The Outlook Podcast Archive Episodes Episode guide
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The Afghan physio who survived a landmine
Shukrullah Zeerak wanted to help others after he lost his leg in a landmine explosion
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The adventurer’s son who went missing in the jungle
When adventurer Roman Dial's son went missing, he set out to find him
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The actress turning her back on Bollywood to follow her dad's dreams
Sonia Mann's father wrote her a letter on her birth, which has guided her life ever since
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The actor who’s been saying the same lines for 32 years
Catherine Russell has played the same part more than 13,000 times – without a sick day
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The actor who preferred to die rather than stop filming
Massimo Troisi delayed heart surgery to make 'Il Postino'. He died before filming ended.
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The acid attack meant for someone else
Andreas Christopheros had acid thrown in his face in a case of mistaken identity
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The accident that taught me how to die
After being electrocuted by 11,000 volts, Dr BJ Miller now devotes his life to the dying
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The 80s song that brought back my memories
A car accident wiped all of Thomas Leeds' memories and he had to start again.
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The 35 Year Game of Tag
How a close knit group of friends go to extreme lengths to keep playing Tag forever
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The 25 day sit-in that changed history
Judy Heumann on the longest ever occupation of a federal building in US history
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The "five careers" of Bettye Lavette
Bettye Lavette was a teenage singing star. Five decades on, she's a star once more.
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The ‘Lion Mama’ who fought off three rapists
Nokubonga Qampi stepped in when her daughter was attacked
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The 'Supervet': from bullies to bionic limbs
Noel Fitzpatrick is an Irish vet who makes ground-breaking bionic limbs for injured pets
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The 'deepest man on earth'
Herbert Nitsch broke the record for deepest free dive but fell asleep on the way back up
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The 'deepest man on earth'
Herbert Nitsch broke the record for deepest free dive but fell asleep on the way back up
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The 'bride and groom of the Syrian revolution’
Noura and Bassel's secret prison wedding and their struggle for freedom in Syria
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Thawing Frozen Climbers on Everest
Ken Kamler is a doctor who was climbing Mount Everest when it was hit by disaster in 1996
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That time I DJed from space
The astronaut who headlined a rave while he was in orbit and other extraordinary gigs
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Thai cave doctor: 'I feared I'd killed them'
Richard Harris anaesthetised the trapped boys believing they had no chance of survival
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Texting my dead father
James Vlahos created a chatbot to keep his father's memory alive.
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Testifying Against my Parents for Love
The young Indian lovers whose relationship was condemned and ended in tragedy
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Tessa Thompson: Defying Hollywood typecasting
US film star and Inspirations 2018 judge on overcoming racism as Marvel's Valkyrie
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Tennis Star to Black Panther Writer
Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor on writing Black Panther
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Telling My Dad's Khmer Rouge Story
French-Cambodian filmmaker Neary Adeline Hay on uncovering her dad's past
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Telling jokes about my refugee past
Comedian Hung Le fled Vietnam as a child and grew up in Australia
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Teenager's Race To Save WW2 Stories
19-year-old Rishi Sharma is on a mission to collect stories of WW2 American veterans.
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Teaching Maths to My Former Enemies
Carlos Cano, the Colombian paramilitary teaching survivors of the conflict.
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Tasting the desert with Chile's leading forager
Patricia Pérez sells the rare herbs she finds in the Atacama desert to Chile's top chefs
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Tasmina, the First Horsewoman of Bangladesh
Horse racing is a man's sport in Bangladesh but Tasmina Hossain is trying to change that
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Tarantulas, Gandalf and my dying brother's bucket list
Royd Tolkien’s brother Mike left him a daring list of tasks to complete after he died