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Outlook Episodes

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    The Outlook Mixtape: A room of one's own

    Stories of creativity and freedom inspired by Virginia Woolf's famous book

  2. The Englishman who became an unlikely Brazilian pop star

    Ritchie became a phenomenon in Brazil after his song accidentally became an 80s smash hit

  3. Why did my white dad keep a file on me?

    It took years before black scholar Dorothy Roberts uncovered the truth about her family

  4. We crossed the Atlantic in two floating cars

    Two friends sailed 3000 miles in a foam-filled Volkswagen Passat and a Ford Taunus

  5. We never believed our mother was a murderer

    It took nearly 60 years after her death for Nora Parham to be pardoned for murder

  6. Outlook Mixtape: Into the Woods

    Some of our favourite stories from the world's forests

  7. My father and the curse of the golden egg

    Jeweller Paul Kutchinsky made the world’s biggest golden egg, but it broke his family

  8. From singing while mopping floors to performing to thousands

    James Emmanuel moved to the UK to help support his family and found fame as a singer

  9. Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 2

    The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry

  10. Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 1

    The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry

  11. Outlook Mixtape: Six degrees of... Kevin

    From Kevin Bacon to an interstellar musical, we share stories linked by one name - Kevin

  12. I crash-landed inside an active volcano

    Chris Duddy survived 28 hours in Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano after his helicopter crashed

  13. Me, dad, and the teen novel I wrote by accident

    While caring for her dad, Lucy Ivison found an unexpected outlet: writing with her ex

  14. The carpenter who became a blues star in his 60s

    Forbidden from singing the blues as a boy, Robert Finley found success decades later

  15. The retired grandmother cracking cold cases with DNA

    How a detective novel inspired Margaret Press to use DNA to identify the unknown dead

  16. Outlook Mixtape: The girlband edition

    It's high kicks, harmonies and matching hairstyles as we celebrate the girlband

  17. Becoming a financial expert after life on the streets

    Kindness from a stranger helped turn Peter Komolafe's life around when he had nothing

  18. One man, fifty machines and a bid to reboot civilisation

    When Marcin Jakubowski’s tractor broke, he decided to try and change the world

  19. 'I can't stop the war but music gives us hope'

    Composer Iryna Gould on why playing musical instruments is vital for Ukrainian children

  20. Could a sitcom save a man from death row?

    Juan Catalan hoped comedian Larry David could help exonerate him from a murder charge

  21. Outlook Mixtape: Going solo

    The making of an unexpected jazz masterpiece, and alone in the ocean on an upturned boat

  22. My Persian sci-fi musical, and why my mum's the star

    After a stroke, Nahid withdrew. Then her son and carer HOSSEI put her centre stage again

  23. The musician who turned a garden into an orchestra

    After a health crisis, Helen Anahita Wilson made music from plants that helped her heal

  24. I was taken as a baby, I didn’t know who I was, part 2

    Jackie McCarthy O’Brien makes sporting history and uncovers the truth about her past

  25. I was taken as a baby, I didn’t know who I was, part 1

    A black girl in a white town, Jackie McCarthy O’Brien grows up silenced and alone

  26. Outlook Mixtape: The view from space

    The beauty and the challenges of living in Earth’s orbit

  27. I was in a pop band, I didn't know my parents were too

    D:Ream singer Peter Cunnah on the musical threads that tied him to his birth family

  28. From care home shifts to the world’s greatest galleries

    Everlyn Nicodemus was in her 60s and working in nursing homes when her art was discovered

  29. I found the singer the world forgot

    Joshua Henry on his mission to bring lost musical genius Bill Fay back into the light

  30. The addict turned priest who fought the 'war on drugs'

    Father Flavie is battling to expose the injustices of Philippines’ brutal drug crackdown

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