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The Gulag letter to Reagan and the girl with a dictaphone
How Ruta Tumenaite and Jadvyga Bieliauskiene helped bring about Lithuania's freedom
21 Jul 2026,40 mins
"Food is a Gift" - How a recipe creator cooked through the tough times
Yewande Komolafe is a recipe developer who had to relearn to cook after losing her limbs
20 Jul 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Shall We Dance?
Three lives shaped by movement and music in the US, Ireland, and Mexico
17 Jul 2026,44 mins
I donated my eggs to a stranger on the train
After a stranger's unexpected confession on the Tube, Gini Bhogal made an unusual promise
16 Jul 2026,40 mins
How the music of Puerto Rico held my life together
From being orphaned at 17 to a Grammy nomination, the rise of salsa star Pirúlo
15 Jul 2026,40 mins
The Taliban want to sack me - the ambassador who won't quit
Manizha Bakhtari remains Afghanistan's ambassador to Austria, defying rulers back home
14 Jul 2026,40 mins
The prisoner who was forced to celebrate a World Cup victory
Miriam Lewin was a political prisoner in 1978 when Argentina won the World Cup
13 Jul 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: It’s a small world
Three tales of the miniature, minuscule and minute
10 Jul 2026,44 mins
My grandmother, the tennis champion who escaped the Nazis
After her grandma died, Felice Hardy found sporting records – and painful family secrets
09 Jul 2026,40 mins
I survived Norway's worst terror attack and refuse to hate
Bjorn Ihler was at a summer camp when he survived an attack from a far-right extremist
08 Jul 2026,40 mins
How an argument led to a lifelong adventure
A furious email sparked an unlikely love story for Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen
07 Jul 2026,40 mins
My mother made me ill for years until a doctor unmasked her
Teenager Nina Blom was so ill that she almost died but her sickness wasn’t what it seemed
06 Jul 2026,40 mins
The Outlook Mixtape: Fire and Ice
Opposing forces bring about two nail-biting adventures
03 Jul 2026,44 mins
Dad warned me of the ‘jaguarman’ curse but I didn’t listen
Ignoring his dad’s advice, Raoul de Jong flew to Suriname to find this mythical ancestor
02 Jul 2026,40 mins
Playing at the ‘World Cup’ with my transplanted kidney
Doctors said I wouldn’t live to five, now I play football at the Transplant World Cup
01 Jul 2026,40 mins
I spent years pretending to see, now I embrace my blindness
Sudden blindness pushed singer Lachi to reject the secrecy that had shaped her life
30 Jun 2026,40 mins
Risking it all for love songs
Nguyen Van Loc’s ballads were criminalised in communist North Vietnam
29 Jun 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: How does your garden grow?
The king of giant veg, the plant messiah and the composer who turned a garden into music
26 Jun 2026,44 mins
How I helped create the biggest World Cup song Waka Waka
South African Zolani Mahola worked with Shakira to create the biggest World Cup anthem
25 Jun 2026,40 mins
I promised I'd fight for the art my mum hid from the Nazis
Judy King and her mother fought for decades to get back their suitcase of Jewish artworks
24 Jun 2026,40 mins
I had a baby – then lost my memory, part 2
With her past erased, writer Samina Ali must rediscover her son – and herself
23 Jun 2026,40 mins
I had a baby – then lost my memory, part 1
A crisis at birth leaves Samina Ali unable to recognise her husband or newborn son
22 Jun 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Notorious D. A. D.
Two dads making their unique mark on the world and the daughters who surfed their wake
19 Jun 2026,40 mins
Facing addiction while pursuing music nearly cost me it all
Janet Devlin rose to fame at 16, but then found herself fighting alcoholism
18 Jun 2026,40 mins
The engineer who invented a fix for his own heart condition
Tal Golesworthy was the first patent to get an experimental implant that he created
17 Jun 2026,40 mins
The real School of Rock: I made a hit album with my students
A rebel teacher in Canada’s Bible Belt formed a student band – and inspired the cult film
16 Jun 2026,40 mins
Diving with the ‘Seahorse Whisperer’ of LA
After heartbreak, Roger Hanson turned to diving and built an underwater seahorse city
15 Jun 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: No ordinary Joe
An orphanage for joeys, perfect coffee from Yemen, and a 4-year-old preacher named Marjoe
12 Jun 2026,44 mins
The Sudanese doctor who rebuilt a war-ravaged hospital
How one doctor provided vital medical services in the darkest days of the Sudan conflict
11 Jun 2026,40 mins
Love and lime leaves: Conjuring my grandma through her cooking
When Ranie Saidi’s beloved grandmother died, he started recreating her dishes one by one
10 Jun 2026,40 mins