The Outlook Podcast Archive Podcast
Extraordinary first-person stories from around the world. An archive of Outlook podcasts from 2016-2022. For new episodes from the team, subscribe to Lives Less Ordinary.
Episodes to download
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Ice Prince: The making of a Nigerian hip hop star
Sat 23 Oct 2021
How personal loss and violent conflict shaped the career of Panshak Zamani aka Ice Prince
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The secret that nearly destroyed our marriage
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Cheryl was married to Bobby Love for 30 years before she found out the truth about him
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The locked-in boy and the brain experiment
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Why neurologist Phil Kennedy experimented on his own healthy brain
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The spy who pretended to be homeless
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Tom Marcus went undercover as a homeless man to stop extremist attacks in Britain
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‘Born lucky’: Escaping the Khmer Rouge
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Sieu Do’s idyllic childhood took a brutal turn when he found himself in a labour camp
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The uncomfortable truth hidden in my DNA
Sat 16 Oct 2021
Former policeman Hiram Johnson's quest to solve a family mystery
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The man who (re)painted the Mona Lisa
Thu 14 Oct 2021
Adebanji Alade recreated a masterpiece - but he's never seen the real thing
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Agent Orange: A Vietnamese grandmother's last battle
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Tran To Nga is fighting to get compensation for victims of the toxic herbicide
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The Somali prisoner, the secret language and the life-saving book
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Mohamed Barud’s fellow prisoner tapped out Tolstoy's Anna Karenina through his cell wall
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The inside story of a Muslim drag queen
Sat 9 Oct 2021
Amrou al-Kadhi on their complex identity - Muslim, gay, non-binary drag queen
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"The camera was my shield" - a refugee films his journey
Fri 8 Oct 2021
The footage Hassan Akkad captured would help make his name as a filmmaker
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My teacher became my torturer
Tue 5 Oct 2021
Mirsad Solakovic was just 13 when his teacher came to school and pointed a gun at him
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The immigration lawyer who hid her undocumented past
Mon 4 Oct 2021
Qian Julie Wang started working on immigration cases and faced a life-changing dilemma
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Addicted to my son's addiction
Sat 2 Oct 2021
David and Nic Sheff, whose struggle with addiction inspired the film Beautiful Boy
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A footballing legend's gambling secret
Thu 30 Sep 2021
How Steph Shilton saved husband Peter from a 45-year addiction
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I went backpacking and became an accidental celebrity
Wed 29 Sep 2021
Dan Tyler left England to get away from it all. He ended up finding a new course in life
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Finding healing in the sea that took my family
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Geraldine Mullan swims to remember her family who died when their car veered into the sea
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The heavy metal boys from the dump
Sat 25 Sep 2021
The heavy metal band who grew up on Cambodia's biggest rubbish dump
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The sinking of a pirate radio ship
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Nick Richards was a DJ with an offshore radio station, but the ship was falling apart
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I hit puberty, then burned down my family home
Wed 22 Sep 2021
As a teenager Nikki Owen's mental health and behaviour quickly spiralled out of control
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I stole a safe, and faced the dilemma of my life
Mon 20 Sep 2021
The burglar who discovered a terrible crime - but risked life in prison if he reported it
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The first beauty queen in a free South Africa
Sat 18 Sep 2021
Basetsana Kumalo was crowned Miss South Africa after the country's first democratic vote
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The epic road trip that taught me how to live again
Thu 16 Sep 2021
After surviving cancer in her twenties, Suleika Jaouad felt she'd forgotten how to live.
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Why this Covid doctor hid his homeless past
Tue 14 Sep 2021
Emmanuel Taban, a former street kid now recognised for his life-saving medical work
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The murder case that started a cyber sleuth revolution
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Todd Matthews became obsessed with identifying 'Tent Girl,' a decades-old unsolved crime
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The secretaries who inspired the hit movie 9 to 5
Sat 11 Sep 2021
Karen Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash
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Escaping after an IS massacre
Thu 9 Sep 2021
Ali Hussein Kadhim was a captured Iraqi soldier who narrowly avoided execution
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I ran away from slavery; now I help others escape
Wed 8 Sep 2021
Analiza Guevarra escaped abuse but can’t return to her family in the Philippines
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The schoolgirl fraudster who found redemption in ballroom
Tue 7 Sep 2021
Shannon Balenciaga discovered the underground ball scene in prison – and became a legend
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'If you cut out part of my brain am I still Jody?'
Mon 6 Sep 2021
Brain surgery cured Jody Smith's seizures and there were other surprising side effects
