Thousands of Israelis are making a new home in Cyprus in the wake of 7th October
Published on Tuesday, 29th April 2025.
A cancelled election and a divided country - is Romania’s democracy under threat?
Published on Tuesday, 22nd April 2025.
How a risk assessment tool is used by police in Spain to predict gender-based violence.
Published on Tuesday, 15th April 2025.
Mysterious drone sightings in Denmark reveal a new era in UFOlogy.
Published on Tuesday, 8th April 2025.
Battered in the war with Israel, Hezbollah is under pressure - even from its supporters.
Published on Monday, 31st March 2025.
Saudi's film industry is booming but not all stories can be told.
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2025.
How a town in Poland – once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past.
Published on Tuesday, 21st January 2025.
The young Gambians who had to give up on their journey to Europe.
Published on Tuesday, 14th January 2025.
How feminists in South Korea are being hunted down, attacked and sacked.
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2025.
Changing the temple complex of Cambodia's '8th wonder of the world'.
Published on Tuesday, 31st December 2024.
The ghosts haunting Ukraine's relations with Poland - and the killers some see as heroes.
Published on Tuesday, 24th December 2024.
President Milei promised to hack Argentina's state and budget, what's the impact?
Published on Tuesday, 17th December 2024.
The Cook Islands and the plan to harvest the bottom of the sea.
Published on Tuesday, 10th December 2024.
Low harvests, economic and climate batterings, changing tastes - is French wine in crisis?
Published on Tuesday, 3rd December 2024.
One young woman's story from Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
Published on Tuesday, 26th November 2024.
The journey from cocoa to chocolate in Ivory Coast.
Published on Tuesday, 10th September 2024.
The beach resort frozen in time by 50 years of conflict, and the struggle over its future
Published on Tuesday, 3rd September 2024.
Why Armenians in Jerusalem say they are fighting an existential battle.
Published on Tuesday, 27th August 2024.
How Malaysia failed to plan for its fast-growing elderly population.
Published on Tuesday, 20th August 2024.
‘School choice’: Why are parents opting out of public education for their children?
Published on Tuesday, 13th August 2024.
Monfalcone’s mayor has effectively tried to ban collective Muslim prayer in her town.
Published on Tuesday, 6th August 2024.
Tim Whewell completes a trip across the West Bank and Israel, reaching the Mediterranean.
Published on Wednesday, 17th July 2024.
A journey through the contested land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.
Why is the Caspian Sea shrinking and what does this means for the region?
Published on Tuesday, 21st May 2024.
Nigeria's long battle to bring home ancient treasures taken by British forces in 1897.
Published on Tuesday, 14th May 2024.
Why a high-profile mafia informant testified against his powerful family.
Published on Tuesday, 7th May 2024.
Could new financial restrictions revive the spectre of violence?
Published on Tuesday, 30th April 2024.
The life and death of a non-existent country - and the rebirth of its improbable pub.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd April 2024.
Reggaeton’s the soundtrack to Puerto Rico, reflecting the cultural and political scene.
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2024.
Tales of kidnap and extortion from those who risk everything to enter the US from Mexico.
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2024.
Belarus has huge numbers of political prisoners - many of them are women.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd April 2024.
Why former soldiers were hired to carry out assassinations in Yemen in 2015.
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2024.
The men who risk jail to help migrants across Europe – meeting the people smugglers.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2024.
How a resort for millionaires sparked a battle for a Caribbean island paradise.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2024.
Thousands of people were killed in the 'war on drugs' in the Philippines.
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2024.
The giant freshwater fish that's invading Bolivia's Amazonian rivers.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2023.
How will Ukraine ensure the billions needed to rebuild the country are properly spent?
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2023.
Meet the citizens battling for better government on Ukraine's home front.
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2023.
How killing migrating birds became a multi-million dollar criminal business.
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2023.
Poland builds a wall through one of Europe’s most precious forests. What’s the impact?
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2023.
From Miami to Chicago, Lucy Proctor meets the conservatives and liberals swapping states.
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2023.
How once friendly relations between Norway and Russia have frozen in the far north.
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2023.
The desperate search by thousands of Syrian families for their missing relatives.
Published on Thursday, 14th September 2023.
Three men describe surviving one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in decades.
Published on Monday, 4th September 2023.
The young female stars of Gnawa music now challenging the boundaries of Moroccan identity
Published on Thursday, 31st August 2023.
Can a financial deal with a conservation charity save Belize's economy?
Published on Thursday, 24th August 2023.
