When Dr Pier Piccioni woke up after a car accident, 12 years of his life had been erased
Published on Sunday, 8th June 2025.
Alexandra Morton-Hayward unlocks the secrets of the human brain but her own betrays her
Published on Sunday, 1st June 2025.
The surprising life story of the ex-President of Uruguay who died this month
Published on Sunday, 25th May 2025.
Marcelo Rubens Paiva was 11 when armed men took his father away
Published on Sunday, 18th May 2025.
Lothar Hermann found out his neighbour was ‘architect of the Holocaust’ Adolf Eichmann
Published on Sunday, 11th May 2025.
After losing loved ones to violent crime, Kwesia X found peace in nature
Published on Sunday, 4th May 2025.
Separated from his mum as a boy, Juano Diaz drew her face over and over again
Published on Sunday, 27th April 2025.
Wrestling with Hulk Hogan and The Rock, Chris Nowinski’s dream job ended after an injury
Published on Monday, 21st April 2025.
Melanie Barratt, first blind woman to swim the Channel; she did it with her mum’s ashes
Published on Sunday, 13th April 2025.
When Alex lost his memories his identical twin helped him restore them, or some of them
Published on Sunday, 6th April 2025.
A bonus episode of Dear Daughter - stories of family and parenting from around the world
Published on Wednesday, 2nd April 2025.
How a book-loving prisoner showed a young Alex Wheatle the path to self-belief
Published on Sunday, 30th March 2025.
Michael Visontay’s unexpected link to the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s most coveted book
Published on Monday, 24th March 2025.
ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.
Published on Monday, 17th March 2025.
Another chance to hear one of our favourite episodes, a story of spycraft in South Africa
Published on Monday, 10th March 2025.
Edith Blais was kidnapped by armed militants and held captive in the Sahara for 450 days
Published on Monday, 3rd March 2025.
As a boy, Ishmael Beah was forced to kill. How do you turn a soldier back into a child?
Published on Monday, 24th February 2025.
In a desolate concentration camp, Odette Hallowes discovers a tiny symbol of hope
Published on Monday, 17th February 2025.
Reggie Nelson knocked on the poshest doors in London and asked a million-dollar question
Published on Monday, 10th February 2025.
Cathy Terkanian turned sleuth when told the baby she’d had to give up, had disappeared
Published on Monday, 3rd February 2025.
When her partner died, Ellidy Pullin chose an unconventional path to motherhood
Published on Monday, 27th January 2025.
A mysterious fire, a missing baby, and a secret that would rip two families apart
Published on Monday, 20th January 2025.
Ryan Calais Cameron’s stories and characters shattered convention in UK theatre
Published on Monday, 13th January 2025.
It started as a magical day for two friends but then a rock came loose
Published on Monday, 6th January 2025.
Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety
Published on Monday, 30th December 2024.
Ricky Ellcock’s rollercoaster life as a fast bowler and airline pilot
Published on Monday, 23rd December 2024.
Paul Rousseau was accidentally shot in the head by his best friend and flatmate
Published on Monday, 16th December 2024.
When the world fails to end Jerald Walker is left searching for something to believe in
Published on Monday, 9th December 2024.
Nasubi had no idea his 15-month fight to survive was being broadcast on Japanese TV
Published on Monday, 2nd December 2024.
Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia’s biggest crime stories
Published on Monday, 25th November 2024.
In 1998 Finnish journalist Johanna Aatsalo published a story that made her a hate figure
Published on Monday, 18th November 2024.
When he slid off a 40-metre cliff in the jungle, Morgan Segui thought he was sure to die
Published on Monday, 11th November 2024.
Bestselling writer Lesley Pearse never stopped looking for her son
Published on Monday, 4th November 2024.
Bestselling writer Lesley Pearse's own story is wilder than any romance
Published on Monday, 28th October 2024.
The director's obsessive quest to make this iconic horror film would devastate his family
Published on Sunday, 20th October 2024.
Kieran Quinlan was on his way to a party when a man with a knife attacked him
Published on Sunday, 13th October 2024.
In May 2024 Ed Dwight became the oldest person to travel to the edge of space
Published on Sunday, 6th October 2024.
Joshua created an AI simulation of his deceased fiancée to help him deal with his loss
Published on Sunday, 29th September 2024.
Nemonte Nenquimo is an indigenous leader who fought back against the oil giants
Published on Sunday, 22nd September 2024.
Maxwell Smart survived the Holocaust by living in a makeshift bunker on the forest floor
Published on Sunday, 15th September 2024.
