Outlook

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

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Outlook Mixtape: Eureka! part 2
Even more dreamers and tinkerers whose inventions travelled far beyond their expectations
07 Aug 2026,20 mins
The animals that set my mind free
Morad Tahbaz was a conservationist locked up in solitary confinement in Iran
06 Aug 2026,40 mins
Abandoned at birth: 50 years searching for our families
A baby left in a car, the other in a phone box. David and Helen’s quest to find out why
05 Aug 2026,40 mins
How I survived child stardom and found my voice
Alyson Stoner became a child star at six years old but preteen fame came at a price
04 Aug 2026,40 mins
I didn't know the glowing blue powder was radioactive
Odesson Ferreira found himself at the centre of Brazil's worst radiological accident
03 Aug 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Eureka! part 1
The dreamers, tinkerers and inventors whose ideas travelled far beyond their expectations
31 Jul 2026,44 mins
Teenage girls 1, 'old men' 0
How Copa 71, the first women’s World Cup, took on football’s 'old men'
30 Jul 2026,40 mins
Why I went looking for mum's love scammer
After his mum was tricked by a love scammer, Carlos Barragan set out to find them
29 Jul 2026,40 mins
The missionary who learned a language but lost his faith
Dan Everett traveled to the Amazon to convert the Piraha people. It didn’t go to plan
28 Jul 2026,40 mins
How my loss became a lifeline for thousands
After his brother’s suicide, Ben West asked strangers for letters of hope to help others
27 Jul 2026,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Cut from a different cloth
Sewing in space, secret knitters, protest quilts, and a man hopelessly devoted to looms
24 Jul 2026,40 mins
Keeper of secrets: The Chinese sociologist turned confidante
Jieyu’s research into Chinese families meant people told her their most intimate secrets
23 Jul 2026,40 mins
I won Australian Idol – then fell prey to a hoax
Casey Donovan was newly famous when her life was upended by a mysterious phone call
22 Jul 2026,40 mins
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