How one Pakistani suspected smuggler’s TikTok account revealed clues of his activities
Published on Wednesday, 30th April 2025.
Thousands of Israelis are making a new home in Cyprus in the wake of 7th October
Published on Tuesday, 29th April 2025.
Author Madeleine Thien's long path to creating her novel The Book of Records
Published on Monday, 28th April 2025.
A bonus episode from Good Bad Billionaire about Minecraft creator Markus Persson
Published on Sunday, 27th April 2025.
Skin-lightening creams are popular in Nigeria, but some can be harmful
Published on Saturday, 26th April 2025.
Sharing memories of how the Pope changed lives
A bonus episode of Dear Daughter from the BBC World Service
Published on Friday, 25th April 2025.
What is behind the Russian new age movement of Anastasia that has taken hold in Germany?
Published on Thursday, 24th April 2025.
The history of the environmental movement, as told by the people who were there
Published on Wednesday, 23rd April 2025.
Following the death of Pope Francis, Edward Stourton explores his life and legacy
Published on Tuesday, 22nd April 2025.
A cancelled election and a divided country - is Romania’s democracy under threat?
Amin Gulgee finds healing by curating a museum of his murdered father’s work in Karachi
Published on Monday, 21st April 2025.
BBC Eye investigates one of China’s most notorious cases of botched cosmetic surgery
Published on Sunday, 20th April 2025.
Why did the Taliban install over 90,000 hi-definition CCTV cameras in Kabul?
Published on Saturday, 19th April 2025.
Women share their experiences of discrimination because of the dark tone of their skin
Tim Eriksen explores the American choral tradition of shape note singing, sung a cappella
Published on Friday, 18th April 2025.
A celebration of braille from around the world, 200 years after it was invented
Published on Thursday, 17th April 2025.
How Olympique Lyonnais dominated Europe and fought for equality
Published on Wednesday, 16th April 2025.
Protest against New Zealand’s moves to abolish Māori rights in the name of equality
Published on Tuesday, 15th April 2025.
Composer Steve Reich reflects on six decades of musical innovation
Published on Monday, 14th April 2025.
In Germany, the end of World War Two in 1945 was a time of chaos, fear and soul-searching
Published on Sunday, 13th April 2025.
After being stopped at the US-Mexico border, a group of Venezuelans try to go back home
Published on Saturday, 12th April 2025.
Business owners in the US and across the world on the impact of tariffs
Edward Stourton visits a church community following a shooting at Alapachee High School
Published on Friday, 11th April 2025.
Rising from the ashes of genocide, Buddhist monks take to TikTok to end child violence
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2025.
How South East Asian cinema unexpectedly boomed with record-breaking blockbusters
Published on Wednesday, 9th April 2025.
Mysterious drone sightings in Denmark reveal a new era in UFOlogy
Published on Tuesday, 8th April 2025.
Composer Anna Clyne and sound designer Jody Elff create a new piece inspired by colours
Published on Monday, 7th April 2025.
President Trump has upended the international order to promote his “America First” agenda
Published on Sunday, 6th April 2025.
Divya Arya on the flamboyant life of one of India's most influential 'godwomen'
Published on Saturday, 5th April 2025.
Boys, girls, parents and teachers discuss the issues raised by the hit series
How a school shooting victim helped his community heal through faith and forgiveness
Published on Friday, 4th April 2025.
Douglas Fraser investigates the struggle to defend critical subsea infrastructure
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2025.
The rise of headphone and earbud use and its impact on society, health and culture
Published on Wednesday, 2nd April 2025.
Battered in the war with Israel, Hezbollah is under pressure - even from its supporters
Published on Monday, 31st March 2025.
The epic journey of Lindy Lee's $14 million, three-tonne, 10-metre wide artwork Ouroboros
Five years on from the global lockdown we catch up with the "Covid Generation"
Published on Sunday, 30th March 2025.
Exploring Georgia's capital city
Published on Saturday, 29th March 2025.
Protesters and journalists share their experiences from the streets
The grandson of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz preaches against antisemitism
Published on Friday, 28th March 2025.
How LA and its artistic community are dealing with the aftermath of devastating fires
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2025.
What does increased life expectancy mean in one of the poorest countries in the world?
Published on Wednesday, 26th March 2025.
The small town Philippines mayor with the million dollar secret
Published on Tuesday, 25th March 2025.
The parents opting out of American public education for their children
Published on Monday, 24th March 2025.
In Saudi Arabia, NEOM are building a futuristic new city - The Line
Europe’s leaders are considering whether they could go it alone without US military aid
Published on Sunday, 23rd March 2025.
Why does Georgia find itself in a time of political turmoil?
Published on Saturday, 22nd March 2025.
Russian citizens share their views and experiences of the Ukraine-Russia war
A community giving intersex and transgender individuals in Bangladesh a place to worship
Published on Friday, 21st March 2025.
How methanol poisoning from illicit alcohol affects victims around the world
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2025.
With a growing clampdown, how long can anti-government protests continue in Georgia?
Published on Tuesday, 18th March 2025.
Exploring the histories and myths around Britain’s salt monopoly in India
Published on Monday, 17th March 2025.
How our noisy world is increasing health problems from heart attacks, to sleep and anxiety
Published on Sunday, 16th March 2025.
Why are more women in Kenya opting for a child-free life?
Published on Saturday, 15th March 2025.
US aid staff and the people they work with describe the impact of cuts to USAID
A new wave of spiritual tourism is reshaping sacred ayahuasca practises in Peru
Published on Friday, 14th March 2025.
Conor Garrett visits a community of convicted sex offenders in Florida
Published on Thursday, 13th March 2025.
Is life improving for the country’s indigenous population?
Published on Tuesday, 11th March 2025.
How Ghanaian fashion innovator Kwaku Bediako is redefining luxury
Published on Monday, 10th March 2025.
Extraordinary stories from women's history, told by the people who were there
Published on Sunday, 9th March 2025.
The head of Russian rhythmic gymnastics has fallen from glory
Published on Saturday, 8th March 2025.
Women, tour guides and reunited families share their experiences of life in Syria
Amie Liebowitz interviews matchmaker and dating coach Aleeza Ben Shalom
Published on Friday, 7th March 2025.
Can boxing help traumatised Yazidi women and girls heal from all they have been through?
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2025.
The reality TV shows that continue to court controversy and the scandals behind them
Published on Wednesday, 5th March 2025.
How huge payouts to soldiers and their families are creating a new middle class in Russia
Published on Tuesday, 4th March 2025.
Debula Kemoli investigates the sexual exploitation of girls on TikTok live streams
Published on Monday, 3rd March 2025.
Marcin Dudek uses recordings of a Premier League football crowd to make a sonic sculpture
Published on Sunday, 2nd March 2025.
How global demand is reshaping the Korean beauty industry
Published on Saturday, 1st March 2025.
Four men and women discuss their lifestyle with multiple partners
The first Western Buddhist nun to be fully ordained in Bhutan tells us her story
Published on Friday, 28th February 2025.
Sacha Dench explores three different vulture stories, of persecution and survival
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2025.
Will Meta’s move to X-style Community Notes work?
Published on Wednesday, 26th February 2025.
How a recent killing in Paris reveals a dark side to the city's cycling revolution
Published on Tuesday, 25th February 2025.
Mohammad Barrangi sprinted for Iran at the Paralympics, but is now an artist in the UK
Published on Monday, 24th February 2025.
Russia’s land grab playbook aimed at erasing local identity
Published on Sunday, 23rd February 2025.
How has the country changed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad?
Published on Saturday, 22nd February 2025.
Every moment can be the last experiences of life in Ukraine
Can we prepare or train for our own mortality in order to find peace with death?
Published on Friday, 21st February 2025.
Extraordinary stories from African-American history, told by the people who were there
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2025.
Why Russia is cracking down on the craze to dress as animals and run on all fours
Published on Wednesday, 19th February 2025.
The coalmine that swallows villages whole and the village that survived
Published on Tuesday, 18th February 2025.
Celebrated composer Jennifer Walshe creates a new opera set on Mars
Published on Monday, 17th February 2025.
How will Ukraine be rebuilt after the war?
Published on Sunday, 16th February 2025.
Inside the Kabul flea market selling second-hand US military equipment to the Taliban
Published on Saturday, 15th February 2025.
The effect of artificial intelligence on jobs, for better or worse
Abram Ishakov is the caretaker of the oldest synagogue in Central Asia
Published on Friday, 14th February 2025.
A community radio station is reviving the language and culture of the Nuxalk people
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2025.
How con artists learn the tricks of their trade at dedicated scamming schools in Nigeria
Published on Wednesday, 12th February 2025.
After a Saudi trans woman’s death went viral, BBC Eye investigates her final months
Published on Tuesday, 11th February 2025.
Mexican fashion designer Bárbara Sánchez-Kane disarms masculinity through menswear
Published on Monday, 10th February 2025.
Fears that fighting on Ghana’s northern border may spread
Published on Sunday, 9th February 2025.
Katie Smith is in New Orleans to sample the atmosphere ahead of Super Bowl LIX
From the fall of Kabul, to falling in love
Published on Saturday, 8th February 2025.
Views from Gazans and Israelis on plans for a “Riviera of the Middle East”
The co-founders of Turkey’s first Muslim feminist association on faith and activism
Published on Friday, 7th February 2025.
In the run up to Germany’s snap general elections Jeremy Cliffe goes to Ludwigshafen
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2025.
How fake streams are stealing millions from the music industry
Published on Wednesday, 5th February 2025.
In an era of climate change, what does the future look like for Spain’s olive farmers?
Published on Tuesday, 4th February 2025.
An updated bonus episode of stories of migration on the US-Mexico border
Published on Monday, 3rd February 2025.
BBC Eye investigation into China’s use of psychiatric wards to silence critics
Published on Sunday, 2nd February 2025.
Friendship, singing, and executions: The stories of women inside Evin prison
Published on Saturday, 1st February 2025.
Views from supporters of border crackdowns and those with undocumented family members
Rajeev Gupta learns about a spiritual movement in Las Vegas.
Published on Friday, 31st January 2025.
Hannah Ajala uncovers the stories behind the unique traditions of Ghanaian funerals
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2025.
Open Source analysts and fact-checkers describe the toll of documenting the Ukraine war
Published on Wednesday, 29th January 2025.
Saudi's film industry is booming but not all stories can be told
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2025.
Imprisoned in Auschwitz, Krystyna Żywulska created some of the most remarkable songs
Published on Monday, 27th January 2025.
Behind the scenes of Ken Loach's last feature film, The Old Oak
Saint Lucia's first ever Olympic medallist Julien Alfred shares how she won 100m gold
Published on Sunday, 26th January 2025.
Why is Russia closing down gay clubs and arresting drag queens?
Published on Saturday, 25th January 2025.
People on both sides of the conflict share their experiences
Meet the French Benedictine monks who give glory to God by producing heavenly wine
Published on Friday, 24th January 2025.
Proposals to ban Unrwa have drawn condemnation and warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2025.
The impact that young digital nomads known as 'passport bros' are having on Medellín
Published on Wednesday, 22nd January 2025.
How a town in Poland – once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past
Published on Tuesday, 21st January 2025.
Michael Visocchi’s sculpture Commensalis, celebrates the whales of Antarctica
Published on Monday, 20th January 2025.
Gabriel Gatehouse follows the characters who have propelled Trump into the White House
Published on Sunday, 19th January 2025.
BBC journalist Ana Maria Roura shares her experience of undergoing fertility treatments
Published on Saturday, 18th January 2025.
Survivors share their experiences of escaping the flames
Michael Goldfarb looks at the origins of Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead
Published on Friday, 17th January 2025.
Dr Jenny Okolo asks if a mental-health-first approach to justice can reduce crime rates
Published on Wednesday, 15th January 2025.
