BBC Radio Podcasts from The Compass
The sacred song of war
The legacy of the great patriotic wars against Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte
Catherine the Great and the question of Europe
How Catherine the Great extended Russian influence south and west
The Invention of Russia: The empire strikes back
Misha Glenny looks at the development of Russia.
The invention of Russia: A tale of two Ivans
Misha Glenny on early Moscow before the Russian Empire
Sounds of the city: Tel Aviv
Peter White visits Tel Aviv and teams up with another blind person to explore the city
Sounds of the city: Los Angeles
Peter White, blind since birth, uses the sounds to guide him as he explores new places.
Bhopal: Part one
How Indian journalist Rajkumar Keswani foretold the 1984 industrial accident of Bhopal
How to be a former president: Part three
How former world leaders try to influence global politics
How to be a former president: Part two
How ex-world leaders work with international organisations
How to be a former president: Part one
How former presidents continue to influence our world - even after leaving office
Stories from the New Silk Road: Mexico
Sharing a border with the US, will Mexico ever join China’s Belt and Road initiative?
Stories from the New Silk Road: Jamaica
From mega-projects to medicine, who benefits from Jamaica’s relationship with China?
Stories from the New Silk Road: Panama
What impact has China’s Belt and Road initiative had on Panama five years on?
Stories from the New Silk Road: Ecuador
What impact is China’s Belt and Road initiative having on the people of Ecuador?
On the Border: Narva
Tim Marshall on Narva the only EU city to border the Russian Federation
On the Border: Kinshasa and Brazzaville
The story of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, the only capitals straddling a border
On the Border: Niagara Falls
How the communities at either side of the Niagara Falls are shaped by the changing border
On the Border: Maastricht
What do borders mean in the city where the European Union was born?
Life in soil: Tasting the earth in France
How a healthy soil teeming with fungi and microbes can enhance the flavour of food
LIfe in soil: The death of soil
Isabelle Legeron explores the thrilling complexity of Soil
Life in soil: The psychology of soil in California
The indigenous Californians reviving ancestral methods of tending to the land
Green energy: Finance
How is the world going to get to net zero by 2050 and who is paying the bill?
Green energy: Iceland
How is Iceland is embracing the challenges of getting to a net zero future?
Green energy: Renewables
Why are some renewable energy projects proving controversial?
Green energy: Transport
Allan Little investigates the ‘inconvenient truths’ of transitioning to green energy
The reclaimers: The games people play
Kema Sikazwe meets people reclaiming spaces to tell new histories
The reclaimers: Into the valley
How Western museums tell the stories of others.
The reclaimers: Return to Zambia
Kema Sikazwe is in Zambia exploring colonial legacies through museum collections
The reclaimers: Bronzes and Birmingham
The uncomfortable stories behind some of the objects exhibited in UK museums
Walking the Iron Curtain: Booming Balkans
A shared love of nature is helping heal centuries of conflict and division in the Balkans
Walking the Iron Curtain: Wild lands reunited
Mary-Ann Ochota meets the people who reunified Germany through nature
Life on the line
The future of Ladakh amidst military unrest between India and China
Saving Asia’s water towers
Ed Douglas visits community projects looking to mitigate the impact of climate change
High lives
Ed Douglas reveals what life is like for those who live on the 'roof of the world'
Money, money, money: Power
The global management of money and the pressures towards decentralisation
Money, money, money: Psychology
Trust expert Rachel Botsman looks into the psychology and the morality of money
Money, money, money: Value
Broadcaster and trust expert Rachel Botsman asks what is the value of money?
Money, money, money: Trust
Should we put our faith in money? Trust expert Rachel Botsman investigates
Slick: 4. The oil thieves
We meet the people involved in Nigeria’s vast illegal oil business
Slick: 3. Black creeks
How does oil pollution affect Ogoniland today?
Slick: 2. On trial
Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state
Slick: 1. The great white hope
When Shell D’Arcy strikes black gold, there are celebrations on the Niger Delta creeks
Emotional Baggage: June Angelides
Henrietta Bowden Jones talks totalks to June Angelides about how she set up Mums In Tech
Emotional Baggage: Halima Begum
Civil rights campaigner Halima Begum on her formative experiences of racism
Emotional Baggage: Maya Youssef
A musician's painful decision not to return to Damascus when Syria's civil war began
Emotional Baggage: Dina Nayeri
The author of The Ungrateful Refugee on her experience of leaving Iran and seeking asylum
It's a Bird's World: Noise pollution
How noise pollution impacts on birds' ability to learn to sing
It’s a Bird's World: Viruses and infection
How water birds, poultry, jays and sage grouse have alerted us to the spread of diseases
It's a Bird's World: Toxic substances
How the deaths of birds have alerted the world to serious environmental problems
Why We Play: Old age
We don’t have to stop playing as we reach old age, and we probably shouldn’t
Adulthood and the importance of play
What role does play have in our adult lives and how can it increase productivity at work?
