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Outlook Mixtape: Secret worlds and second lives

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• 40 mins

‘We think you may have been poisoned’, part 1

After a childhood washing floors in 90s Russia, Elena thought journalism meant freedom

• 40 mins

‘We think you may have been poisoned’, part 2

Reporting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine put a target on Elena's back

• 40 mins

The man behind the 'leap of the century'

Bob Beamon smashed world records at the ’68 Olympics, then wondered: what next?

• 40 mins

How I got a seat at the Good Friday Agreement

Monica McWilliams overcame misogyny to take her place at Northern Ireland’s peace talks

• 40 mins

Outlook Mixtape: Negotiating peace and a jaw-dropping leap

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• 40 mins

How my mysterious childhood became a best-selling novel

Trent Dalton discovered he was on the fringe of one of Australia’s hugest crime stories

• 40 mins

I became a cycling champion – but I was booed

From a broken bike to British champion – Maurice Burton had to battle his way to the top

• 40 mins

A kidnap, a betrayal, and a letter that tore open the past

Alegra’s earliest memory is being abducted. At 40, she comes to understand what happened

• 40 mins

The Lijadu Sisters: Nigeria’s twin Afropop pioneers

Yeye Taiwo Lijadu and her twin Kehinde daringly sang songs of protest in 1970s Nigeria

• 40 mins

Outlook Mixtape: Rocky paths and fearless futures

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• 40 mins

Saving New York's African burial ground

Peggy King Jorde on doing the right thing for some of the first Africans in North America

• 40 mins

Saved by goats after my fall from the sacred mountain

When he slid off a 40-metre cliff in the jungle, Morgan Segui thought he was sure to die

• 40 mins

Making sense of a childhood hidden from apartheid

Milisuthando Bongela grew up under apartheid but didn't realise until it was over

• 40 mins

The long climb back

Climbing took a beloved friend of Gus Taylor’s but ultimately also gave Gus his life back

• 40 mins

Outlook Mixtape: Goats to the rescue and the Afropop twins

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• 40 mins

I could never paint my teenage son – until I lost him

Artist Alison Lapper on painting Parys, her late, ‘too beautiful’ teenage son

• 40 mins

Bringing my mother tongue to the music industry

Bolivian Luzmila Carpio was stopped from singing in Quechua, but she fought to be heard

• 40 mins

Bernhard Schlink: Forbidden love and a dangerous escape

The famed author of The Reader risked it all to get his girlfriend out of East Berlin

• 40 mins

The journalist who took down a billion-dollar company

Dan McCrum investigated a story at Wirecard that had him fearing for his safety

• 40 mins

Outlook Mixtape: The tip-off, a seagull, and a lover’s escape

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• 40 mins