The female engineer who has created a chatbot on WhatsApp to help deliver aid in Lebanon
The young Gambians who had to give up on their journey to Europe
Published on Tuesday, 14th January 2025.
Musician, artist and activist Madame Gandhi makes music from the sounds of the Arctic
Published on Monday, 13th January 2025.
A group of African Americans are in Sierra Leone for a very special homecoming
Published on Sunday, 12th January 2025.
How falling birth rates led to the closure of over 400 maternity wards in China
Published on Saturday, 11th January 2025.
Survivors, relatives and counsellors share their experiences of vehicle-ramming attacks
Sahar Zand investigates the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh
Published on Friday, 10th January 2025.
The night sky holds so much power - why are we not fighting harder to protect it?
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2025.
In the city of Goma, former child soldiers are being rehabilitated using capoeira
Published on Wednesday, 8th January 2025.
The conspiracy theories that swirled around Valencia's floods
How feminists in South Korea are being hunted down, attacked and sacked
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2025.
How Dan Perri created title sequences for some of cinema's most famous films
Published on Monday, 6th January 2025.
How a group of Nigerian women came together to protect their community from violence
Published on Saturday, 4th January 2025.
Megan Boni, actor Kirsty Paterson, Kelley Heyer, and Auri Kananen on going viral
Published on Friday, 3rd January 2025.
In Palermo, neighbourhood dogs roam freely and are embraced by locals, protected by law
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2025.
Lianne Sanderson explores the science and solutions for ACL injuries in female athletes
Published on Wednesday, 1st January 2025.
Changing the temple complex of Cambodia's '8th wonder of the world'
Published on Tuesday, 31st December 2024.
Justin Webb looks at Jimmy Carter's journey from peanut farmer to the White House
Published on Monday, 30th December 2024.
Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno on his hot air balloon creation, Aerocene
A special programme remembering some past HARDtalk guests who died in 2024
Published on Sunday, 29th December 2024.
Old hits and horror movies: what is trending in Bollywood right now
Published on Saturday, 28th December 2024.
Thea LaFond, Paralympian Palesha Goverdhan and boxer David de Pina share their stories
Stories of hope and inspiration around the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral
Published on Friday, 27th December 2024.
Are new technology and hyper-tourism changing the Italian city of Florence forever?
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2024.
We look back on some of the most powerful moments from 2024
Published on Wednesday, 25th December 2024.
The ghosts haunting Ukraine's relations with Poland - and the killers some see as heroes
Published on Tuesday, 24th December 2024.
At a school in Bulgaria, pupils are making movies for Le Cinema Cent Ans De Jeunesse
Published on Monday, 23rd December 2024.
What would the potential loss of Syrian bases mean for Russia?
Published on Sunday, 22nd December 2024.
K-dramas are taking the world by storm. What's the secret of their success?
Published on Saturday, 21st December 2024.
Former inmates of the notorious Saydnaya share their experiences of Assad’s brutal regime
The rising antisemitism faced by the Jewish community in Turkey
Published on Friday, 20th December 2024.
The soldiers spying for the enemy
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2024.
Since 2007, more than 20 human feet have washed up on the shores of Canada and the US
Published on Wednesday, 18th December 2024.
President Milei promised to hack Argentina's state and budget, what's the impact?
Published on Tuesday, 17th December 2024.
Behind the scenes with the teams designing the London store’s festive windows
Published on Monday, 16th December 2024.
Why do some young women in Chechnya decide to leave everything behind?
Published on Saturday, 14th December 2024.
After 50 years of dictatorship, Syrians have their voices back
Searching for the origins of images of black representations of the Virgin Mary
Published on Friday, 13th December 2024.
In Bosnia's Tuzla region, survivors of the war are still living in refugee camps
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2024.
The search for inner peace through yoga leads Miranda into a dark, hidden world
Published on Wednesday, 11th December 2024.
The Cook Islands and the plan to harvest the bottom of the sea
Published on Tuesday, 10th December 2024.
Celebrating 10 years of The Food Chain with some of our favourite moments
Published on Monday, 9th December 2024.
At the world Morse Code championships in Tunisia, competitors battle to be the fastest
Published on Sunday, 8th December 2024.
Argentina's president promised to cut spending with his infamous chainsaw. Did it work?
Published on Saturday, 7th December 2024.
Residents in Israel and Lebanon share their experiences, hopes and fears
Robert Beckford explores the significance of slave names and their impact on individuals
Published on Friday, 6th December 2024.
How more people are reaching the EU from Turkey, and the efforts to police this movement
What has happened to Afghanistan’s female journalists?
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2024.
A shock offensive turned Syria’s forgotten conflict into hot war
Published on Wednesday, 4th December 2024.
How climate, finances and changing habits has brought French wine-makers to the brink
Published on Tuesday, 3rd December 2024.
How tomato paste made with forced labour in China is likely to be in supermarkets
Published on Monday, 2nd December 2024.
Agnès Poirier follows the craftspeople reconstructing France's famous gothic cathedral
Published on Sunday, 1st December 2024.
Russian soldiers are fleeing in record numbers. How should the West treat them?
Published on Saturday, 30th November 2024.
Ukrainians share their experiences of the war
At the end of America’s border wall, James Naughtie meets the people helping migrants
Published on Friday, 29th November 2024.
How the works of US writer and activist James Baldwin still resonate 100 years on
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2024.
We take a look at what history can teach us about the conflict in the Middle East
Published on Wednesday, 27th November 2024.
One young woman's story from Taliban controlled Afghanistan
Published on Tuesday, 26th November 2024.
Legendary musician, composer and producer Brian Eno on technique and inspiration in nature
Published on Monday, 25th November 2024.
Ghislaine Boddington explores how to create an AI version of herself
Published on Sunday, 24th November 2024.
What to do and what to wear when apologising to the Ashanti King of Ghana
Published on Saturday, 23rd November 2024.
The difficulties of living and breathing when the air outside is toxic
France used to send missionaries to Africa, now it’s the other way round
Published on Friday, 22nd November 2024.
South African DJ Legendary Crisp charts the rise of the Amapiano music genre
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2024.
How renowned architect David Chipperfield is improving lives in Galicia's coastal towns
Published on Wednesday, 20th November 2024.
Why the people of once-fertile north-east Syria have almost no drinking water
Published on Tuesday, 19th November 2024.
Malaysia; the global hub for recycling plastic waste
Published on Monday, 18th November 2024.
How women's football has boomed in the past decade, and what challenges still lie ahead
Published on Sunday, 17th November 2024.
Actor Idris Elba is planning to move to Africa. What's inspiring him, and many others?
Published on Saturday, 16th November 2024.
A family shares their experience of searching for their missing father
Why an Australian journalist decided to try and stop Western powers bombing Iraq
Published on Friday, 15th November 2024.
Spend a week with the chaplains of Heathrow Airport supporting passengers and staff
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2024.
Blood, pollution and oil in South Sudan but who is responsible? BBC Eye investigates
Published on Monday, 11th November 2024.
Ce Benedict goes behinds the scenes of Opera Australia
Published on Sunday, 10th November 2024.
Why are people protesting on the streets of Tbilisi, in Georgia?
Published on Saturday, 9th November 2024.
We get reaction from Republicans, Democrats and Ukrainians
Why an Arab Israeli set out to educate his fellow Palestinians about the Holocaust
Published on Friday, 8th November 2024.
With its future under threat, how can Tuvalu preserve its culture?
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2024.
2024 has been a big year for elections. But how can we make sure people can vote safely?
Published on Wednesday, 6th November 2024.
Ghanian journalist Justice Baidoo examines the threat to hundreds of languages in Africa
Published on Tuesday, 5th November 2024.
TRIVAX on their mission to fight against oppression and totalitarianism through music
Published on Monday, 4th November 2024.
Assignment visits the small Danish manufacturing town making the weight loss drug Wegovy
Published on Saturday, 2nd November 2024.
Ibrat Safo explores Uzbekistan's love story with textiles
How major news stories are affecting the lives of people around the world
How the unshakeable faith of Palestinian Muslims in Gaza led Vanessa to embrace Islam
Published on Friday, 1st November 2024.
The Jaguar is the apex predator in the Pantanal, Brazil, but loss of habitat is a threat
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2024.
Cash-strapped and verbally abused – players of the TikTok game taking Somalia by storm
Published on Wednesday, 30th October 2024.
Stories of people fighting to claim their racial identity, and those looking to police it
Published on Tuesday, 29th October 2024.
Legendary American author Ishmael Reed is 86 – how does he keep creating?
Published on Monday, 28th October 2024.
Is the climate on the ballot at the US election?
Published on Sunday, 27th October 2024.
Where did the vampire myth originate from?
Published on Saturday, 26th October 2024.
We discuss if the male vote is a problem or opportunity ahead of the US election
Former assistant numeraries who worked in Opus Dei centres say they were abused
Published on Friday, 25th October 2024.
The dangerous and secretive work of the Iraqi women helping victims of domestic violence
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2024.
Meet the man who intervenes to protect people accused of witchcraft across Africa
Published on Wednesday, 23rd October 2024.
Amid the rubble, children in Gaza are learning music. How and why do they go on singing?
Published on Tuesday, 22nd October 2024.
Jonny Banger is an artist who blurs the lines between fashion, music and activism
Published on Monday, 21st October 2024.
Are Greece's tough people smuggling policies seeing the wrong people pay the price?
Published on Sunday, 20th October 2024.
African Initiative claims to be a media organisation. Who's behind it?
Published on Saturday, 19th October 2024.
Residents in Mexico on coping with crime, kidnappings and murders
Liam Payne: Why One Direction fans are so heartbroken
Published on Friday, 18th October 2024.
What is Enkumbi, a ritual practised in certain cultures in Uganda and across Africa?
A new free-to-access children’s hospital is revolutionising paediatric care in Uganda
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2024.
How job postings on social media are luring people into organised crime in Japan
Published on Wednesday, 16th October 2024.
Singapore and drugs: compulsory rehabilitation, and traffickers paying the ultimate price
Published on Tuesday, 15th October 2024.
Mia Lehrer on the revitalisation of an American icon
Published on Monday, 14th October 2024.
Is the goal of an end the Aids pandemic by 2030 really possible?
Published on Sunday, 13th October 2024.
Who are the Grey Wolves, and why is their salute controversial?
Published on Saturday, 12th October 2024.
Family members of hostages taken by Hamas discuss the agony of silence
Yoga is big business but has it become disconnected from its spiritual roots?
Published on Friday, 11th October 2024.
The female crooks who exploit superstition and family love to swindle other women
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2024.
Mishal Husain hosts a debate on the prospects for peace in the Middle East
Published on Wednesday, 9th October 2024.
Switching off our smartphones
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2024.
One year on from the start of the war, we analyse what’s going on in Israel and Gaza
Published on Monday, 7th October 2024.
Gary O'Donoghue meets newspaper editors during the US presidential election campaign
New abuse allegations have emerged about one of India's film industries
Published on Saturday, 5th October 2024.
Three young women in Gaza share their experiences living through war in their own voices
How a tragic loss inspired a pharmaceutical executive to become a Catholic priest
Published on Friday, 4th October 2024.
Anoosheh Ashoori was imprisoned in Iran, falsely accused of spying - Lives Less Ordinary
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2024.
Is Azerbaijan capitalising on France’s struggle in the South Pacific?
Published on Wednesday, 2nd October 2024.
Indonesia's capital Jakarta is sinking but how easy is it to build a new capital city?
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2024.
Panama’s fight for water in one of the world’s wettest countries
Ian Rankin is on a deadline to complete his next Inspector Rebus thriller
Published on Monday, 30th September 2024.
Crime novelist Ian Rankin begins writing his latest Inspector Rebus novel
What will Claudia Sheinbaum's presidency look like?
Published on Saturday, 28th September 2024.
Sharing personal experiences from both sides of the border
The sacred spring that unites people of all faiths in hope
Published on Friday, 27th September 2024.
