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'Girls don't play guitars!' The Liverbirds' story
How four teenagers from Liverpool became the UK's first all-female rock'n'roll band
17 Apr 2024,40 mins
We turned our experience of neurodiversity into a manga
When Eri Nanato was diagnosed with autism and ADHD, she and her husband turned to manga
16 Apr 2024,40 mins
The boy with red hair: 26 years searching for my stolen son
Sara Méndez’s desperate hunt for her baby boy, vanished during Uruguay’s military regime
15 Apr 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Big waves, blue birds and a band of mothers
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
12 Apr 2024,40 mins
The yellow house and the doctor who experimented on me
Evy Mages learns the truth about her time in an Austrian ‘child-observation station'
11 Apr 2024,40 mins
The surfer who found the world’s biggest wave
Garrett McNamara made history when he surfed a 78-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal
10 Apr 2024,40 mins
A mother’s quest to uncover why her neighbours kept dying
Sofía Gatica was set on finding out the cause of sickness in her area, no matter the cost
09 Apr 2024,40 mins
Helping the children of incarcerated parents get to college
Yasmine Arrington has set up a scholarship fund for the children of incarcerated parents
08 Apr 2024,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Peace, love and iconic hair
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
05 Apr 2024,40 mins
From suburbia to stardom: I created Ziggy Stardust's hair
The chance encounter that led Suzi Ronson to style David Bowie's iconic look
04 Apr 2024,40 mins
Digital love: Why I 'married' a cartoon popstar
At his lowest ebb Akihiko Kondo found sanctuary with an AI popstar, but faced a backlash
03 Apr 2024,40 mins
Sound dreams: The making of a world-class composer
Errollyn Wallen was told she was nothing special, but her music proved them wrong
02 Apr 2024,40 mins
How to talk to guerillas
Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them
01 Apr 2024,40 mins
Escaping Idi Amin’s war in a stolen plane
Ebrahim Kisoro and his colleagues commandeered a plane to fly to safety
28 Mar 2024,40 mins
How to get over it: A tale of passion, pain and Nobel Prizes
Bruno Lemaitre made the discovery of his life – but someone else got the Nobel Prize
27 Mar 2024,40 mins
A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together
Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted
26 Mar 2024,40 mins
Facing a Grand Slam champion and my own parents in court
When Olivia Jasriel took her childhood abuser to court, her parents testified against her
25 Mar 2024,40 mins
The lawyer, the chemical giant, and the contaminated water
Robert Bilott took on a case for one farmer and began a fight for thousands of people
21 Mar 2024,40 mins
Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
Holly’s life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean
20 Mar 2024,40 mins
Searching for belonging in Wordsworth’s Lake District
After a breakdown Esther Rutter found new hope in the home of an old English poet
19 Mar 2024,40 mins
Discovering my film-making grandfather, Emeric Pressburger
Age 13, Andrew MacDonald discovered his grandfather was an Oscar-winning film-maker
18 Mar 2024,40 mins
The Playboy Bunny civil-rights activist who became Mrs Bond
Gloria Hendry quit civil rights to be a Playboy Bunny — and the first black Mrs Bond
14 Mar 2024,40 mins
Coming last and still getting the biggest cheers
Now aged 40, Felipe Nystrom competes in gruelling races, never expecting to win
13 Mar 2024,40 mins,
Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud, part 2
Fresh-faced graduate Erika Cheung’s whistleblowing put Theranos’ founder in jail
12 Mar 2024,40 mins
Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud, part 1
Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off
11 Mar 2024,40 mins
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2
How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star
07 Mar 2024,40 mins
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1
The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument
06 Mar 2024,40 mins
Murder she solved: Karachi’s pioneering police surgeon
Summaiya Syed on facing misogyny and shaking up forensic investigation across Pakistan
05 Mar 2024,40 mins
Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo
Mistaken for a terrorist, Ahmed Rabbani was detained without trial. Art became his refuge
04 Mar 2024,40 mins,
My Pacific odyssey and the son I left behind
Ruth Shaw spent years sailing boats and on islands, trying to outrun her past
29 Feb 2024,40 mins