Why tens of thousands of Zimbabweans are fleeing their country to work in the West.
Published on Thursday, 17th August 2023.
The fear stalking Russia as ex-convicts from the Wagner mercenary group return home.
Published on Thursday, 10th August 2023.
With 20% of its population living abroad, the Romanian government wants its diaspora back
Published on Thursday, 3rd August 2023.
The battle to keep the peace between people and elephants in northern Botswana.
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2023.
Thousands of Ukrainian men are dodging the draft – and risking their lives in the process.
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2023.
New Orleans is the murder capital of the United States.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2023.
Omar’s son was pulled alive from the rubble of Turkey’s earthquake, but where is he?
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2023.
Why thousands of Kenyan villagers are being given free cash.
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2023.
50 years since the last US bombs fell on Laos, they’re still killing and maiming.
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2023.
Record numbers are fleeing the island in the wake of a brutal economic crisis.
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2023.
A massive new road across Paraguay threatens a fragile eco-system and two communities.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2023.
Does Vienna have the world’s best public housing? Chris Bowlby reports
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2023.
Why did people take to the streets, risking arrest and a barrage of bullets?
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2023.
The story of a town destroyed by one of the worst wildfires in California's history.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2023.
Why an Italian judge is taking kids away from Mafia families.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2023.
How a housing crisis contributes to a population problem.
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2023.
The Brazilian city passing laws to fight discrimination against people who are obese.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2022.
Can Spain's most iconic live music and dance recover from the pandemic?
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2022.
Should Hungary continue to rely on Russia to fund its nuclear power industry?
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2022.
Giving communities hit by the ‘war on drugs’ a share of the legal cannabis boom.
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2022.
How has Putin's war against Ukraine affected one remote city in Siberia?
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2022.
What do Taiwanese people think about the increased rhetoric from China in recent months?
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2022.
The bakers and farmers trying to wean Senegal off imported wheat.
Published on Monday, 10th October 2022.
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews struggle to come to terms with child sex abuse scandals.
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2022.
A radio station at a Texan prison is creating community and changing inmates' lives.
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2022.
Mayeni Jones meets the people involved in Nigeria’s vast illegal oil business.
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2022.
Why lacrosse is much more than just a game for Native Americans.
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2022.
This former Soviet republic faces both east and west.
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2022.
When the president stands accused of drug trafficking, what hope is there?
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2022.
The dilemma facing the citizens of Kherson.
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2022.
Tigers are making a remarkable comeback in Nepal.
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2022.
Can music and culture help unite Estonia?
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2022.
The Cambodian government is demanding the return of its gods - stolen statues.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2022.
Resistance and division among Mexico’s indigenous Yaqui people
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2022.
Why has accordion music led to the killing of so many in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho?
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2022.
Fighting to restore democracy in Myanmar.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2022.
How are the thousands of Russians who’ve now fled their country being received in Georgia?
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2022.
A string of fatal accidents have turned hunting into a hot topic in the French elections.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2022.
Imagine walking down a street in a European capital and meeting your torturer.
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2022.
How a new motorway is fuelling fears about debt, corruption, and submission to Beijing.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2022.
Can Turkey's leader drive through his 'crazy' plan for a huge new waterway in Istanbul?
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2022.
The hidden pandemic in Peru; the thousands of children who have lost a parent to Covid-19.
Published on Thursday, 30th December 2021.
A delicate rescue operation is helping hundreds of young African women trapped in Arabia.
Published on Thursday, 23rd December 2021.
A unique project aimed at reducing harm to women selling sex in Copenhagen.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 2021.
A battle of wills between Belarus and the EU leaves a border community divided.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2021.
Korea is one of the most tired nations on earth and helping people sleep is big business.
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2021.
The Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands is being overrun by illicit drugs.
Published on Friday, 26th November 2021.
How a bitter fight is playing out in the American West over the future prospects of a fish
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2021.
Ten years after the fall of Colonel Gaddafi, are Libyans freer – or more oppressed?
Published on Thursday, 16th September 2021.
The mystery illness that has struck American diplomats and spies.
Published on Thursday, 9th September 2021.
Stories from people who survived the fire in the Greek refugee camp a year ago.
Published on Thursday, 2nd September 2021.
How Catalonia’s housing crisis spawns opportunities for organised crime.
Published on Thursday, 26th August 2021.
The story of Lal Bihari who was told he was dead, when he was not.
Published on Thursday, 19th August 2021.
