BBC World Service - The Outlook Podcast Archive

'I always assumed I'd go into space'

Dr Mae Jemison became the first woman of colour to go into space in 1992

Tyler Perry went from a poor childhood in New Orleans to having his own film & TV empire

Joyce Maynard had a pen pal nicknamed 'Grizzly'. Behind that name was a terrible secret.

Iraqi refugee Moder Magid was 22 when he was wrongly arrested on terror charges

Ellen Murphy played music at her partner's hospital bed to try to bring him out of a coma

After losing his memory 'T La Rock' forgot he was famous and had to learn to rap again

Sandra Pankhurst clears up crime scenes and deep cleans for extreme hoarders

John Corcoran managed to keep his secret until his daughter asked for a bedtime story

Mohammed Al Samawi was guided out of a warzone in Yemen by four strangers on social media

Hungarian writer András Forgách finds out about his mother's double life as a spy