Published on Sunday, 8th September 2024.
American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad's thirty-year dream to swim from Cuba to Florida
Published on Sunday, 1st September 2024.
Gilbert Alaskadi was sick of being bullied; he wanted to be invincible.
Published on Sunday, 25th August 2024.
Osel Hita Torres was a baby when he was recognised as a reincarnated spiritual leader
Published on Sunday, 18th August 2024.
Salva Dut returns to Sudan to find his dad and decides to get clean water to his village
Published on Saturday, 10th August 2024.
As a survivor of Sudan's civil war, Salva Dut's will to keep going has taken him far
Published on Sunday, 4th August 2024.
When he was four, Jason Evans’ dad died after contracting HIV from contaminated blood
Published on Sunday, 28th July 2024.
Nick Stride said too much about his former boss, one of Putin’s closest allies
Published on Sunday, 21st July 2024.
Anoosheh Ashoori was imprisoned in Iran, having been falsely accused of espionage
Published on Sunday, 14th July 2024.
When Helen Prejean wrote to a death row inmate, she had no idea what was coming
Published on Sunday, 7th July 2024.
How Salima Hashmi and Faiz defied a dictatorship through satire and poetry
Published on Sunday, 30th June 2024.
Salima Hashmi grew up with puppets and poetry, inspiring her own career in performance
Published on Sunday, 23rd June 2024.
Why Alain Gachet quit a lucrative career in oil to search for water underground
Published on Sunday, 16th June 2024.
Beth Rodden escaped her kidnappers, but the moment would haunt her in the years to follow
Published on Sunday, 9th June 2024.
Beth Rodden was on the expedition of her dreams in Kyrgyzstan when she was kidnapped
Published on Sunday, 2nd June 2024.
Setsuko Thurlow knows what nuclear war looks like
Published on Sunday, 26th May 2024.
Two friends stranded in the desert, only a discarded tin held the key to their escape
Published on Monday, 20th May 2024.
Mistaken for a terrorist, Ahmed Rabbani was detained without trial. Art became his refuge
Published on Sunday, 12th May 2024.
On the day his mother disappeared, 11-year-old Collier started looking for evidence
Published on Sunday, 28th April 2024.
How Ustad Noor Bakhsh, a Pakistani shepherd in his 70s, became a folk music star
Published on Sunday, 21st April 2024.
The epic quest to find an elderly Pakistani musician and his unusual stringed instrument
Published on Sunday, 14th April 2024.
Erika Cheung went from a trailer park to a top tech company job, but something was off
Published on Sunday, 7th April 2024.
Maria's grandmother was forcibly taken by Australian officials, but made a daring escape
Published on Sunday, 31st March 2024.
Leyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them
Published on Monday, 25th March 2024.
The Austrian house where a doctor experimented on children
Published on Monday, 18th March 2024.
A handwritten map is all Mamadou Barry had to guide him from Guinea to Egypt
Published on Monday, 11th March 2024.
Holly’s life was shaped by heroin addiction. At rock bottom, she finally got clean
Published on Monday, 4th March 2024.
Ruth Shaw spent years on ships and islands, trying to outrun her past
Published on Monday, 26th February 2024.
The extraordinary coach who started a football team but built something much bigger
Published on Monday, 19th February 2024.
Without realising it, Nick Reynolds had been living his childhood on the run
Published on Monday, 12th February 2024.
After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out
Published on Monday, 5th February 2024.
Lucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted
Published on Monday, 29th January 2024.
A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy
Published on Monday, 22nd January 2024.
Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders
Published on Monday, 15th January 2024.
Tasoula Hadjitofi tricked a notorious art smuggler to recover Cyprus' holiest relics
Published on Monday, 8th January 2024.
Tasoula Hadjitofi uncovered a shady network looting her country's most sacred relics
Published on Monday, 1st January 2024.
Pepe and Lucía: the bonfire of young love, a long separation, and rise to presidency
Published on Monday, 25th December 2023.
Pepe and Lucía: the guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay
Published on Monday, 18th December 2023.
Published on Monday, 11th December 2023.
Eric Ngalle Charles was just a teenager when he was trafficked from Cameroon to Russia
Published on Monday, 4th December 2023.
Sport but not as you know it. A brand new sports storytelling podcast
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2023.
Reality TV producer Johnathan found himself in a plot he couldn't have dreamt up
Published on Monday, 27th November 2023.
