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Outlook Episodes

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    Outlook Mixtape: Stories from the subterranean

    From Belize to Thailand: the meaning, mystery – and peril – people have found in caves

  2. Searching for green in a concrete world

    Kwesia X grew up in urban London - when things got tough, she found peace in nature.

  3. Finding a life in the sunshine: Being Roy Ayers’ son

    Nabil Ayers unearthed an unexpected family history through his famous father Roy Ayers

  4. Superman in India: The spoof remake that became a cult hit

    Film fan Nasir Shaikh’s comic recreations of blockbuster movies on a shoestring budget

  5. A teenage jazz promoter and a masterpiece saved from oblivion

    In 1975 Vera Brandes was organising the now legendary Köln Concert when disaster struck

  6. Outlook Mixtape: Making anime history and a singer's secret father

    Dreams come true for a Pakistani animator and singer Rumer on fame and family truths

  7. Excavating Belize’s cave of human sacrifice

    Archaeologist Jaime Awe found the remains of people who died in ancient Mayan rituals

  8. The girl with 'too much fire': surviving the Khmer Rouge, part 2

    Loung Ung rebuilds her life in the US but longs to reunite with the sister left behind

  9. The girl with 'too much fire': surviving the Khmer Rouge, part 1

    Loung Ung’s defiant spirit became her greatest weapon against Pol Pot's regime

  10. Intern to record label boss: How I signed Amy Winehouse

    Working in a hair salon led Darcus Beese to Amy Winehouse and a life creating hit music

  11. Outlook Mixtape: A chorus of female strength

    From India, Afghanistan and Morocco, three women who flipped the script and triumphed

  12. How I solved a Scottish dinosaur mystery

    Dr Elsa Panciroli discovered the identity of the first dinosaur fossil found in Scotland

  13. Me and my pen pal, Tupac Shakur

    In the depths of despair, Nina Bhadreshwar formed an unlikely bond with a rap legend

  14. My secret father and surviving the pressures of fame

    Singer Rumer was 11 when she was told her biological father was actually the family cook

  15. Swimming blind: My journey to self-acceptance

    Melanie Barratt - first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum’s ashes

  16. Outlook Mixtape: Bollywood, Nollywood, Hollywood

    Romance, action and gory prosthetics – stories of filmmaking from around the world

  17. My mother’s sitcom genius and her necklace of tears

    TV pioneer Peg Lynch left a big legacy and curious jewels for her daughter to untangle

  18. Why I talk to warlords

    Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers

  19. The unmaking of a child soldier

    As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?

  20. My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery

    Michael Visontay’s unexpected link to the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s most coveted book

  21. Outlook Mixtape: The smelly edition

    From the million dollar nose to the science behind how we smell scents

  22. A secret music video shot in Iran: My punk family adventure

    Nadia Tehran recorded a forbidden music video on the streets of Iran with their dad

  23. 'Kids of the Colony': YouTubers exploring their homelands

    British best friends explore their families' homelands in Bangladesh, Morocco and Somalia

  24. I created Africa's largest ever photo library

    Photojournalist Paul Ninson founded the Dikan Centre to reclaim African history

  25. Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies

    Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.

  26. Outlook Mixtape: First loves and first dates

    Four remarkable stories of unusual first dates and unexpected romance

  27. The making of a Nollywood special effects superstar

    How Hakeem Onilogbo transformed Nigeria’s special FX industry – and his family’s fortunes

  28. The childhood injury that turned me from singing to surgery

    Prema Dhanraj’s experience of severe burns led her to become a plastic surgeon

  29. The reinvention of a pioneering reggae artist

    Lorna Gee was one of the first female MCs in London's reggae music and sound system scene

  30. For the love of smell

    Scientist Luca Turin found romance and a biological mystery via his obsession with scent

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