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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
Ending ecocide; the reluctant carer; meeting a 'spy whale'
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
13 Sep 2024,40 mins
How two friends tried to make ecocide an international crime
When Jojo Mehta met Polly Higgins, they decided to try and change the world
11 Sep 2024,40 mins
Looking for my son for 58 years
Bestselling writer Lesley Pearse searched for her son for 58 years
10 Sep 2024,40 mins
What my uncle’s death taught me about life
A reluctant carer celebrates the life and death of his charismatic Uncle David
09 Sep 2024,40 mins
A ride to space, a marathon swim and piano for elephants
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
06 Sep 2024,40 mins
The Norwegian fisherman and the 'Russian spy whale'
The story of ‘Hvaldimir’ the beluga, found dead this week, and his bond with Joar Hesten
05 Sep 2024,40 mins
The US’s first black astronaut trainee reaches space at 90
In May 2024 Ed Dwight became the oldest person to travel to the edge of space
04 Sep 2024,40 mins
'That's the stupid girl' The scoop that almost destroyed me
In 1998 Finnish journalist Johanna Aatsalo published a story that made her a hate figure
03 Sep 2024,40 mins
The pianist who plays classical music for retired elephants
How a 50th birthday wish led Paul Barton to play classical music for retired elephants
02 Sep 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Big money, land of honey, and tiny pants
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
30 Aug 2024,40 mins
The singer from the Ural Mountains who became an opera star
How the 'singer in the village' became the world's 'go-to Carmen'
29 Aug 2024,40 mins
I became a millionaire but felt empty inside
Gary Stevenson on why he became a campaigner against wealth inequality
28 Aug 2024,40 mins
John Chiti: 'It was a shock - they'd never seen a person with albinism in the limelight'
How Zambian singer John Chiti is changing perspectives on albinism
27 Aug 2024,40 mins
The hungry boy who devoted his life to muscle
Gilbert Alaskadi was sick of being bullied; he wanted to be invincible
26 Aug 2024,40 mins