Adolescence: Discovering identity through play
How video games help teenagers to navigate issues of anxiety, depression, and identity
Childhood: Exploring the world through play
How play is crucial to building our understanding of our surroundings, culture and self
Hope – Amal
What does the future hold for the countries of the Arab Spring?
Displacement - Tashreed
How the aftereffects of the Arab Spring led to a mass displacement of people
Bread - Khubz
Have economic opportunities improved since the Arab Spring?
Freedom - Hurriya
Ten years after the Arab Spring, what did the 2011 protests achieve in Tunisia and Egypt?
How do refugee crises end?
One hundred years after the first modern refugee crisis, how much has changed?
What do we owe refugees?
One hundred years after the first modern refugee crisis, how much has changed?
Who is a refugee?
How do refugee crises begin and who can be considered a refugee?
Back to school
How space can help transform science education for the next generation
The Public Misunderstanding of Science: Racist robots
Is artificial intelligence evolving too rapidly for regulators to keep up?
Toxic debates
How do conspiracy theories take root and what can be done to combat them?
Trust: What is the best way to communicate public health messages?
Science journalist Sue Nelson explores why have so many people given up on science
Thailand: Asia’s sugar bowl
Lainy Malkani digs into the story of sugar in Thailand and sustainable production
USA: Plantations and plains
How sugar became a central commodity to American culture, its diet and economy today
Getting granular
Lainy Malkani digs into the history of sugar and how it helped shape the city of London
Building a state
A decade after the end of dictatorship, can Libya expect a peaceful and democratic future?
The rule of the gun
Why did plans to integrate Libya's militias into a unified national army come to nothing?
Libya's Revolution: A dream of freedom
Why is the revolution that overthrew Libya's Col Gaddafi still unfinished, 10 years on?
Can America change?
Jim O’Neill investigates the impact of President Biden’s ambitions to ‘build back better’
Inflation and challenges to the dollar
Can China challenge the dollar's dominance or will digital currencies be more disruptive?
Covid and economic stimulus
Can the Biden administration’s policies redefine US economy and its place in the world?
Gold: What does the future hold?
Rajvi Vora looks at the environmental cost of goldmines and the people who work at them
Gold: Its role around the globe
Gold and its impact around the world from Colombia to Ghana to the gold vaults of Dubai
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We explore gold's past, present and future and humanity’s obsession with it.
Are we heading for a world without work?
Could automation lead to the end of work, and what would that mean for the world?
Automation and the future of jobs
What does the new wave of high-tech automation mean for jobs?
Machines: What they do now that they did not do before
Daniel Susskind explores automation’s impact on the future of work in America
Gambling: A sure bet? USA
The Native American Tribes feeling threatened by the rise in online sports betting
Gambling: A Sure Bet? Albania
Is banning gambling the best way to tackle the problems it causes in Albania?
Gambling: A Sure Bet? Kenya
Dr Heather Wardle meets the students gambling on football to try and earn a living
Solutions
Alok Jha shows how water itself may offer solutions to give us hope
Ecological crises
The ecological crises threatening water supplies from the lakes of Bangalore to Lake Chad
Water as a resource
Alok Jha uncovers the broken economics and politics of water
How water shaped us
How our relationship with water evolved through time and shaped our deepest psychology
Forests of hope and the future
Jessica J. Lee explores the myriad ways that forests operate in our lives
Forests of science and knowledge
Radical new ways of recognising forests as communities of mutually supportive trees
Forests of folktale and imagination
The role that forests play in our imaginations and how they reflect our inner wildness
The New Arctic: Power
As tensions rise between Russia, Nato and China in the Arctic is a new cold war likely?
The New Arctic: Tourism
Tourism in the Arctic is growing but is it a sustainable industry?
The New Arctic: Resource extraction
As the ice retreats can the scramble for resources beneath the Arctic benefit communities?
