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Outlook Episodes

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    The exorcism changed him, but not how the preacher intended

    Growing up gay in Jamaica, novelist Marlon James fought against his sexuality

  2. Love under fire: our long-distance relationship in a warzone

    Janay was a journalist in London who began falling for cameraman Habak in war-torn Syria

  3. Outlook Mixtape: For the record

    Three stories about songs that changed the course of people’s lives

  4. ‘I couldn’t watch him die’: how saving a diver changed me

    Mike Prickett was injured saving a diver’s life but now films the world’s biggest waves

  5. My unwelcome birthday surprise became a cult classic

    Sibylle Baier’s son threw her a 60th birthday party that would change her life

  6. ‘The man with a thousand faces’ – the life of Samuel Fosso

    How the celebrated photographer built a career posing as himself and as history’s greats

  7. Playing Hamlet in the face of death

    Dying with AIDS, in 1989 actor Ian Charleson gave the performance of his life

  8. Outlook Mixtape: Heart of Glass

    Personal stories told through the complex and fragile lens of one material: glass

  9. Nigeria's forgotten king of boogie and his 30-year comeback

    Singer Steve Monite disappeared for decades, only to discover he'd become a music icon

  10. The Nigerian film-maker who took on Disney and made history

    Tolu Olowofoyeku wanted better access for Africa’s creators to the animation industry

  11. Why I had to speak up for Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls

    Like them Aisha Yesefu was once poor and voiceless, she took their abduction personally

  12. Funkee drummer: I discovered my Dad was an Afro Rock star

    Didi's dad Chyke Madu is a Nigerian musician who pioneered a new genre of music

  13. Outlook Mixtape: Handcrafted Tales

    People who built what they needed in life with the tools they had around them

  14. I've lost friends to volcanoes, but I still love them

    When his supervisor fell into a lava flow on a visit to Kilauea, Hawaii, Dario saved him

  15. Playing in front of people felt 'like an impenetrable wall'

    An epic motorbike journey helped Steven Sherrill to come to terms with his musicianship

  16. How snow leopards let me into their secret world

    Kullu Suryawanshi has spent 20 years seeking out one of the world’s most elusive big cats

  17. The Jonestown massacre – a sister’s story

    Rebecca Moore didn’t join her sisters’ cult. Years later, she uncovered what happened

  18. Outlook Mixtape: Race against the clock

    Reminders of the unstoppable nature of time on the rhythm of life

  19. The love that moved mountains

    Puerto Ricans Alexis and Tinti were partners in love and environmental activism

  20. 'For us land is everything, it is life'

    How Theonila Matbob took on a mining giant that contaminated her land on Bougainville

  21. From prison to the kitchen: How cooking gave me a second chance

    Natty was a talented young chef who had to choose between crime or the kitchen

  22. Miss Pat: The Chinese-Jamaican matriarch of reggae

    Patricia Chin created a musical empire that started in a Kingston grocery store

  23. The Outlook Mixtape: The trumpet takes the lead

    Three people united by a foundational member of the jazz family: the trumpet

  24. I was ashamed of my stammer, until I met Scatman John

    Gina Waggott’s favourite popstar told her to love herself, and her voice

  25. The Sierra Leonean girl who performs Chinese opera

    Maria Kargbo’s love of Chinese TV led her from the streets of Freetown to a Beijing stage

  26. Remembering a giant of Uruguayan music

    Rubén Rada took Afro-Uruguayan music to the world. He passed away in August aged 83

  27. 'I didn't even like to say my own name'

    How Rob Kenney turned from a shy teenager, abandoned by his parents, to a top Youtuber

  28. Outlook Mixtape: Strangers on a train, part 2

    More tales of love, adventure and new life on the world's railways

  29. Parkrun: The lonely child behind a global movement

    After years of isolation, running gave Paul Sinton-Hewitt a sense of belonging

  30. Missing in action, my 51-year search for my father

    Karoni Forrester was two years old when her dad Ron’s plane was lost in the Vietnam war

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