What changes have the Taliban made to Afghanistan in their 3 years of power?
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2024.
How a nature reserve in the Philippines got caught in an information battle
Published on Wednesday, 25th September 2024.
Somalia - Where climate change meets conflict
How the debate over abortion and IVF has divided evangelical Christians in the US
Published on Tuesday, 24th September 2024.
Designer Erdem Moralıoğlu on taking inspiration from powerful women in culture
Published on Monday, 23rd September 2024.
Damien McGuinness talks to a generation of refugees in Germany now becoming citizens
Published on Sunday, 22nd September 2024.
Pavel Kushnir: a classical pianist or a dangerous dissident?
Published on Saturday, 21st September 2024.
Stories of how strangers have been able to help when they’ve seen a person in distress
Jibra’il Omar, formerly Timothy Weeks, spent three years in captivity in Afghanistan
Published on Friday, 20th September 2024.
How does a controversial ground station in Argentina help China land the space race?
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2024.
We speak to women targeted by the Iranian government after posting on social media
Published on Wednesday, 18th September 2024.
Freeing Johnny, Rocky and Rambo, the dolphins of the world's last travelling circus
How Malaysia failed to plan for its fast-growing elderly population
Published on Tuesday, 17th September 2024.
Peruvian singer Lenin Tamayo, creator of Quechua pop, works on his next EP
Published on Monday, 16th September 2024.
How Bonaventure Dossou's translation app is increasing accessibility to African dialects
Published on Sunday, 15th September 2024.
Stories from India and China about the exams that shape the lives of millions
Published on Saturday, 14th September 2024.
We hear from people who ditched their dating apps and from those who found love on them
Indigenous spirituality on the modern island of Ibiza
Published on Friday, 13th September 2024.
Marianna Spring investigates the impact of smartphones and social media on teens
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2024.
The fastest animal on earth – the peregrine falcon – is thriving alongside us
‘Now another girl has been born, kill her’ – Indian midwives make a shocking confession
Published on Tuesday, 10th September 2024.
The journey from cocoa to chocolate in Ivory Coast
Using film, sculpture and installations, Tuan explores how memories haunt the present
Published on Monday, 9th September 2024.
Indiana Jones: the kids who remade a blockbuster — Lives Less Ordinary
Published on Sunday, 8th September 2024.
People in Pakistan are struggling to use social media. Why?
Published on Saturday, 7th September 2024.
Mpox sufferers and doctors share their experiences
Polish anthropologist Alexandra Janus deliberates buying back a piece of her heritage
Published on Friday, 6th September 2024.
What allows fish to cope with the immense water pressure of the ocean depths?
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2024.
Extremist settlers are supported by “state-linked” organisations, BBC Eye reveals
Published on Tuesday, 3rd September 2024.
The beach resort frozen in time by 50 years of conflict, and the struggle over its future
In Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, the underground music scene is fighting against a clampdown
Published on Monday, 2nd September 2024.
One of America's most daring artists records a new album inspired by Amelia Earhart
Kavita meets some of the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine
Published on Sunday, 1st September 2024.
Could a cup of coffee become an act of love and remembrance?
Published on Saturday, 31st August 2024.
Afghan women discuss their everyday life and the impact of tighter new restrictions
Julia Paul discovers what happened to the young women she taught in Kabul 20 years ago
Published on Friday, 30th August 2024.
Kgothatso Montjane talks about her life as a wheelchair tennis champion
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2024.
Hezbollah has intensified attacks on Israel - who are they and what do they want?
Published on Wednesday, 28th August 2024.
Why Armenians in Jerusalem say they are fighting an existential battle
Published on Tuesday, 27th August 2024.
Creating a building to house Albert Einstein's legacy, work and research in Jerusalem
Published on Monday, 26th August 2024.
The trailblazing sports stars with a learning disability and the barriers they face
Published on Sunday, 25th August 2024.
Why was the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut such an important target for Russia?
Published on Saturday, 24th August 2024.
Indians share their experiences of attitudes towards women in the country
How financial investigator Libero Milone fell foul of the Vatican but kept his faith
Published on Friday, 23rd August 2024.
The people finding solutions to improve the odds for premature babies
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2024.
The fishermen who say they were mistreated by a Scottish fishing company speak out
Published on Wednesday, 21st August 2024.
Drone technology is transforming the battlefield in Ukraine.
Published on Tuesday, 20th August 2024.
Creating geometric works for both humans and nature
Published on Monday, 19th August 2024.
How historic mistreatment contributed to the 2023 deadly Hawaiian wildfires
Published on Sunday, 18th August 2024.
The young women taking to social media to show 'caste pride'
Published on Saturday, 17th August 2024.
Venezuelans inside the country and abroad share their stories
The educators teaching Muslim women about healthy sex
Published on Friday, 16th August 2024.
India has set itself a target to eradicate tuberculosis by 2025. But can it succeed?
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2024.
We meet the creatives that are turning deadly air pollution into art, ink and jewellery
Published on Wednesday, 14th August 2024.
‘School choice’: Why are parents opting out of public education for their children?
Published on Tuesday, 13th August 2024.
How do you take an Edvand Munch exhibition worth millions to both sides of the Atlantic?
Published on Monday, 12th August 2024.
First-hand accounts of the precarious lives of America’s undocumented Latinos
Published on Sunday, 11th August 2024.
Why so many Vietnamese women use matchmaking agencies to find a foreign spouse?
Published on Saturday, 10th August 2024.
Young voices on the extraordinary political upheaval in their country
Could AI versions of loved ones who have died help the bereaved deal with their grief?
Published on Friday, 9th August 2024.
The group’s return to power in Afghanistan has seen the erasure of women from public life
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2024.
We speak to three engineers at the forefront of the 'Machine Learning: AI' revolution
Can the killer fungus Tropical Race 4 that is ravaging banana plantations be stopped?
Published on Wednesday, 7th August 2024.
Monfalcone’s mayor has effectively tried to ban collective Muslim prayer in her town
Published on Tuesday, 6th August 2024.
Australia’s top female breakdancer prepares for her debut at the Paris 2024 Olympics
Published on Monday, 5th August 2024.
Paul French explores how Hong Kong's history is being revised and erased
Published on Sunday, 4th August 2024.
Two BBC Afghan journalists reflect on the third anniversary of the Taliban takeover.
Published on Saturday, 3rd August 2024.
The fears, stress and loss experienced by those both within and outside the country
The would-be Olympic champion who is now fighting to overcome his past traumas in Jordan
Published on Friday, 2nd August 2024.
We look back to an interview with Irish author, Edna O'brien, on her book Country Girls
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2024.
In a bonus episode of The Global Story podcast - Divorce: The art of breaking up
Published on Wednesday, 31st July 2024.
In a bonus episode from HARDtalk - what motivates whistleblowers?
Published on Tuesday, 30th July 2024.
World-renowned micro-sculptor Willard Wigan carves a tribute to Charles Darwin
Published on Monday, 29th July 2024.
Exploring the Mexican town where the women have been feeding migrants for 30 years
Published on Sunday, 28th July 2024.
Can a woman wear make-up if she is expected to be modest?
Published on Saturday, 27th July 2024.
Chucks and pearls - the appeal to supporters of Kamala Harris
The American atheists removing illegal religious signs from streets across the states
Published on Friday, 26th July 2024.
Young girls wrestling for justice and Olympic glory. Divya Arya finds out what it takes
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2024.
The power of peaceful protest and how to affect change
Published on Wednesday, 24th July 2024.
The Apartheid Killer. All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old
Published on Tuesday, 23rd July 2024.
Go behind the scenes at one of the world’s best and most creative restaurants
Published on Monday, 22nd July 2024.
The destruction of the Roma by the Nazi state and allies and their post war fate
Published on Sunday, 21st July 2024.
The Olympics Games through the lens of our Fifth Floor colleagues
Published on Saturday, 20th July 2024.
How the image of the bloodied and defiant former president is redefining the election
We follow the communities involved in Tblisi's interfaith project - The Peace Cathedral
Published on Friday, 19th July 2024.
A story of witchcraft, sexual exploitation and human trafficking
Published on Thursday, 18th July 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
Exposed: the charity which claims to save children from trafficking and abuse
Published on Tuesday, 16th July 2024.
Creating a multi-media installation inspired by an Indigenous story
Published on Monday, 15th July 2024.
In its third year of war, how is Ukraine dealing with conscription?
Published on Saturday, 13th July 2024.
Why feeling fed up led to a vote for political change
Breaking with tradition in a diverse Muslim world
Published on Friday, 12th July 2024.
How Hatayspor football club is fighting to survive the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquake
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2024.
Why are criminals tricking Chinese foreign students into faking their own kidnapping?
Published on Wednesday, 10th July 2024.
Wendy Sharpe breaks conventions with her new exhibition Spellbound
Published on Tuesday, 9th July 2024.
Why one elderly person is killed every week in eastern Kenya - in the name of witchcraft
Published on Monday, 8th July 2024.
Kavita Puri, the creator and presenter of Three Million, on how the series was made
Published on Sunday, 7th July 2024.
A real life Squid Game in South Korea and a virtual tour of Brazil's giant ravines
Published on Saturday, 6th July 2024.
Young Kenyan protestors share the stories of their lives and why they took to the streets
A historic loss for the conservatives ushers in a new era in British politics
Published on Friday, 5th July 2024.
Michael Goldfarb goes on a journey to find the exiled Jews of Sepharad, Hebrew for Spain
A look at the countries where it is still a criminal offence to attempt suicide
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2024.
The con men who threaten to extradite their victims to China if they do not pay “bail”
Published on Wednesday, 3rd July 2024.
The story of Jan and Els who opted for euthanasia, and died together in the Netherlands
Published on Monday, 1st July 2024.
Baek Mi-kyoung on creating the sequel to the hugely popular Strong Girl Bong-soon
Japa, the Yoruba word for escape, has become shorthand for moving abroad.
Published on Sunday, 30th June 2024.
Instant loan apps promise easy money. But what's the catch?
Published on Saturday, 29th June 2024.
Three Muslims from the US, Kenya and Saudi Arabia share their pilgrimage experiences
Artúr Čonka joins the pilgrimage for Sara-La-Kali, patron saint of the Romani people
Published on Friday, 28th June 2024.
How Frank Worrell became the first Black captain of the West Indies cricket team
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2024.
An American ex-cop living in Moscow is pumping out messages targeting American voters
Published on Wednesday, 26th June 2024.
How German podcasters tracked down a terrorist suspect with an AI facial recognition tool
Published on Tuesday, 25th June 2024.
How Helsinki’s design boss creates a vibrant environment for a diversifying city
Published on Monday, 24th June 2024.
After a lull in activities, in 2024 IS claimed to be behind several major attacks
Published on Sunday, 23rd June 2024.
In his hometown Alvin Hall considers America’s past and its divided present
Jihadist media specialist Mina Al-Lami analyses IS' most recent activities
Published on Saturday, 22nd June 2024.
We bring together people with different experiences of national service
Music and messages for the isolated staff at British research stations in the Antarctic
Published on Friday, 21st June 2024.
Ethnically-Korean Ukrainian refugees returning to Korea are receiving a mixed welcome
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2024.
Fighters from dissident armed groups in Colombia are using TikTok to recruit youngsters.
Published on Wednesday, 19th June 2024.
Is Russia Europe's last colonial power? What would "decolonising" Russia mean?
Published on Tuesday, 18th June 2024.
Artist Nazanin Moradi challenges male dominance through ancient Mesopotamian myths
Published on Monday, 17th June 2024.
How the legacy of the Bengal Famine of 1943 lives on in Britain today
Published on Sunday, 16th June 2024.
Would you turn to AI to create your perfect partner?
Published on Saturday, 15th June 2024.
Far-right voters in Europe share what's informing their views
Jigyasa Mishra meets farmers and perfumers trying to keep a dying scent alive in Kannauj
Published on Friday, 14th June 2024.