The deadly crime wave afflicting Israel's Arab citizens.
Published on Thursday, 12th August 2021.
How armed gangs are inflicting terror upon schools in northern Nigeria.
Published on Thursday, 5th August 2021.
Can Beirut’s unique Karantina district survive after the blast that rocked the city?
Published on Thursday, 29th July 2021.
The impact of Mexican 'narco cultura' on the women of Sinaloa.
Published on Thursday, 22nd July 2021.
Linda Pressly reports from the coast of Baja California on a dangerous clash of interests.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2021.
The brutal military coup puts three young activists in a fight for their future.
Published on Thursday, 6th May 2021.
Can Norwegians with psychosis benefit from radical, drug-free treatment?
Published on Thursday, 29th April 2021.
How one young doctor’s death has exposed problems in Kenya’s health sector.
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 2021.
Healing the deepest of battle wounds through ground-breaking sexual therapy.
Published on Thursday, 15th April 2021.
Can Denmark's mink industry rise again?
Published on Thursday, 8th April 2021.
How can Germany make up for its colonial atrocities in Namibia?
Published on Thursday, 1st April 2021.
Bucharest’s crumbling buildings are full of life despite the frequent earth tremors.
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2021.
The migrant shipwreck that rose again...
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2021.
How seven ruthless brothers held a small Libyan town in their murderous grip.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2021.
How one young man went missing after Nigerian troops opened fire at a protest
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2020.
The Mapuche battle to get respect for their approach to healthcare in southern Chile.
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2020.
A precarious peace hangs in the balance Sudan's troubled region of Darfur.
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2020.
The young Syrians who found themselves fighting in the war in Nagorno Karabakh.
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2020.
Who are the balaclava clad officers keeping President Lukashenko in power?
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2020.
18 fishermen from Sicily are in jail in Benghazi accused of fishing in Libya's waters.
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2020.
The historic link between slavery and the toxic contamination of a Caribbean island.
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2020.
The row over sexuality that threatens to unleash a culture war in Poland.
Published on Friday, 18th September 2020.
Must the Netherlands' world-beating cows be sacrificed to save the country's environment?
Published on Thursday, 10th September 2020.
The price of going ‘dry’ during the pandemic.
Published on Thursday, 3rd September 2020.
A death-defying migrant's story...
Published on Thursday, 27th August 2020.
Spain’s King Juan Carlos – a story of entitlement and dynasty…
Published on Thursday, 20th August 2020.
Mike Lanchin follows the story of Rita Baque, searching for the body of her late husband.
Published on Thursday, 13th August 2020.
A tale of two plagues in the Algerian city of Oran - one fictional and the other COVID 19.
Published on Thursday, 6th August 2020.
A failed coup in Venezuela - a story of hubris, incompetence and treachery…
Published on Thursday, 30th July 2020.
How Syria's secret photographer worked and survived under every force in the conflict.
Published on Thursday, 23rd July 2020.
How Bulgarian parents came to fear their children would be kidnapped by social workers.
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2020.
Are lithium-powered electric vehicles as ‘green’ as we think they are?
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2020.
Why did so many people die in just one elderly care home in Madrid?
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2020.
Ireland's young cannot put a roof over their heads.
Published on Thursday, 23rd April 2020.
Students and teachers in Chile demand an end to inequality in education.
Published on Tuesday, 21st April 2020.
California's homeless take a ride on the 'Motel 22' - a bus route that provides shelter.
Published on Thursday, 9th April 2020.
A mystery killing has shocked Romania as the fight over its ancient forests turns deadly
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2020.
Saying no to dating is part of a growing ultraconservative social movement in Indonesia.
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2020.
Psychedelic plants, the spiritual tourism backlash - and sexual abuse.
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2020.
'We lived with wolves' says 90 year old Galina - a witness to life before Chernobyl.
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2020.
A bitter homecoming for three young West Africans who tried to get to Europe - and failed
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2020.
Iceland's glaciers are melting and scientists predict they could all be gone in 200 years.
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2019.
The Finnish fisherman who believes he has a solution to climate change
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2019.
Life in Lebanon is a daily battle to beat the power cuts. Now people have had enough.
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2019.
Muslims in Sri Lanka are deciding whether to stay or leave amidst a new climate of fear.
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2019.
Remembering Raed Fares the Radio Fresh FM founder who fought hatred with humour in Syria.
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2019.
Domestic violence is endemic and often deadly in Russia but some women are fighting back
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2019.
Long hours and little pay for the workers who pick Turkey's hazelnuts.
