Outlook

True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.

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Heated Rivalry: How a hockey TV show inspired me to come out
Jesse Korteum kept his sexuality secret – until a smash hit TV series changed the game
04 Jun 2026,40 mins
Twins, parliament and my secret battle with psychosis
Mar García Puig gave birth, became an MP and had a mental health crisis – on the same day
03 Jun 2026,40 mins
I was forced to rob my own bank, part 2
How do you forgive a man who held a gun to your daughter’s head?
02 Jun 2026,40 mins
I was forced to rob my own bank, part 1
In 2000, armed men burst into Michelle Renee's home and held her child hostage
01 Jun 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Kinds of Blue
From the Egyptian depths to Louisiana backwaters, two stories of the blues
29 May 2026,44 mins
A fake bus service kidnapped my sister, so I made a real one
Damilola couldn’t stop the gangs on Lagos transport, so she created a safe new system
28 May 2026,40 mins
Who is the shy guy behind the viral star Broda Shaggi?
The Nigerian actor on the pressure to perform as the brash character followed by millions
27 May 2026,40 mins
Nobody wanted to work with me, now I make hit records
Blind music producer Cobhams Asuquo faced discrimination until he showed how good he was
26 May 2026,40 mins
I was one of 15 wives, until art helped me escape
How the skills she learnt as a child gave Nigerian artist Mama Nike a way out
25 May 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Stories from the small print
Three surprising tales spun from the world of advertising
22 May 2026,40 mins
Escape from Castro’s Cuba: ‘Singing saved my sanity’
A country girl's dream of singing led Candi Sosa into exile in the United States
21 May 2026,40 mins
Grateful 'for a couple of hours of normal life'
Tari Lang on teenage love, fear and making yoghurt during 1960s Indonesian dictatorship
20 May 2026,40 mins
My childhood prophecy: You must become a chess champion
Chess.com co-founder Danny Rensch's obsession with chess deepened after a trance session
19 May 2026,40 mins
Could a fig tree reveal a secret prison?
Chilean Alejandra Holzapfel’s long fight to reclaim the hidden torture site she survived
18 May 2026,40 mins
The Outlook Mixtape: A room of one's own
Stories of creativity and freedom inspired by Virginia Woolf's famous book
15 May 2026,40 mins
The Englishman who became an unlikely Brazilian pop star
Ritchie became a phenomenon in Brazil after his song accidentally became an 80s smash hit
14 May 2026,40 mins
Why did my white dad keep a file on me?
It took years before black scholar Dorothy Roberts uncovered the truth about her family
13 May 2026,40 mins
We crossed the Atlantic in two floating cars
Two friends sailed 3000 miles in a foam-filled Volkswagen Passat and a Ford Taunus
12 May 2026,40 mins
We never believed our mother was a murderer
It took nearly 60 years after her death for Nora Parham to be pardoned for murder
11 May 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Into the Woods
Some of our favourite stories from the world's forests
08 May 2026,44 mins
My father and the curse of the golden egg
Jeweller Paul Kutchinsky made the world’s biggest golden egg, but it broke his family
07 May 2026,40 mins
From singing while mopping floors to performing to thousands
James Emmanuel moved to the UK to help support his family and found fame as a singer
06 May 2026,40 mins
Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 2
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
05 May 2026,40 mins
Hip-hop, lies, and the ultimate prize, part 1
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
04 May 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Six degrees of... Kevin
From Kevin Bacon to an interstellar musical, we share stories linked by one name - Kevin
01 May 2026,44 mins
I crash-landed inside an active volcano
Chris Duddy survived 28 hours in Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano after his helicopter crashed
30 Apr 2026,40 mins
Me, dad, and the teen novel I wrote by accident
While caring for her dad, Lucy Ivison found an unexpected outlet: writing with her ex
29 Apr 2026,40 mins
The carpenter who became a blues star in his 60s
Forbidden from singing the blues as a boy, Robert Finley found success decades later
28 Apr 2026,40 mins
The retired grandmother cracking cold cases with DNA
How a detective novel inspired Margaret Press to use DNA to identify the unknown dead
27 Apr 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The girlband edition
It's high kicks, harmonies and matching hairstyles as we celebrate the girlband
24 Apr 2026,44 mins