Outlook Podcast
Extraordinary first person stories from around the world
Episodes to download
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I Stopped Sewing and Started Striking
Yesterday
Kalpona Akter is a former textile worker who is taking on global clothing giants.
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Outlook Weekend: The Bomb Disposal Men
Saturday
An expert and a volunteer risking their lives to defuse bombs.
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Looking for Mum in a City of Millions
Last Thursday
The boy searching for the family he lost in a Manila Market aged just four.
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Dodging Bullets To Deliver A Baby
Last Wednesday
The female doctor running the last hospital in Afghan city Kunduz.
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Mothering the Fans of my Murdered Son
Last Tuesday
Alison Cope's son was the grime artist Depzman. His grieving fans needed her support.
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Starting a Rock Band in a Mexican Jail
Mon 21 Aug 2017
Antonio Ruiz Gomez was in prison when he formed a band with fellow inmates.
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Outlook Weekend: Long Ride to Freedom
Sat 19 Aug 2017
Five personal accounts from the Freedom Riders of 1961.
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The Dyslexic Baby Dinosaur Discoverer
Thu 17 Aug 2017
Palaeontologist Jack Horner's expertise means he's consulted on all Jurassic Park films
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Rohan Marley: Bob's Rebel Son
Wed 16 Aug 2017
Bob Marley's son Rohan on his famous dad, playing American football, and Rastafarianism.
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The Serial Killer I Couldn't Catch
Tue 15 Aug 2017
The detective on the hunt for Canada's most prolific murderer.
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Fighting Farc with Morse Code Song
Mon 14 Aug 2017
Juan Carlos Ortiz hid Morse Code messages in a song to communicate with hostages.
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I Took on the London Bridge Attackers
Thu 10 Aug 2017
Geoff Ho was stabbed in the neck as he protected friends during the London Bridge attacks
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The Mum Saving Musicians from Suicide
Wed 9 Aug 2017
After Linda Phillips' guitarist son took his own life, she wanted to help other musicians
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I Found Hitler's Horses
Tue 8 Aug 2017
The Dutch art investigator on a mission to recover stolen works of art.
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Lightning Bolt Made Me a Music Maestro
Mon 7 Aug 2017
Tony Cicoria developed a passion for classical music after he was struck by lightning.
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Outlook Weekend: How Was Your Holiday?
Mon 7 Aug 2017
Holidays don't always turn out the way you expect.
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Kenyan Runner's Marathon Escape
Thu 3 Aug 2017
Moninda Marube escaped tribal violence and human trafficking to keep on running
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A human chain saved my drowning family
Wed 2 Aug 2017
When swimmers became caught in a rip tide, 80 people formed a human chain to rescue them.
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Texting my dead father
Tue 1 Aug 2017
James Vlahos created a chatbot to keep his father's memory alive.
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Surviving a skydiving crash landing
Mon 31 Jul 2017
Emma Carey plummeted to the earth after her skydiving instructor became unconscious
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Outlook Weekend: Curses
Sat 29 Jul 2017
The Biblical kind, the monthly kind, and the swearing kind...
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Burmese Refugees Who Saved a US Church
Thu 27 Jul 2017
Reverend Michael Spurlock and refugee Ye Win explain how they rescued a failing church.
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Pakistani Lawyer 'Trolling the Trolls'
Tue 25 Jul 2017
Nighat Dad fights online abuse and set up the region's first cyber harassment helpline.
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From Poverty to the Premier League
Mon 24 Jul 2017
Footballer Moses Odubajo and his brothers brought themselves up after their mother died.
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The Record-Breaking Mountaineering Marriage
Thu 20 Jul 2017
Married couple Nives Meroi and Romano Benet from Italy are record-breaking mountaineers
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Air crash survivor turns TV singer
Wed 19 Jul 2017
Kechi Okwuchi was one of only two survivors of a Nigerian plane crash that killed 107.
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The shopkeeper defusing IS booby traps
Tue 18 Jul 2017
The Syrian man who defuses bombs planted by so-called Islamic State.
