'For many years I wasn't even able to utter her name'
Cristina Rivera Garza's younger sister Liliana was murdered in Mexico City in 1990
- 40 mins
- 23 Apr 2024
BBC Sounds - Outlook - Available Episodes
Outlook
True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.
Episodes (3861 Available)
Did a lightning strike make me a trombonist?After being struck by lightning in 2005, Laura was consumed by a hunger to play music
- 40 mins
- 22 Apr 2024
Outlook Mixtape: Rare orchids, manga love and LiverbirdsYour bonus edition with the stories we love this week
- 40 mins
- 19 Apr 2024
The plant-hunter who risked death for an orchidOn a mission to find a new type of orchid for his granny, Tom Hart Dyke was kidnapped
- 40 mins
- 18 Apr 2024
'Girls don't play guitars!' The Liverbirds' storyHow four teenagers from Liverpool became the UK's first all-female rock'n'roll band
- 40 mins
- 17 Apr 2024
We turned our experience of neurodiversity into a mangaWhen Eri Nanato was diagnosed with autism and ADHD, she and her husband turned to manga
- 40 mins
- 16 Apr 2024
The boy with red hair: 26 years searching for my stolen sonSara Méndez’s desperate hunt for her baby boy, vanished during Uruguay’s military regime
- 40 mins
- 15 Apr 2024
- Outlook Mixtape: Big waves, blue birds and a band of mothers
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
- 40 mins
- 12 Apr 2024
The yellow house and the doctor who experimented on meEvy Mages learns the truth about her time in an Austrian ‘child-observation station'
- 40 mins
- 11 Apr 2024
The surfer who found the world’s biggest waveGarrett McNamara made history when he surfed a 78-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal
- 40 mins
- 10 Apr 2024
A mother’s quest to uncover why her neighbours kept dyingSofía Gatica was set on finding out the cause of sickness in her area, no matter the cost
- 40 mins
- 09 Apr 2024
Helping the children of incarcerated parents get to collegeYasmine Arrington has set up a scholarship fund for the children of incarcerated parents
- 40 mins
- 08 Apr 2024
- Outlook Mixtape: Peace, love and iconic hair
Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week
- 40 mins
- 05 Apr 2024
From suburbia to stardom: I created Ziggy Stardust's hairThe chance encounter that led Suzi Ronson to style David Bowie's iconic look
- 40 mins
- 04 Apr 2024
Digital love: Why I 'married' a cartoon popstarAt his lowest ebb Akihiko Kondo found sanctuary with an AI popstar, but faced a backlash
- 40 mins
- 03 Apr 2024
Sound dreams: The making of a world-class composerErrollyn Wallen was told she was nothing special, but her music proved them wrong
- 40 mins
- 02 Apr 2024
How to talk to guerillasLeyner Palacios grew up around volatile armed groups so he learned to negotiate with them
- 40 mins
- 01 Apr 2024
Escaping Idi Amin’s war in a stolen planeEbrahim Kisoro and his colleagues commandeered a plane to fly to safety
- 40 mins
- 28 Mar 2024
How to get over it: A tale of passion, pain and Nobel PrizesBruno Lemaitre made the discovery of his life – but someone else got the Nobel Prize
- 40 mins
- 27 Mar 2024
A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us togetherLucy Sexton was making a TV series about hostages when her father Joe was abducted
- 40 mins
- 26 Mar 2024