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2019.
Simon Maybin spends time with the young men who race down the steep roads of Colombia.
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2019.
The Philippine city that was besieged by Islamic State supporters.
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2019.
China's New Silk Road is changing lives in Kazakhstan.
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2019.
Can one man's campaign for motorways in Romania make a difference and save lives?
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2019.
Who will shape the future of the hurricane-hit, tropical isle of Barbuda?
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2019.
An icon of Italian design; a centrepiece of a community; a tragedy waiting to happen?
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2019.
A small town goes on life-support after its lone hospital closes.
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2019.
A young Ghanaian man goes undercover on the perilous migrant trail, with a hidden camera.
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2019.
In 2009, Mennonite women in a far-flung Bolivian colony reported mass rape.
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2019.
The dangers of flying in the great wilderness of the Brazilian rainforest.
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2019.
How does a lonely, Spanish shepherd find love when single women have left for the city?
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2019.
Thousands of Bangladeshi addicts are hooked on Yaba, a mix of methamphetamine and caffeine
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2019.
Can the treasures lost when Brazil's National Museum burnt down be salvaged or replaced?
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2019.
For some in Poland the Cursed Soldiers are national heroes; for others they are murderers.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2019.
Hunting western paedophiles is a priority for a new police unit in Nepal.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2019.
Tensions are rising on Ukraine's western border
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2019.
Elderly pensioners in Japan commit petty crimes so that they can be sent to prison.
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2019.
Old enemies Serbia and Kosovo discuss what for some is unthinkable - an ethnic land swap.
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2019.
How one boy’s dream was cut short by the beautiful game’s ugly prejudice in Brazil.
Published on Thursday, 3rd January 2019.
Two British firefighters revisit the scene of Armenia's devastating earthquake in 1988.
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2018.
How home DNA testing kits are revealing more than some people bargained for.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2018.
The BBC gains rare access to a region of China where Muslims are being held without trial.
Published on Thursday, 13th December 2018.
An investigation into repression in Burundi, one of Africa's most secretive countries.
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2018.
Locked up for renting out their wombs, mothers in Cambodia must make an agonising choice.
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2018.
Nigerian patients held in hospital because they can’t pay their medical bills.
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2018.
Simon Cox investigates a new far right youth organisation in Europe, Generation Identity.
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2018.
The dark secrets of Chile's Catholic Church.
Published on Thursday, 13th September 2018.
Nevada's legal sex trade faces a campaign for reform.
Published on Thursday, 6th September 2018.
'He was using prisoners like oxen' - an ex-convict recalls life on a Ugandan prison farm.
Published on Thursday, 30th August 2018.
A life in limbo for two Britons. Not wanted in the UK and not wanted in Jamaica.
Published on Thursday, 23rd August 2018.
The crop that has put women on top in Zanzibar.
Published on Thursday, 16th August 2018.
Aurelia Brouwers had mental illness - when she died from euthanasia in Holland she was 29.
Published on Thursday, 9th August 2018.
Norway's child protection system under scrutiny once again after expert's conviction.
Published on Thursday, 2nd August 2018.
Why does South Korea have the lowest fertility rate in the world?
Published on Thursday, 26th July 2018.
Has Israel become less welcoming to African Jews?
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2018.
How a small rural school could help China achieve its World Cup dream.
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2018.
How a Soviet era business model is still working in Minsk - and exporting worldwide.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2018.
The rise and fall of one of Brazil's top companies - built on a policy of bribery.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2018.
How hundreds of Russian jihadi brides and their children vanished in Iraq.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2018.
One woman's mission to reunite families amid the rubble of Mosul.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2018.
How is the city of Athens finding homes for the thousands of refugees who live there?
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2018.
Why is troubled Catalonia now opening up civil war mass graves?
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2018.
An investigation into the mystery illness affecting child migrants in Sweden.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2018.
How one bakery is bringing a hope of normality to war-torn east Ukraine.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2018.
How black Brazilians are asserting their rights thanks to a controversial education law.
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2018.
A journey up the 'suicidal' Pilcomayo river that separates Paraguay from Argentina.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2017.
Ed Butler explores an unusual new industry that has taken hold in some of China's cities.
Published on Friday, 22nd December 2017.
A brutal killing, an unsolved murder and the divided island of Malta.
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2017.
Searching for the captive children still lost after the retreat of so-called Islamic State
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2017.
A love for Arabian horses unites Israelis and Palestinians.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2017.
