The place where the world tells its story. Join Matthew Bannister, Monday to Thursday. Includes our daily history programme Witness.
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Tue, 18 Jun 13
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Human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa on how she became a fighter in her childhood and went on to represent Zimbabweans whose rights have been sidelined by the regime. Afghan Novelist Khaled Hosseini on exile from Afghanistan and how his people and country inspired his latest book, 'And The Mountains Echoed'. German hairdresser Davide Martello describes playing his travelling piano in Istanbul's Taksim Square. And a different perspective on Afghanistan with two returnees, one from France and one from Germany, who've come home and started businesses. In Witness, the execution of Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were accused of spying, is remembered by their son Robert.
Mon, 17 Jun 13
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Afghan woman driver Farida Akbar takes us on an exciting trip through Kabul. Also, stand-up comedian Deborah Frances-White on how she's made a show about her search for her birth family. Exiled Sudanese bishop Andudu Elnail on his work to help victims of the conflict in South Kordofan. The story of soul singer Charles Bradley, who made his debut album aged 62. And Witness goes back to the first gay marriage in America in 1971.
Thu, 13 Jun 13
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Matthew Bannister speaks to french lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre who fell in love with and married her client, Carlos the Jackal in a muslim ceremony in prison. Also in the programme, Professor of Cybernetics Kevin Warwick tells Matthew why he has spent the last ten years implanting computer chips in his body and why he even plans to put a chip in his brain. Also we visit an ice cream parlour in Jordan that's bringing joy to Syrian refugees, and we hear from the curator of the Iraqi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale - one of the world's most prestigious art events - plus the Iraqi shepherd turned photographer whose work has been exhibited there.
Wed, 12 Jun 13
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The woman at the heart of the dingo baby case in Australia on her battle to clear her name; the film maker who went undercover with defectors fleeing from North Korea; the twin sisters who have just retired after working for 50 years in Amsterdam's red light district; a Nigerian woman who has made a successful career as a polo player; the voice behind a 52 foot mechanical cowboy that became a Texas icon; and on Witness, Alex Last recalls Nigeria's controversial 1993 election, which was supposed to end military rule and restore democracy.
Tue, 11 Jun 13
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Matthew Bannister speaks to former UNHCR spokeswoman Laura Boldrini, who recently became Speaker of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Jigme Wangmo from Bhutan tells us how her own son inspired her to change attitudes towards disabled children. Filming undercover in Tehran - Iranian director Tina Ghavari describes the risks she took to make her new movie, and child psychiatrist John Woodhall who's helped traumatised children all over the world describes suddenly having to deal with a school shooting in his own back yard.
Mon, 10 Jun 13
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The American opera singer who has survived two double lung transplants; the Colombian man who fishes the bodies of people killed in the drug wars out of his local river to give them a decent burial; the secret of the high flying Emanuel brothers; the disabled man who set out to lose his virginity in Spain and made a film about it. And in Witness: as the British government agrees to pay compensation to Kenyans tortured under colonial rule, we recall the days of the Mau Mau rebellion.
Fri, 7 Jun 13
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Matthew Bannister presents a special edition of Outlook, live from Broadcasting House to mark Queen Elizabeth's official opening of the building.
Thu, 6 Jun 13
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Mary Williams: My "mom" Jane Fonda. Manny Ansar the organiser of Mali's world famous Festival in the Desert.
Wed, 5 Jun 13
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Outlook with Matthew Bannister: acid attack victim Sonali Mukherjee won a gameshow to pay for her surgery; Soprano Pretty Yende - from church singer in rural South Africa to the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera; the former tailor to Colombia's FARC guerillas; the young woman who set up Nigeria's Flying Doctors. In Witness: meeting the Oklahoma Bomber.
Tue, 4 Jun 13
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A father and son's fight against the mafia. The Brazilian novelist Edney Silvestre: A Sri Lankan lesbian who married a British man to avoid an arranged marriage. The new face of Japanese cute culture on her sudden rise to stardom. Witness: the protests that led to Britain's first laws against racial discrimination.
Mon, 3 Jun 13
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South African cancer specialist Professor Cyril Karabus, wrongly accused of murder; Argentina's Champion Pole Dancing Granny and the Lebanese singer Yasmin Hamdan; a son brings his mother to justice over 50 years later. Witness: the massacre of the Nepalese Royal family.
Thu, 30 May 13
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Outlook speaks to Mamphela Ramphele, the South African activist and Steve Biko's partner. We also hear from the Georgian pianist Alexander Toradze who defected to the West 30 years ago. And we have an interview with Tawakul Karman from Yemen, who's the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wed, 29 May 13
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American David Good on his reunion with his Yanomami mother; and Australian novelist Thomas Keneally on the wartime nurses of his latest book "The Daughters of Mars".
Tue, 28 May 13
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We talk to Fartuun Adan from Somalia, who's been honoured by America's First Lady for her human rights work.
Mon, 27 May 13
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We speak to Peter Hillary, the son of Edmund Hillary, who together with Tensing Norgay, was the first to set foot on the summit of the world's highest mountain, Everest.
Thu, 23 May 13
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Aanna Akhter, a 16 year old Dhaka garment factory worker was trapped in the wreckage of the Rana Plaza. She explains how she could only be freed after her rescuer amputated her hand / Argentinian writer and theatre director Lola Arias discusses her new work Mi Vida Despues, or "my Life After", which features victims of the country's brutal military government of the 1970s and 80s / Last week history was made in Hong Kong when a transsexual woman, known only as "W" won the right to marry her boyfriend. "W" details her journey to becoming a woman / Lenin Moreno, the outgoing Vice President of Ecuador, describes the incident that left him paralysed and how he has campaigned to transform the lives of other disabled people in South America.
Wed, 22 May 13
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Kept in a hole by the Taliban 22 May '13 Pierre Borghi, a French photographer and aid worker, was kidnapped by the Taliban last November. He spent most of the next five months chained up in holes in the ground. News of his captivity was deliberately kept quiet by the French government who in private were refusing to meet the kidnappers' demands. Pierre managed to escape in April. Also in the programme, Romanian composer Rodion was an electronic music pioneer in the 1980s. But after his mother's death, Rodion retired from music making. Now, lost tapes of his compositions are being released for the first time. Ballet dancers are known for their slim, muscular bodies. But what happens if you love dancing and you don't fit that shape? In Cuba there is a dance troupe trying to change our preconceptions. Sarah Rainsford reports from Havana. And Selahattin Tulunay is a plastic surgeon from Istanbul doing a roaring trade in… moustache transplants.
Tue, 21 May 13
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I forgave my mother's killer 21 May '13 In this edition of Outlook, Matthew Bannister hears the story of the Rwandan genocide survivor who came face to face with his mother's killer and was able to forgive him. Also today, Walid Hammad, the Egyptian actor who dressed as a woman to gauge sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo. We meet the Senegalese wine maker who, as a Muslim, isn't allowed to taste the wine he's made - and the British artist who was inspired by his family's history of disability to capture disabled people in motion.
Mon, 20 May 13
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Matthew Bannister meets Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize winner and microcredit pioneer. Also, one woman's quest to discover the fate of her cousin accused of being a witch in Congo, and our reporter visits a new exhibition at Berlin's Jewish Museum which tackles anti-semitism with controversial, interactive and even live displays.
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