A story of hope and faith from Gaza’s only Roman Catholic church
How Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu became the flag bearer for fossil fuels in Africa
Published on Wednesday, 12th June 2024.
The town where primary schools asked parents not to buy smartphones for their children
Published on Tuesday, 11th June 2024.
We follow the sequel to the award-winning Hellblade video game
Published on Monday, 10th June 2024.
What can Muslims do to reduce the enormous carbon footprint of the pilgrimage to Mecca?
Published on Sunday, 9th June 2024.
We meet the people in western India cut off from the mainland by a bridgeless river
Ordinary Mexicans share their concerns and hopes for new President Claudia Sheinbaum
Published on Saturday, 8th June 2024.
The young Nigerians creating a community for the irreligious in a highly religious society
Published on Friday, 7th June 2024.
Why is football such a universal language? Stories from Argentina, Iran and Kenya
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2024.
The Gambia could be about to reverse its ban, but elsewhere rates are going down
How Nobel Prize laureate Maria Ressa came under fire for doing her job
Published on Wednesday, 5th June 2024.
Nobel Prize laureate Sir Paul Nurse wants science to guide the climate change debate
Can information become a weapon of war? Oleksandra Matviichuk on documenting war crimes
Nobel Prize laureate Katalin Kariko was caught up in a Covid vaccine disinformation storm
A pro-Russian image from a farmers protest in Poland went viral. Who's the man behind it?
How people’s lives have changed since a crackdown on criminal gangs
Published on Tuesday, 4th June 2024.
Andy Riley, Emmy-winning scriptwriter and a million-selling author and cartoonist
Published on Monday, 3rd June 2024.
Olga Ivshina on the human cost of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Published on Saturday, 1st June 2024.
Politicians share their experiences of threats and intimidation
Nora Akachar questions what it means to be Muslim in the Netherlands today
Published on Friday, 31st May 2024.
Gamer and broadcaster Kobby Spiky looks at the video games industry across Africa
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2024.
How is AI redefining love on Tinder?
Published on Wednesday, 29th May 2024.
Quentin Sommerville reports from Myanmar on the rising resistance to the military junta
Published on Tuesday, 28th May 2024.
The BBC reveals the human cost of one of perfume’s most luxurious ingredients
Published on Monday, 27th May 2024.
Constanza Hola Chamy directs two casts for her play about female artists with bipolar
Are China and the West on a collision course?
Published on Sunday, 26th May 2024.
Two journalists from Afghanistan and Russia share their experience of living in exile
Published on Saturday, 25th May 2024.
Contestants, judges and an organiser on the stereotypes and positive experiences
The amputee who regained his will to live by walking to Santiago de Compostela
Published on Friday, 24th May 2024.
Why a European country has put competitive gaming on the school curriculum
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2024.
BBC Trending investigates a controversial treatment programme being promoted online
Published on Wednesday, 22nd May 2024.
Why is the Caspian Sea shrinking and what does this means for the region?
Published on Tuesday, 21st May 2024.
From massive signs to tiny icons, Zoë Barrett and Patrick Eley's signs help us on our way
Published on Monday, 20th May 2024.
Beijing says it is building, not buying, Africa. Do people in Nairobi agree?
Published on Sunday, 19th May 2024.
How the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders influences mental health
Park Jung-oh tries to reach people in North Korea by throwing bottles into the Yellow Sea
Published on Saturday, 18th May 2024.
Residents of Porto Alegre and volunteer rescue workers share their experiences
Meet the French, Benedictine monks who give glory to God by producing heavenly wine
Published on Friday, 17th May 2024.
EncroChat: The crime family brought down by their violent messages - The Global Story
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2024.
I ‘kidnapped’ my brother to save his life — Lives Less Ordinary
Published on Wednesday, 15th May 2024.
Nigeria's long battle to bring home ancient treasures taken by British forces in 1897
Published on Tuesday, 14th May 2024.
With trust in police falling, volunteer groups have begun patrolling the streets
Published on Sunday, 12th May 2024.
The magical world of How to Train Your Dragon author Cressida Cowell
The Global China Unit's latest report on Chinese mines overseas
Published on Saturday, 11th May 2024.
Influencers and residents from popular destinations on the pros and cons of tourism
How the days of slavery led to a belated Colombian Christmas in the town of Quinamayo
Published on Friday, 10th May 2024.
Why being a twin in Nigeria could mean life or death
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2024.
Inside the investigation – the story of the journalism behind The Disciples.
Published on Wednesday, 8th May 2024.
Why a high-profile mafia informant testified against his powerful family
Published on Tuesday, 7th May 2024.
Indian artist Abhishek Singh creates a new animal and environment-centred mythology
Published on Monday, 6th May 2024.
Why did Yulia Navalnaya step in for her husband after his death?
Published on Saturday, 4th May 2024.
The experience on campus for both protesters and Jewish students
Navigating Jewish dating in a globalised world
Published on Friday, 3rd May 2024.
Has 30 years of democracy in South Africa delivered for its citizens?
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2024.
Evy Mages learns the truth about her time in an Austrian ‘child-observation station'
Published on Wednesday, 1st May 2024.
Could new financial restrictions revive the spectre of violence?
Published on Tuesday, 30th April 2024.
Exploring the plight of female domestic workers in Kenya through art
Published on Monday, 29th April 2024.
How museums and collectors have been sold dubious Russian modern art.
Published on Sunday, 28th April 2024.
How is disinformation created and spread? Stories from Latin America, Russia and Nigeria
Published on Saturday, 27th April 2024.
How Americans with Ukrainian heritage are funding medical packages, vans and art therapy
On the southern shores of Vietnam, whales are revered as gods of the oceans.
Published on Friday, 26th April 2024.
Why is Sweden home to so many dollar billionaires?
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2024.
Our technology dominated world is in a crisis – what are the solutions?
Published on Wednesday, 24th April 2024.
The life and death of a non-existent country - and the rebirth of its improbable pub
Published on Tuesday, 23rd April 2024.
David Haig and Max Webster's stage adaptation of Philip K Dick's Minority Report
Published on Monday, 22nd April 2024.
South Korea’s shamans are now online
Published on Sunday, 21st April 2024.
How do you prepare for the worst-case scenario?
Published on Saturday, 20th April 2024.
Israelis share their experiences after Iran’s drone and missile attack
Published on Friday, 19th April 2024.
Why teaching a child how to call, raise and bluff can impart important life lessons
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2024.
Could going vegan help feed the world and save the planet?
Published on Wednesday, 17th April 2024.
Reggaeton’s the soundtrack to Puerto Rico, reflecting the cultural and political scene
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2024.
A turning point for the Middle East? Analysis from The Global Story
Published on Monday, 15th April 2024.
Landscape architect Helle Nebelong designs one of America's largest natural playgrounds
Dr Zoe Williams examines historical inequalities in the diagnosis and treatment of women
Published on Sunday, 14th April 2024.
What is it like to live and work as a journalist in Israel right now?
Published on Saturday, 13th April 2024.
What it’s like to live in Sudan after one year of civil war
Lina Khan: The woman taking on big tech billionaires - The Global Story
Published on Friday, 12th April 2024.
Former Guantanamo Bay interrogator Dr Jennifer Bryson on torture, faith and mercy
Is Botswana really going to send Germany 20,000 elephants?
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2024.
Why a celebrated astrophysicist believes space research needs a new approach
Published on Wednesday, 10th April 2024.
Can the French settlers and indigenous Kanak of New Caledonia agree on a constitution?
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2024.
The Paralympic gold medallist follows the construction of a new public swimming pool
Published on Monday, 8th April 2024.
Children separated from their parents by civil war now in search of their birth families
Published on Sunday, 7th April 2024.
How are people observing Ramadan around the world, and why is it different this year?
Published on Saturday, 6th April 2024.
How six young women around the world are living with cancer
How the Hindu majority in Modi’s India is still divided by caste
Published on Friday, 5th April 2024.
Ukrainian citizens and soldiers who survived the siege of Azovstal recount their ordeal
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2024.
The dilemmas caused by treatments that could tackle some of our most serious illnesses
Published on Wednesday, 3rd April 2024.
Belarus has huge numbers of political prisoners - many of them are women
Published on Tuesday, 2nd April 2024.
Maria Grachvogel shares her passion for creating outfits and working with Victoria Beckham
Published on Monday, 1st April 2024.
Fugees Family: the refugee football team who became my life - Lives Less Ordinary
Published on Sunday, 31st March 2024.
Who is behind the Crocus City Hall attack? We track the blame game.
Published on Saturday, 30th March 2024.
Four women share their experiences of resilience, fear and despair in war-torn Gaza
The older women taking vows and becoming nuns in their 50s and 60s.
Published on Friday, 29th March 2024.
On the road in Guyana - HARDtalk
What it’s like to live and die in a polluted city
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2024.
Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide
Published on Wednesday, 27th March 2024.
The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
Published on Tuesday, 26th March 2024.
An acclaimed pianist and baritone tackle Franz Schubert's song cycle
Published on Monday, 25th March 2024.
Rare access inside Sudan's forgotten war - The Global Story
Published on Sunday, 24th March 2024.
Bjarke Ingels and the Manhattan Flood project
Published on Saturday, 23rd March 2024.
Why are farmers taking to the streets?
How the Church’s role in Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship changed people’s faith
Published on Friday, 22nd March 2024.
Tales of kidnap and extortion from those who risk everything to enter the US from Mexico
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2024.
Energy solutions in the Philippines
Published on Wednesday, 20th March 2024.
How has Oregon’s radical drug decriminalisation policy changed lives?
The fight to bring home a group of Malawian domestic workers trapped in servitude
Published on Tuesday, 19th March 2024.
Inside the creative world of the acclaimed author of Brooklyn
Published on Monday, 18th March 2024.
Panama Canal: It's running dry and it's going to cost us - The Global Story
Published on Sunday, 17th March 2024.
People in Haiti trying to survive and the struggle for aid workers trying to help them
Published on Saturday, 16th March 2024.
How young Muslims manage Ramadan in their lives and work
Published on Friday, 15th March 2024.
The ongoing effects of Zero Tolerance, the policy that divided families on the US border
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2024.
Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?
Published on Wednesday, 13th March 2024.
Miracle on the ocean floor – Lives Less Ordinary
Published on Tuesday, 12th March 2024.
Artist and film-maker Peter Beatty turns his barge into a film studio
Published on Monday, 11th March 2024.
Why young people are having less sex – The Global Story
Published on Sunday, 10th March 2024.
Daily experiences from the country’s worst economic crisis in a generation
Published on Saturday, 9th March 2024.
Why Jibra’il Omar, formerly Timothy Weeks, joined the Taliban after they kept him hostage
Published on Friday, 8th March 2024.
Are Tibetans being forced into Chinese language schools, made to abandon their culture?
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2024.
Meet the young scuba divers of colour who are searching for sunken slave ships
Published on Wednesday, 6th March 2024.
Will Robert F Kennedy Jr’s views on vaccines help or hinder his bid for the White House?
A unique refugee-led celebration of music and solidarity in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi
Published on Tuesday, 5th March 2024.
Singer Ghawgha from Afghanistan explores identity, displacement and her people's struggle
Published on Monday, 4th March 2024.
Are you ever too old to have a baby? – The Global Story
Published on Sunday, 3rd March 2024.
African-American musicians and fans around the world discuss why they love country music
Published on Saturday, 2nd March 2024.
How the ancient tradition of iconography is being translated for the 21st Century
Published on Friday, 1st March 2024.
The battle to keep the peace between people and elephants in northern Botswana
Published on Thursday, 29th February 2024.
Disinformation has erupted on social media in the battle between Israel and Hamas.
Published on Wednesday, 28th February 2024.
The farmers and industry leaders working to secure the identity and future of Nepali tea
Published on Tuesday, 27th February 2024.