The chilling story of a massacre of Rohingya muslims in a small village in Myanmar.
Published on Tuesday, 28th November 2017.
Panama's idyllic islands are threatened by a rising sea, but one community has a plan.
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2017.
How do you make a new home in the African bush with a machete, rope and plastic?
Published on Thursday, 14th September 2017.
What's it like to live in the country with the fastest-shrinking population in the world?
Published on Thursday, 7th September 2017.
A young Somali refugee tries to live the American dream.
Published on Thursday, 31st August 2017.
Sevastopol - home to Russia's Black Sea fleet and source of international tensions.
Published on Thursday, 24th August 2017.
Tim Whewell travels to remote Abkhazia where the price of statehood is deep isolation.
Published on Thursday, 17th August 2017.
Inside Romania's live web-camming world - the engine of the online sex industry.
Published on Thursday, 10th August 2017.
In besieged East Aleppo, a terrified mother of three makes one last desperate phone call.
Published on Thursday, 3rd August 2017.
Pakistan's Hijra, or third gender, community shun a new emerging transgender identity.
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2017.
Lucy Ash asks how a ruthless street gang is affecting the immigration debate in the US.
Published on Friday, 19th May 2017.
Religiously and politically potent, Sri Lankan elephants are killing more and more humans.
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2017.
Some Indonesians live alongside dead family members for years.
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2017.
Men in the Faroe Islands are having to look far beyond their shores for marriage.
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2017.
In a revolutionary first, one of Cuba's cancer treatments gets a US drug trial.
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2017.
In Kenya home-grown activists are helping intersex people come out into the open.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2017.
The hidden lives of the thousands of people who live on industrial sites in Hong Kong.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2017.
A Brazilian novel about street children written 80 years ago still resonates today.
Published on Friday, 31st March 2017.
Lucy Ash meets the young Russians taking death-defying photos to gain internet fame.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2017.
One night of terror at Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery in July 2016.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2017.
Women in Poland are angry with their government and with the Catholic church.
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2017.
The story of Cheran, a Mexican town that rose up against organised crime.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2016.
James Fletcher asks if art and activism can bring about change in Malaysia.
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2016.
Protecting cows has now become the focus of armed Hindu vigilante groups.
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2016.
Black sporting talent is still struggling to break through into South Africa's top teams.
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2016.
Linda Pressly and Albana Kasapi investigate the 'Green Gold' rush in this Balkan nation
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2016.
The bizarre tale of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov - master or pawn in the great game of chess?
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2016.
Public employee one day, enemy of the state the next. The post coup reality in Turkey.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2016.
The people who are trying to stop the relentless road deaths in India's biggest city.
Published on Thursday, 15th September 2016.
David Baker meets Israel's new breed of high-tech Haredim.
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2016.
Heroin, opiates, and suburban Ohio.
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2016.
Sarah Rainsford looks at how Russia is dealing with dissent in the run-up to elections.
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2016.
The people displaced by war in Colombia who fear they will never be able to return home.
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2016.
Why are more people in Poland preparing for war? Tim Whewell investigates.
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2016.
Vladimir Hernandez reports from Venezuela, which is struggling to feed its own people.
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2016.
The story of the library in a besieged Syrian town providing a lifeline to its community.
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2016.
The shocking world of the men in Malawi tasked with stealing the innocence of young girls.
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2016.
The astonishing story of a group of young men in Syria resisting so-called Islamic State.
Published on Friday, 27th May 2016.
The mid-western city which has become a world centre for the game of chess.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2016.
China's once-hated population police are being turned into child development specialists.
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2016.
Nkem Ifejika cannot speak Igbo, the language of his forefathers, and he wants to know why.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2016.
Norway's child protection policies are attracting sharp criticism both at home and abroad.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2016.
The story of Pasca, a young lesbian, and how South Africa's rainbow nation has failed her.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2016.
Linda Pressly on the rifts and sexual politics challenging Thai Buddhism and its devotees.
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2016.
Lucy Ash asks what is behind a violent protest by thousands of Romanian shepherds.
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2016.
Can Belgium solve the problems of the Brussels district dubbed Jihadi Central?
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2016.
Untangling the web of corruption in a forgotten corner of Brazil. With Linda Pressly.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2016.
Tim Whewell is on a quest to find a Syrian football team who were torn apart by civil war.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2015.
India's Parsi population is declining. Can Parsis be persuaded to make more babies?
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2015.
The risks people take in rural Cambodia to get basic healthcare.
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2015.