The New Arctic: Communities under threat
Allan Little investigates how the climate crisis is impacting Arctic communities
My Perfect City: Communities in Barcelona
Can other cities learn from Barcelona's community-building initiatives?
My Perfect City: Women entrepreneurs in Kochi
An Indian city making female entrepreneurship a priority
My Perfect City: Integration in Rotterdam
A Dutch city lauded for its policies on integrating immigrant populations
My Perfect City: Housing in Vienna
In Vienna housing is considered a human right. Is it a model other cities should follow?
My Perfect City: Mental health in Singapore
Has Singapore found a solution to improving its citizens’ wellbeing?
My Perfect City: Employment in Toronto
Is a Canadian city's approach to unemployment one that other cities should consider?
Finders Keepers: A house that came home
What chance do communities have of getting looted artefacts back?
Finders Keepers: Icons and empire
Calls for the return of objects, looted from around the world are growing ever louder
Finders Keepers: A photograph, a pipe and a skull
Should priceless stolen objects that form part of history be returned to their origins?
Can Germany Save the World?: Stepping up on the world stage
Is Germany ready to be more assertive on the world stage?
Can Germany Save the World?: Building a post-Covid society
As governments rethink their economies and societies, could Germany provide the answers?
Can Germany Save the World?: Mutti and her crisis management
Can Angela Merkel teach the world a lesson about managing crises?
Climate Wars: Central and Northern America
What impact is climate change having on human security in Central and Northern America?
Climate Wars: The Sahel
How climate change is acting as a catalyst for conflict in Africa's Sahel region
Climate Wars: The new Cold War
As temperatures rise in the Arctic, global superpowers are eyeing new opportunities
Climate Wars: Water conflicts
How drought is fuelling conflict in India and Pakistan
Climate Wars: Darfur
Will Robson examines the links between climate change and global conflicts
The senses: Synaesthesia: When senses merge
Synaesthesia: We meet the man whose sister tastes of blackcurrant yoghurt
The senses: Smell and taste
‘Everything smelled of rotting flesh, even perfume’: What happens when smell goes wrong?
The senses: Hearing
‘I could hear my eyeballs moving’: How rogue messages pass between our ears and brain
The senses: Vision
How glitches between our eyes and brain cause bewildering, even terrifying, images.
The senses: Touch
When our sensory system goes wrong, we learn how our senses help us understand the world
Rethinking: The pandemic that changed the world
Ian Goldin analyses the Covid pandemic, economic disaster and the future of globalisation
Remedies: The pandemic that changed the world
How should governments respond to the pandemic?
Reasons: The pandemic that changed the world
Why did world leaders fail to work together to prevent the spread of Covid-19?
Window on the universe
A new space telescope promises to transform our view of the universe.
Tech companies and free speech
Is it up to tech companies to police what people should or shouldn’t say, post or tweet?
Journalists: Free speech v personal safety
Robin Lustig explores journalists' freedom to report against threats to their own safety
Blasphemy or free speech?
Robin Lustig explores the challenge of blasphemy over the right to free speech
Freedom of speech in universities: Who draws the line?
Robin Lustig explores the threats to and opportunities for the right to free speech
Courts and the right to free speech
Robin Lustig explores the threats to and opportunities for the right to free speech
What is the secret to a longer life?
Five communities consistently outlive the rest of the planet boasting members aged 100+
Is height all in the mind?
Professor Cregan-Reid explores why people have grown so fast in the 20th Century
How modern life affects our sleep
How do we get a good nights sleep in an increasingly noisy world?
Poland: Men and gender relations
What men in Poland are really thinking about the pivotal point for gender relations
Poland: Women
Gender is a fraught political issue in Poland and many women are feeling challenged
Mexico City: Men
As the MeToo movement gains momentum in Mexico City how do the men see gender equality?
Mexico City: Women
Mexican women are calling on authorities to do more to combat the high rates of femicide
Chinese Dreams: India
Where is the complicated relationship between India and China heading?
Chinese Dreams: Kenya
How is China’s growing role in Kenya’s media scene changing perceptions of China?
Chinese Dreams: Canada
The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Canada sparks a geopolitical crisis
Chinese Dreams: Indonesia
Will China's rise help Chinese-Indonesians or encourage more discrimination and envy?
Chinese Dreams: Australia
Is China interfering in Australian politics?
Chinese Dreams: The preview
As China grows richer and more powerful, how is its impact felt around the world?
