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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Fighting to free my daughter from the Nxivm 'sex cult'
Mon 31 May 2021
Catherine Oxenberg discovered her daughter India’s self-help group was a dangerous cult
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My big fake wedding: uncovering an outlandish deception
Sat 29 May 2021
Benita and Paolo's was a whirlwind romance that turned into a nightmare
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The nightclub fire that rocked Romania
Thu 27 May 2021
Following a blaze in a Bucharest club, a sports newspaper uncovered deadly corruption
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London’s revolutionary kiss-in
Tue 25 May 2021
Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride
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Rickie Lee Jones: Why music became my bridge to the world
Mon 24 May 2021
The US singer hit the big time in her early 20s, winning a Grammy for her first album
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Going to sea to honour my son
Thu 20 May 2021
Yayi Bayam Diouf's son was a fisherman who lost his life trying to get to Europe
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My forbidden love for a US soldier
Wed 19 May 2021
What happens when an Iraqi student and a soldier from the invading US army fall in love?
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Dancing behind bars in Burkina Faso
Tue 18 May 2021
After dance helped Bougobali resist the urge to murder, he decided to teach prisoners too
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What my father wouldn’t tell me
Mon 17 May 2021
Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand the scars and silences of her revolutionary family
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The black ballerina who didn't give up
Sat 15 May 2021
Julie Felix says she was told she was the wrong colour to be a swan
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What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'
Thu 13 May 2021
The true story behind an infamous social experiment
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How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?
Wed 12 May 2021
Jan Six is an art dealer whose ancestor was painted by the Dutch Master Rembrandt
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Secrets of my family's lost cafΓ©
Tue 11 May 2021
Old photos of her grandfather's cafΓ© led Meriel Schindler to some shocking family truths
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The music star who was born into a cult
Mon 10 May 2021
Musician Mikel Jollett grew up in Synanon, a drug rehabilitation programme-turned-cult
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I was the sole survivor of a plane crash
Sat 8 May 2021
Stranded on a mountain, 11-year-old Norman Ollestad had to find a way to survive alone
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How I sang for my freedom
Thu 6 May 2021
Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run
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The surfer who fought apartheid to become a world champion
Wed 5 May 2021
Cass Collier learnt to surf on segregated beaches – now he's fighting apartheid's legacy
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Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell
Tue 4 May 2021
Claire Martin was abandoned at two days old. For years she looked for blood relatives.
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The daring prison escape of an Argentine footballer
Mon 3 May 2021
Claudio Tamburrini used bed sheets and a metal bolt to escape imprisonment and torture
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My mother’s fake name and secret past
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Justine Cowan's English mother invented a fictional childhood
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I became a supermodel overnight and didn't know
Wed 28 Apr 2021
As a teenager, Lisa Ray took some photos in India that made her an instant sensation
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From saving goals to saving lives
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Former ice hockey star Clint Malarchuk nearly died three times, now he helps others
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My mission to save the 'Russian spy whale'
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Fisherman Joar Hesten is trying to help a whale rumoured to have escaped the Russian navy
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My life as a millennial Yoruba priestess
Sat 24 Apr 2021
Omitonade’s world of deities, divination, and mobile phones
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Singing for my murdered sister helps me heal
Thu 22 Apr 2021
Opera singer Joshua Hopkins' musical journey to deal with the grief of losing his sister
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My 30-year fight for justice for my mum
Wed 21 Apr 2021
Lee Lawrence was 11 when his mother was shot during a police raid on their home
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Hunting for a monster in the desert
Tue 20 Apr 2021
Palaeontologist Nizar Ibrahim searched the Sahara for a Spinosaurus dinosaur skeleton
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Sin, sexuality and how BeyoncΓ© became a lifeline
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Writer Paul Mendez’s turbulent teenage life as a gay Jehovah’s Witness and RnB superfan
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Bringing down a dictator
Sat 17 Apr 2021
One lawyer’s perilous journey to bring a war criminal to justice
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Searching for a serial killer from my bedroom
Wed 14 Apr 2021
Paul Haynes spent nearly a decade trying to catch the 'Golden State Killer'
