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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Egypt's only woman rally driver who "dances with the dunes"
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Yara Shalaby, Egypt's only woman rally driver who learned to 鈥渄ance with the sand dunes"
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Jail Time Records - songs from a Cameroon prison
Wed 24 Feb 2021
Music producer Vidou H made an album while wrongly accused of murder
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We discovered we were stolen as babies
Mon 22 Feb 2021
Maria Diemar and Daniel Olsson were adopted from Chile and brought up in Sweden
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Swimming with polar bears 鈥� a photographer鈥檚 'crazy' dream
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum is known for his close-up encounters with predators
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Mary Wilson: her life as a Supreme
Wed 17 Feb 2021
How Mary Wilson became a Motown star and why she hated The Supremes鈥� early hits
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Setting up a fake mafia to catch El Chapo
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Crime boss is just one of the many undercover roles played by FBI agent Mike McGowan
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The scavenger who found a brass symphony
Mon 15 Feb 2021
A trombone took Ronald Kabuye from the streets of Kampala to a world-famous stage
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The making of the 'Wish Man'
Sun 14 Feb 2021
How a poor boy who was abandoned by his mother grew up to grant children鈥檚 dying wishes
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The voyage of The Fisherman's Friends
Wed 10 Feb 2021
How a group of friends with a love for sea shanties went from Cornwall to the Albert Hall
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The broken computer that unlocked my fortune
Tue 9 Feb 2021
From 'dumpster baby' to millionaire: Freddie Figgers uses his tech mastery to help others
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The record-breaking runner who hated her legs
Mon 8 Feb 2021
Mimi Anderson's desire for thinner legs took her from the treadmill to ultra-marathons
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My life by Whitney Houston's side
Thu 4 Feb 2021
Robyn Crawford and the superstar singer were inseparable for two decades
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Inside the hospitals of lockdown Wuhan
Wed 3 Feb 2021
Filmmaker Hao Wu got unprecedented footage from four hospitals during Wuhan's lockdown
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That time I DJed from space
Tue 2 Feb 2021
The astronaut who headlined a rave while he was in orbit and other extraordinary gigs
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The gourmet chef who used to beg for food
Mon 1 Feb 2021
How a childhood on the streets of India prepared Sash Simpson to become a top chef
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Escaping lockdown in the Coral City
Sun 31 Jan 2021
The urban reef webcam bringing together a community around the globe
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Who says I can't go to school?
Thu 28 Jan 2021
How an Afghan girl defied the Taliban by setting up a secret classroom
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My abuser used an alien plot to brainwash me
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Jan Broberg and her mum Mary Ann share how a trusted friend kidnapped Jan 鈥� twice
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The rap star saved by a nursing home
Mon 25 Jan 2021
After losing his memory T La Rock forgot he was famous and had to learn to rap again
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The Iranian avocado quest that led to prison
Sun 24 Jan 2021
The saga to free journalist Jason Rezaian from Iran鈥檚 most notorious prison
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'Document everything. Trust no one'
Thu 21 Jan 2021
Omar Mohammed went undercover to expose IS atrocities in his blog Mosul Eye
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鈥業 am sinking. This is not a joke. MAYDAY鈥�
Wed 20 Jan 2021
Disaster struck when Kevin Escoffier鈥檚 boat split during the perilous Vend茅e Globe race
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The Beninese singer hustling for success in New York
Tue 19 Jan 2021
Shirazee endured homelessness and a threat of deportation as he pursued his music dreams
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The match-making tree and other tales of unexpected romance
Mon 18 Jan 2021
From the world's most romantic postbox to a persecuted couple鈥檚 perilous ocean voyage
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Moana: the Polynesian family behind the smash hit songs
Sat 16 Jan 2021
Musician Opetaia Foa'i fought for the Disney movie to stay true to Pacific culture
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Tasting the desert with Chile's leading forager
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Patricia P茅rez sells the rare herbs she finds in the Atacama desert to Chile's top chefs
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I ran with the men, and changed history
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Kathrine Switzer was attacked for running in the men-only 1967 Boston Marathon
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Defending my dream cost my mother her life
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Two-time US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey turned to poetry after her mother's murder
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The video that turned our lives upside down
Mon 11 Jan 2021
When a mum hit record on her son crying she couldn't have predicted the global reaction
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The rebel musicians fighting India鈥檚 caste system
Thu 7 Jan 2021
The Casteless Collective is a protest band who challenge caste oppression through song