Argentina's 'Queen of Suspense' on her latest novel
Published on Monday, 26th February 2024.
Is #Me Too finally exploding in French cinema? – The Global Story
Published on Sunday, 25th February 2024.
In 2017, Alexey Navalny spoke about the risks of being a prominent critic of Putin
Published on Saturday, 24th February 2024.
Giving birth during a war and returning from a safe haven abroad to conflict
Three million people died in the Bengal Famine. Why are they not better remembered?
Published on Friday, 23rd February 2024.
The discovery of cassette tapes that throw new light on colonial responsibility
Famine grips Bengal, but publicly, no-one is calling it a famine
The escalating food crisis forces people to make life and death decisions
The story of the Bengal Famine of 1943, where at least three million people died
How the language of Thessaloniki’s Jews disappeared
Journalists in Pakistan speak of coming under threat for criticising the authorities
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2024.
How indigenous Malaysians are using technology and social media to assert land rights
Published on Wednesday, 21st February 2024.
Oleg Boldyrev on how ordinary Russians are dealing with life in a country at war.
Published on Tuesday, 20th February 2024.
Brazilian artist Vik Muniz likes to trap and fool his audience with trickery and illusion
Published on Monday, 19th February 2024.
For this year's World Radio Day, we celebrate women in community radio
Published on Sunday, 18th February 2024.
Putin’s re-election is certain, but there is still a lot at stake for the Kremlin
Published on Saturday, 17th February 2024.
Reuniting with a family trying to rebuild their lives.
Stephen Sackur interviewed Alexey Navalny in 2017.His death has been reported by Russia.
Published on Friday, 16th February 2024.
Psychiatrist Gwen Adshead reflects on her faith and working with violent offenders
Emily Wither reports from Istanbul on the threat of an earthquake striking the city
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2024.
How a mayor in Mexico became embroiled in a deepfake audio scandal
Published on Wednesday, 14th February 2024.
We investigate the increasing threats to journalists’ ability to report freely in Europe.
Published on Tuesday, 13th February 2024.
Land artist Jon Foreman takes us through the creation of a new work in Pembrokeshire
Published on Monday, 12th February 2024.
Could Taylor Swift swing the US election? – The Global Story
Published on Sunday, 11th February 2024.
The inspirational and personal stories behind the Las Vegas Super Bowl
Published on Saturday, 10th February 2024.
How an AI scam phone call has had a lasting effect on a family.
What does it mean to be a Buddhist today?
Published on Friday, 9th February 2024.
Tensions are rising in Ireland over the increasing number of refugees
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2024.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid made in Mexico is destroying lives in Mexico and the U.S.A.
Published on Wednesday, 7th February 2024.
Does Serbia’s ruling SNS party command the online activity of a small army of citizens?
Cairo's young graphic novelists tell the modern story of their city
Published on Tuesday, 6th February 2024.
Discovering Awais’s radical solution to find the right words.
Published on Monday, 5th February 2024.
Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could destroy competition - The Global Story
Published on Sunday, 4th February 2024.
Life in a Gaza hospital and the guilt of leaving loved-ones behind.
Published on Saturday, 3rd February 2024.
What does it mean to be a young Hindu in 2024?
Published on Friday, 2nd February 2024.
Has feminism gone too far? A world cup kiss that set a match to Spanish gender relations
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2024.
Trending investigates a sprawling network of fake social media accounts in Uganda.
Published on Wednesday, 31st January 2024.
People who survived the 7 October attacks in Israel by Hamas describe how events unfolded
Published on Tuesday, 30th January 2024.
A new documentary about homelessness by filmmaker, Leonard Manzella.
Published on Monday, 29th January 2024.
Justin Webb unpicks some of the terminology associated with the US election
Published on Sunday, 28th January 2024.
A picture of Yemen through the words of its people.
Published on Saturday, 27th January 2024.
What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the world today?
Published on Friday, 26th January 2024.
Why former soldiers were hired to carry out assassinations in Yemen in 2015
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2024.
In Japan, drones are being developed to mitigate the risks from tsunamis and earthquakes
Published on Wednesday, 24th January 2024.
What happens if you give a homeless person a house, with no strings attached?
Published on Tuesday, 23rd January 2024.
Maria Djurkovic on My Policeman.
Published on Monday, 22nd January 2024.
What is it about Paris's banlieues that helps create such amazing football talent?
Published on Sunday, 21st January 2024.
Inspiring stories on adapting to a new life.
Published on Saturday, 20th January 2024.
How Moscow is using divisions within Orthodox Christianity to extend its power in Africa
Published on Friday, 19th January 2024.
The men who risk jail to help migrants across Europe
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2024.
Meet the Berliners tracing the plight of Jewish families who once lived in their flats
Published on Tuesday, 16th January 2024.
Thelma Schoonmaker reveals the secrets of the cutting room
Published on Monday, 15th January 2024.
Shared experiences of rejection, resilience and unexpected success.
Published on Saturday, 13th January 2024.
Defying taboos to ease the passing of those with terminal illness in Kenya.
Published on Friday, 12th January 2024.
How a resort for millionaires sparked a battle for a Caribbean island paradise
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2024.
Meet the people on the frontline of climate change
Published on Wednesday, 10th January 2024.
Promoted by the Ghanaian government, African-Americans are investing and settling in Ghana
Published on Tuesday, 9th January 2024.
Fred D’Aguiar on his collection For the Unnamed, inspired by a black jockey from 1852.
Published on Monday, 8th January 2024.
Burnt-out doctors, long Covid sufferers and positive stories from the pandemic
Published on Saturday, 6th January 2024.
Thousands of people were killed in the 'war on drugs' in the Philippines
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2024.
A pioneering closure system is enabling octopus to flourish in Madagascar
Published on Wednesday, 3rd January 2024.
Can mountaineering survive in an age of rapidly warming mountains?
Published on Tuesday, 2nd January 2024.
How one of Saudi Arabia's most established artists navigates its changing society
Published on Monday, 1st January 2024.
A special programme remembering past HARDtalk guests who died in 2023
Published on Sunday, 31st December 2023.
Three adventurers share their experiences of 2023
Published on Saturday, 30th December 2023.
The giant freshwater fish that's invading Bolivia's Amazonian rivers
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2023.
Stephen Sackur looks back at thought-provoking interviews from the past year
Published on Wednesday, 27th December 2023.
Documenting the political and economic crisis across the country
Published on Monday, 25th December 2023.
Mani Djazmi talks to current and former footballers about their faith.
Published on Sunday, 24th December 2023.
Experts and fans discuss the global appeal of the singer-songwriter megastar.
Published on Saturday, 23rd December 2023.
The mysterious twilight world of Celtic traditions and folklore that continue today
Published on Friday, 22nd December 2023.
How will Ukraine ensure the billions needed to rebuild the country are properly spent?
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2023.
Former Samburu warriors rescue baby elephants, but can they rewild them during drought?
Published on Tuesday, 19th December 2023.
Inside the creative mind of one of the world's most celebrated theatre directors
Published on Monday, 18th December 2023.
People directly affected by the war share their experiences at home and abroad.
Published on Saturday, 16th December 2023.
Esther Ogola meets Christians who have formed Kenya’s first openly queer-affirming Church
Published on Friday, 15th December 2023.
Meet the citizens battling for better government on Ukraine's home front
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2023.
What does increased co-operation with China mean for Iceland?
Published on Tuesday, 12th December 2023.
One of the world’s finest architects plans an unusual monument
Published on Monday, 11th December 2023.
Two young Taiwanese share their lives and views in the run up to the election
Published on Sunday, 10th December 2023.
Living with air pollution and deciding not to have children to save the planet.
Published on Saturday, 9th December 2023.
How Sarajevo’s most famous artefact captures the story the city wants to tell
Published on Friday, 8th December 2023.
How killing migrating birds became a multi-million dollar criminal business
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2023.
30 years after South Africa's momentous changes what’s happened to the hope and promises?
Published on Wednesday, 6th December 2023.
How is China's Polar Silk Road impacting Norway?
Published on Tuesday, 5th December 2023.
Iryna Tsilyk has won awards for her documentaries in east Ukraine.
Published on Monday, 4th December 2023.
Sport but not as you know it. A brand new sports storytelling podcast
Published on Sunday, 3rd December 2023.
Henry Kissinger was one of the most important diplomatic figures of the last 50 years
Families on both sides share their experiences of reunions with loved ones
Published on Saturday, 2nd December 2023.
Frank Mugisha, Uganda’s best-known LGBTQ+ activist, on faith, fear and personal freedom
Published on Friday, 1st December 2023.
In a 2022 interview, Henry Kissinger reflects on his life and experiences
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2023.
Poland builds a wall through one of Europe’s most precious forests. What’s the impact?
Farida and Khalid document their struggle to survive the war in Gaza.
Published on Wednesday, 29th November 2023.
How Sweden became a European hotspot for gangs, drugs and deadly violence
Published on Tuesday, 28th November 2023.
Creating a dance spectacular to launch Manchester’s new venue
Published on Monday, 27th November 2023.
South Korean actress Min-ha Kim explores the phenomenal global impact of K-drama
Published on Sunday, 26th November 2023.
Israelis and Palestinians discuss the prospect of peace and the return of loved ones
Published on Saturday, 25th November 2023.
In 2014 Audrey Brown told the dramatic story of the trial of the athlete Oscar Pistorius
Published on Friday, 24th November 2023.
How nurse Margaret Ruto's determination brought justice for Kenyan child abuse victims
From Miami to Chicago, Lucy Proctor meets the conservatives and liberals swapping states
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2023.
Candice Brathwaite revisits Barbados two years after its decision to become a republic
Published on Tuesday, 21st November 2023.
Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Promise, moves from the page to the stage.
Published on Monday, 20th November 2023.
Mishal Husain is joined by guests to discuss what happens when the Israel Gaza war ends.
Published on Sunday, 19th November 2023.
Men and women share their experiences of Islamophobia and antisemitism.
Published on Saturday, 18th November 2023.
The projects trying to build understanding between Israelis and Palestinians.
Published on Friday, 17th November 2023.
A journey though Cambodia where the Mekong river is feared to be in crisis
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2023.
Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson looks at changes in attitude to disability the world over
Published on Wednesday, 15th November 2023.
Why are bees dying? An elder from the ‘Land of Bees’ seeks answers, wherever it leads.
Published on Tuesday, 14th November 2023.
Taking inspiration from the flea markets of Taipei to show on the catwalks of London
Published on Monday, 13th November 2023.
Israelis share their grief and memories of family members killed on 7 October.
Published on Saturday, 11th November 2023.
Should the Anglican Church allow and conduct LGBT blessings, and even marriages?
Published on Friday, 10th November 2023.
How Jews and Arabs are working together to keep the peace in their Israeli neighbourhoods
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2023.
Why is the situation for Syrian refugees in Turkey becoming increasingly hostile?
Published on Tuesday, 7th November 2023.
Carol Morley tells Stephen Hughes about writing and selling a screenplay
Published on Monday, 6th November 2023.
Two men share their grief and memories of family killed in the war.
Published on Saturday, 4th November 2023.
Twenty years ago, China began a crackdown on Falun Gong. What has become of the movement?
Published on Friday, 3rd November 2023.
Reported cases of teachers beating their students in Kenyan schools are on the rise
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2023.
Is Portugal's 'Raspberry Visa' the answer to the west's lack of workers?
Published on Wednesday, 1st November 2023.
Creating impressive spaces to inspire people to fall in love with wildlife.
Published on Monday, 30th October 2023.
Mixed-heritage couples and families share their experiences.
Published on Saturday, 28th October 2023.
Fighting to become the first female Hasidic New York Supreme Court judge in the US
Published on Friday, 27th October 2023.
How Russia’s oldest independent theatre – from a remote town - was forced into exile
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2023.
The opportunities and challenges of Africa's rapid urbanisation
Published on Tuesday, 24th October 2023.