Five school children starve to death in the Malaysian jungle. Why weren't they protected?
Published on Monday, 14th December 2015.
Maria Margaronis explores the debris of Albania's painful past.
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2015.
The complex business of dying in Greece. With Chloe Hadjimatheou.
Published on Friday, 27th November 2015.
Peru's drug 'mules' - youngsters hiking cocaine from the jungle to the highlands.
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2015.
The sacking of a newspaper editor strains an old friendship between Norway and Russia.
Published on Friday, 13th November 2015.
Why is Paraguay facing an epidemic of schoolgirl pregnancies?
Published on Thursday, 10th September 2015.
A young man disappears on a night out in Antwerp. Where did he go and how can he vanish?
Published on Thursday, 3rd September 2015.
James Fletcher travels to the disappearing coastal wetlands of Louisiana.
Published on Thursday, 27th August 2015.
Lucy Ash meets the young people who burn their identity papers and head to Europe.
Published on Thursday, 20th August 2015.
Will Grant takes a ride on Cuba's bumpy roads where change is in the air.
Published on Thursday, 13th August 2015.
Celia Hatton explores how China is struggling to contain underground ketamine.
Published on Thursday, 6th August 2015.
South African electricity powers half the continent, but can it keep its own lights on?
Published on Thursday, 30th July 2015.
Gabriel Gatehouse aboard a rescue ship searching for migrants in the Mediterranean.
Peru's wildlife is under threat from illicit trafficking. Linda Pressly investigates.
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2015.
A report on Georgia's schools and the radical priests who want to influence them.
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2015.
In India, a wrestler in the family can mean a ticket out of poverty. Rupa Jha reports.
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2015.
Does Portugal have a problem with police brutality and racism?
Published on Thursday, 23rd April 2015.
Why does Vladimir Putin fear a tiny drama company that operated from a Moscow basement?
Published on Thursday, 16th April 2015.
How a cluster of tiny US cities are accused of fuelling community tensions.
Published on Thursday, 9th April 2015.
The story of a Tanzanian safe house where girls find refuge from female genital mutilation
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2015.
Gaza's only grand piano is lovingly restored as music offers hope to troubled children.
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2015.
The cleaners who have raised their rubber gloves in defiance of Greek public sector cuts.
Published on Thursday, 15th January 2015.
Why are cartoons depicting children in explicit sexual situations still legal in Japan?
Published on Thursday, 8th January 2015.
Linda Pressly reports on plans to excavate for human remains at a huge dump in Medellin.
Published on Thursday, 1st January 2015.
Crossing Continents follows Abdi Nor, one of the winners of the US green card lottery.
Published on Monday, 29th December 2014.
The Russian volunteers fighting in eastern Ukraine for their dreams of empires past.
Published on Thursday, 18th December 2014.
A popular American football team is under pressure to change a name many say is racist.
Published on Thursday, 11th December 2014.
In Yemen, tradition allows men to marry each other's sisters - but at what price?
Published on Thursday, 4th December 2014.
Gabriel Gatehouse goes in search of Annie, an Ebola victim in Liberia.
Published on Thursday, 27th November 2014.
In Pakistan's port city, Karachi, police are fighting a desperate war against the Taliban.
Published on Thursday, 20th November 2014.
In one remote district in Ivory Coast, men are going back to school. Lucy Ash reports.
Published on Thursday, 18th September 2014.
Becky Palmstrom investigates allegations of modern-day slavery on Thailand's fishing boats
Published on Thursday, 11th September 2014.
As coal mining declines in Spain, can the miners save their culture and their communities?
Published on Thursday, 4th September 2014.
How effective are the drug rehabilitation centres run by Guatemala's Pentecostal churches?
Published on Thursday, 28th August 2014.
The struggle to keep alive the game that is the heart of Ireland's identity.
Published on Thursday, 21st August 2014.
Carrie Gracie goes in search of the cult of the Almighty God and its terrified victims.
Published on Thursday, 14th August 2014.
Lucy Ash meets the Russian holidaymakers who are reclaiming their bit of paradise.
Published on Thursday, 7th August 2014.
Tim Whewell meets the dynamic women in Turkish Kurdistan who are defining the future.
Published on Thursday, 31st July 2014.
What do you do when a twisting funnel drops from the sky? A report from tornado alley.
Published on Thursday, 24th July 2014.
Simon Cox investigates a notorious miscarriage of justice in Iceland.
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2014.
What is the cause of an ongoing health crisis across Argentina's vast GM farming belt?