The Kids are Alright: Tackling violence
Teenagers inspired to try and make a difference in the world around them.
The Kids are Alright: Opportunity
The 18-year-old student who built a school and a 15-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur
The Kids are Alright: Environment
How Stella Bowles' school project and persistence led to a clean-up of her local river
The Cold War Legacy: Angola
What will it take for Angola to be truly free of the legacy of Africa’s Cold War?
My Perfect City: Oslo
What can Oslo – the European Green Capital of 2019 – offer to the perfect city?
The Cold War Legacy: India
How is India navigating international relations today?
The Cold War Legacy: Indonesia
In 1965, some half a million people died in military-led killings of suspected communists
The Cold War Legacy: Brazil
Jair Bolsonaro has vowed to wipe the reds off the map. Is Brazil reliving the Cold War?
The Cold War Legacy: Czechoslovakia
What do new generations of Czechs feel about the future as well as the communist past?
Dominion: The animals and the poets
Writers explore our attitude to animals and attempt to uncover what our human values are
Dominion: The animals and the philosophers
The impact of philosophy and religion on animals as food
Dominion: The animals and the linguists
What part does language play in how we think about other animals?
Dominion: The animals and the lawyers
The people seeking to strengthen animals' legal rights
Media Front: USA
Who's controlling the media messages in advance of the 2020 presidential election?
Media Front: Ukraine
How geo-political forces are shaping the media landscape in Ukraine
Media Front: Philippines
How journalists in the Philippines are fighting back against challenges to press freedom
Media Front: India - The future of journalism
What are the challenges for a free and independent media in India?
Ground Shift: Sustainability and the millennial farmers
What future is there for millennial farmers amidst an increasingly fragile environment?
Ground Shift: Scale and modern farming models
Ground Shift talks to the next generation of farmers in Ghana, Australia and the USA
Ground Shift: Digital technology and rural communities
How digital and mobile phone technology is changing farming and boosting prosperity
Ground Shift: Survival for millennial farmers
Ground Shift talks to the next generation of farmers in Ghana, Australia and the USA
China: The start of the Silk Road
Lanzhou city on the Yellow River is benefiting from the Belt and Road Initiative
Cambodia: New riches on the coast
How a new Silk Road connecting transport hubs from Kenya to Kazakhstan is changing lives.
Kazakhstan: A port in the sand
Khorgas in Kazakhstan was the gateway of the ancient Silk Road. How is it transforming?
Raha: The joy of the train
The new Chinese Mombasa–Nairobi railway has replaced the British-built Uganda Railway
How modern living is changing our faces
How our faces are evolving from jaws that are shorter to our teeth and eyes
How modern life is changing our backs
How modern life has promoted back pain and why it is the number one cause of disability
How modern life is changing our feet
What modern living is doing to our feet and why our trainers may not be the best for them
Medellin, Colombia: Slums and urban regeneration
The visionary project that transformed the violent barrios of Colombia's second city
Knife crime: Glasgow, Scotland
How Glasgow, which has one of the highest murder rates in Europe, is tackling knife crime
Participatory budgeting: Paris, France
In Paris citizens vote on how to spend the city’s budget. Is this a model to follow?
The 24-hour city: London, UK
How the UK capital makes money around the clock
The smart city: Seoul, South Korea
How is data being used to help Seoul run smoothly?
The green city: San Francisco, USA
Is San Francisco’s recycling scheme and sustainable public transport a model to follow?
The History of Wastefulness: The Tipping Point
Could the future be rubbish-free?
The History of Wastefulness: Rubbish Through the Ages
Three historical landmarks that shaped modern attitudes to waste
Making a Difference
Can Japan’s gun control policies, Norway’s prisoner scheme and Uganda’s law scheme work?
The History of Wastefulness: Today’s Trash Challenge
How our relationship with rubbish has evolved over time
The Sun, Our Star: Health and beauty
What does being deprived of sunlight do to you?
The Sun, Our Star: Space weather
What effect could solar winds have on life on Earth?
The Sun, Our Star: Ancient sun
How the Sun’s light and heat inspired rituals dating back to the earliest humans
The Sun, Our Star: Energy
How much energy can we get from the Sun?
The Sun, Our Star
It's the source and sustainer of all life on Earth, but what do we really know about it?
The Great Unravelling: Trade and China
Could China break the World Trade Organisation?
The Great Unravelling: Trade and Trump
Could President Trump’s trade wars break the World Trade Organisation?
