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Outlook Episodes

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    My Persian sci-fi musical, and why my mum's the star

    After a stroke, Nahid withdrew. Then her son and carer HOSSEI put her centre stage again

  2. The musician who turned a garden into an orchestra

    After a health crisis, Helen Anahita Wilson made music from plants that helped her heal

  3. I was taken as a baby, I didn’t know who I was, part 2

    Jackie McCarthy O’Brien makes sporting history and uncovers the truth about her past

  4. I was taken as a baby, I didn’t know who I was, part 1

    A black girl in a white town, Jackie McCarthy O’Brien grows up silenced and alone

  5. Outlook Mixtape: The view from space

    The beauty and the challenges of living in Earth’s orbit

  6. I was in a pop band, I didn't know my parents were too

    D:Ream singer Peter Cunnah on the musical threads that tied him to his birth family

  7. From care home shifts to the world’s greatest galleries

    Everlyn Nicodemus was in her 60s and working in nursing homes when her art was discovered

  8. I found the singer the world forgot

    Joshua Henry on his mission to bring lost musical genius Bill Fay back into the light

  9. The addict turned priest who fought the 'war on drugs'

    Father Flavie is battling to expose the injustices of Philippines’ brutal drug crackdown

  10. Outlook Mixtape: Bedtime Stories

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

  11. 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

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

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

  13. How I found the community I love

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

  14. 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

  15. Outlook Mixtape: Thunder and lightning

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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Strangers to coworkers to friends to... sisters?

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

  19. Why I love counselling cult survivors

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

  20. Outlook Mixtape: On your bike

    Cycling to find love, redemption and a university education

  21. The fighter pilot who saved 148 lives

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

  22. The street kid who built a boxing academy

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

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

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

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

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

  25. Outlook Mixtape: Friday the 13th

    Tales of misfortune and horror to mark Friday the 13th

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Outlook Mixtape: The birds and the bees

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

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