Outlook Episodes Episode guide
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Painting for our lives
Three fascinating portraits of people who used a paintbrush to transform their lives
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The celestial treasure hunters
An unlikely duo’s insatiable and dangerous hunt for space rocks
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The stay-at-home mum who became a bodybuilding star
Kiran Dembla is an Indian celebrity trainer – but it's a long way from where she started
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I set up a radio station for aliens
Electronics whizz John Shepherd spent years trying to contact alien life, with music
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On the frontline against chemical warfare
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon braves bombs and bullets investigating chemical weapon attacks
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The black child raised by white supremacists
How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing
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Adventures of the bootleg-busting brothers
Rob and Jason Holmes were first recruited as undercover agents when they were children
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The Guatemalan grandparents storming the disco
Love, grief and fame: how disco has shaped the lives of Favio Vasquez and Maria Moreno
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Half a rotten apple: Growing up in 70s China
Writer Xiaolu Guo on a childhood in the aftermath of China’s Cultural Revolution
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A dangerous obsession
Why women’s rights advocate Julie Lalonde stayed silent about being stalked for a decade
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The space genius who needed a guide to life on earth
How a bereaved astrophysicist was helped by notes from her late husband
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The downfall of 'The Screamers'
Atlantis was a fringe psychotherapy commune who moved to guerrilla controlled Colombia
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The actor who’s been saying the same lines for 32 years
Catherine Russell has played the same part more than 13,000 times – without a sick day
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Farming and Phil Collins taught me about love
Learning lessons about love and life from a ewe and a lamb
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The black reverend who bought a Ku Klux Klan shop
How Reverend David Kennedy fought to shut down a shop selling racist paraphernalia
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Abducted in war, saving lives in peace
Aminata Conteh-Biger was one of thousands of women abducted in Sierra Leone’s civil war
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Why I didn’t make a sound for 12 years
Marie McCreadie on her agony becoming mute at 13 and her shock and joy learning the cause
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Sarajevo Siege - the band that drowned out the bombs
How do you get Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson to play in a warzone?
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We found our baby on the subway
The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station
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My ancestors changed the lives of slaves in the US
Nettie Washington Douglass unites the bloodlines of two ex-slaves who became iconic names
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Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star
How personal loss and violent conflict shaped the career of Panshak Zamani aka Ice Prince
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I discovered my dad was a best-selling sex writer
Dying of Alzheimer's, Ira Alterman asked his daughter to help him write his final books
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'This is what a barrister looks like'
Alexandra Wilson is a young black woman changing the face of Britain’s legal system
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A star in her teens, a star in her seventies
How Bettye Lavette found and lost her music career five times
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Surviving a chemical attack by a doomsday cult
How a bag leaking sarin in Tokyo led Atsushi Sakahara to seek answers from a cult member
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My ancestors were both slaves and slave owners
How a black Victorian footballer led Malik Al Nasir to discover his own complex history
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Vietnam's first family of rock‘n’roll
How a bunch of pre-teen kids became the biggest rock 'n' roll band in wartime Saigon
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Life without parole: A call from the president
Would Brittany K. Barnett ever be able to free Sharanda Jones from her life sentence?
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Life without parole: Our fight for freedom
A mother’s life sentence for a drug offence and the young lawyer who promised to free her
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How the tigress of basketball fought back
Malebogo Molefhe rediscovered her love of basketball after being shot and paralysed
