BBC Radio Podcasts from The Global Jigsaw
Netanyahu’s media squeeze
The Israeli government’s push to transform the media landscape
The Trump effect on global media
Exploring the changes to media around the world caused by cuts to USAGM and USAID
The Kurdish issue: Part three
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
The Kurdish issue: Part two
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
The Kurdish issue: Part one
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
Life in occupied Ukraine: Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
The uncertainty over what Ukraine calls “temporarily occupied territories” grows bigger
Life in occupied Ukraine: Donbas
Moscow’s efforts to assert itself in the east of Ukraine
Life in occupied Ukraine: Crimea
Looking at the world through the lens of its media
The language of war: Ukraine
Kyiv’s answer to the Kremlin’s warspeak
The language of war: Russia
Decoding the Kremlin’s warspeak
Russia’s gateway to Africa in jeopardy
What would the potential loss of Syrian bases mean for Russia?
The rebels who retook Aleppo
A shock offensive turned Syria’s forgotten conflict into hot war
Russia’s “special demographic operation”
Why is the Kremlin worried about population decline?
Culture wars: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive
What’s behind the evolution of the Turkish president's anti-LGBT narrative?
Yemen: A frozen conflict
Ten years on, where do the warring parties in Yemen stand?
Yemen: A tale of three cities
Sanaa, Aden and Taiz - stuck in a “no war, no peace” limbo
The Taliban’s war on women
The group’s return to power in Afghanistan has seen the erasure of women from public life
The Sahel’s coup contagion
The geopolitical tectonic shifts in Africa that could be felt in Europe too.
The evolution of the Islamic State Group
After a lull in activities, in 2024 IS claimed to be behind several major attacks
Monitoring Africa
What does it take to track media on a continent where radio is king?
How China sees itself in Africa
Beijing says it is building, not buying, Africa. Do people in Nairobi agree?
Turkey's foothold in Africa
Ankara is touting itself as a “non-colonising” alternative to Western powers
Deconstructing Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’: Part two
The loose coalition of allies and proxies, sworn against Israeli and US influence
How drones have changed war
Drones have reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine - and created new challenges
Sudan: A year of war
Sudan faces the largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world
Deconstructing Iran’s 'Axis of Resistance': Part one
The origins of the Iran-cultivated alliance of like-minded states and groups
Moscow attack: Disinfo wars
Who is behind the Crocus City Hall attack? We track the blame game.
Contested waters: Helmand
How the waters of the Helmand river have driven tensions between Afghanistan and Iran
Contested waters: Crimea
How water is used as a weapon of war following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
What hope for Haiti?
Gang violence has turned the small Caribbean nation into a “living nightmare”
Does Russia’s election matter?
Putin’s re-election is certain, but there is still a lot at stake for him and the Kremlin
Israel-Gaza war: Global perspectives
How the big players spin the conflict into narratives of their own
Israel and Gaza special
The war of narratives reflecting power tilts in the Middle East
Who’ll be Argentina’s next president?
After a shock primary win, a far-right libertarian economist is in pole position
Wagner after Prigozhin
What next for the notorious group after the plane crash that wiped out its leadership?
Grain deal special
Russia and Turkey failed to reach an agreement to bring Ukrainian grain to the world
Niger coup special
Soldiers say they have taken control of the West African country
The story of BBC Monitoring
The journalists who analyse reports on media from 150 countries in up to 100 languages
Israel at a defining moment
Israel is in the grip of a political storm, with no sign of resolution
Wagner’s revolt: The world takes stock
The perspective of countries who have a reason to pay close attention
Putin’s media marathon
The gradual dismantling of independent media in Russia
Bulgaria’s Russia conundrum
The fault line in Bulgarian politics helping Moscow’s interests in Europe
Russia’s propaganda firehose
The talk shows taking over the TV schedules
Ukraine’s media at war
Journalism under military censorship and state PR
TikTokking for God (and power)
Latin American evangelicals take their politics to TikTok. The mix can be dynamite
Russian flag operations in Mali
The African influencers amplifying Kremlin propaganda
CAR’s Wagner trouble
Russia looking for new friends in Africa spells new trouble for a turbulent region
Masculinity with Chinese characteristics
The Communist Party weighs in on sexual politics
Talking politics on Turkey’s streets
The heated vox pop debates going viral in Turkey
A jihadi on a charm offensive
The Syrian militant leader wanted by the West, but who wants to be its friend
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Exploring the world through the lens of its media.