Outlook

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

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Outlook Mixtape: Metal music, a shock confession, and the ascent of a Mountain Queen
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12 Jul 2024,40 mins
Mountain Queen: How Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest 10 times
Climbing to the world's highest point has changed Lhakpa Sherpa’s life many times over
11 Jul 2024,40 mins
My long-lost sister was a surrogate mother to my twins
When adoptee Mark found his long-lost sister Rachel, it led to a remarkable offer
10 Jul 2024,40 mins
The metal musician paying homage to his Mau Mau heritage
Kenyan musician Lord Spikeheart has dedicated his latest album to his great grandmother
09 Jul 2024,40 mins
A brother's relentless quest for justice
Steve Johnson’s thirty five year search for answers to how his brother died
08 Jul 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Star Trek, ocean giants and racy underwear
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05 Jul 2024,40 mins
Jung Chang and the price of recording China’s history
Jung Chang reflects on Wild Swans and being on the wrong side of China’s authorities
04 Jul 2024,40 mins
Chutzpah, escape, reinvention: Julia Haart's secret lives
How an unqualified ultra-orthodox mum became a fashion mogul
03 Jul 2024,40 mins
Chasing whales with my toddler son
When Doreen Cunningham’s life fell apart, she dropped everything to follow grey whales
02 Jul 2024,40 mins
'It's much easier for them to create a spy than catch a spy'
Anoosheh Ashoori was imprisoned in Iran, having been falsely accused of espionage
01 Jul 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: a death-defying nun, poetry and gospel
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28 Jun 2024,40 mins
‘I was not OK’: The picture that lied
Laura Dockrill’s journey from fairytale romance to postpartum psychosis and recovery
27 Jun 2024,40 mins
The bionic gloves that brought music back to me
João Carlos Martins thought he'd never play piano again, then he was gifted bionic gloves
26 Jun 2024,40 mins
Dead Man Walking: The US nun who took on the death penalty, part two
Sister Helen Prejean has spent 40 years fighting to abolish capital punishment
25 Jun 2024,40 mins
Dead Man Walking: The US nun who took on the death penalty, part 1
Sister Helen Prejean has spent 40 years fighting to abolish capital punishment
24 Jun 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: A sting, a jail cell and embracing failure
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21 Jun 2024,40 mins
Shooting love stories on the streets of Mogadishu
Film director Abshir Rageh wants the world to see another side of Somalia
20 Jun 2024,40 mins
Never ever give up: How Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida
American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad's thirty-year dream to swim from Cuba to Florida
19 Jun 2024,40 mins
Locked up for a crime I didn’t commit – with my child
Prison gave wrongfully-convicted Kenyan banker Teresa Njoroge a new mission in life
18 Jun 2024,40 mins
Photographing genocide broke me, it took a forest to heal me
Sebastião Salgado witnessed years of human suffering, planting trees gave him hope again
17 Jun 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Friend or fraud? Baby magpie and the jackaroo
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14 Jun 2024,40 mins
The reluctant jackaroo who turned bipolar disorder into art
Matt Ottley on working in the Australian bush and art that makes us see life differently
13 Jun 2024,40 mins
The bowl of porridge that changed my life
Elizabeth Nyamayaro was saved from starvation as a child by a UN aid worker in Zimbabwe
12 Jun 2024,40 mins
Frieda and George: A love story
Poet and artist Frieda Hughes found a baby magpie in her garden and adopted him
11 Jun 2024,40 mins
My fraudulent friend: Smoke and mirrors in the art world
Orlando Whitfield reflects on a relationship destroyed by greed
10 Jun 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: My Mama Cass, Little boy lost and found
Mama Cass remembered, a boy’s 25-year search for home and Uncle Eric’s secret
07 Jun 2024,40 mins
Trapped in a 'metal coffin' on the ocean floor
In 1988, 22 sailors were trapped in the submarine Pacocha with limited oxygen
06 Jun 2024,40 mins
Rediscovering my ‘Mama’ – the music legend I never got to know
Mama Cass Elliot died as her solo career was flourishing and her daughter was just seven
05 Jun 2024,40 mins
My son found his birth mother using Google Earth
The story of Sue Brierley’s adopted son Saroo became the Oscar-nominated film Lion
04 Jun 2024,40 mins
The secret genius of Uncle Eric
Fulfilling Eric Tucker’s dying wish – to show the world his brilliant, secret paintings
03 Jun 2024,40 mins