The opening of The Perelman Performing Arts Center built on the site of NY’s Twin Towers
Published on Monday, 23rd October 2023.
The rarely heard voices of the domestic workers who care for other people's children
Published on Sunday, 22nd October 2023.
Young people on both sides describe their lives right now
Published on Saturday, 21st October 2023.
The history and context of the decades long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians
Published on Friday, 20th October 2023.
Exploring extraordinary spiritual awakenings that follow a confrontation with death
An ancient village in northern Portugal fights plans for a lithium mine on its doorstep
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2023.
What is the future for Africa's rapidly swelling cities?
Published on Tuesday, 17th October 2023.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf takes us behind the scenes of the making of Kandahar
Published on Monday, 16th October 2023.
“I’m in love with the mountains.” A special episode from Kalki Presents: My Indian Life
Published on Sunday, 15th October 2023.
Israelis and Palestinians share their stories
Published on Saturday, 14th October 2023.
The 100th anniversary of the world's best-known animation studio
Published on Friday, 13th October 2023.
A new statue in Virginia shines a light on histories hidden in plain sight
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2023.
The opportunities and challenges for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's commercial centre
Published on Tuesday, 10th October 2023.
Producer Anton Skrypets on making his film Stay Online about the war in Ukraine
Published on Monday, 9th October 2023.
Refugees and volunteer aid workers share stories of the situation
Published on Saturday, 7th October 2023.
The Catholic church is discussing its future but what do young Catholics want?
Published on Friday, 6th October 2023.
BBC Africa Eye investigates the sexual abuse of young footballers in Gabon
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2023.
Published on Wednesday, 4th October 2023.
Can narwhals, which rely on echolocation, survive in an increasingly noisy Arctic?
Published on Tuesday, 3rd October 2023.
Australia’s colonisation, told from an Indigenous perspective
Published on Monday, 2nd October 2023.
The 1973 Arab-Israeli war that lasted 19 days but changed the world forever
Published on Sunday, 1st October 2023.
Fighters, families and journalists share their experiences of the conflict
Published on Saturday, 30th September 2023.
Jake Emlyn, the world’s number one Hare Krishna rapper on his journey of self-discovery
Published on Friday, 29th September 2023.
Why travelling without a ticket on public transport in Germany could land you in jail
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2023.
People born as a result of egg and sperm donation on finding their real identities
Published on Tuesday, 26th September 2023.
On set with Ken Loach as the shooting starts on The Old Oak
Published on Monday, 25th September 2023.
Libyans share their experiences of the disaster in Derna
Published on Saturday, 23rd September 2023.
The former Catholic nun helping others who want to leave their religious communities
Published on Friday, 22nd September 2023.
How once friendly relations between Norway and Russia have frozen in the far north
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2023.
How single women cricketers are challenging the expectations of marriage in India
Published on Tuesday, 19th September 2023.
Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils creates a 31m long mural for Unesco
Published on Monday, 18th September 2023.
What is a war crime? How is it different to a crime against humanity and genocide?
Published on Sunday, 17th September 2023.
The BBC's Audrey Brown looks back at the life of South Africa's Zulu leader
Survivors, volunteers and rescue workers share their experiences
Published on Saturday, 16th September 2023.
Published on Friday, 15th September 2023.
The desperate search by thousands of Syrian families for their missing relatives
Published on Thursday, 14th September 2023.
Why is Delhi's new parliament controversial and what does it tell us about modern India?
Published on Wednesday, 13th September 2023.
Antonia Quirke follows costume designer Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh on her next project
Published on Monday, 11th September 2023.
Sue Nelson shares her journey to understand a condition that affects millions worldwide
Published on Sunday, 10th September 2023.
Farmers, activists and journalists from across the continent share their experiences
Published on Saturday, 9th September 2023.
Izabela Dłuzyk explores the wonderful sounds of Europe’s last primeval forest
Published on Wednesday, 6th September 2023.
Three men describe surviving one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in decades
Published on Tuesday, 5th September 2023.
Why the coming elections in a small state in the centre of Europe could disrupt the West
Inside the world of a leading crossword designer
Published on Monday, 4th September 2023.
Democrats, Republicans and independents discuss the 2024 US election candidates
Published on Saturday, 2nd September 2023.
Can you be a sex worker and still follow your faith?
Published on Friday, 1st September 2023.
The young female stars of Gnawa music now challenging the boundaries of Moroccan identity
Published on Thursday, 31st August 2023.
How students in Myanmar have continued their education after the 2021 coup
Published on Tuesday, 29th August 2023.
Ahead of the Rugby World Cup in France, we follow the creation of the home team's new kit
Published on Monday, 28th August 2023.
Professional and unskilled men and women discuss why they want to leave the continent
Published on Saturday, 26th August 2023.
The legacy of one of the 20th Century's defining speeches
Published on Friday, 25th August 2023.
Can a financial deal with a conservation charity save Belize's economy?
Published on Thursday, 24th August 2023.
Live-action role-playing (LARPing) is no longer just the world of Dungeons & Dragons
Published on Wednesday, 23rd August 2023.
Nicola Benedetti starts her new job running an organisation and commissioning new works
Published on Monday, 21st August 2023.
Journalist Raissa Ioussouf meets the people worst affected by Madagascar's famine
Published on Sunday, 20th August 2023.
Losing the family home and volunteers respond to the disaster
Published on Saturday, 19th August 2023.
Confronting the challenges modern Jewish soldiers face serving in the German military
Published on Friday, 18th August 2023.
Why tens of thousands of Zimbabweans are fleeing their country to work in the West
Published on Thursday, 17th August 2023.
How can we change the world for disabled actors and crew?
Published on Wednesday, 16th August 2023.
What do big tech recommendations mean for LGBTQ people around the world?
Published on Tuesday, 15th August 2023.
The brother-and-sister fashion design duo unveil their first-ever disco
Published on Monday, 14th August 2023.
Space engineers discuss their return to the moon and what that entails
Published on Sunday, 13th August 2023.
Fans, journalists and a rising star in Saudi women’s football share their experiences
Published on Saturday, 12th August 2023.
Rev Malcolm Rogers extraordinary story of faith and diplomacy
Published on Friday, 11th August 2023.
The fear stalking Russia as ex-convicts from the Wagner mercenary group return home
Published on Thursday, 10th August 2023.
The women developing solar tech to reduce the environmental impact of fishing in SE Asia
Published on Wednesday, 9th August 2023.
Sana Safi find out how teenage girls are getting around the Taliban ban on education
Published on Tuesday, 8th August 2023.
Ajay Chowdhury writes his latest crime fiction novel using artificial intelligence tools
Published on Monday, 7th August 2023.
DJ and writer Lynnée Denise reflects on hip-hop as it marks its 50th year
Published on Sunday, 6th August 2023.
Friends in Niger share their experiences of the recent coup
Published on Saturday, 5th August 2023.
The millennials exploring big spiritual questions, outside of traditional religion
Published on Friday, 4th August 2023.
With 20% of its population living abroad, the Romanian government wants its diaspora back
Published on Thursday, 3rd August 2023.
The US teens and children campaigning for used batteries to be recycled
Published on Wednesday, 2nd August 2023.
Catherine Merridle explores Russian science fiction in the age of Putin
Published on Tuesday, 1st August 2023.
Follow author Sophie Hannah as she completes her third Hercule Poirot novel
Published on Monday, 31st July 2023.
Tawanda Mudzonga explores why Zimbabwe has produced so many renowned women writers
Published on Sunday, 30th July 2023.
Sportswomen and commentators discuss being female in a male dominated profession.
Published on Saturday, 29th July 2023.
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2023.
The journeys of church bells herald Africa's new role as the beating heart of Christianity
Published on Tuesday, 25th July 2023.
Mumford and Sons founder Ben Lovett on designing the perfect performance space
Published on Monday, 24th July 2023.
We bring together people to discuss the impact of extreme heat on their lives
Published on Saturday, 22nd July 2023.
Published on Friday, 21st July 2023.
Is Tunisia’s democracy being dismantled by its president?
Published on Thursday, 20th July 2023.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is re-examining its past and preparing for the future
Published on Tuesday, 18th July 2023.
Behind the scenes of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production
Published on Monday, 17th July 2023.
What is the state of play for women’s football around the globe?
Published on Sunday, 16th July 2023.
James Reynolds brings people around the world together to share experiences of inflation
Published on Saturday, 15th July 2023.
Meet the shamans of north-east India, determined not to be the last of their kind
Published on Friday, 14th July 2023.
In South Africa, cultural activists are determined to reclaim a language – Afrikaaps
Published on Thursday, 13th July 2023.
Can clothes be sustainably produced and still remain affordable?
Published on Tuesday, 11th July 2023.
Following the architects creating the only permanent sports facility for the Paris Games
Published on Monday, 10th July 2023.
France has questions to answer around inequity and its approach to policing
Published on Saturday, 8th July 2023.
Hannah Ajala explores the new generation of chieftaincy and royalty in Nigeria
Published on Friday, 7th July 2023.
The ancient Iraqi community still can't go home years after fleeing Islamic State terror
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2023.
The Global Jigsaw hears how Russia's friends and foes have responded to Wagner's mutiny
Published on Tuesday, 4th July 2023.
Creating a multimedia work Inspired by the music and writing of Yusef Lateef
Published on Monday, 3rd July 2023.
Following the Wagner group march on Moscow, we hear from Russians and Belarusians
Published on Saturday, 1st July 2023.
The Archbishop of Canterbury in conversation with the musician Nick Cave
Published on Friday, 30th June 2023.
How did a young man in Nigeria get caught up in an international plot?
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2023.
A 2023 profile of the first black African cyclist to win a stage at the Tour de France
Published on Tuesday, 27th June 2023.
The theatre director on his hip-hop, futuristic production of Tambo & Bones
Published on Monday, 26th June 2023.
People share their stories of being lost in jungles and at sea
Published on Saturday, 24th June 2023.
Barbara Blake-Hannah talks about her life on the 75th Anniversary of Windrush
Published on Friday, 23rd June 2023.
How a housing crisis contributes to a population problem
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2023.
The disturbing trade in the torture of Macaque monkeys filmed and sold online
Published on Tuesday, 20th June 2023.
Backstage with Wayne McGregor as he takes dancers through their paces for Untitled: 2023
Published on Monday, 19th June 2023.
The cell phone has revolutionised the way we live our lives since the first call in 1973
Published on Sunday, 18th June 2023.
Families in Canada and New York share experiences of the smoke from wildfires in Canada
Published on Saturday, 17th June 2023.
Meet the Christians at odds over a so-called conversion therapy ban in Switzerland
Published on Friday, 16th June 2023.
BBC investigation exposes those profiting from sexual assaults against women in East Asia
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2023.
Hip-hop artist Mrs M, actress Bayra Bela and throat-singer Zolzaya on culture in Mongolia
Published on Tuesday, 13th June 2023.
The poem that will be sent into space
Published on Monday, 12th June 2023.
We hear about the aftermath of the train crash in Odisha in India
Published on Saturday, 10th June 2023.
The work of Florida's Baptist Relief in response to Hurricane Ian and floods in Kentucky
Published on Friday, 9th June 2023.
Thousands of Ukrainian men are dodging the draft and risking their lives in the process
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2023.
The pivotal role of art in the creation of Yellowstone, the world's first national park
Published on Tuesday, 6th June 2023.
Behind the scenes of Ken Loach's new film, The Old Oak
Published on Monday, 5th June 2023.
The effects of climbing expeditions and tourism on Nepal
Published on Saturday, 3rd June 2023.
How members of the global movement L'Arche are trying to heal following a scandal
Published on Friday, 2nd June 2023.
The Myanmar military is struggling to suppress a pro-democracy uprising.
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2023.
The people of Evin in France live above an environmental disaster they cannot flee from
Published on Tuesday, 30th May 2023.
Artist Alberta Whittle on her major new exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland
Published on Monday, 29th May 2023.
