Outlook Episodes Episode guide
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Surgery on Syria's Frontline
Known as 'the Indiana Jones of surgery', surgeon David Nott, volunteers in war zones
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Refugee Camp: Child's Eye View
How Syrian children in a refugee camp in Iraq are coping with the violence they've seen
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Investigating 11,000 ‘Forgotten’ Rapes
American prosecutor Kym Worthy is determined to investigate thousands of unsolved rapes
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I Played Basketball for Gaddafi
American basketball player Alex Owumi was shocked to learn he had joined Gaddafi's team
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Saving Victims of the LRA
The nun devoted to helping women and girls traumatised by the Lords Resistance Army
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Rescuing the mentally ill in Somalia
'Dr Habeeb' talks about his lonely campaign to promote mental health in war-torn Somalia
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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: The Power of Words
Acclaimed Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o on the power of writing and life in exile
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Escaping Slavery in Mauritania
A Mauritanian slave's extraordinary journey to freedom - and how he freed his family
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The 19th Wife: Escaping Polygamy
Rebecca Musser was forced to marry an 85-year-old self-styled prophet of a radical sect
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Ewan Clayton: Scribe of Silicon Valley
Calligrapher Ewan Clayton went from monastic life in England to advising digital pioneers
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Bill Bryson: America's Greatest Year?
Writer Bill Bryson on why the summer of 1927 was a turning point in American history
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Calcutta Rape Victim: Why I Spoke Out
Suzette Jordan defied social stigma by identifying herself as a rape victim
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Torn Between Two Countries
How Harvard scholar Majid Rafizadeh faced the challenges of a Syrian-Iranian dual identity
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Shot Seven Times in Fort Hood Massacre
Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford barely survived the 2009 massacre at the Fort Hood army base
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Memorial in the Sahara Desert
The challenges of commemorating the lives of 170 people killed in a plane bombing
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Afghanistan's Unstoppable Teacher
Chantal Véron has devoted herself to teaching Afghans through war, exile and regime-change
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Tunisia's Ex-PM: My 17 years in prison
Hamadi Jebali was the first Prime Minister of post-revolutionary Tunisia
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The 'Lost Hero' of 9/11
A former US marine who was revealed to be the mysterious rescuer of 9/11.
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Rebuilding the World Trade Center
Marcus Robinson, the artist documenting the rebuilding of the World Trade Center
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'Omosexy': The Queen of Nollywood
Nollywood actress Omotola Ekeinde on Nigeran cinema and giving a voice to young Africans
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I Died Six Times on my Honeymoon
The British man who died six times when he was on honeymoon in the Maldives
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First Saudi Woman to Climb Everest
How 27-year-old Raha Moharrak defied Saudi stereotypes by climbing Mount Everest
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New Schools for the Burmese Delta
May Tha Hla founded a project to build schools in the Irrawaddy Delta after cyclone Nargis
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Stargazing in the Darkest Skies
American writer Paul Bogard on why true darkness matters and where it still exists
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Hassan al-Amin: I fled Libya twice
Hassan al-Amin opposed Gaddafi from exile but has now been forced into exile a second time
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Liberia's "Iron Lady"
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia on why she is known as "Africa's Iron Lady"
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'I'll Defeat Guinea Worm, Then Retire'
US doctor Donald Hopkins has made it his life's work to eradicate Guinea worm from Africa
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'Nuns told me I was mentally ill'
As a child, Clarina Duguay was wrongly diagnosed as mentally incompetent.
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'Gorillas taught me to be human'
Dawn Prince-Hughes has Asperger's Syndrome and says that copying gorillas made her human
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Dhaka Factory: Cost of Saving Lives
The emotional toll on the rescuers at Rana Plaza factory disaster in Bangladesh