Outlook Episodes Episode guide
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Saving the songs of the Sahara
The defiant life of desert music pioneer Fadimata Walet Oumar
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Keeping up with Australia's rebellious Buddhist nun
Robina Courtin went from being a radical feminist to martial arts expert to Buddhist nun
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How I sang for my freedom
Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run
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The perilous world of a ‘cult deprogrammer’ – part two
Rick Alan Ross’ work as an anti-cult activist has led to jail, bankruptcy and harassment
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The perilous world of a ‘cult deprogrammer’ – part one
Rick Alan Ross went from selling cars to trying to rescue people from cults
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Nxivm 'sex cult' part two: The fight to free my daughter
How Catherine Oxenberg rescued her daughter India and defeated Nxivm’s cult leader
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Nxivm ‘sex cult’ part one: How my daughter became trapped
Catherine Oxenberg discovered her daughter India’s self-help group was a dangerous cult
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My big fake wedding: uncovering an outlandish deception
Benita and Paolo's was a whirlwind romance that turned into a nightmare.
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The nightclub fire that rocked Romania
Following a blaze in a Bucharest club, a sports newspaper uncovered deadly corruption
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I was a teenager at Auschwitz
Holocaust survivor Dita Kraus, now 91, was 14 when she was taken to a Nazi death camp.
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London’s revolutionary kiss-in
Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride
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Rickie Lee Jones: Why music became my bridge to the world
The US singer hit the big time in her early 20s, winning a Grammy for her first album
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The diplomat turned detective: Hunting 'The Serpent'
An unlikely investigator on the trail of serial killer Charles Sobhraj
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Going to sea to honour my son
Yayi Bayam Diouf's son was a fisherman who lost his life trying to get to Europe
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My forbidden love for a US soldier
What happens when an Iraqi student and a soldier from the invading US army fall in love?
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Dancing behind bars in Burkina Faso
After dance helped Bougobali resist the urge to murder, he decided to teach prisoners too
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What my father wouldn’t tell me
Carol Benjamin’s quest to understand the scars and silences of her revolutionary family
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The black ballerina who didn't give up
Julie Felix says she was told she was the wrong colour to be a swan
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What really happened on the 'Sex Raft'
The true story behind an infamous social experiment
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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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Secrets of my family's lost café
Old photos of her grandfather's café led Meriel Schindler to some shocking family truths
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The music star who was born into a cult
Musician Mikel Jollett grew up in Synanon, a drug rehabilitation programme-turned-cult
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A plane crash survivor’s search for answers
Sole survivor Norman Ollestad returns to the crash site 27 years later
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How I sang for my freedom
Banned songs and fake identities: the Kurdish performer on the run
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The surfer who fought apartheid to become a world champion
Cass Collier learnt to surf on segregated beaches – now he's fighting apartheid's legacy
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Hunting for my past in a Hong Kong stairwell
Claire Martin was abandoned at two days old. For years she searched for blood relatives
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The daring prison escape of an Argentine footballer
Claudio Tamburrini used bed sheets and a metal bolt to escape imprisonment and torture
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I was the sole survivor of a plane crash
Stranded on a mountain, 11-year-old Norman Ollestad had to find a way to survive alone
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My mother’s fake name and secret past
Justine Cowan's English mother invented a fictional childhood
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I became a supermodel overnight and didn't know
As a teenager, Lisa Ray took some photos in India that made her an instant sensation