Parents and couples discuss living with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Published on Saturday, 27th May 2023.
Michael Goldfarb explores "evangelical" and "political" Christianity in the US
Published on Friday, 26th May 2023.
What can be done to save Germany’s forests?
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2023.
How a music collective is advocating for oppressed communities in Brazil
Published on Wednesday, 24th May 2023.
Keeping nightlife alive in a country in crisis
Writer Lina Mounzer reveals how the people of her beloved Beirut are coping amid crisis
Published on Tuesday, 23rd May 2023.
The artist and audio investigator prepares for a live performance in New York
Published on Monday, 22nd May 2023.
Young Iraqis recall life under US-occupation and speak of their hopes for the future
Published on Sunday, 21st May 2023.
On a mission to make sense of the world
Published on Saturday, 20th May 2023.
People still affected by long Covid share their stories
Why are some young Muslim men being drawn to a toxic online view of masculinity?
Published on Friday, 19th May 2023.
New Orleans is the murder capital of the United States
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2023.
Introducing season 2 of an original podcast about hackers and North Korea
Published on Wednesday, 17th May 2023.
Sir Lenny's new one-man play gives an insight into lives impacted by the Windrush scandal
Published on Tuesday, 16th May 2023.
Babita Sharma meets young people from around the world working to fight climate change
Published on Monday, 15th May 2023.
Young people working to diversify science, technology, engineering and maths
Young people trying to change attitudes and save lives
Can a new generation of activists solve the problem of hunger for good?
As Russia commemorates World War Two, Russians discuss today’s Ukraine conflict
Published on Saturday, 13th May 2023.
How the Chè-lâm Presbyterian Church is helping Hong Kong activists who’ve fled to Taiwan
Published on Friday, 12th 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.
The novelist takes In the Studio on a tour of Los Angeles
Published on Monday, 8th May 2023.
The anguish, fear and important practicalities of escaping war
Published on Saturday, 6th May 2023.
How can followers of the UK’s fastest growing religion prove their beliefs are sincere?
Published on Friday, 5th May 2023.
Why thousands of Kenyan villagers are being given free cash
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2023.
What kind of monarch will King Charles III be?
Published on Tuesday, 2nd May 2023.
Director Tinuke Craig embarks on her opera debut, Blue, at the English National Opera
Published on Monday, 1st May 2023.
People across the world recall their meetings with King Charles III of the United Kingdom
Published on Sunday, 30th April 2023.
Families share their stories of losing a loved one and the stigma around the drug
Published on Saturday, 29th April 2023.
Professor Robert Beckford explores the Christian understanding of reparations
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2023.
50 years since the last US bombs fell on Laos, they’re still killing and maiming.
Rewriting Miss Marple
Published on Tuesday, 25th April 2023.
Will February's deadly earthquake change Anatolia's support for President Erdogan?
Published on Monday, 24th April 2023.
“He’s a coward, he’s not a man.” Martine’s mum passes judgement on Farouk
Published on Sunday, 23rd April 2023.
“He won’t wake up...I think he’s dead.” What Farouk did in the hours after Martine died
Friends panic when "street-smart" Martine fails to come home
The hunt for the suspected killer of 23-year-old Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen
Three women, a doctor and a nurse discuss the impact of fighting on families and patients
Published on Friday, 21st April 2023.
How have the Church of England's historic slave plantations affected Barbados?
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2023.
Record numbers are fleeing the island in the wake of a brutal economic crisis.
Coming soon: The hunt for the suspected killer of Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen
Published on Tuesday, 18th April 2023.
Indian workers are thriving in Silicon Valley but some say they face caste discrimination
The RSC stages the world premiere of Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning novel
Published on Monday, 17th April 2023.
A tanker drifts, unmanned, onto an Indian beach - like a ghost. What really happened?
Published on Saturday, 15th April 2023.
As new research promises hope, people with MS share their experiences
How a new generation of Sikhs are decolonising their sacred music
Published on Friday, 14th April 2023.
A massive new road across Paraguay threatens a fragile eco-system and two communities.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2023.
A new musical marking 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement
Published on Wednesday, 12th April 2023.
Container ships carry everything we buy - but those giant boxes hold secrets too
Published on Monday, 10th April 2023.
How sanctions on Russian oil have increased the world's secretive "dark fleet"
Bulk carriers are the unseen porters of the world, even during war and pandemic
Experiences of dealing with the aftermath of a shooting
Published on Friday, 7th April 2023.
Meet the young men preparing to join the most dangerous priesthood in the world
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2023.
Does Vienna have the world’s best public housing?
A Greek goddess of witchcraft gets poetic treatment
Published on Monday, 3rd April 2023.
We hear accounts of what it's like to be LGBT in different parts of Africa
Published on Saturday, 1st April 2023.
How nudity is helping Gwen heal from purity culture’s teachings about the female body
Published on Friday, 31st March 2023.
How has Finland managed its relationship with its unpredictable neighbour, Russia?
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2023.
Bulk carriers are the unseen porters of the world even during war and pandemic
Published on Tuesday, 28th March 2023.
Iraqis at home and abroad on the continuing consequences of the US-led invasion
Published on Saturday, 25th March 2023.
Salimata faces a choice between her hijab and competing in the sport she loves
Published on Friday, 24th March 2023.
The synthetic opioid that’s destroying thousands of lives in southern California
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2023.
Ramadan Younes investigates the world of genetic eye disease ‘treatments’
Published on Wednesday, 22nd March 2023.
Is technology eroding democracy or can it reconnect citizens to their governments?
Published on Tuesday, 21st March 2023.
After the disastrous war in Iraq, should the West ever intervene in foreign conflicts?
Published on Saturday, 18th March 2023.
A family discusses escaping Vietnam by boat and the reality of the American dream
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid killing thousands of Americans – it is made in Mexico
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2023.
How boats used in migrant Chanel crossings are sourced and the huge profits being made
Published on Wednesday, 15th March 2023.
How misogyny and tech have made South Korea the digital sex crime capital of the world
Published on Tuesday, 14th March 2023.
Survivors and volunteers in Turkey and Syria on the challenges one month on
Published on Saturday, 11th March 2023.
The young working class Irish people keeping horses in urban areas.
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2023.
The challenge for scientists globally in finding a treatment for long Covid
Published on Tuesday, 7th March 2023.
We hear from people who travelled by boat to reach Europe
Published on Saturday, 4th March 2023.
Fighting the powerful criminal gangs terrorising rural Nigeria
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2023.
The travelling project bringing circus and play to marginalised kids around the world
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2023.
Meet the Vietnam war veterans who have decided to leave the USA and retire to Vietnam
Published on Saturday, 25th February 2023.
We speak to Ukrainian women about how Russia's invasion has impacted their lives
How were Russians persuaded to support a war against their closest neighbour Ukraine?
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2023.
How journalists in Namibia and Iceland broke an epic corruption scandal, all about fish
Published on Tuesday, 21st February 2023.
Nigerians discuss issues that are important to them in this month's elections
Published on Saturday, 18th February 2023.
David Baker assesses the impact of Brexit in Northern Ireland.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2023.
Szu Ping Chan looks at the the history and collapse of The Freedman’s Bank and its legacy
Published on Tuesday, 14th February 2023.
How Rumphi FM in Malawi and Inuit radio in Canada are supporting marginalised communities
Published on Saturday, 11th February 2023.
We hear from people in Turkey and Syria since the earthquake struck the region on Monday
Who is going to make the sausages in Germany if no-one wants to be a butcher?
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2023.
Speech therapist Mary Weinder travels to the Turks & Caicos islands to teach children
Published on Tuesday, 7th February 2023.
We hear from people who experience regular power interruptions
Published on Saturday, 4th February 2023.
How does Uruguay’s beef industry compete with their neighbours and climate change threats
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2023.
The all-female Soviet combat unit which terrorised German forces using wooden biplanes
Published on Tuesday, 31st January 2023.
Author Helen Russell explores a history of gloom, and how different cultures tackle it
Published on Saturday, 28th January 2023.
Why people decide to have children or choose to be childfree
Why did people take to the streets, risking arrest and a barrage of bullets?
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2023.
What happened to Sierra Leone's child soldiers?
Published on Tuesday, 24th January 2023.
Why was the Black Book, a chronicle of the Nazi extermination of Soviet Jews banned?
Published on Saturday, 21st January 2023.
A journey to discover Yiddish songs confiscated by the KGB
We speak to Afghan women about life under the Taliban
Survivors rebuild a town destroyed by one of the worst wildfires in California's history
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2023.
Are animals 'sentient' beings? Sue Armstrong reports on the latest scientific evidence
Published on Tuesday, 17th January 2023.
What does it mean to be a citizen? Is it about belonging, or about convenience?
Published on Saturday, 14th January 2023.
We speak to people in China and Chinese abroad about the country's Covid policy
Why an Italian judge is taking kids away from Mafia families
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2023.
The scientific evidence that animals are not only conscious but also have a sense of self
Published on Tuesday, 10th January 2023.
Brazil remembers one of its most famous figures.
Published on Sunday, 8th January 2023.
Oritsé Williams hears from children who are unpaid carers for family members
Published on Tuesday, 3rd January 2023.
How women surfers fought the sexism of the 1970s to create the first pro-surf world tour
Published on Saturday, 31st December 2022.
Three people caring for loved ones with Alzheimers share their experiences and challenges
Sana Safi returns to the story of two Afghan women judges trying to escape the Taliban
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2022.
The Brazilian city passing laws to fight discrimination against people who are obese
Ukrainians at home and abroad reflect on the turmoil of the past year
Published on Saturday, 24th December 2022.
Can Spain's most iconic live music and dance recover from the pandemic?
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2022.
The indigenous Sami people who say carbon-cutting technology is harming their way of life
Published on Tuesday, 20th December 2022.
Calling the world since 1932. Meet the journalists and hear the treasured archive
Published on Monday, 19th December 2022.
Farrah Jarral on preparing for first contact with extra-terrestrials
Published on Saturday, 17th December 2022.
We hear from striking workers around the world
The nuclear power plant in Hungary being built by Russia; will the Ukraine war stop it?
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2022.
What is being done to change Japanese attitudes toward mental health?
Published on Monday, 12th December 2022.
Human beings will soon be living in space - but who will go and what will it be like?
Published on Saturday, 10th December 2022.
Armed gangs, kidnappings and everyday life in a dangerous nation
Giving communities targeted in the 'war on drugs' a share in the legal cannabis boom
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2022.
India aims to have electrified the entirety of its rail network by the end of 2023
Published on Tuesday, 6th December 2022.
Lesbians and gay men, including a rabbi, bishop and a Buddhist, share their experiences.
Published on Saturday, 3rd December 2022.
How has Putin's war against Ukraine affected one remote city in Siberia?
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2022.
The legal battle that could transform life for Native Americans in the US
Published on Tuesday, 29th November 2022.
Abigail Disney meets an unusual group of millionaires who are demanding to pay more tax
Published on Saturday, 26th November 2022.
Ukrainians discuss the impact of power shortages on their lives and work
What do Taiwanese people think about the increased rhetoric from China in recent months?
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2022.
How mixed heritage players decide which country to represent in international football
Published on Tuesday, 22nd November 2022.
Alex Capstick investigates the controversial bidding process for the Qatar World Cup
Published on Saturday, 19th November 2022.
On the road with the oldest mobile clinic in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia
We hear conversations about the football and the politics surrounding Qatar 2022
The women battling the Chinese state after their loved ones were jailed as dissidents
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2022.
The story of African-American ‘Harmonica Wizard’ DeFord Bailey and country music
Published on Wednesday, 16th November 2022.
How a message hidden inside a pop song saved the lives of soldiers in captivity
Published on Tuesday, 15th November 2022.
We bring together people who have escaped wildires, floods and hurricanes
Published on Saturday, 12th November 2022.
