Outlook

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

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Outlook Mixtape: The museum of memories and dreams
A global tour of the museums and galleries holding stories that bring the world to life
07 Feb 2025,40 mins
A stroke of insight: A doctor who learnt as her brain failed
When her brain began to shut down, Dr Jill Bolte Taylor thought, “Wow! This is so cool!”
06 Feb 2025,40 mins
The NYPD cop who gave children a break from the Troubles
Denis Mulcahy gave 23,000 children from Northern Ireland a holiday away from the conflict
05 Feb 2025,40 mins
The boy who brought anime to life in Pakistan
A childhood love for Japanese cartoons led Usman Riaz to build his own animation studio
04 Feb 2025,40 mins
The DNA request that revealed my child had gone missing
Cathy Terkanian turned sleuth when told the baby she’d had to give up, had disappeared
03 Feb 2025,40 mins
The children of the Holocaust, 80 years on
A child’s eye view of life in concentration camps and in exile, from four survivors
31 Jan 2025,40 mins
From security guard at the Met, to artist at the Met
A chance encounter led Armia Malak Khalil to exhibiting at New York’s famous art museum
30 Jan 2025,40 mins
Voice notes of the past - what my dad's singing revealed
An old cassette, a yearning for a lost parent, and a treasure trove of migrant history
29 Jan 2025,40 mins
The film couple turning their own lives into romantic comedy
Karan Soni and Roshan Sethi's real-life love story inspired their film A Nice Indian Boy
28 Jan 2025,40 mins
The Grandmother of Juneteenth, still battling for change at 98
Opal Lee walked to Washington to demand a new national holiday marking the end of slavery
27 Jan 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: A lost cello and a mother and child reunion
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
24 Jan 2025,40 mins
How Hollywood got behind my Afghan resistance film
Sahra Mani documented women resisting the Taliban, with help from a film star, and Malala
23 Jan 2025,40 mins
War was my comfort zone, until I had to walk away
Chris Booth dodged bullets and bombs, but came home with mental health concerns.
22 Jan 2025,40 mins
The desert architect who brought back a river
Aziza Chaouni thought Fez had nothing to offer until a polluted river called her back
21 Jan 2025,40 mins
Stolen as a baby, I called my abductor ‘Mom’
A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart
20 Jan 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: In pursuit of beauty
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
17 Jan 2025,40 mins
Becoming a catfish to catch a catfish
Andrew Lloyd realised someone had collected his images to create a fake online identity
16 Jan 2025,40 mins
The siege and the city that shaped Hisham Matar
How the Libyan embassy shooting in London would profoundly affect novelist Hisham Matar
15 Jan 2025,40 mins
My robots for children, inspired by my life as a refugee
For teenage Paolo Prijanian an opportunity to get his own computer changed his life
14 Jan 2025,40 mins
Why I set out to record the songs of Ireland’s birds
Sean Ronayne set out to record the song of every one of Ireland’s native birds
13 Jan 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Wrestling with fate; and an Indian prince
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
10 Jan 2025,40 mins
The strange saga of a rock concert in North Korea
The Slovenian band Laibach went to North Korea to perform a historic rock’n’roll show
09 Jan 2025,40 mins
Coming out as India’s first gay prince
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil, heir to a royal dynasty, risked it all to be his true self
08 Jan 2025,40 mins
The former wrestler who wants your brain
Wrestling with Hulk Hogan and The Rock, Chris Nowinski’s dream job ended after an injury
07 Jan 2025,40 mins
My 'miracle baby', born 15 months after I lost my love
When her partner died, Ellidy Pullin chose an unconventional path to motherhood
06 Jan 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: A keyboard of dreams and a wild baby hare
Your bonus edition with stories we love this week
03 Jan 2025,40 mins
Memory Box: The padlock
How a padlock became the emblem of two archaeologists’ supernatural experience
02 Jan 2025,40 mins
Memory Box: The puppet
Learning to animate a long-limbed 'stick man' kick-started an illustrious career on stage
01 Jan 2025,40 mins
Memory Box: The baby hare
The magical comings and goings of a leveret showed Chloe Dalton a new way to live
31 Dec 2024,40 mins
Memory Box: The Ngonnso statue
Sylvie Njobati’s quest to bring home a Cameroonian Queen
30 Dec 2024,40 mins