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2014.
Will Grant meets people trying to identify illegal migrants who die in the Arizona desert.
Published on Thursday, 1st May 2014.
Can a unique friendship between two men end the killings in the Central African Republic?
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2014.
Lucy Ash reports from Ukraine on the paper trail leading to bribery and corruption.
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2014.
The war in Syria has created a silent enemy for those fleeing the fighting - disease.
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2014.
A profile of Gulnara Karimova, the pop star daughter of Uzbekistan's ruthless leader.
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2014.
Russia's volunteer diggers who continue to search for the remains of World War II soldiers
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2014.
Will mining harm Greenland's environment, or lead the country to independence?
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2014.
Linda Pressly goes on the road with Brazil's anti-slavery hit squads.
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2013.
Farhana Haider investigates the war crimes trials which have divided Bangladesh.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2013.
Can Indonesia successfully introduce the world's largest public health insurance scheme?
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2013.
One year on from the attack in Delhi, the experience of women who've chosen to report rape
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2013.
Why Catholic priests in Mexico believe they can fight drug trafficking through exorcism.
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2013.
Will Russian politics crush the thriving wine industry of tiny Moldova?
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2013.
How mercury poisoning is threatening the health of Indonesian gold miners.
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2013.
Looking for love in a country where there will soon be 24 million bachelors.
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2013.
Ed Butler investigates how Venezuela's economic crisis is affecting everyday lives.
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2013.
Mobeen Azhar discovers a secret vibrant gay scene in urban Pakistan.
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2013.
Can Turkey's new anti-government alliance hold together? Emre Azizlerli reports.
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2013.
Rayhan Demeytrie investigates allegations of torture in Kazakhstan's prisons.
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2013.
Tessa Dunlop looks at the wealth, power and influence of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2013.
How the disturbing tale of one abortionist is affecting America's wider debate.
Published on Monday, 5th August 2013.
Two women in Spain undergo reconstructive surgery after FGM. Will it work?
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2013.
Andrew Brown tries to find out if the rural heart of Sweden lives on in the modern age.
Published on Friday, 24th May 2013.
A profile of Romario - Brazil's footballing bad-boy turned politician.
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2013.
Rob Walker finds out how oil has changed Ghana's sleepy port city of Takoradi.
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2013.
Mobeen Azhar investigates the deadly campaign against Pakistan's Shia Hazara minority.
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2013.
Inside the Belarusian university which escaped repression by moving to Lithuania.
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2013.
Linda Pressly meets the vigilantes fighting Mexico's criminal gangs in Guerrerro State.
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2013.
Lucy Ash on why battling HIV and AIDS in Ukraine - Europe's hotspot - is so challenging.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2013.
Joanna Jolly finds out why the scars from the brutal civil war in Nepal are still raw.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2013.
How will the world's fastest-growing economy manage its dramatic transformation?
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2013.
Investigating the trafficking of girls within India for prostitution and forced marriage.
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2013.
Investigating forced confessions of suspects in the Japanese criminal justice system.
Published on Thursday, 3rd January 2013.
Lucy Ash investigates an increasingly bitter row over a major Chinese investment in Burma.
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2012.
Paul Henley meets the migrants heading to Poland, attracted by its thriving economy.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2012.
Justin Marozzi examines if Libya can come together again as one country.
Published on Thursday, 13th December 2012.
Linda Pressly looks at the disturbing story of rape and sexual abuse in America's prisons.
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2012.
Rob Walker investigates allegations of corruption affecting South African schools.
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2012.
El Salvador's gangs have made a truce. The murder rate has plummeted. Can it last?
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2012.
Is Mogadishu on the mend? A day in the life of the new Somali/British mayor of Mogadishu.
Published on Thursday, 15th November 2012.
How exemption from conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews is exposing Israel's faultlines.
Published on Thursday, 6th September 2012.
Tessa Dunlop investigates why a plan for a massive gold mine is dividing Romania.
Published on Thursday, 30th August 2012.
Investigating the links between football, corruption and politics in Bulgaria.
Published on Thursday, 23rd August 2012.
The host bars revealing the cracks in South Korea's conservative social structures.
Published on Thursday, 16th August 2012.
Mobeen Azhar finds out how a charity is helping heroin addicts in Karachi.
Published on Thursday, 9th August 2012.
Rwanda's new heroes, its cycling team, are helping it to overcome the trauma of genocide.
Published on Thursday, 2nd August 2012.
