Outlook

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

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Making Marvel magic: The creative spark from my hospital bed
Spinal surgery ended Nnedi's tennis career but led her to Spiderman and the Black Panther
24 Mar 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Stories from the subterranean
From Belize to Thailand: the meaning, mystery – and peril – people have found in caves
21 Mar 2025,40 mins
Searching for green in a concrete world
Kwesia X grew up in urban London - when things got tough, she found peace in nature.
20 Mar 2025,40 mins
Superman in India: The spoof remake that became a cult hit
Film fan Nasir Shaikh’s comic recreations of blockbuster movies on a shoestring budget
18 Mar 2025,40 mins
A teenage jazz promoter and a masterpiece saved from oblivion
In 1975 Vera Brandes was organising the now legendary Köln Concert when disaster struck
17 Mar 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Making anime history and a singer's secret father
Dreams come true for a Pakistani animator and singer Rumer on fame and family truths
14 Mar 2025,40 mins
Excavating Belize’s cave of human sacrifice
Archaeologist Jaime Awe found the remains of people who died in ancient Mayan rituals
13 Mar 2025,40 mins
The girl with 'too much fire': surviving the Khmer Rouge, part 2
Loung Ung rebuilds her life in the US but longs to reunite with the sister left behind
12 Mar 2025,40 mins
The girl with 'too much fire': surviving the Khmer Rouge, part 1
Loung Ung’s defiant spirit became her greatest weapon against Pol Pot's regime
11 Mar 2025,40 mins
Intern to record label boss: How I signed Amy Winehouse
Working in a hair salon led Darcus Beese to Amy Winehouse and a life creating hit music
10 Mar 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: A chorus of female strength
From India, Afghanistan and Morocco, three women who flipped the script and triumphed
07 Mar 2025,40 mins
How I solved a Scottish dinosaur mystery
Dr Elsa Panciroli discovered the identity of the first dinosaur fossil found in Scotland
06 Mar 2025,40 mins
Me and my pen pal, Tupac Shakur
In the depths of despair, Nina Bhadreshwar formed an unlikely bond with a rap legend
05 Mar 2025,40 mins
My secret father and surviving the pressures of fame
Singer Rumer was 11 when she was told her biological father was actually the family cook
04 Mar 2025,40 mins
Swimming blind: My journey to self-acceptance
Melanie Barratt - first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum’s ashes
03 Mar 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Bollywood, Nollywood, Hollywood
Romance, action and gory prosthetics – stories of filmmaking from around the world
28 Feb 2025,40 mins
My mother’s sitcom genius and her necklace of tears
TV pioneer Peg Lynch left a big legacy and curious jewels for her daughter to untangle
27 Feb 2025,40 mins
Why I talk to warlords
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers
26 Feb 2025,40 mins
The unmaking of a child soldier
As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?
25 Feb 2025,40 mins
My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery
Michael Visontay’s unexpected link to the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s most coveted book
24 Feb 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The smelly edition
From the million dollar nose to the science behind how we smell scents
21 Feb 2025,40 mins
A secret music video shot in Iran: My punk family adventure
Nadia Tehran recorded a forbidden music video on the streets of Iran with their dad
20 Feb 2025,40 mins
'Kids of the Colony': YouTubers exploring their homelands
British best friends explore their families' homelands in Bangladesh, Morocco and Somalia
19 Feb 2025,40 mins
I created Africa's largest ever photo library
Photojournalist Paul Ninson founded the Dikan Centre to reclaim African history
18 Feb 2025,40 mins
Rebel gunmen in Ugandan skies
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
17 Feb 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: First loves and first dates
Four remarkable stories of unusual first dates and unexpected romance
14 Feb 2025,40 mins
The making of a Nollywood special effects superstar
How Hakeem Onilogbo transformed Nigeria’s special FX industry – and his family’s fortunes
13 Feb 2025,40 mins
The childhood injury that turned me from singing to surgery
Prema Dhanraj’s experience of severe burns led her to become a plastic surgeon
12 Feb 2025,40 mins
The reinvention of a pioneering reggae artist
Lorna Gee was one of the first female MCs in London's reggae music and sound system scene
11 Feb 2025,40 mins
For the love of smell
Scientist Luca Turin found romance and a biological mystery via his obsession with scent
10 Feb 2025,40 mins