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    Outlook Mixtape: AI conversations and a ‘Sandpit Monster’

    Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

  2. Finding joy in Persian food after fleeing my homeland

    Cooking Iranian dishes helped rebuild Atoosa Sepehr after she left an unhappy marriage

  3. My grandfather was the biggest mass murderer in history

    Kai Hoss discovered his grandfather had been the head of the Auschwitz concentration camp

  4. How my 'Sandpit monster' became an urban myth

    After a scare in a swamp, Ron Gollobin told people he’d bumped into a monstrous creature

  5. Love, grief, and an AI chatbot

    Joshua created an AI simulation of his deceased fiancée to help him deal with his loss

  6. Outlook Mixtape: Busting HIV stigma and a power parrot

    Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

  7. Parrot power: The woman who revealed birds are not bird-brained

    Irene Pepperberg and her parrot Alex transformed our understanding of bird intelligence

  8. On the ropes: The battle for Kellie Maloney

    Kellie Maloney managed boxing champion Lennox Lewis. But their success masked a secret

  9. One mother's lasting love, faith and fight for change

    Mina Smallman campaigns to end violence against women after the murder of her daughters

  10. Africa’s first priest to declare HIV-positive status

    Rev. Canon Gideon Byamugisha is Africa's first priest to publicly reveal his HIV status

  11. Outlook Mixtape: we want your stories!

    We love these stories, sent in by listeners. And we're always on the lookout for more...

  12. The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 2

    Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor

  13. The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 1

    Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor

  14. ‘Fear cannot be your editor’ Lessons of a defiant journalist

    From violent revolutionaries to corrupt politicians, Gustavo Gorriti tackled them all

  15. Overcoming nerves and politics to sing on the top stages

    South African soprano Golda Schultz had an unlikely start to her career

  16. Ending ecocide; the reluctant carer; meeting a 'spy whale'

    Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

  17. The break-up that cost me my voice

    The triumphant return of Shirley Collins, the 'first lady' of English folk

  18. How two friends tried to make ecocide an international crime

    When Jojo Mehta met Polly Higgins, they decided to try and change the world

  19. Looking for my son for 58 years

    Bestselling writer Lesley Pearse searched for her son for 58 years

  20. What my uncle’s death taught me about life

    A reluctant carer celebrates the life and death of his charismatic Uncle David

  21. A ride to space, a marathon swim and piano for elephants

    Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

  22. The Norwegian fisherman and the 'Russian spy whale'

    The story of ‘Hvaldimir’ the beluga, found dead this week, and his bond with Joar Hesten

  23. The US’s first black astronaut trainee reaches space at 90

    In May 2024 Ed Dwight became the oldest person to travel to the edge of space

  24. 'That's the stupid girl' The scoop that almost destroyed me

    In 1998 Finnish journalist Johanna Aatsalo published a story that made her a hate figure

  25. The pianist who plays classical music for retired elephants

    How a 50th birthday wish led Paul Barton to play classical music for retired elephants

  26. Outlook Mixtape: Big money, land of honey, and tiny pants

    Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

  27. The singer from the Ural Mountains who became an opera star

    How the 'singer in the village' became the world's 'go-to Carmen'

  28. I became a millionaire but felt empty inside

    Gary Stevenson on why he became a campaigner against wealth inequality

  29. John Chiti: 'It was a shock - they'd never seen a person with albinism in the limelight'

    How Zambian singer John Chiti is changing perspectives on albinism

  30. The hungry boy who devoted his life to muscle

    Gilbert Alaskadi was sick of being bullied; he wanted to be invincible

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