The Great Unravelling: Self Determination
What does the principle of self-determination mean in 2018?
The Great Unravelling: War
Will new forms of war present even more of a challenge to the world order?
The Great Unravelling: Human Rights
Is the world order that was forged after WW2 unravelling?
After the Crash: The Future
Ian Goldin examines how the 2008 financial crisis has changed the world
After the Crash: Rethinking Economics
How should economists rethink their ideas to better spot financial dangers in the future?
After the Crash: Power Shift
How the 2008 financial crisis led to a shift in power from West to East
After the Crash: Austerity and Consequences
Did Governments’ handling of the 2008 financial crisis make things better or worse?
After the Crash: Authority and Trust
How did the 2008 financial crisis affect our trust in authorities and experts?
Sounds of the forest
What is the relationship between sound, the forest and the people in India?
The sounds of the Lofoten Islands
Glacial streams, the wind and the cry of ravens are familiar sounds of Lofoten islands
The sounds of the Namib Desert
Life in the Namib Desert from the solo notes of birds at dawn to the wind at night
The sounds of the Maasai Mara
A sonic journey through the plains of the Maasai Mara in Africa
Antibiotics
How can we prepare against antibiotic resistant diseases in the future?
Flesh is Weak, so Upgrade
How do we hack our own biology to counteract the effects of ageing, pain and ill health?
Who Owns Your Data?
How companies amass data about you and how to win the data race against tech companies
Work
Can we all continue to be gainfully employed for years to come?
Robots
Practical advice on how to stop yourself going out of date
Too Much English?
Will English continue to dominate or decline, diminish cultures or enrich them?
Changing British English
Have you used the words antwacky, jarg and squinny recently?
Dialects and Evolution
How is the 21st Century transforming English - the world’s most widely used language
From Language to Algorithm
How is the 21st Century transforming English - the world’s most widely used language?
Abortion in America: Washington
In the US Supreme Court nine judges hear the latest major abortion case
Abortion in America: Kentucky
In Kentucky a legal case is under way aimed at closing the last clinic for abortions
Abortion in America: Texas
Could abortion be banned in the USA?
Dams
Meet the communities living in the shadow of hydro-electric dams
Glaciers
Fresh ideas to stop the damage caused by melting glaciers
Encroaching Deserts
Yin Yuzhen has planted a million trees in 70,000 hectares of desert
Sea Levels Rise
Moving on from uninhabitable land and building state-of-the-art sea defences
My Perfect Country: Which Policies will Work?
From closing the gender gap to sustainable fishing, which policy will be adopted?
My Perfect Country: Canada
Is Canada’s catch share model for sustainable fishing a contender for an imagined utopia?
My Perfect Country: Nepal
How has Nepal dramatically reduced maternal death – and can their policy be replicated?
My Perfect Country: Norway
How has Norway managed to have the lowest rate of prisoners reoffending in Europe?
My Perfect Country: Germany
Is the way Germany has handled refugee integration a model other countries could follow?
My Perfect Country: Cuba
Does Cuba hold the best policy for surviving hurricanes?
My Perfect Country: Rwanda
Rwanda has closed its gender gap by 80%. Is it a model other countries should follow?
What Happened Next: Ebola
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the challenges of bringing the disease in control
What Happened Next: Rana Plaza
Four years on since the collapse of the Rana Plaza has anything changed in Bangladesh?
What Happened Next: The Japanese Tsunami, 2011
How did people rebuild their lives after the devastating Japanese tsunami of 2011?
Ocean Stories: The Pacific Ocean
Tourism brings opportunity to the Solomon Islands and the Philippines but at what cost?
