Outlook Episodes Episode guide
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Outlook Mixtape: How does your garden grow?
The king of giant veg, the plant messiah and the composer who turned a garden into music
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How I helped create the biggest World Cup song Waka Waka
South African Zolani Mahola worked with Shakira to create the biggest World Cup anthem
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I promised I'd fight for the art my mum hid from the Nazis
Judy King and her mother fought for decades to get back their suitcase of Jewish artworks
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I had a baby – then lost my memory, part 2
With her past erased, writer Samina Ali must rediscover her son – and herself
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I had a baby – then lost my memory, part 1
A crisis at birth leaves Samina Ali unable to recognise her husband or newborn son
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Outlook Mixtape: Notorious D. A. D.
Two dads making their unique mark on the world and the daughters who surfed their wake
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Facing addiction while pursuing music nearly cost me it all
Janet Devlin rose to fame at 16, but then found herself fighting alcoholism
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The engineer who invented a fix for his own heart condition
Tal Golesworthy was the first patent to get an experimental implant that he created
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The real School of Rock: I made a hit album with my students
A rebel teacher in Canada’s Bible Belt formed a student band – and inspired the cult film
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Diving with the ‘Seahorse Whisperer’ of LA
After heartbreak, Roger Hanson turned to diving and built an underwater seahorse city
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Outlook Mixtape: No ordinary Joe
An orphanage for joeys, perfect coffee from Yemen, and a 4-year-old preacher named Marjoe
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The Sudanese doctor who rebuilt a war-ravaged hospital
How one doctor provided vital medical services in the darkest days of the Sudan conflict
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Love and lime leaves: Conjuring my grandma through her cooking
When Ranie Saidi’s beloved grandmother died, he started recreating her dishes one by one
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Fatima Bhutto: My partner controlled me; my dog set me free
She was stuck in a toxic relationship but caring for a dog showed her what love can be
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I was kidnapped by North Korea
When Hitomi Soga vanished aged 19, no one in Japan imagined she had been taken by spies
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Outlook Mixtape: A portrait of the artist
A modern art fraud, a face blind artist and portraits from the village with no men
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Heated Rivalry: How a hockey TV show inspired me to come out
Jesse Korteum kept his sexuality secret – until a smash hit TV series changed the game
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Twins, parliament and my secret battle with psychosis
Mar García Puig gave birth, became an MP and had a mental health crisis – on the same day
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I was forced to rob my own bank, part 2
How do you forgive a man who held a gun to your daughter’s head?
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I was forced to rob my own bank, part 1
In 2000, armed men burst into Michelle Renee's home and held her child hostage
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Outlook Mixtape: Kinds of Blue
From the Egyptian depths to Louisiana backwaters, two stories of the blues
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A fake bus service kidnapped my sister, so I made a real one
Damilola couldn’t stop the gangs on Lagos transport, so she created a safe new system
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Who is the shy guy behind the viral star Broda Shaggi?
The Nigerian actor on the pressure to perform as the brash character followed by millions
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Nobody wanted to work with me, now I make hit records
Blind music producer Cobhams Asuquo faced discrimination until he showed how good he was
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I was one of 15 wives, until art helped me escape
How the skills she learnt as a child gave Nigerian artist Mama Nike a way out
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Outlook Mixtape: Stories from the small print
Three surprising tales spun from the world of advertising
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Escape from Castro’s Cuba: ‘Singing saved my sanity’
A country girl's dream of singing led Candi Sosa into exile in the United States
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Grateful 'for a couple of hours of normal life'
Tari Lang on teenage love, fear and making yoghurt during 1960s Indonesian dictatorship
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My childhood prophecy: You must become a chess champion
Chess.com co-founder Danny Rensch's obsession with chess deepened after a trance session
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Could a fig tree reveal a secret prison?
Chilean Alejandra Holzapfel’s long fight to reclaim the hidden torture site she survived