Outlook Episodes Episode guide
-
Outlook Mixtape: The museum of memories and dreams
A global tour of the museums and galleries holding stories that bring the world to life
-
A stroke of insight: A doctor who learnt as her brain failed
When her brain began to shut down, Dr Jill Bolte Taylor thought, “Wow! This is so cool!”
-
The NYPD cop who gave children a break from the Troubles
Denis Mulcahy gave 23,000 children from Northern Ireland a holiday away from the conflict
-
The boy who brought anime to life in Pakistan
A childhood love for Japanese cartoons led Usman Riaz to build his own animation studio
-
The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing
Cathy Terkanian turned sleuth when told the baby she’d had to give up, had disappeared
-
The children of the Holocaust, 80 years on
A child’s eye view of life in concentration camps and in exile, from four survivors
-
From security guard at the Met, to artist at the Met
A chance encounter led Armia Malak Khalil to exhibiting at New York’s famous art museum
-
Voice notes of the past - what my dad's singing revealed
An old cassette, a yearning for a lost parent, and a treasure trove of migrant history
-
The film couple turning their own lives into romantic comedy
Karan Soni and Roshan Sethi's real-life love story inspired their film A Nice Indian Boy
-
The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98
Opal Lee walked to Washington to demand a new national holiday marking the end of slavery
-
Outlook Mixtape: A lost cello and a mother and child reunion
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
-
How Hollywood got behind my Afghan resistance film
Sahra Mani documented women resisting the Taliban, with help from a film star, and Malala
-
War was my comfort zone, until I had to walk away
Chris Booth dodged bullets and bombs, but came home with mental health concerns.
-
The desert architect who brought back a river
Aziza Chaouni thought Fez had nothing to offer until a polluted river called her back
-
Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’
A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart
-
Outlook Mixtape: In pursuit of beauty
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
-
Becoming a catfish to catch a catfish
Andrew Lloyd realised someone had collected his images to create a fake online identity
-
The siege and the city that shaped Hisham Matar
How the Libyan embassy shooting in London would profoundly affect novelist Hisham Matar
-
My robots for children, inspired by my life as a refugee
For teenage Paolo Prijanian an opportunity to get his own computer changed his life
-
Why I set out to record the songs of Ireland’s birds
Sean Ronayne set out to record the song of every one of Ireland’s native birds
-
Outlook Mixtape: Wrestling with fate; and an Indian prince
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
-
The strange saga of a rock concert in North Korea
The Slovenian band Laibach went to North Korea to perform a historic rock’n’roll show
-
Coming out as India’s first gay prince
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, heir to a royal dynasty, risked it all to be his true self
-
The former wrestler who wants your brain
Wrestling with Hulk Hogan and The Rock, Chris Nowinski’s dream job ended after an injury
-
My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love
When her partner died, Ellidy Pullin chose an unconventional path to motherhood
-
Outlook Mixtape: A keyboard of dreams and a wild baby hare
Your bonus edition with stories we love this week
-
Memory Box: The padlock
How a padlock became the emblem of two archaeologists’ supernatural experience
-
Memory Box: The puppet
Learning to animate a long-limbed 'stick man' kick-started an illustrious career on stage
-
Memory Box: The baby hare
The magical comings and goings of a leveret showed Chloe Dalton a new way to live
-
Memory Box: The Ngonnso statue
Sylvie Njobati’s quest to bring home a Cameroonian Queen