Haram, she delivered the babies on the road.
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Delhi's Sharp Shooting Hero
Medal-winning shooter Ayisha Falaq rescued her brother-in-law who was being held hostage.
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Defusing 119 bombs in Afghanistan
Kim Hughes is the British Army's most highly decorated bomb disposal expert.
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Defending my dream cost my mother her life
Two-time US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey turned to poetry after her mother's murder
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Daughters of Vietnam Enemies United
Cycling together even though their dads were on opposite sides of the Vietnam war
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Danny Trejo: The ex-con who cracked Hollywood
He’s played the tough guy in a long list of films but in his 20s faced the death penalty
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Dancing with Madonna Kept Me Alive
Salim Gauwloos danced on Madonna’s Blond Ambition tour. But he was keeping a secret
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Dancing Blind With My Horse
Verity Smith is a blind international dressage rider but competes against sighted riders
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Dancing behind bars in Burkina Faso
After dance helped Bougobali resist the urge to murder, he decided to teach prisoners too
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Cutting Stars’ Hair and Overcoming Addiction
Former drug addict Chris McMillan on how he created Jennifer Aniston’s iconic hairstyle
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Curing my own deadly disease
David Fajgenbaum was nicknamed 'The Beast' before he became ill with a deadly disease
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Crowns and controversy at Miss World 1970
Jennifer Hosten became the first black Miss World at a particularly historical ceremony
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Crossing Continents to Find my Parents
Tuy Gentry Buckner’s epic search to find his birth family in Vietnam
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Crossing a minefield to escape IS
Lamiya, the Yazidi girl smuggled out of captivity.
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Creating tomorrow's African leaders
Fred Swaniker from Ghana raised millions to train the next generation of African leaders.
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Cracking a $30m Case of Wine Fraud
How wine detective Maureen Downey uncovered a huge counterfeiting operation
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Covering My Racist Tattoos
Former Neo-Nazi Angela King left prejudice behind when she was jailed for a hate crime
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Counselling priests who fall in love
Paul Midden counselled priests who had broken their vow of celibacy
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Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history
Grace M. Cho learned to cook traditional Korean food to comfort her traumatised mother
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Convicted of a murder I didn't commit
Christopher Scott confronted the man whose crime landed him in prison.
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Conjoined twins can now look into each other’s eyes
It took almost two years to separate two sisters conjoined at the back of their heads.
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Confronting The Nun Who Despised Me
Elizabeth Coppin survived prison-like conditions in institutions run by Catholic nuns
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Confronting my racist past
Mac Otts unravelled generations of racism in his family
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Confronting my grandma and my nation over FGM
Ifrah Ahmed went through FGM as a child. Now she fights to ban the practice in Somalia
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Confessions of an Art Forger
How a talented art forger imitated some of the greatest artists of all time