Ocean Stories: The Arctic and Southern Oceans
The melting ice is changing the sea's composition completely
Ocean Stories: The Indian Ocean
Deep sea exploration of the Indian Ocean and the people making a living from the sea
Ocean Stories: The Atlantic
The fishing communities living and working along the shores of the Atlantic
America Laboratory of Democracy: Insurgent Nation
The insurgent popular movements that changed America's democracy
America, Laboratory of Democracy: Little Leviathans
The 1924 Scopes Trial that banned the teaching of Charles Darwins' evolution in Tennessee
America, Laboratory of Democracy: Money -the Lifeblood of American Democracy
2/4 How money became an important feature in American politics
America, Laboratory of Democracy: Drowning Government in a Bathtub
1/4 How America became the world’s first big democracy and the limits of its constitution
Making it Work: Agriculture in India and Kenya
4/4 Entrepreneurs coming up with innovative solutions for agriculture in India and Kenya
Making it Work: Navigating Kenya's Streets with Technology
3/4 OkHi is a navigation device which allows you to find an address, however remote
Making it Work: Rugged Tablets for African Schools
2/4 Start-ups who are innovating products in Kenya and India
Making it Work: Affordable Medical Equipment in India
1/4 New mini-series. The reality of being an entrepreneur serving “the bottom billion”
Stargazing: South Africa's New Generation Astronomers
The scientist running the Square Kilometre Array, the world's biggest telescope: 5/5
Stargazing: Faith versus Science in Hawaii
The proposed Thirty Metre Telescope on sacred mount Mauna Kea that's causing a rift: 4/5
Stargazing: A New Vision of Our Cosmic Origins
The James Webb Space Telescope: its journey to discover how our universe came to be. 3/5
Stargazing: Astronomy from the Edge of the World
ALMA, the remote observatory in Chile, tracks the 'radio sky': 2/5
Stargazing: Copernicus' Heavenly Spheres
How the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus revealed the true model of the universe: 1/5
On the Black Sea: Sailors of Sevastopol
The Crimean coast, where Russia meets Turkey, is a region of great strategic importance
On the Black Sea: a Land Forgotten
What is life like in Abkhazia, an independent state that is not recognised elsewhere?
On the Black Sea: Truckers
Black Sea truckers are tough. They transport everything from biscuits to fridges to pigs.
On the Black Sea: Diving Deep
The Black Sea is an archaeologist’s dream but an ecologist’s nightmare.
On the Black Sea: The Voyage Begins
A journey around the Black Sea, where Russian warships sail for Syria and Nato watches
A Tale of Two Rivers: Kuala Lumpur
In Kuala Lumpur the regeneration of the Klang River is seen as key to modernisation
A Tale of Two Rivers: Los Angeles
The regeneration of the Los Angeles river and the challenges of turning it 'green'
A Young World - Sierra Leone
How do young people in Sierra Leone cope faced with staggering rates of unemployment?
A Young World - Uganda
The struggle to get a good education, in an overpopulated school system
Technology
How technology might change our economic futures for the better
Resources
How access to critical resources might change the way our economies work
Finance
How the coming technical revolution in finance will create new winners and losers
Demographics
How economic power will shift as the world’s population changes
Politics
How the global economy is being shaped by political backlash
Shanghai City of Youth - Part Three
The city's cultural hub attracts young people with both an Eastern and Western outlook
Shanghai, City of Youth - Part Two
Dating, marriage and why young people are delaying the traditional family in Shanghai
Shanghai, City of Youth - Part One
What draws young graduates to study and work in Shanghai?
My Perfect Country: The Debate
Water, housing, gun control, women's rights and more are debated by a panel and listeners
My Perfect Country: Curbing Smoking in Australia
Is Australia's anti-smoking policy a model for other countries to follow?
My Perfect Country: Shanghai's Model for Teaching Maths
Has Shanghai found the perfect formula for teaching maths?
My Perfect Country: 'State Feminism' in Tunisia
Is Tunisia’s approach to what women can and can't do an example for other Arab countries?
My Perfect Country: Gun Control in Japan
How Japan's rigorous gun control policy has reduced gun violence to single digits
My Perfect Country: Cutting Poverty in Peru
Peru has cut poverty by 50% in 10 years. Is it a model others could - or should - follow?
My Perfect Country: Solving Water Scarcity in Bermuda
The island's roofs catch every drop of rain, purify water and store it for daily use
Islam, People and Power: Reflections
Safa Al Ahmad chairs a discussion about the role of Islam in politics in the Arab world.
Islam, People and Power: The Shia
The debate within Shi’ism about the role of Islam in government
Islam, People and Power: The Islamists
Why the Muslim Brotherhood has fractured since the Arab uprisings
Islam, People and Power: The Salafis
Disputes in Islam’s most misunderstood sect - the Wahhabis, also known as Salafis
Islam, People and Power: The Sunni Traditionalists
The battle of ideas that accompanied the Arab uprisings
A New Cold War?
