Outlook

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

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The besties who helped expose a truly wild sporting scandal
Jimmy O'Brien and Jake Storiale helped expose a batty sporting scandal to the masses
07 Jul 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Gangsters, The Boss, and a dad on the run
Three people whose lives entwine with the cult TV classic, The Sopranos
04 Jul 2025,40 mins
I woke to a tsunami – and my family home swept out to sea
Pedro Niada built his home by hand, and unknowingly engineered his family’s salvation
03 Jul 2025,40 mins
Marcel Marceau: The mime genius and the hidden manuscript
On Marcel's deathbed, he gave his daughters a manuscript that held secrets of his silence
02 Jul 2025,40 mins
We found our baby on the subway
The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station
01 Jul 2025,40 mins
Dressing Indiana Jones: The woman behind the fedora
How Deborah Nadoolman Landis turned homespun costumes into Hollywood gold
30 Jun 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Stitches, seams and movie scenes
Four extraordinary stories on the power of a good outfit
27 Jun 2025,40 mins
A web of spies: Untangling my parents' secret past
Alistair Wood was raised on secrets and surrounded by spies — including his own parents
26 Jun 2025,40 mins
How a falling man changed my life forever
How a spinal injury made Grace Spence Green a better doctor
25 Jun 2025,40 mins
Matchmaking North Korean women with South Korean men
Yujin Han fled North Korea, now she pairs South Korean men with other female defectors
24 Jun 2025,40 mins
Laughter saved me: The comedian turning tragedy into comedy
Krystal Evans survived a house fire at 14. To make sense of it, she turned to stand-up
23 Jun 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Rewind! Family histories discovered on tape
Three children unspool the mysteries of their parents’ hidden past
20 Jun 2025,40 mins
The birthmark that revealed a long-lost sister
Adoptee Kana Verheul found herself showing her birthmark to a stranger in a café toilet
19 Jun 2025,40 mins
Meeting the monster: My 14 days with Joseph Kony
Judith Obina helped bring peace to Uganda with a secret weapon: Joseph Kony's mother
18 Jun 2025,40 mins
Sex, love, Rock 'n' Roll... and The Sopranos
Robin Green went from being a 'clueless girl' to the only woman in the writers' room
17 Jun 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: Journeys in nature, to exile and Juneteenth
The Grandmother of Juneteenth, the reluctant politician, the city girl in nature
13 Jun 2025,40 mins
Remembering my dad Sly Stone, funk's reclusive genius
Phunne Stone remembers her dad Sly, creator of Sly and the Family Stone
12 Jun 2025,40 mins
Three men in a boat: Lost in the pacific
How Robert Diez d'Aux's desire for adventure at sea nearly cost him his life
11 Jun 2025,40 mins
I promised to rescue 41 men trapped in a tunnel
Inside the Himalayas, a group of workers needed rescue. Was Arnold Dix able to do it?
10 Jun 2025,40 mins
The horse injury that kicked off a musical adventure
How a childhood accident spurred Natalia Lafourcade’s record-breaking singing career
09 Jun 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The Indian Superman and an Afghan Iron Woman
An ode to unexpected action heroes, plus the invincible artist Marina Abramovic
06 Jun 2025,40 mins
The man who woke up in the future
When Dr Pier Piccioni woke up after a car accident, 12 years of his life had been erased
05 Jun 2025,40 mins
I was a stay-at-home mum until I stood for president
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya likely won the 2020 Belarusian presidential election
04 Jun 2025,40 mins
The mortician, the 'werewolf' and the keeper of brains
Alexandra Morton-Hayward unlocks the secrets of the human brain but her own betrays her
03 Jun 2025,40 mins
The secret story of my grandfather: President for 19 days
Rich Benjamin, grandson of ex-Haitian president, Daniel Fignolé, knew little of his roots
02 Jun 2025,40 mins
Outlook Mixtape: The artist, the detective, and the music boss
Portraits of the stars; India's famed female detective; the man who signed Amy Winehouse
30 May 2025,40 mins
The legacy of legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado witnessed years of human suffering, planting trees gave him hope again
29 May 2025,40 mins
Kidnapped at four: How I found my way home
A promise to return to his mother helped Antonio Salazar-Hobson through his darkest hours
28 May 2025,40 mins
The story of a Queen, the Mau Mau and a life-saving uniform
Wilson Maina inherited an unassuming khaki uniform that held a piece of Kenyan history
27 May 2025,40 mins
José Mujica: Guerilla, president and occasional romantic
The surprising life story of the ex-President of Uruguay who died this month
26 May 2025,40 mins