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The Outlook Podcast Archive Episodes

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    The bowl of porridge that changed my life

    Elizabeth Nyamayaro was saved from starvation as a child by a UN aid worker in Zimbabwe

  2. The boldest human experiment of the last century?

    Why eight people were sealed inside a glass dome in the Arizona desert in the 1990s

  3. The blind skateboarder going for gold

    When skateboarder Justin Bishop went blind, he worried he鈥檇 lost the sport he loved

  4. The Blind Boys of Alabama: a life in music

    From gospel to the Grammys 鈥� the life and times of America鈥檚 octogenarian boyband

  5. The black woman who cared for a Klansman

    The temping job that took a young African-American woman into the home of a KKK member

  6. The black reverend who bought a Ku Klux Klan shop

    How Reverend David Kennedy fought to shut down a shop selling racist paraphernalia

  7. The Black Cop who Infiltrated the KKK

    How an African American police officer ended up as a card-carrying member of the KKK

  8. The black child raised by white supremacists

    How Shane McCrae took to poetry to make sense of his difficult and abusive upbringing

  9. The black ballerina who didn't give up

    Julie Felix says she was told she was the wrong colour to be a swan

  10. The birthday gift that survived the Holocaust

    In 1942 Sylvia Cohn wrote her daughter a book of poems. They're her "greatest treasure"

  11. The bionic gloves that brought music back to me

    Joao Carlos Martins thought he'd never play piano again, then he was gifted bionic gloves

  12. The Biker Doctor Erasing Tattoos

    Dr David Ores removes tattoos for former gangsters, ex-cons and human trafficking victims

  13. The Best Friends Who Became a Family

    Best friends Natasha Bakht and Lynda Collins became first co-parents of their kind.

  14. The Beninese singer hustling for success in New York

    Shirazee endured homelessness and a threat of deportation as he pursued his music dreams

  15. The Bed that Saved Me from the Taliban

    Greek pilot Vasileios Vasileiou hid in a bed frame to survive a Taliban attack

  16. The barefoot tennis player who turned pro

    Sam Jalloh鈥檚 war-torn journey to becoming a top tennis player in Sierra Leone

  17. The barber saving lives one haircut at a time

    British hairdresser Tom Chapman gets men to share their problems in his barber's chair.

  18. The band behind Bosnia's protest songs

    Dubioza Kolektiv, the band mixing elements of rock, reggae and traditional Balkan music.

  19. The backflip that shocked the Olympics

    Surya Bonaly performed an 鈥榠llegal鈥� move that cemented her name in figure skating history

  20. The Baby I Found Buried Alive

    Azita Milanian discovered a newborn buried alive, 20 years later they were reunited

  21. The avid hunter turned pioneering conservationist

    An encounter with a Bobwhite Quail made Lebanese hunter Assad Serhal rethink his life.

  22. The Australian who woke up speaking Mandarin

    Ben McMahon suffered a brain injury which impacted his use of language

  23. The astronaut who made a quilt in Space

    Astronaut Dr Karen Nyberg launched a sewing project from the International Space Station

  24. The artist who started out drawing war as a child refugee

    Petrit Halilaj was just 13 years old when his drawings were beamed all over the world

  25. The Artist Dressing Like His Ancestors

    Peruvian artist Christian Fuchs recreates portraits of his ancestors by dressing up

  26. The Arctic Explorer who Hates the Cold

    Jamaican-born Dwayne Fields walked to the North Pole after surviving a gun attack

  27. The architect who lost his sight but gained a vision

    Chris Downey went blind almost overnight, one month later he was back being an architect

  28. The amateur sleuth and the lost babies

    Historian Catherine Corless uncovered a national scandal in Ireland

  29. The Al-Qaeda Bomb Maker Turned MI6 Spy

    Former extremist Aimen Dean explains why he joined the UK's Secret Intelligence Service

  30. The African girl raised by Kim Il-sung

    Monica Macias had two dads: Equatorial Guinea's brutal leader and the North Korean despot

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