Gamal Turawa has lived many lives - but never fitted in
Published on Monday, 20th November 2023.
Published on Monday, 13th November 2023.
Joar Hesten's mission to save a whale rumoured to have escaped from the Russian navy
Published on Monday, 6th November 2023.
Tiago Rech went viral when he was the only supporter in the stands at his club's game
Published on Monday, 30th October 2023.
Fleur Pierets and Julian Boom wanted to wed in every country that allowed gay marriage
Published on Sunday, 22nd October 2023.
The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast
Published on Sunday, 15th October 2023.
Tahir Izgil is a Uyghur poet who lived through a Chinese state clampdown
Published on Sunday, 8th October 2023.
Juliana Lumumba had to fight to reclaim the remains of her father, Patrice Lumumba.
Published on Sunday, 1st October 2023.
Under the boot of the Syrian army, Nicole Moudaber brought raves to Lebanon
Published on Sunday, 24th September 2023.
A mother, a son, and the discovery of a shared dream
Published on Sunday, 17th September 2023.
From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality
Published on Sunday, 10th September 2023.
A bond between brothers, a coming-out story, and an international song contest
Published on Sunday, 3rd September 2023.
Harrison Okene spent three days trapped in an air pocket in a sunken ship
Published on Sunday, 27th August 2023.
In 1982, two Mississippi boys recreated a $22m film, shot-for-shot, on their pocket money
Published on Sunday, 20th August 2023.
How a jump changed daring parachutist Tony Osornio's life forever
Published on Sunday, 13th August 2023.
Tony Osornio would go to dangerous extremes to keep skydiving
Published on Sunday, 6th August 2023.
Self-defence is no offence: how anti-racist activist Tariq Mehmood made UK legal history
Published on Sunday, 30th July 2023.
Immigrant teen Tariq Mehmood led a movement to resist violent racism in 1970s Britain
Published on Sunday, 23rd July 2023.
Stany Nyandwi's rescued chimpanzees helped him through war and loneliness
Published on Sunday, 16th July 2023.
My search for the truth about my father and Martin Luther King’s assassination
Published on Sunday, 9th July 2023.
Marine engineer Chirag Bahri was trapped for eight gruelling months on a chemical tanker
Published on Sunday, 2nd July 2023.
Mariam and Mohammed are Yemeni filmmakers who turned the lens on their own relationship
Published on Sunday, 25th June 2023.
Aaron Stark now works to raise awareness around why mass attacks happen
Published on Sunday, 18th June 2023.
At the age of 13 Laura Dekker fought for her right to sail solo around the world
Published on Sunday, 11th June 2023.
Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein
Published on Sunday, 4th June 2023.
Rowena Chiu on surviving the Hollywood sexual predator Harvey Weinstein
Published on Sunday, 28th May 2023.
Raised by addicts, Dr Katriona O'Sullivan defied the odds to become a university lecturer
Published on Sunday, 21st May 2023.
Martial arts kept him out of jail, but drag artistry made him whole
Published on Sunday, 14th May 2023.
Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction
Published on Sunday, 7th May 2023.
Joseph Mbilinyi pioneered Swahili rap and then turned to politics, but ended up in jail
Published on Sunday, 30th April 2023.
Brothers Manni and Reuben Coe, and the text that prompted a lockdown rescue mission
Published on Sunday, 23rd April 2023.
Tricks from a hit TV show held the key to Jaivet Ealom’s audacious bid for freedom
Published on Sunday, 16th April 2023.
Published on Sunday, 9th April 2023.
Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent
Published on Sunday, 2nd April 2023.
Natasha Lance Rogoff’s daunting task of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia
Published on Sunday, 26th March 2023.
Amjed’s determined to teach kids in Gaza to swim no matter how many pools he has to build
Published on Monday, 20th March 2023.
Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers
Published on Monday, 13th March 2023.
When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away
Published on Monday, 6th March 2023.
Rejected by family and society, Alina Khan carved her own path to big screen fame
Published on Monday, 27th February 2023.
In the ring, Blair finds calm amidst the chaos of his life
Published on Monday, 20th February 2023.
From Beverly Hills to hiding from the law with his dad, Blair’s seen it all
Published on Monday, 13th February 2023.
A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why
Published on Monday, 6th February 2023.
Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop
Published on Monday, 30th January 2023.
From convent to marriage to factory floor, Thivya will stand up for herself, and you
Published on Monday, 23rd January 2023.
