Main content

Outlook Episodes

  1.

    The figure-skating star who fell to earth

    Heroin and jail threw Keri Blakinger off course. She’s now a criminal justice reporter

  2. My mother, India’s forgotten disco diva

    Rupa Biswas Sen’s long-lost Indian disco record became an underground hit after 30 years

  3. The maid-turned-rapper taking on racism in Brazil

    When Preta-Rara wrote about her time as a domestic worker her post caused a storm

  4. Bringing my 10,000 kites from Kabul to England

    Sanjar Qiam continued to make and fly kites through three decades of war in Afghanistan

  5. A 'dreamer', a Nasa contest and a robot called Stinky

    Oscar Vazquez's robot brought him acclaim, but also highlighted his undocumented status

  6. Swimming with polar bears – a photographer’s 'crazy' dream

    Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum is known for his close-up encounters with predators

  7. How the tigress of basketball fought back

    Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed

  8. The teenage mum who became a soul star

    Aged 17 and unhappily married, PP Arnold found herself auditioning for Tina Turner

  9. From a burnt-out refugee camp to dining with the President

    Mondiant Dogon's family had to flee their home in DR Congo because of ethnic violence

  10. My husband thought I was an imposter

    Abi Morgan’s husband woke from a coma and didn’t recognise her

  11. Cleopatra: Uganda's history-making trans activist

    Forced to strip to 'prove' her gender, Cleo took a stand and gained official recognition

  12. The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth

    How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband

  13. Why I stopped talking for 17 years

    It started out as an experiment for a day but John Francis didn’t speak for 17 years

  14. Adventures in sound: The soundscape ecologist

    Musician Bernie Krause overcame a fear of animals to capture natural sounds of the wild

  15. The 'metal bird' that sparked a dream

    His first sighting of a plane in the sky would lead Ousman Umar on a treacherous journey

  16. Facing the ghosts of a freak mountain storm

    How one man’s life was upended when a gentle hike up a mountain turned into an icy hell

  17. London’s revolutionary kiss-in

    Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride

  18. Book lovers unite: The bookish boy who became a boxing champion

    The bookish boxing champion, the bin man who built a library and the secret German author

  19. A family lost at sea

    Fleeing Vietnam Lauren’s family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers

  20. The schoolgirl who fought an oil company and won

    When Nalleli Cobo fell ill, fingers pointed to an oil well next to her home in LA

  21. The casino cheat who stopped his own million dollar scam

    Former swindler Richard Marcus now works for the same casinos that he once robbed

  22. Giving birth during a genocide

    The Rwandan woman whose waters broke as militia were attacking her family home

  23. Kidnapped as I lay sleeping

    Pirates attacked us on a remote island

  24. Glad to be gay: The surprise hit that became a pride anthem

    Tom Robinson became a Pride icon with his top 20 hit Glad to be Gay

  25. Taking on the witch hunters

    Wrongly blamed for killing her father, Monica fought to save others accused of witchcraft

  26. Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret

    It took Brendan Watkins decades to find out the true identity of his birth parents

  27. The British commune and the Colombian guerilla group

    Atlantis was a psychotherapy commune who moved to Farc controlled territory

  28. The Oscar joke that turned into a real life drama

    How a triumphant moment in Colin Gibson’s career inadvertently led to a false bomb scare

  29. Delia Ephron: ‘I fell into my own romantic comedy'

    How writer Delia Ephron found herself in a love story like her hit film You’ve Got Mail

  30. Abandoned at birth: 50 years searching for our families

    A baby left in a car, the other in a phonebox. David and Helen’s quest to find out why

  2. 1
  3. …
  4. 35
  5. 36
  6. 37
  7. 38
  8. 39
  9. …
  10. 188