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Outlook Episodes

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    Outlook Mixtape: Bedtime Stories

    Magic rivers, a storytelling granny, and the origins of a children's classic

  2. Alone in the Pacific on the upturned hull of my boat

    Australian Tom Robinson set out on a solo record-breaking ocean crossing aged 23

  3. I started throat singing in the shower and found fame

    A cassette of Inuit throat singing inspired Tanya Tagaq to transform an ancient tradition

  4. How I found the community I love

    Durell Knights was young, gay and Black in a city under the shadow of the Aids epidemic

  5. I managed 'Britain's worst football team' to chase my dream

    Football-obsessed Shadab Ifitikhar wanted to be the world's best manager...by any means

  6. Outlook Mixtape: Thunder and lightning

    A high-seas hunt for the Thunder and a jazz musician who was struck by lightning

  7. X-Cetra: How our pre-teen record became an unlikely hit

    In 2000, four best friends made an album, just for fun. 25 years later, it was a classic

  8. Bringing the beat back: The accidental heroes of hip-hop

    The self-taught teen funk musicians who unknowingly shaped the golden age of hip-hop

  9. Strangers to coworkers to friends to... sisters?

    Cassandra and Julia were uncannily alike. A chance gift revealed a past neither expected

  10. Why I love counselling cult survivors

    Dr Gillie Jenkinson counsels people who’ve just left cults, as she once did too

  11. Outlook Mixtape: On your bike

    Cycling to find love, redemption and a university education

  12. The fighter pilot who saved 148 lives

    Fighter pilot Tammie Jo Shults calmy landed a passenger plane saving 148 people on board

  13. The street kid who built a boxing academy

    Tobias Mupfuti learned boxing while homeless – now he trains young fighters in Zimbabwe

  14. Speaking Scots helped me find my voice – and millions listen

    Award-winning Scottish poet Len Pennie began writing to improve her mental health

  15. Scarpetta: Creating the hero I needed as a child

    The painful past behind writer Patricia Cornwell’s crime‑fighting icon

  16. Outlook Mixtape: Friday the 13th

    Tales of misfortune and horror to mark Friday the 13th

  17. A riot in a shopping cart: the race that inspired an artist

    Murray Siple was drawn to speed and risk-takers. An injury opened his eyes to a new world

  18. Vampires in Lollywood: The 40-year hunt for the desi Dracula

    Zinda Laash was Pakistan’s first ever horror film – but then it just disappeared

  19. Just row with it: 139 days at sea, three brothers, one ocean

    A philosopher, a craftsman and an engineer try to row 9,000 miles across the Pacific

  20. A boy named ‘stand up’ and his battle to take down a statue

    Simukai means 'stand-up' – and he does, against the legacy of colonialism

  21. Outlook Mixtape: The birds and the bees

    Four tales from our archive about birds, bees, and falling in love

  22. Why a British band toured war-torn Ukraine, twice

    Hardwicke Circus skirted curfews and air-raid sirens to rock out with Ukrainians

  23. I learnt to fly a spaceship in just nine weeks

    Astronaut Edward Lu's journey from flight engineer to asteroid hunter

  24. The rediscovered tapes of an electronic music pioneer

    Beverly Glenn-Copeland found fame in his 70s after his long-lost record became a cult hit

  25. Secret letters from a Venetian palazzo

    Writer Andrea di Robilant on coded letters that shaped his family’s fortunes

  26. Outlook Mixtape: Heavy Metal

    Extraordinary stories about people who dig metal - in all its forms

  27. Hercules: The grizzly bear who became family

    Maggie Robin raised a bear cub who grew into an extraordinary companion

  28. Music was my salvation: the homeless man and the piano

    Francois was homeless when he learned to play a train station piano from scratch

  29. Sects, lies and videotape: a Syrian story, part 2

    Accused of spying in rebel-held Syria, Loubna Mrie faces peril and a shattering loss

  30. Sects, lies and videotape: A Syrian story, part 1

    Loubna Mrie secretly filmed Syria’s uprising, despite her family’s loyalty to the regime

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