Debra started hearing voices aged five. Comforting at first, they soon took control
Published on Monday, 16th January 2023.
Pilot Firoz Khimji witnessed his country's wars from above. Then conflict came for him.
Published on Monday, 9th January 2023.
Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil risked everything when he faced his parents and society
Published on Monday, 2nd January 2023.
Journalist Ben Raines went in search of a sunken ship with a dark history
Published on Monday, 26th December 2022.
Nakuset blocked out painful memories of being removed from her indigenous Canadian family
Published on Monday, 19th December 2022.
Javier Zamora travelled alone from El Salvador to the US when he was just nine years old
Published on Monday, 12th December 2022.
Disco, protest and poetry – Hanan and Riad’s story of making the Intifada album
Published on Monday, 5th December 2022.
Mo’min Swaitat’s magical discovery of lost family music and a mysterious yellow cassette
Published on Monday, 28th November 2022.
At 18 Nikki Owen set fire to the family home – and she didn’t know why
Published on Monday, 21st November 2022.
How the friendship of a stranger helped Betsy when she needed it most
Published on Monday, 14th November 2022.
Analía’s father was accused of being a government torturer — he said it was a lie
Published on Monday, 7th November 2022.
Sue-Ellen Doherty was trained by her parents to spy for Australia during the Cold War
Published on Monday, 31st October 2022.
Jim is deep undercover in North Korea — but will he find proof of illegal weapons deals
Published on Sunday, 23rd October 2022.
Jim Latrache-Qvortrup posed as a weapons dealer to expose a North Korean criminal network
Published on Sunday, 16th October 2022.
Nicholas Opiyo survived civil war to become one of Uganda’s top human rights lawyers
Published on Sunday, 9th October 2022.
Silibil N’ Brains found fame as fake American rappers - but how long can you live a lie?
Published on Sunday, 2nd October 2022.
The Scottish rappers who fooled the music industry
Published on Sunday, 25th September 2022.
Donnie Dunagan was a Disney child star in the 1930s before becoming a US Marine
Published on Sunday, 18th September 2022.
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by 7, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
Published on Sunday, 11th September 2022.
An outcast from birth and a petty thief by seven, all Milton wanted was to find his dad
Published on Sunday, 4th September 2022.
Chasing the aurora helps Hugo grieve
Published on Sunday, 28th August 2022.
How extreme kayaker Scott Lindgren's illness forced him to face his past
Published on Sunday, 21st August 2022.
Hafsat Abiola Costello's dad was nearly Nigeria's president - but he had powerful enemies
Published on Sunday, 14th August 2022.
Itto Outini lost her sight but gained her freedom
Published on Monday, 8th August 2022.
Dr Andrew Kwong fled famine and persecution as a child
Published on Sunday, 31st July 2022.
Briana knew it was her destiny to win Olympic gold. Then one game changed everything
Published on Sunday, 24th July 2022.
JP Bimeni is a writer turned soul singer who walked through a massacre unscathed
Published on Sunday, 17th July 2022.
JP Bimeni risked his life to save a book of his verse
Published on Sunday, 10th July 2022.
Abi Morgan’s husband woke from a coma and didn’t recognise her
Published on Sunday, 3rd July 2022.
Pirates attacked us as we slept
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2022.
Fleeing Vietnam Lauren’s family almost died. Her 30-year dream was to find their rescuers
Published on Sunday, 19th June 2022.
Janina was pregnant when she set out to meet a school friend who’d become an extremist
Published on Sunday, 12th June 2022.
Blamed for killing my father through witchcraft, I fought back by saving others like me
Published on Sunday, 5th June 2022.
Charles sues his country’s richest companies on behalf of black gold miners
Published on Sunday, 29th May 2022.
Apartheid taught Charles to know his place, so how did he end up suing the gold industry?
Published on Sunday, 22nd May 2022.
Donna discovers her ex fiancé’s secret life
Published on Sunday, 15th May 2022.
Anne’s village thought her disability made her worthless. She had other ideas
Published on Sunday, 8th May 2022.
The FBI close in. “It’s a wake-up call when police are trying to shoot you.”
Published on Sunday, 1st May 2022.
Olympic hopeful to audacious thief – the racing cyclist who turned to crime
Published on Sunday, 24th April 2022.
Astonishing true stories, jaw-dropping twists. The new podcast from Outlook from 25 April
Published on Monday, 18th April 2022.
Enter other people’s worlds. A new weekly podcast from Outlook. From 25 April
Published on Wednesday, 13th April 2022.
