Outlook Episodes Episode guide
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The baby chimpanzees helping me heal
Mama Zawadi takes care of orphaned chimps caught up in the violence in DR Congo
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The Syrian refugee helping people escape Ukraine
Tareq Alaows had his own perilous journey to safety, now he’s helping others fleeing war
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My dad died a Ugandan Aids pioneer
Tezra Lutaaya's musician dad, Philly Lutaaya, came out publicly as an Aids victim
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'This is what a barrister looks like'
Alexandra Wilson is the young black woman changing the face of Britain’s legal system
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We discovered we were stolen as babies
Maria Diemar and Daniel Olsson were adopted from Chile and brought up in Sweden
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The love story behind Nasa's alien mixtape
Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan fell in love while making Nasa’s historic Voyager Golden Record
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Tales of modern marriage: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Nia Vardalos on how her own love story became a hit romantic comedy
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How I discovered the Wood Wide Web
Suzanne Simard discovered how trees communicate underground
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Making movies helped me heal after my dad's murder
Rwandan director Joël Karekezi explores trauma he experienced during the 1994 genocide
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The teenager pilot who flew around the world
Zara Rutherford broke records in her microlight - and more stories of teenage pioneers
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'A little bit Indiana Jones'
The archaeologist who risked his life for a mysterious prehistoric artefact
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The champion boxer without a country to fight for
Boxer Bilal Fawaz was trafficked to the UK from Nigeria as a teenager
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The dancing prodigy who became Prince’s greatest muse
Mayte Garcia was Prince’s first wife and one of his biggest musical inspirations
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Saving the songs of the Sahara
The defiant life of desert music pioneer Fadimata Walet Oumar
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Surviving apartheid to make maritime history
Captain Knowledge Bengu led the voyage to discover Shackleton's lost ship Endurance
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Book by book, restoring an iconic library destroyed by IS
Dr Alaa Hamdon dreamt of replacing thousands of books burnt by militants in Mosul, Iraq
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England's secret cowboy town
The town of Laredo is filled with cowboys and saloons in the style of the Wild West
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The dark truth behind my songs
A murder-suicide devastated Allison Moorer’s youth but now inspires her country music
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The violin maker's salvation
Hans Benning found love through repairing the world's most priceless stringed instruments
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Discovering my mother's heroic past
A box of letters revealed the secret and extraordinary life of Eva Taylor's mother
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Who was the stranger who saved my life?
Sonia Solorzano spent years seeking the unknown man who rescued her from a destroyed bus
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The astronaut who made a quilt in Space
Astronaut Dr Karen Nyberg launched a sewing project from the International Space Station
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The drag queen who ran for president of the United States
Joan Jett Blakk ran for office in 1992 to raise awareness about the Aids crisis
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A Syrian love story that started with a resume
The social media call out for CV advice that resulted in an online wedding
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Drawing is my language: the artist who recreates cities from memory
Austistic savant Stephen Wiltshire has a gift for drawing the world in perfect detail
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How my father’s stories shielded me from civil war
When war came to Liberia, Wayètu Moore’s dad was determined to protect her from reality
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Escaping a life on a dumpsite with classical music
Simon Karuiki Ndungu grew up in a slum scavenging for rubbish. Music was his ticket
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I created a mass Marilyn Monroe swim for my mother
How dressing up as the Hollywood icon helped Sarah Tinney cope after her mother’s death
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How did this man find two lost Rembrandts?
Jan Six is an art dealer whose ancestor was painted by the Dutch Master Rembrandt
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Dressing Beyoncé: It started with a Barbie outfit
Artist Osman Yousefzada's love of clothes came from watching his mum sew for neighbours
