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Outlook Episodes

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    Outlook Mixtape: how far would you go to save a painting?

    Four stories of people who took risks to save works of art

  2. Brazil's 'baby swap' boys: 15 years on

    The happy ending for two families at the heart of an historic hospital scandal

  3. My military service was a joke - but then I had to use it

    Maksym Butkevych spent nearly two and a half years as a prisoner of war

  4. The day I was outed by my bank robber dad

    After his dad was released from jail, Yassa Khan spent a transformative day with him

  5. The true story behind I'm Still Here, Brazil's Oscar winner

    Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men took his father away

  6. Outlook Mixtape: A necklace, three family histories, and digging for dinosaurs

    Three stories of going back in time and making extraordinary discoveries

  7. An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning

    How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief

  8. Marching to her own beat: the soldier-turned-beatbox pro

    Elaine Lim quit a regimented life in the army to pursue her real passion: beatboxing

  9. The art detective who rescued the world's stolen treasures

    How Bob Wittman went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures

  10. Making Marvel magic: The creative spark from my hospital bed

    Spinal surgery ended Nnedi's tennis career but led her to Spiderman and the Black Panther

  11. Outlook Mixtape: Stories from the subterranean

    From Belize to Thailand: the meaning, mystery – and peril – people have found in caves

  12. Searching for green in a concrete world

    Kwesia X grew up in urban London - when things got tough, she found peace in nature.

  13. Finding a life in the sunshine: Being Roy Ayers’ son

    Nabil Ayers unearthed an unexpected family history through his famous father Roy Ayers

  14. Superman in India: The spoof remake that became a cult hit

    Film fan Nasir Shaikh’s comic recreations of blockbuster movies on a shoestring budget

  15. A teenage jazz promoter and a masterpiece saved from oblivion

    In 1975 Vera Brandes was organising the now legendary Köln Concert when disaster struck

  16. Outlook Mixtape: Making anime history and a singer's secret father

    Dreams come true for a Pakistani animator and singer Rumer on fame and family truths

  17. Excavating Belize’s cave of human sacrifice

    Archaeologist Jaime Awe found the remains of people who died in ancient Mayan rituals

  18. The girl with 'too much fire': surviving the Khmer Rouge, part 2

    Loung Ung rebuilds her life in the US but longs to reunite with the sister left behind

  19. The girl with 'too much fire': surviving the Khmer Rouge, part 1

    Loung Ung’s defiant spirit became her greatest weapon against Pol Pot's regime

  20. Intern to record label boss: How I signed Amy Winehouse

    Working in a hair salon led Darcus Beese to Amy Winehouse and a life creating hit music

  21. Outlook Mixtape: A chorus of female strength

    From India, Afghanistan and Morocco, three women who flipped the script and triumphed

  22. How I solved a Scottish dinosaur mystery

    Dr Elsa Panciroli discovered the identity of the first dinosaur fossil found in Scotland

  23. Me and my pen pal, Tupac Shakur

    In the depths of despair, Nina Bhadreshwar formed an unlikely bond with a rap legend

  24. My secret father and surviving the pressures of fame

    Singer Rumer was 11 when she was told her biological father was actually the family cook

  25. Swimming blind: My journey to self-acceptance

    Melanie Barratt - first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum’s ashes

  26. Outlook Mixtape: Bollywood, Nollywood, Hollywood

    Romance, action and gory prosthetics – stories of filmmaking from around the world

  27. My mother’s sitcom genius and her necklace of tears

    TV pioneer Peg Lynch left a big legacy and curious jewels for her daughter to untangle

  28. Why I talk to warlords

    Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers

  29. The unmaking of a child soldier

    As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?

  30. My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery

    Michael Visontay’s unexpected link to the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s most coveted book

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