Outlook Episodes Episode guide
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Outlook Mixtape: The smelly edition
From the million dollar nose to the science behind how we smell scents
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A secret music video shot in Iran: My punk family adventure
Nadia Tehran recorded a forbidden music video on the streets of Iran with their dad
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'Kids of the Colony': YouTubers exploring their homelands
British best friends explore their families' homelands in Bangladesh, Morocco and Somalia
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I created Africa's largest ever photo library
Photojournalist Paul Ninson founded the Dikan Centre to reclaim African history
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Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
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Outlook Mixtape: First loves and first dates
Four remarkable stories of unusual first dates and unexpected romance
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The making of a Nollywood special effects superstar
How Hakeem Onilogbo transformed Nigeria’s special FX industry – and his family’s fortunes
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The childhood injury that turned me from singing to surgery
Prema Dhanraj’s experience of severe burns led her to become a plastic surgeon
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The reinvention of a pioneering reggae artist
Lorna Gee was one of the first female MCs in London's reggae music and sound system scene
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For the love of smell
Scientist Luca Turin found romance and a biological mystery via his obsession with scent
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Outlook Mixtape: The museum of memories and dreams
A global tour of the museums and galleries holding stories that bring the world to life
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A stroke of insight: A doctor who learnt as her brain failed
When her brain began to shut down, Dr Jill Bolte Taylor thought, “Wow! This is so cool!”
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The NYPD cop who gave children a break from the Troubles
Denis Mulcahy gave 23,000 children from Northern Ireland a holiday away from the conflict
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The boy who brought anime to life in Pakistan
A childhood love for Japanese cartoons led Usman Riaz to build his own animation studio
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The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing
Cathy Terkanian turned sleuth when told the baby she’d had to give up, had disappeared
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The children of the Holocaust, 80 years on
A child’s eye view of life in concentration camps and in exile, from four survivors
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From security guard at the Met, to artist at the Met
A chance encounter led Armia Malak Khalil to exhibiting at New York’s famous art museum
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Voice notes of the past - what my dad's singing revealed
An old cassette, a yearning for a lost parent, and a treasure trove of migrant history
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The film couple turning their own lives into romantic comedy
Karan Soni and Roshan Sethi's real-life love story inspired their film A Nice Indian Boy
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The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98
Opal Lee walked to Washington to demand a new national holiday marking the end of slavery
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Outlook Mixtape: A lost cello and a mother and child reunion
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
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How Hollywood got behind my Afghan resistance film
Sahra Mani documented women resisting the Taliban, with help from a film star, and Malala
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War was my comfort zone, until I had to walk away
Chris Booth dodged bullets and bombs, but came home with mental health concerns.
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The desert architect who brought back a river
Aziza Chaouni thought Fez had nothing to offer until a polluted river called her back
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Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’
A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart
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Outlook Mixtape: In pursuit of beauty
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
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Becoming a catfish to catch a catfish
Andrew Lloyd realised someone had collected his images to create a fake online identity
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The siege and the city that shaped Hisham Matar
How the Libyan embassy shooting in London would profoundly affect novelist Hisham Matar
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My robots for children, inspired by my life as a refugee
For teenage Paolo Prijanian an opportunity to get his own computer changed his life
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Why I set out to record the songs of Ireland’s birds
Sean Ronayne set out to record the song of every one of Ireland’s native birds