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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The father and daughter finding closure after a plane crash
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Gonzalo and Michelle Dussan were two of only four survivors of a plane crash in 1995
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My sister Banaz - killed for loving the wrong man
Wed 15 Dec 2021
Payzee Mahmod on the tragedy that broke her family and her campaign to end child marriage
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I was blamed for the 9/11 attacks
Tue 14 Dec 2021
Virginia Buckingham ran the Boston airport from which two of the hijacked planes took off
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The unsung pioneer of reggae's golden age
Mon 13 Dec 2021
How Leroy Sibbles of The Heptones created some of the most influential rhythms in reggae
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From 'half-nerd' to Hong Kong student leader
Fri 10 Dec 2021
For democracy campaigner Nathan Law, the important thing is not to hate himself
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My real-life Cuban dance romance
Wed 8 Dec 2021
JoAnn Jansen learned to dance in the arms of a revolutionary 鈥� now she teaches film stars
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The chicken who sailed the world
Tue 7 Dec 2021
Guirec Soud茅e sailed around the world with just his chicken Monique for company
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The cult, the crocodile and my journey back to love
Mon 6 Dec 2021
Juliana Buhring's search for true love would catapult her into the record books
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The 'deepest man on earth'
Sat 4 Dec 2021
Herbert Nitsch broke the record for deepest free dive but fell asleep on the way back up
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The teenager who baked her way out of a crisis
Thu 2 Dec 2021
When Kitty Tait was struggling with her mental health, she opened a bakery
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Why my parents sent my brothers to live in North Korea
Tue 30 Nov 2021
When Yonghi Yang was six, her parents made a choice the family have lived with ever since
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The choir without vocal cords
Mon 29 Nov 2021
The Belgian chorister-turned-doctor who conducts a choir for people without vocal cords
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The bionic gloves that brought music back to me
Thu 25 Nov 2021
Joao Carlos Martins thought he'd never play piano again, then he was gifted bionic gloves
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My anonymous teen story became a playground sensation
Thu 25 Nov 2021
In 2005 a London schoolgirl uploaded a story to her blog that took on a life of its own
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Matt Goss: Life and loss in a superstar boy band
Tue 23 Nov 2021
The Bros lead singer on fame, fans, and what happened after the pop bubble burst
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The Jewish prisoner, the treasure hunters and the secret diary
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Menachem Kaiser鈥檚 family quest led to a top-secret underground Nazi city
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Fighting the apartheid my grandfather created
Sat 20 Nov 2021
Wilhelm Verwoerd鈥檚 grandfather was the prime minister of South Africa in the 1960s
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I still believe I'm lucky even after breaking my neck
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Ed Jackson almost died after he mistakenly dived into the shallow end of a swimming pool
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Harvard Law School鈥檚 first Deafblind graduate
Wed 17 Nov 2021
While Haben Girma was at Harvard she developed new technology to help her communicate
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Hostage: A spider, starvation and solitude in the desert
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Edith Blais was kidnapped by armed militants and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days
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The Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok star
Wed 10 Nov 2021
Lily Ebert survived Auschwitz. Now she shares her story with millions of followers online
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'Love finds a way' - a bond that overcame decades of separation
Tue 9 Nov 2021
Jeanne's family opposed her relationship with Steve. They split, but she never forgot him
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'Honour' made my father a murderer
Mon 8 Nov 2021
Amina鈥檚 father brutally attacked her and her sister for 鈥榮haming鈥� their Jordanian family
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The medical textbook that inspired me to flee my homeland
Thu 4 Nov 2021
Waheed Arian left war-torn Afghanistan to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor
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The man and the shark
Wed 3 Nov 2021
When a shark got a hook caught in its throat, a diver intervened
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Cooking for my mother helped her share a hidden history
Mon 1 Nov 2021
Grace M. Cho learned to cook traditional Korean food to comfort her traumatised mother
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I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped
Sat 30 Oct 2021
Li Jingzhi鈥檚 child was abducted in 1988. They were finally reunited 32 years later
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Miss Pat: The Chinese-Jamaican matriarch of reggae
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Patricia Chin created a musical empire that started in a Kingston grocery store
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People used to stare at me. I fight back with my paintbrush
Wed 27 Oct 2021
How disabled artist Riva Lehrer's portraits challenge myths about disability
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"I'm a fighter": The Dalit lawyer taking on the caste system
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Manjula Pradeep is an Indian activist helping other Dalit women fight caste prejudice
