Outlook

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

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My way out of the woods
A corporate high-flyer lived in a forest after a spiral of debt, shame and secrecy
28 Jul 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Women who dared
A rebel writer, a secret rapper, and the woman who invented the home pregnancy test
25 Jul 2025,40 mins
'Only God can judge': Changing Namibia's homosexuality laws
Friedel Dausab won his mother's acceptance - and a legal challenge for LGBTQ+ rights
24 Jul 2025,40 mins
The political poster child who became a million dollar model
Paulina Porizkova's face was used to show the hardships of Communist Czechoslovakia
23 Jul 2025,40 mins
My £1 deal that rocked London's music scene
Simon Parkes bought a disused building for £1, turning it into the iconic Brixton Academy
22 Jul 2025,40 mins
Morgan's Warriors: The matriarch on a mission to protect
Melissa Robinson lost her cousin to a killer targeting indigenous women, and fought back
21 Jul 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Whales of wonder
The mystery, the joy – and the shock. Five stories about human encounters with whales
18 Jul 2025,40 mins
Lost in the Amazon: What happened to my friend?
When a journalist goes missing, his friend must get news out to his family and the world
17 Jul 2025,40 mins
Was my friend the first gay man in Britain to come out?
Searching for the lost letter that revealed my friend was a gay rights pioneer
16 Jul 2025,40 mins
I was jailed, my wife became leader - I like her even more
After five years in a Belarus prison, Sergei Tikhanovsky found his world had changed
15 Jul 2025,40 mins
My year of solitude in Patagonia
How Bob Kull spent an entire year living alone on a remote island in southern Chile
14 Jul 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The snapshot edition
Four photos and the stories captured on both sides of the lens
11 Jul 2025,40 mins
Shipwrecked by a whale: A tale of love and loss at sea
A poignant voyage to scatter ashes takes a perilous turn when the boat starts to sink
10 Jul 2025,40 mins
Rebel writer: the Indian author who questioned everything
Banu Mushtaq made history when she won this year's International Booker prize
09 Jul 2025,40 mins
The Aboriginal professor who was expelled from school at 13
Jack Beetson was denied schooling as a boy but went on to become a leader in education
08 Jul 2025,40 mins
The besties who helped expose a truly wild sporting scandal
Jimmy O'Brien and Jake Storiale helped expose a batty sporting scandal to the masses
07 Jul 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Gangsters, The Boss, and a dad on the run
Three people whose lives entwine with the cult TV classic, The Sopranos
04 Jul 2025,40 mins
I woke to a tsunami – and my family home swept out to sea
Pedro Niada built his home by hand, and unknowingly engineered his family’s salvation
03 Jul 2025,40 mins
Marcel Marceau: The mime genius and the hidden manuscript
On Marcel's deathbed, he gave his daughters a manuscript that held secrets of his silence
02 Jul 2025,40 mins
We found our baby on the subway
The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station
01 Jul 2025,40 mins
Dressing Indiana Jones: The woman behind the fedora
How Deborah Nadoolman Landis turned homespun costumes into Hollywood gold
30 Jun 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Stitches, seams and movie scenes
Four extraordinary stories on the power of a good outfit
27 Jun 2025,40 mins
A web of spies: Untangling my parents' secret past
Alistair Wood was raised on secrets and surrounded by spies — including his own parents
26 Jun 2025,40 mins
How a falling man changed my life forever
How a spinal injury made Grace Spence Green a better doctor
25 Jun 2025,40 mins
Matchmaking North Korean women with South Korean men
Yujin Han fled North Korea, now she pairs South Korean men with other female defectors
24 Jun 2025,40 mins
Laughter saved me: The comedian turning tragedy into comedy
Krystal Evans survived a house fire at 14. To make sense of it, she turned to stand-up
23 Jun 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Rewind! Family histories discovered on tape
Three children unspool the mysteries of their parents’ hidden past
20 Jun 2025,40 mins
The birthmark that revealed a long-lost sister
Adoptee Kana Verheul found herself showing her birthmark to a stranger in a café toilet
19 Jun 2025,40 mins
Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony
Judith Obina helped bring peace to Uganda with a secret weapon: Joseph Kony's mother
18 Jun 2025,40 mins
Sex, love, Rock 'n' Roll... and The Sopranos
Robin Green went from being a 'clueless girl' to the only woman in the writers' room
17 Jun 2025,40 mins