Outlook Episodes Episode guide
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Memory Box: Your stories
Listeners from around the world share the stories of their most treasured objects
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Memory Box: The medallion
How a golden medallion held the story of an Ethiopian woman's abduction
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Memory Box: The cardboard piano
A hand-drawn keyboard propelled a boy from Nairobi on to the world stage
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Memory Box: The leaf
How a tiny leaf became a symbol of hope for the WW2 spy, Odette Hallowes
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Memory Box: The toy tiger
When Amina Sotaeva's tiger fell out of her bag, she set out on a frantic quest to find it
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Outlook Mixtape: Snowy dreams and wrestling scenes
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The champion wrestler who defied all odds
Anthony Robles didn’t want attention for having one leg, he wanted it for being the best
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From homeless in LA to the 'Queen of Melrose'
Cosmo Lombino is a stylist to the stars, but the road to success was far from glamorous
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From Togo to Greenland – my Arctic odyssey
When Tété-Michel Kpomassie was ordered to join a snake-cult he ran away to a faraway land
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A prince, a death, and a promise made by an open grave
In 1978 in the dead of night Birgit Hamer’s brother was shot; at his grave she made a vow
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Outlook Mixtape: DNA shock, video diaries, ruby slippers
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A matter of life and death
Journalist Leo Hornak sets out to lay some unfinished business to rest
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Hay Secretos: How a sweet song caught a child abuser
Argentinian songwriter Ruth Hillar wanted to encourage children to speak their minds
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The Yazidi teenager who documented life after her captivity
IS militants took Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad aged 9; the gift of a camera helped her recovery
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Unravelling my DNA mystery
Matt Katz set out to identify his real father and uncover the truth behind his origins
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Outlook Mixtape: Old Hollywood and new worlds in treetops
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My life as an arbonaut, explorer of the treetops
‘Canopy Meg’ Lowman was the first person to study trees while dangling in their branches
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Rebellious Rhythm: Showcasing my Pantsula dance and culture
Vusi Mdoyi dreamed of sharing his unique South African art form on the world stage
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How Hollywood’s most powerful woman won and lost it all
Before she was blacklisted, Mary McCall Jr. was a hit writer who transformed Hollywood
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The reluctant face of Japan’s #MeToo movement
Shiori Itō turned the tide in Japan when she went public saying she had been raped
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Outlook Mixtape: Self-discovery via theatre and visual art
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The rebel who became 'Queen of African Horror'
Nuzo Onoh didn't start writing fiction until her 50s, then created a new genre
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I saved chimpanzees and they've saved me
Stany Nyandwi's rescued chimps helped him through war and loneliness
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Naked and alone: the comedian trapped in a reality TV show
Nasubi had no idea his 15-month fight to survive was being broadcast on Japanese TV
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Black boy joy: Defying stereotypes on the London stage
Ryan Calais Cameron’s stories and characters shattered convention in UK theatre
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Outlook Mixtape: The tip-off, a seagull, and a lover’s escape
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
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The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company
Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety
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Bernhard Schlink: Forbidden love and a dangerous escape
The famed author of The Reader risked it all to get his girlfriend out of East Berlin
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Bringing my mother tongue to the music industry
Bolivian Luzmila Carpio was stopped from singing in Quechua, but she fought to be heard
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I could never paint my teenage son – until I lost him
Artist Alison Lapper on painting Parys, her late, ‘too beautiful’ teenage son