Outlook

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

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Outlook Mixtape: Secret worlds and second lives
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
25 Oct 2024,40 mins
A trunk, forgotten films and my mother’s pioneering legacy
Nina Collins on her celebrated film maker mother Kathleen
24 Oct 2024,40 mins
Why I built a media empire in Afghanistan
Saad Mohseni saw news from Afghanistan being ignored – and wanted to change things
23 Oct 2024,40 mins
After doomsday: I outgrew a cult and became a professor
When the world fails to end Jerald Walker is left searching for something to believe in
22 Oct 2024,40 mins
The cricket star who learned to fly
Ricky Ellcock’s rollercoaster life as a fast bowler and airline pilot
21 Oct 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: It’s never too late to be a battle rapper – or a TikTok star
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
18 Oct 2024,40 mins
Joy 2.0: From retired teacher to battle rapper
When Joy France hit 50, she decided to try new things - and became a rapper
17 Oct 2024,40 mins
The fraud: Holding the powerful to account, with accounting
A passion for bookkeeping led Jim Mitzelfeld to break the biggest story of his career
16 Oct 2024,40 mins
The bullet that ended our friendship
Paul Rousseau was accidentally shot in the head by his best friend and flatmate
15 Oct 2024,40 mins
The Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok star
Remembering the courage and determination of Lily Ebert
14 Oct 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: On stage and pitch – theatres of change
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
11 Oct 2024,40 mins
'Drop your guns and go to school'
How the horrors of war inspired a musician’s calls for peace
10 Oct 2024,40 mins
Sing Sing prison theatre group: How acting gave us a future
A band of inmates in a maximum security prison find freedom and healing in performance
09 Oct 2024,40 mins
Books set me free but being a writer in Sudan put me in jail
Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin is the first ever novelist to have his books banned in Sudan
08 Oct 2024,40 mins
When my football league fell apart, so did I
Soccer player Lisa Wrightsman got sober and found her way back to the beautiful game
07 Oct 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: AI conversations and a ‘Sandpit Monster’
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
04 Oct 2024,40 mins
Finding joy in Persian food after fleeing my homeland
Cooking Iranian dishes helped rebuild Atoosa Sepehr after she left an unhappy marriage
03 Oct 2024,40 mins
My grandfather was the biggest mass murderer in history
Kai Hoss discovered his grandfather had been the head of the Auschwitz concentration camp
02 Oct 2024,40 mins
How my 'Sandpit monster' became an urban myth
After a scare in a swamp, Ron Gollobin told people he’d bumped into a monstrous creature
01 Oct 2024,40 mins
Love, grief, and an AI chatbot
Joshua created an AI simulation of his deceased fiancée to help him deal with his loss
30 Sep 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Busting HIV stigma and a power parrot
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
27 Sep 2024,40 mins
Parrot power: The woman who revealed birds are not bird-brained
Irene Pepperberg and her parrot Alex transformed our understanding of bird intelligence
26 Sep 2024,40 mins
On the ropes: The battle for Kellie Maloney
Kellie Maloney managed boxing champion Lennox Lewis. But their success masked a secret
25 Sep 2024,40 mins
One mother's lasting love, faith and fight for change
Mina Smallman campaigns to end violence against women after the murder of her daughters
24 Sep 2024,40 mins,
Africa’s first priest to declare HIV-positive status
Rev. Canon Gideon Byamugisha is Africa's first priest to publicly reveal his HIV status
23 Sep 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: we want your stories!
We love these stories, sent in by listeners. And we're always on the lookout for more...
20 Sep 2024,40 mins
The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 2
Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor
19 Sep 2024,40 mins
The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 1
Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor
18 Sep 2024,40 mins
‘Fear cannot be your editor’ Lessons of a defiant journalist
From violent revolutionaries to corrupt politicians, Gustavo Gorriti tackled them all
17 Sep 2024,40 mins
Overcoming nerves and politics to sing on the top stages
South African soprano Golda Schultz had an unlikely start to her career
16 Sep 2024,40 mins