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.
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Seven songs to mourn seven black men
Wed 6 Jan 2021
Joel Thompson is behind a composition about the killing of black men in the USA
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My husband came back from the dead
Tue 5 Jan 2021
How an accident and a case of mistaken identity changed one couple's lives forever
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Why I made a film in which I kill my dad
Mon 4 Jan 2021
When Kirsten Johnson鈥檚 dad got dementia she found an unusual way to cope
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Elza Soares: invincible queen of samba
Sun 3 Jan 2021
Singer Elza Soares survived poverty and public scandal to become a music legend in Brazil
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The tale of the little Countess's little cello
Thu 31 Dec 2020
How a 180-year-old miniature cello shaped the musical dreams of two American girls
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How I became 鈥楳r Vaquita鈥�
Wed 30 Dec 2020
Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho faces poachers and pirates to save the world's rarest marine mammal
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The student who fought to pass Mexico鈥檚 historic 鈥榬evenge porn鈥� law
Wed 30 Dec 2020
Ana Baquedano campaigned to change the law in Mexico after an ex shared her nude selfie
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The family murder that launched our campaign
Tue 29 Dec 2020
Brothers Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse
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My brother鈥檚 illness made me a 鈥渟ickle cell warrior鈥�
Mon 28 Dec 2020
Tartania Brown is one of few sickle cell doctors in New York who also has the condition
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The "five careers" of Bettye Lavette
Boxing Day 2020
Bettye Lavette was a teenage singing star. Five decades on, she's a star once more.
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After facing death row, the inmate who turned investigator
Christmas Eve 2020
Sohail Yafat turned his miscarriage of justice into a fight for all prisoners in Pakistan
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The sisterhood vs the man who gave them HIV
Wed 23 Dec 2020
Diane Reeve rallied together women who had contracted HIV from the same cheating lover
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Surviving civil war with a tracksuit and tennis racquet
Tue 22 Dec 2020
Sam Jalloh, the barefoot player turned pro, coaches kids to achieve their tennis dreams
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My music bus healing a gang divide
Mon 21 Dec 2020
Justin Finlayson turned his London bus into a music studio to help at-risk young people
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The Godfather of Hollywood sound
Sat 19 Dec 2020
Walter Murch is a superstar sound designer. His ingenuity transformed cinema
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Discovering Stalin's million-dollar wine cellar
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Wine merchant John Baker on trying to buy Josef Stalin's secret wine collection
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鈥淭he best ending to 2020鈥�
Thu 17 Dec 2020
...that I can possibly imagine.鈥� It鈥檚 time for the 麻豆约拍 Inspirations Awards.
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The epic Arabic poem that was born in a stable
Wed 16 Dec 2020
Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh began writing Uruk's Anthem while imprisoned in a stable
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Who do you think you are?
Tue 15 Dec 2020
Stories of people whose identities were a mystery begging to be solved
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The 'Supervet': from bullies to bionic limbs
Mon 14 Dec 2020
Noel Fitzpatrick is an Irish vet who makes ground-breaking bionic limbs for injured pets
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Becoming 'brothers' with my guard in Guantanamo Bay
Thu 10 Dec 2020
How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie
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The secretaries who inspired the hit movie 9 to 5
Wed 9 Dec 2020
Karen Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash
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The man behind Mindhunter: face to face with serial killers
Tue 8 Dec 2020
John E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals
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The sailor and the pirate king
Mon 7 Dec 2020
Indian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta
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Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother
Sat 5 Dec 2020
Born into folk music royalty, Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle
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Bonus podcast: The Conversation, 麻豆约拍 100 Women
Fri 4 Dec 2020
Has the Covid-19 pandemic triggered change that could be seen as positive in the future?
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My Falklands War: the woman with the white gloves
Thu 3 Dec 2020
How a farmer ignored military threats and rallied her community to save injured soldiers
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I learned my mum's identity via SMS
Wed 2 Dec 2020
It would take My Huong decades to uncover the truth about her birth family in Vietnam
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Speaking through music: Me and my non-verbal sister
Tue 1 Dec 2020
Ian Brennan鈥檚 sister, who has Down's syndrome, taught him to communicate through music
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Fighting plastic pollution in paradise
Mon 30 Nov 2020
How Kristal Ambrose rallied a group of kids to get a plastic ban in the Bahamas
