Outlook Episodes Episode guide
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Modern birth: The fertility doctor who impregnated his patients
Matthew White and Heather Woock found out they were siblings and uncovered a scandal
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Modern birth: Why I gave my sister my womb
Lolita Wästerlund was born without a uterus, so her sister Linda offered up hers
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The TV action hero fighting bullies
Why German action star Carsten Stahl became an anti-bullying crusader
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How I fixed my own brain
Sarah Vallance put her life back together after suffering traumatic brain injury.
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Discovering my ‘mum’ stole me at birth
In 1997 a baby is stolen from a Cape Town hospital, 17 years later she learns the truth
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The acid attack meant for someone else
Andreas Christopheros had acid thrown in his face in a case of mistaken identity
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I raised 1,000 children but gave my own away
Sindhutai Sapkal is known as the ‘mother of orphans’, but had to give her own child away
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Dr Palipana, the quadriplegic ER medic
How a car accident turned Dinesh Palipana into a quadriplegic emergency doctor
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How not to be a rock star
Cora Bissett got a five album deal when she was just 17, but then faced a huge backlash
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The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons
Why a terminally ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal
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The love story behind a lost Leonardo
How a long-lost painting was restored, attributed to da Vinci and sold for $450,000,000
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From homeless kid to hero of Africa's biggest slum
Kennedy Odede is known by some as the unofficial mayor of Kibera
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How I lost a museum but gained a family
Stories of hope in the ashes of Brazil's destroyed National Museum
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'If you want to live, squeeze my hand'
How scientist Steffanie Strathdee saved her husband from a deadly superbug
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Spain’s fearless barnacle-hunting sisters
Isabel and Susana González risk their lives to collect barnacles along Spain’s coastline
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How Springsteen became my lifeline
The working class British-Pakistani teen who found a musical hero in The Boss
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Why I thanked the man who shot me
Wesley Hamilton says that getting shot was “the best thing that ever happened to me”
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Forgiving myself after killing a classmate
Lis Cashin accidentally killed a friend with a javelin and spent years overcoming guilt
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Building a hospital on a rubbish dump
Aged 82, Edna Adan Ismail works 14 hour days in a Somaliland hospital she fought to build
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An unlikely friendship in Guantanamo Bay
How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie
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‘Please... need rescue… SOS!’
When Beatrice De Smet got a desperate SMS from her husband, she knew she had to act fast
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My baby was swapped at birth
A South African family continues their search after a hospital mix-up 21 years ago
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Bassem Youssef: Egypt’s revolutionary comedian
From heart surgeon to Arab Spring satirist – the rise and fall of Bassem Youssef
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Me, Guantanamo Bay, and a new friend
Mohamedou Salahi was in Guantanamo Bay prison for 14 years but bonded with his guard
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The Blind Boys of Alabama: a life in music
From gospel to the Grammys – the life and times of America’s octogenarian boyband
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The secret missionary who lost her faith
Amber Scorah was a Jehovah's Witness in China when she started to doubt her beliefs
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Exposing Nigeria’s cough syrup crisis, for my brother
Why Ruona Meyer joined the frontline in the war against codeine cough syrup
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Secret SMS texts saved my family from IS
The Yazidi man who had to resort to smugglers and his smartphone to rescue his family
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My escape, thanks to a Russian mail-order bride
A story of family secrets, pirated films and an unexpected transformation