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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Trapped in a "metal coffin" on the ocean floor
Sat 17 Jul 2021
42 metres down on the seabed with 22 sailors inside: the story of the submarine Pacocha
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A decade without Dan: The search for my brother gave me purpose
Thu 15 Jul 2021
The loss of Loren Oβ Keeffeβs brother led her to help families with missing loved ones
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From intensive care to the Olympic podium
Wed 14 Jul 2021
How fencer Keeth Smart won an Olympic medal months after being diagnosed with leukaemia
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Birdwatching with the men who kidnapped me
Tue 13 Jul 2021
Diego CalderΓ³n was taken hostage in Colombia on a biology field trip
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Banned from voting for my wife, so we changed the law
Mon 12 Jul 2021
Desmond and Sheena Meadeβs historic battle to give ex-felons the right to vote in Florida
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A plane crash left me lost in the Amazon
Thu 8 Jul 2021
Brazilian pilot AntΓ΄nio Sena survived 36 days alone after crashing into dense rainforest
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Stories from Syria's secret library
Wed 7 Jul 2021
Under siege: how a group of friends risked everything to create a literary sanctuary
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Rugby star Gareth Thomas: Strong, vulnerable and HIV positive
Tue 6 Jul 2021
Rugby legend Gareth Thomas was blackmailed and lived in fear before revealing he was HIV+
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My unknown song became a political anthem in Hong Kong
Mon 5 Jul 2021
A phone alert revealed Matthew Keegan had become an overnight pop star 5,000 miles away
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I ran with the men, and changed history
Sat 3 Jul 2021
Kathrine Switzer was attacked for running in the men-only 1967 Boston Marathon
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The siege and the cat that saved my life
Thu 1 Jul 2021
Amra Sabic El-Rayess turned 16 as Bosnia Herzegovnia plunged into civil war
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Making friends with the man who stole my paintings
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Artist Barbora Kysilkova formed an unlikely friendship after the theft of her paintings
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Life as the UK's first black TV reporter
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Broadcasting legend Sir Trevor McDonald looks back on his life and career
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Fire, ice and thunder: A chase on the high seas
Sat 26 Jun 2021
Taking down the Thunder, the world's most notorious poaching ship
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My life collecting the folk songs of Iraq
Thu 24 Jun 2021
How vocalist Sa'di al-Hadithi is preserving Iraqi folk music for posterity
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I survived Chechnya's 'gay purge'
Wed 23 Jun 2021
Amin Dzhabrailov escaped his homeland after being kidnapped and tortured
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My mother, Indiaβs forgotten disco diva
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Rupa Biswas Senβs long-lost Indian disco record became an underground hit after 30 years
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Hunting 'The Serpent': the diplomat turned detective
Mon 21 Jun 2021
An unlikely investigator on the trail of serial killer Charles Sobhraj
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A top Iranian chess umpire and her impossible decision
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Shohreh Bayat was one of Asiaβs top chess umpires until she was faced with an ultimatum
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Living without time: The cave experiment we didn't want to end
Wed 16 Jun 2021
Fifteen people lived in darkness to see what it did to their perception of time
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The quiet Louisiana grandma who became an environmental warrior
Tue 15 Jun 2021
Sharon Lavigne campaigned to stop a plastics factory being built in her riverside parish
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Andy Cole: Goals, glory and the battle for his life
Mon 14 Jun 2021
Manchester United star Andy Cole went from top scorer to transplant survivor
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βAids Angelβ β I gave love in a time of prejudice and fear
Thu 10 Jun 2021
Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of HIV+ gay men abandoned by their families
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The doctor treating children 8000 miles away
Wed 9 Jun 2021
Afghan refugee Meena Said is saving the lives of children in her homeland
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Saving the songs of the Sahara
Tue 8 Jun 2021
The defiant life of desert music pioneer Fadimata Walet Oumar
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Keeping up with Australia's rebellious Buddhist nun
Mon 7 Jun 2021
Robina Courtin went from being a radical feminist to martial arts expert to Buddhist nun
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The perilous world of a βcult deprogrammerβ
Wed 2 Jun 2021
Rick Alan Ross went from selling cars to trying to rescue people from cults
