Outlook

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

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Outlook Mixtape: Wrestle-mania! A trilogy of takedowns
Three unexpected stories from the wild world of wrestling via India, Bolivia, and the USA
05 Sep 2025,40 mins
My partner’s murder: I’ll never stop demanding the truth
The killers were never caught, Abby Reyes spent years trying to find out what happened
04 Sep 2025,40 mins
Saving Ms Hanks: Caught between Hollywood and heartache
After her parents’ split, Elizabeth, daughter of Tom Hanks, had a childhood of extremes
03 Sep 2025,40 mins
The mums who took their 'toxic town' to court
For 11 years Tracey and Maggie fought for the truth behind their children’s ill health
02 Sep 2025,40 mins
Sole survivor: Eight days in the jungle after my plane crashed
How Annette Herfkens's romantic getaway ended in disaster
01 Sep 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The romance playbook
From meet-cutes to happily ever afters, the essential elements of a classic romance
29 Aug 2025,40 mins
Amazing Love Stories: The truth about Bobby Love
Cheryl was married to Bobby Love for 30 years without realising he was an escaped convict
28 Aug 2025,40 mins
Amazing Love Stories: Rhythm and romance on the dancefloor
Cuban ballet stars finding love in exile and the Guatemalan grandparents ruling the disco
27 Aug 2025,40 mins
Amazing Love Stories: Falling in love on the battlefield
US Army interpreter Nayyef Hrebid met Iraqi soldier Btoo Allami during the Iraq War
26 Aug 2025,40 mins
Amazing Love Stories: Our secret calls in Taliban captivity
Sammi and Safi met and fell in love whilst rescuing people - then Safi was taken prisoner
25 Aug 2025,40 mins
Amazing Love Stories: The forbidden lovers' daring escape
Karl-Heinz and Hedi were kept apart by the Iron Curtain and the East German secret police
22 Aug 2025,40 mins
Amazing Love Stories: I fell in love with my sperm donor
Jessica Share met her boyfriend, Aaron Long, 12 years after she gave birth to his child
21 Aug 2025,40 mins
Amazing Love Stories: The lost diary that kept a love alive
How the 'Polish Shirley Temple' and her sister's secret diary survived the holocaust
20 Aug 2025,40 mins
Amazing Love Stories: Our dream to marry 22 times
Fleur Pierets and Julian Boom wanted to wed in every country that allowed gay marriage
19 Aug 2025,40 mins
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