Outlook

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

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Outlook Mixtape: Earth, Wind and Fire
An elemental exploration down into caves, up in a hot air balloon, and a fiery spirit
07 Nov 2025,40 mins
Folklore, music and me: my chart-topping lullabies
Hafdís Huld's lullabies captivated Iceland and made music history
06 Nov 2025,40 mins
The oil industry took my dad, but also helped me grieve
Shane Gorman lost his father in the Piper Alpha disaster, when an oil rig exploded
05 Nov 2025,40 mins
Dirty Dancing: The real-life 'Baby' Hollywood pushed aside
Eleanor 'Baby' Bergstein's film was inspired by her teen years, but studios rejected it
04 Nov 2025,40 mins
The near-death experience that created a clown
Gaby Muñoz had no idea that a surgery gone wrong would lead her to her life's passion
03 Nov 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The Halloween edition
From the ghosts of Laos to a freaky musical and real-life creatures of the night
31 Oct 2025,40 mins
Trapped underground: My 54-hour cave rescue
When George Linnane fell in a cave, it was the start of the UK's longest rescue
30 Oct 2025,40 mins
Solving the ‘heist of the century’
When diamonds worth $100m were stolen, Patrick Peys faced the biggest case of his career
29 Oct 2025,40 mins
Tim Berners-Lee: The man who dreamed of a World Wide Web
The web's inventor on the unique life that inspired a tech revolution
28 Oct 2025,40 mins
The lost boy who made a home on my sofa
Youth worker, Nicolas Lunabba had one rule: don’t get attached — then Elijah moved in
27 Oct 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Sugar Rush
Four irresistibly sweet stories of connection all featuring scandalous amounts of sugar
24 Oct 2025,40 mins
Fatima Whitbread: From abandoned baby to world champion
How javelin great Fatima Whitbread found a mother and a coach in one person
23 Oct 2025,40 mins
Punjabi disco: The mother and son behind a lost cult album
Kuljit and Mohinder Bhamra made a record in the 1980s that kick-started a musical genre
22 Oct 2025,40 mins
Stabbed as a boy and becoming a poet for a lost generation
'The Gen Z poet' Dan Whitlam survived a violent attack aged 16, he now writes about love
21 Oct 2025,40 mins
The baby-dinosaur hunter who ended up in Hollywood
Jack Horner inspired a character in Jurassic Park after the dino discovery of a lifetime
20 Oct 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Why did the chicken...
…Cross the ocean, inspire a Disney princess, and become a secret recipe for success?
17 Oct 2025,40 mins
The Iraqi orphan now making music with the stars
How Emmanuel Kelly’s childhood dream of performing with Coldplay came true
16 Oct 2025,40 mins
Why The Rocky Horror Show means so much to so many
Linus O’Brien on the legacy of the transgressive musical his father created
15 Oct 2025,40 mins
Enter the new dragon: The Bruce Lee of Afghanistan
Abbas Alizada copied his hero's kung fu moves - and look - and became an overnight star
14 Oct 2025,40 mins
The escape from Vietnam that tore my family apart
Doan made it onto one of the last helicopters from Saigon but her sister was left behind
13 Oct 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The one with Three Bears
The grizzly that slept in my bed, the beer-loving soldier bear, and other stories
10 Oct 2025,40 mins
Kurt Cobain loved our record so much he wore it out
Feminist punk band The Raincoats thought they were done, then along came a grunge icon
09 Oct 2025,40 mins
The Ugandan kids dancing their way to global fame
Ghetto Kids are going viral - how Kavuma Dauda turned street children into dancing stars
08 Oct 2025,40 mins
The social worker who has rescued over 200 trafficked women
Nirmala Walter raids Delhi’s red light district to rescue trafficked women and girls
07 Oct 2025,40 mins
Cesar Millan: The ‘dog boy’ who became the Dog Whisperer
Cesar Millan migrated illegally to the US and slept rough before becoming a TV sensation
06 Oct 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Saved by the bell
The teachers who went the extra mile and the students whose lives they transformed
03 Oct 2025,40 mins
The teen who captured era-defining portraits of reggae and punk
As a boy, Dennis Morris took some of Bob Marley and The Sex Pistols' most iconic shots
02 Oct 2025,40 mins
Murder in Moscow: What happened to my film star grandmother?
Chris Pouy investigates the murder of his babushka, famed Russian actress Zoya Fydorova
01 Oct 2025,40 mins
Life as a tennis pro: it's lonely at the bottom of the top
Conor Niland lifts the curtain on the surprising life of a professional tennis player
30 Sep 2025,40 mins
Sweet surprise: I found my birth mother in my local bakery
Vamarr and Lenore had a close bond for years without realising they were related
29 Sep 2025,40 mins