Outlook

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

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Amazing Love Stories: A second chance at first love
Kevin & Debi were high school sweethearts until life, war and a pregnancy tore them apart
18 Aug 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Indiana Jones, soccer grannies, and the £1 music deal
Stories of people with tools for transformation, making a mark on the world around them
15 Aug 2025,40 mins
Rwanda's tennis number 1: 'playing is my medicine'
Joseline Umulisa lost almost all her family in the genocide - tennis helped her heal
14 Aug 2025,40 mins
The last resort: Family chaos made me a best-selling author
Linwood Barclay turned childhood dysfunction into best-selling books
13 Aug 2025,40 mins
I thought I was a movie star but it was a delusion
After acting out a robbery during a manic episode, Scout Tzofia Bolton ended up in prison
12 Aug 2025,40 mins
The ragtag boy who was taken in by a football icon
The incredible story of how Brian Clough’s kindness changed a young kid’s life forever
11 Aug 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The Key Ingredients
What do Indian pickles, Serbian cheese, American apples, and English veg have in common?
08 Aug 2025,40 mins
My photo on a magazine cover got me out of jail
Vietnamese movie star Kieu Chinh fled war and hit rock bottom - then Hollywood found her
07 Aug 2025,40 mins
The day I woke up with new, beautiful hands
Luka Krizanac immediately felt that the hands given to him by a stranger were his own
06 Aug 2025,40 mins
Becoming Black – how a Ska ‘princess’ found her calling
Adopted as a baby, music icon Pauline Black spent decades questioning her true identity
05 Aug 2025,40 mins
How a Greek grandmother’s cooking helped us heal
When brothers Luke and Daniel moved in next to ‘yiayia’, her kindness changed their lives
04 Aug 2025,40 mins
Brazil's loneliest fan and his footballing fairytale
Tiago Rech alone in the away stands became a viral image - how far would his loyalty go?
01 Aug 2025,40 mins
India's 'Pickle Queen' and her jars of joy
After her cookbook was rediscovered, Usha Prabhakaran was crowned India's 'Pickle Queen'
31 Jul 2025,40 mins
A family's secret library and the Dirty War
The Gerchunoffs hid hundreds of blacklisted books during Argentina's military regime
30 Jul 2025,40 mins
Dancing in the glow of the bomb: life on a nuclear test site
Explosions and glowing mushroom clouds lit up the night sky on our island home
29 Jul 2025,40 mins
My way out of the woods
A corporate high-flyer lived in a forest after a spiral of debt, shame and secrecy
28 Jul 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Women who dared
A rebel writer, a secret rapper, and the woman who invented the home pregnancy test
25 Jul 2025,40 mins
'Only God can judge': Changing Namibia's homosexuality laws
Friedel Dausab won his mother's acceptance - and a legal challenge for LGBTQ+ rights
24 Jul 2025,40 mins
The political poster child who became a million dollar model
Paulina Porizkova's face was used to show the hardships of Communist Czechoslovakia
23 Jul 2025,40 mins
My £1 deal that rocked London's music scene
Simon Parkes bought a disused building for £1, turning it into the iconic Brixton Academy
22 Jul 2025,40 mins
Morgan's Warriors: The matriarch on a mission to protect
Melissa Robinson lost her cousin to a killer targeting indigenous women, and fought back
21 Jul 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Whales of wonder
The mystery, the joy – and the shock. Five stories about human encounters with whales
18 Jul 2025,40 mins
Lost in the Amazon: What happened to my friend?
When a journalist goes missing, his friend must get news out to his family and the world
17 Jul 2025,40 mins
Was my friend the first gay man in Britain to come out?
Searching for the lost letter that revealed my friend was a gay rights pioneer
16 Jul 2025,40 mins
I was jailed, my wife became leader - I like her even more
After five years in a Belarus prison, Sergei Tikhanovsky found his world had changed
15 Jul 2025,40 mins
My year of solitude in Patagonia
How Bob Kull spent an entire year living alone on a remote island in southern Chile
14 Jul 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The snapshot edition
Four photos and the stories captured on both sides of the lens
11 Jul 2025,40 mins
Shipwrecked by a whale: A tale of love and loss at sea
A poignant voyage to scatter ashes takes a perilous turn when the boat starts to sink
10 Jul 2025,40 mins
Rebel writer: the Indian author who questioned everything
Banu Mushtaq made history when she won this year's International Booker prize
09 Jul 2025,40 mins
The Aboriginal professor who was expelled from school at 13
Jack Beetson was denied schooling as a boy but went on to become a leader in education
08 Jul 2025,40 mins