Spain is in economic crisis. What can a new, closed airport tell us about what went wrong?
Published on Thursday, 26th July 2012.
Shanghai-based journalist Duncan Hewitt finds out how microblogging is changing China.
Published on Thursday, 19th July 2012.
Migrants fleeing war or poverty who are risking their lives to reach the European Union.
Published on Thursday, 12th July 2012.
Mukul Devichand tells the stories of Shanghai's rapidly ageing population.
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2012.
Lucy Ash visits Russia's Arctic where reindeer herders and gas companies compete for land.
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2012.
A profile of the People's Funeral Service in Honduras, the most murderous nation on earth.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2012.
Angus Crawford joins Bangladeshis working to halt the illegal practice of child brides.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2012.
Emre Azizlerli investigates how gay men in Turkey are humiliated by the army.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2012.
Natalia Antelava uncovers evidence of the involuntary sterilisation of women in Uzbekistan
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2012.
Why have two Louisiana prison inmates been held in solitary confinement for 40 years?
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2012.
Crossing Continents investigates prescription drug abuse among Canada's aboriginal people.
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2012.
Gabriel Gatehouse investigates freedom and repression in Kurdish Iraq.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2012.
Justin Rowlatt investigates Brazilian successes in fighting deforestation.
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2012.
Retracing the route of Antarctic explorer Frank Wild, Shackleton's second-in-command.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2011.
Who are the thousands of people discovered in mass graves in Indian Kashmir?
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2011.
Tales of discontent and reform from Guangzhou, China's mega-city of migrants.
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2011.
Ed Butler investigates abuse of children and scamming of volunteers by Bali's orphanages.
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2011.
Martin Plaut investigates Zimbabwe's agriculture ten years after the farm invasions.
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2011.
Lucy Ash asks if a billionaire's roubles can help to end Dagestan's bloody insurgency.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2011.
How local level campaigners against corruption in India face threats and violence.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2011.
The stories of young children travelling alone from Zimbabwe to South Africa.
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2011.
Investigating the health impact on New York from the collapse of the World Trade Centre.
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2011.
Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi.
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2011.
A portrait of the sleepy Ghanaian city of Takoradi at the start of an oil boom.
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2011.
Linda Pressly joins migrants on their perilous journey north through Guatemala and Mexico.
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2011.
Tim Judah reports from Senegal on the growing influence of the Mouride Sufi brotherhood.
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2011.
Reporting the desperate and dangerous efforts of North Koreans to flee to the South.
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2011.
The mountain Berbers of Libya fighting for their culture and their lives against Gaddafi.
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2011.
An on-the-road behind-the-scenes profile of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2011.
Does the key to curing Alzheimer's lie with a poor extended family in Medellin, Colombia?
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2011.
Owen Bennett-Jones explores Pakistan's connections to jihadi groups.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2011.
Martin Plaut investigates alleged shortcomings at gold mines in South Africa.
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2011.
Lucy Ash returns to some significant stories Crossing Continents covered in recent years.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2011.
David Goldblatt looks at whether Berlin's alternative culture is under threat.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2011.
The unfolding Egyptian revolution through the eyes of five extraordinary women.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2011.
Ecuador's radical plan to keep oil reserves in the ground, and save the rainforest.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2011.
Investigating the human trafficking of Ugandan women to work as virtual slaves in Iraq.
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2011.
A portrait of life in Iraq through the story of its international gateway.
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2011.
Cambodia is selling vast swathes of its land to global investors - but at what price?
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2011.
Linda Pressly travels to Kerala to examine the silent revolution in palliative care.
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2011.
Lina Sinjab investigates the impact of corruption and bribery in Syria.
Published on Thursday, 30th December 2010.
David Goldblatt examines Senegalese wrestling; Africa's sporting spectacular.
Published on Thursday, 23rd December 2010.
Bahrain says it's modern and progressive - but political opponents face jail and torture.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 2010.
A profile of Nichi Vendola, the new hope of the left in Italy.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2010.
Angus Crawford travels to Georgia to find poverty at the heart of the Christmas tree trade
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2010.
Lucy Ash asks why six young men in Russia's Far East waged a guerrilla war on the police.
Published on Thursday, 25th November 2010.
Sheena McDonald asks why millions of people die on the world's roads each year.
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2010.
Who are the winners and the losers as Delhi rebuilds itself for the Commonwealth Games?
Published on Thursday, 9th September 2010.
Christopher Landau explores the explosive growth of Christianity in China.
Published on Thursday, 2nd September 2010.