The impact of an assertive Russia on Norway's defence policy
Our Friends, the Russians
The impact of an assertive Russia on Norway, and Norway’s involvement in Afghanistan
DisUnited Kingdom: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
What will the UK vote to leave the EU mean for Northern Ireland and the rest of Ireland?
disUnited Kingdom: Stirling, Scotland
What effect has Brexit had on the people of Scotland?
disUnited Kingdom: Wrexham, Wales
Why did Wales – a big beneficiary of EU funds – vote for Brexit?
disUnited Kingom: Birmingham, England
What does Brexit tell us about divisions between communities in Birmingham?
Exploring Culture and Mental Health
How does culture influence mental health and treatment?
Healing in Ghana
What options do people in Ghana have when a person suffers mental illness?
Hearing Voices in the UK
Hearing voices was once considered a sign of madness but has there been a cultural shift?
Increase in Mental Health Issues Among Teenagers in Sweden
'Democratic parenting' and social media use could be behind young people's anxiety
Depression in Japan
Why is Japan going through a revolution in the awareness and treatment of depression?
Final Thoughts
Chris Bowlby hosts a discussion on issues and the future for Europe’s migration crisis
Germany: The Decision Makers
How is Germany dealing with hundreds of thousands of new migrants?
UK: From Syria To Yorkshire
How are Syrian refugees settling into their new lives in Bradford, UK?
Italy: The Priest and The Mayor
Migrants in southern Italy, with starkly varying lives, get very different kinds of help.
My Perfect Country: The UN Debate
Fi Glover, Martha Lane Fox and a panel of guests discuss ground-breaking social policies
Greece: The Warehouse of Souls
Maria Margaronis explores worlds of hope and chaos for refugees and islanders in Greece.
Turkey: The Lost Generation
How half a million Syrian refugee children are in need of an education
Europe’s Challenges: The Union in Crisis
Chris Morris examines the crises facing the EU and asks whether it will survive.
Europe's Challenges: Expanding the Union
How the European Union grew from a small club of six to a 28-state superpower
Europe’s Challenges: The Road to Rome
The past and future of the European Union at a critical moment in its history
Shakespeare in the World - South Africa
The role of Shakespeare in the politics of South Africa and why he still matters today
Shakespeare in the World - India
From the Bollywood screen to village storytellers - how has India adopted Shakespeare?
Shakespeare and the American Dream - Part Two
How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life. With Stephen Sondheim.
Shakespeare and the American Dream - Part One
How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life
Soul Music: Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez
The passion and emotional impact of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar
The Battle of Ideas - Part Two
Who will stop the flow of young Arab men into the ranks of the so-called Islamic State?
The Battle of Ideas in the Middle East - Part One
Who’s leading the political and spiritual fightback against the so-called Islamic State?
My Perfect Country: Legal Advice in Uganda
How a group of legal experts revolutionised Uganda's legal system through social media
My Perfect Country: Sanitation for Women in India
Should India's pioneering policies on sanitation be adopted elsewhere?
My Perfect Country: Preventing Suicide in Michigan, USA
Would Michigan's 'zero suicide model' be a policy for adoption in a perfect country?
My Perfect Country: Drug Decriminalisation in Portugal
Is Portugal's view of drugs as a health issue rather than a crime a good model to follow?
My Perfect Country: Green Energy in Costa Rica
Could Costa Rica’s green energy policy work in our utopian dream?
My Perfect Country: Estonia's Digital Society
Is Estonia’s revolutionary digital policy a contender for a perfect country?
America in Black and White: Looking Ahead
How are black Americans represented, and what does it mean to be black in America today?
America in Black and White: Segregation
Despite the civil rights movement, there is a more complicated legacy of desegregation.
America in Black and White: Economic Opportunity
Rajini Vaidyanathan explores economic opportunity, or lack of it, amongst black Americans
America in Black and White: Criminal Justice
The deep, underlying structural issues that impact on black American lives.
Local Warming: California
Sasha Khokha asks how her fellow Californians are responding to climate change
Local Warming: The Philippines
Nicole Jacinto asks how her fellow Filipinos are responding to climate change
Local Warming: Nigeria
Ugochi Oluigbo investigates the effects of climate change in Nigeria.
Waithood: Could Delaying Adulthood be a Good Thing?
How has the assumption of an adult way of life changed over the last 50 years?
Waithood: Trying to Grow Up in Italy and Spain
How are the young in Modena and Barcelona coping with the path to adulthood?
Waithood: The Passage to Adulthood in Ghana
What does it mean to be a grown-up in 21st Century Africa and Europe?