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Outlook Episodes

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    ‘The stillness was a gift’

    Why becoming a museum guard gave writer Patrick Bringley solace after bereavement

  2. I escaped a sect to become a chart-topping pianist

    Riopy found solace in the piano as a child — now his songs are streamed in the millions

  3. I'm a champion boxer, but couldn't tell my mum

    A gym class encounter sparked Ramla Ali’s rise from bullied child to famous boxer.

  4. The fan who brought his football club back to life

    Ivor Heller tells the wild, romantic story of how AFC Wimbledon rose from the ashes

  5. Claudette Colvin: A teen’s revolutionary act of defiance

    Remembering the civil rights icon who refused to give up her bus seat before Rosa Parks

  6. To be or not to be: Shakespeare, mental health and me

    Mark Lockyer was on stage playing Mercutio when anxiety and paranoia took over

  7. Working for 'the Man' to rebel against my anti-Hollywood dad

    Lloyd and Lily-Hayes Kaufman on cult horror filmmaking and life in the Tromaverse

  8. Beirut blast: The Girl Scout who saved a stranger’s life

    Marina was driven by her mum's war-stolen wish to help victims of Lebanon’s port disaster

  9. Living a lie: Discovering my dad faked who he was

    Joanne Briggs thought her dad was a scientific superhero. But he was hiding a dark secret

  10. The life and legacy of Eva Schloss, part 2

    How Anne Frank’s diary led Eva Schloss to find her brother’s hidden Holocaust paintings

  11. The life and legacy of Eva Schloss, part 1

    Remembering the late Eva Schloss – Holocaust survivor and Anne Frank’s stepsister

  12. Fighting the fear - the architect who sang for her life

    Camille O'Sullivan had always loved singing, but fear of failure was holding her back

  13. The unlikely NBA star who hated sport and his body, part 2

    The psychologist John Amaechi was the NBA's first player to publically come out as gay

  14. The unlikely NBA star who hated sport and his body, part 1

    Psychologist John Amaechi was a bookish and unsporty British kid who ended up in the NBA

  15. Outlook Mixtape: The Last Picture Show

    The Godfather of Hollywood sound, and making a film for Saddam Hussein

  16. The singing linguist: from rock star to language detective

    Robert Leonard sang at Woodstock with Sha Na Na – now he helps the police solve crimes

  17. The Girl from Ipanema: the woman who inspired the hit

    It all started with a regular stroll past a bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro

  18. My life-defining walk across the world with my best friend

    Tom Turcich took his rescue puppy Savannah on a 48,000 kilometre walk

  19. 'My skin colour was a constant reminder of mum’s betrayal'

    M People star Andrew Lovell’s home life hid a terrible – yet beautiful – secret

  20. Outlook Mixtape: Lights, Camera, Action!

    Movie magic with Dirty Dancing’s real ‘Baby’ and the man in the Godzilla suit

  21. Against the grain: How woodcarving reunited a father and son

    Callum Robinson’s financial ruin helped him reconcile with his master carver dad, David

  22. Julia and Arturo: Why my parrot and I didn't talk for 40 years

    Julia and her parrot Arturo were inseparable until jealousy drove them apart

  23. A child of snow and ice: How I skied across Antarctica

    Karen Kyllesø was 21 when she became the youngest person to ski solo to the South Pole

  24. The real story of the von Trapp family singers

    Johannes von Trapp is the youngest sibling of the family who inspired The Sound of Music

  25. Outlook Mixtape: In the club

    The Ukrainian who's become a sumo champ in Japan and other stunning breakthrough stories

  26. A sisterhood of spies: how I was recruited aged 53

    In 1982, in the Falklands War, Ruth Morton was recruited to spy on Argentine submarines

  27. A jailhouse lawyer’s 28-year quest to prove his innocence

    If you were wrongfully imprisoned, how far would you go to re-gain your freedom?

  28. The thrills and spills of Hollywood's smallest stuntman

    Frodo, Superman and Star Wars: Kiran Shah on his unlikely tumble into Hollywood

  29. Tulisa: I wanted fame, but it almost destroyed me

    Tulisa Contostavlos survived betrayal and a tabloid sting

  30. Outlook Mixtape: Double acts...with a twist

    Teams of two that work together to achieve the remarkable

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