Rhiannon Giddens uncovers the life of fiddler and guitarist Arnold Shultz
Published on Wednesday, 9th November 2022.
What is weather modification, does it really work and if so, is it problem free?
Published on Tuesday, 8th November 2022.
Americans talking about the issues that may affect how they vote
Published on Saturday, 5th November 2022.
America’s Safe Haven laws for new-born babies – an alternative to abortion?
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2022.
Rhiannon Giddens explores the lives of black fiddlers Frank Johnson and Joe Thompson
Published on Wednesday, 2nd November 2022.
Why are women penalised for ageing?
Published on Tuesday, 1st November 2022.
Stories of sexual exploitation and human trafficking in Amsterdam's red light district
Published on Saturday, 29th October 2022.
Rishi Sunak is made UK Prime Minister, as people continue to struggle to buy essentials
Svalbard is estimated to be heating at six times the global average
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2022.
Is Russia's interest in Ukraine motivated by the huge mineral deposits there?
Published on Wednesday, 26th October 2022.
Poet Raymond Antrobus traces the lost story of a deaf man freed from slavery
Published on Tuesday, 25th October 2022.
What is behind the covert war between Iran and Israel?
Published on Saturday, 22nd October 2022.
Women, life, freedom – the women protesting in Iran
The ‘brain drain’ of doctors from developing countries to work in the UK
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2022.
Misha Glenny discovers why the future of the world depends on rare earth metals
Published on Wednesday, 19th October 2022.
Young women of Japan are starting a gender revolution. Akiko Toya finds out how
Published on Tuesday, 18th October 2022.
How China’s Xi Jinping took control of his party and his country
Published on Saturday, 15th October 2022.
How the war with Ukraine is creating rifts among Russian families and producing exiles
The bakers and farmers trying to wean Senegal off imported wheat.
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2022.
Father figures of black men killed by the police share their stories
Published on Tuesday, 11th October 2022.
From Ukraine field to Lebanon bakery we follow the 'bread line’
Published on Saturday, 8th October 2022.
Survivors and sports broadcasters discuss their response to football’s latest disaster
Recent tensions in the English city of Leicester
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2022.
Ruth Omar investigates sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Published on Tuesday, 4th October 2022.
How Iranians took to the streets after the death of Mahsa Amini
Published on Saturday, 1st October 2022.
Living with hyperinflation in Argentina – how do people cope with everyday life?
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2022.
Can measures to stop the practice of illegal gold mining in Ghana succeed?
Published on Tuesday, 27th September 2022.
The rising queer artists of Atlanta trying to build a more inclusive future for hip-hop
Published on Saturday, 24th September 2022.
Why people are raiding banks to get their own money
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews struggle to come to terms with child sex abuse scandals
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2022.
Reha Kansara follows her mum and aunt as they return to Uganda 50 years after expulsion
Published on Tuesday, 20th September 2022.
Will rising queer artists and women allow hip-hop to shake off homophobia and misogyny?
Published on Saturday, 17th September 2022.
What was it like to meet Queen Elizabeth?
How Kentucky has responded to the recent challenge of unprecedented flooding.
Published on Tuesday, 13th September 2022.
How are people in the UK coping with rising prices?
Published on Saturday, 10th September 2022.
A radio station at a Texan prison is creating community and changing inmates' lives
Published on Wednesday, 7th September 2022.
Lisa-Marie Misztak meets Josephine Kulea, a Samburu woman fighting against child marriage
Published on Tuesday, 6th September 2022.
Locals and family members abroad share their concerns and urgent needs
Published on Saturday, 3rd September 2022.
What has Boris Johnson's tumultuous premiership meant for Britain's standing in the world?
What’s it like to be a teenager in Ukraine? School leavers in Chernihiv tell it how it is
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2022.
What do people search for online in the world’s major conflict zones?
Published on Tuesday, 30th August 2022.
The personal toll on families of Europe's biggest armed conflict since World War Two
Published on Saturday, 27th August 2022.
Why lacrosse is much more than just a game for Native Americans
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2022.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd August 2022.
A fiercely independent city living through a time of war
Published on Saturday, 20th August 2022.
Afghans discuss what it’s like to live under Taliban control
This former Soviet republic faces both east and west
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2022.
A year on from the Taliban takeover, Sahar Zand talks to prominent Afghan musicians
Published on Tuesday, 16th August 2022.
The man who stole the atomic bomb. This is season 2, episode 1: A grave matter
Published on Saturday, 13th August 2022.
Kevin Fong chairs a debate on the future of cars
We hear how drought is affecting people around the world
When the president stands accused of drug trafficking, what hope is there?
Published on Wednesday, 10th August 2022.
Kavita Puri marks the 75th anniversary of the division of the Indian subcontinent
Published on Tuesday, 9th August 2022.
Female footballers and commentators on the challenges and progress within their fields
Published on Saturday, 6th August 2022.
The dilemma facing the citizens of Kherson
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2022.
Claire Hynes goes on a personal journey to uncover the story of her enslaved ancestor
Published on Wednesday, 3rd August 2022.
US firefighters discuss one of the most dangerous jobs in the world
Published on Saturday, 30th July 2022.
Tigers are making a remarkable comeback in Nepal
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2022.
Exploring what the idea of ‘commonwealth’ means to Birmingham's grassroots sports heroes.
Published on Tuesday, 26th July 2022.
People around world discuss how extreme heat is affecting their lives
Published on Saturday, 23rd July 2022.
How covid changed China’s commercial capital
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2022.
In Zambia there is still only 13 nurses per 10,000 people, compared to 175 in Switzerland
Published on Tuesday, 19th July 2022.
People across Sri Lanka describe how the crisis has affected their lives
Published on Saturday, 16th July 2022.
How one man survived to bear witness to one of the worst atrocities of the war in Ukraine
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2022.
The village women in Bangladesh taking on the global shrimp industry to protect their land
Published on Tuesday, 12th July 2022.
Reactions to the UK Prime Minister’s resignation
Published on Saturday, 9th July 2022.
Assignment follows the stories of four young women whose lives have been changed by war
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2022.
Delivering justice by boat, on board the the João Bruno II, Amazon’s floating court
Published on Tuesday, 5th July 2022.
We hear stories of illegal border crossings, the American dream and fitting in
Published on Saturday, 2nd July 2022.
Unpicking fact from fiction in a war
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2022.
The exodus of Ukrainians to Israel and the unusual life awaiting them in the Middle East
Published on Tuesday, 28th June 2022.
We hear how life has changed since the Russian invasion
Published on Saturday, 25th June 2022.
The enterprising young Kenyans making money from a political scramble for power
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2022.
Russia’s foreign minister speaks to the BBC’s Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg
Published on Wednesday, 22nd June 2022.
Justin Rowlatt explores how global warming may trigger irreversible changes to our planet
Published on Saturday, 18th June 2022.
Living in fear of the violent attacks which have become commonplace in Nigeria
A village to village network to help grown food in Ukraine
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2022.
Alan Dein talks to anyone, anywhere about their lives and their world
Published on Wednesday, 15th June 2022.
Why did Ukraine give up its nuclear weapons in 1994 and how did it shape the world today?
Published on Tuesday, 14th June 2022.
The memories of those who have lost friends, family and colleagues in the war
Published on Saturday, 11th June 2022.
Has Russia rescued a million Ukrainian refugees? Or deported them in another war crime?
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2022.
People around the world who are reaching further and seeking a different path in life
Published on Wednesday, 8th June 2022.
Have you ever wondered what life is like at the very top of the North Korean regime?
Published on Tuesday, 7th June 2022.
Katty Kay meets award-winning writer and magazine editor Tina Brown
Published on Sunday, 5th June 2022.
How fuel shortages and prices are affecting people in Lebanon, the UK and Sri Lanka
Published on Saturday, 4th June 2022.
British academics accused of sharing Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2022.
Alan Dein talks Shugofa, an Afghan refugee in Rome, Leo in Moldova, nurse Maureen
Published on Wednesday, 1st June 2022.
Meet the security staff at the Baltimore Museum of Art who are curating their own show
Published on Tuesday, 31st May 2022.
We hear how the cost of living crisis is affecting people's lives around the world
Published on Saturday, 28th May 2022.
Emma Barnett tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II's unique global diplomacy
Published on Friday, 27th May 2022.
Are tougher sentences for rapists in Senegal deterring sexual violence against women?
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2022.
Published on Wednesday, 25th May 2022.
What affect does having a relative facing execution have on families of the condemned?
Published on Tuesday, 24th May 2022.
Philosopher Peter Singer on how to live a moral life
Published on Sunday, 22nd May 2022.
Digital advertising has taken over the world. But is it all based on smoke and mirrors?
Published on Saturday, 21st May 2022.
Residents and hosts on US black-owned radio stations reflect on a mass shooting
Can music and culture help unite Estonia?
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2022.
Alan Dein talks to Anna, Verena and Roman and hears how their lives have been blown away
Published on Wednesday, 18th May 2022.
Sana Safi follows the stories of Afghan women judges trying to escape the Taliban.
Published on Tuesday, 17th May 2022.
How the super-rich bought English football
Published on Saturday, 14th May 2022.
Women share experiences of undergoing and performing abortions
A sport bridging generational divides in West London
Cambodia wants its gods - stolen statues - returned from western museums and collectors
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2022.
Daria in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, talks to Alan Dein about unexpectedly finding love at war
Published on Wednesday, 11th May 2022.
Laura Trevelyan discovers her family’s connection to the slave trade in Grenada
Published on Tuesday, 10th May 2022.
Kim Tserkezie soars into the skies with the drone racers
Published on Saturday, 7th May 2022.
Three Ukrainian women go to Kosovo to learn how to defuse bombs and help their country
Resistance and division among Mexico’s indigenous Yaqui people
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2022.
Jonathan Glancey travels to Cairo to report on a truly remarkable construction project
Published on Tuesday, 3rd May 2022.
What are the challenges of continuing your education during a war?
Published on Saturday, 30th April 2022.
What is fake, what is real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine.
From political novice to Ukraine’s wartime leader - a profile of President Zelensky
The fast-paced sport of korfball, which claims to be a fully gender-equal team sport
Why has accordion music led to the killing of so many in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho?
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2022.
The sisters embracing the environment, and sustainability into Australia's cattle farming
Published on Tuesday, 26th April 2022.
We hear the experiences of three Ukrainian journalists who have been reporting on the war
Published on Saturday, 23rd April 2022.
Delve into the weird and wonderful world of your genes with Dr Kat Arney
Why a centuries-old combat sport means so much to Nigeria's Hausa community
A mother and a student have sacrificed everything to join a fight for Myanmar's future
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2022.
Could paying farmers to conserve nature help save Australia’s unique wildlife?
Published on Tuesday, 19th April 2022.
We hear from people in Ukraine working to evacuate orphaned children from conflict zones
Published on Saturday, 16th April 2022.
The unsolved murder of Yemen’s former foreign minister, Mohamed Noman, in 1974
Thousands of Russians fled to Georgia following the invasion of Ukraine
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2022.
In the land of the Yuin people, cultural burning is being reintroduced to revitalise land
Published on Tuesday, 12th April 2022.
We hear from people who have given up their time to help Ukrainian refugees
Published on Saturday, 9th April 2022.
Stories from France’s troubled history with Algeria and why they still matter today
A string of fatal accidents have turned hunting into a hot topic in the French elections
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2022.
Three fatal shark attacks have changed the remote, ocean-loving community of Esperance
Published on Tuesday, 5th April 2022.
As the fighting in Ukraine continues, we hear about the psychological effects of war
Published on Saturday, 2nd April 2022.
What are the big mysteries that people want to understand about life?
Searching for the identities of those who died in a Mediterranean shipwreck
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2022.
Viktor Orban and the war in Ukraine. How dangerous is it for him and for Hungary?
Published on Tuesday, 29th March 2022.
Published on Saturday, 26th March 2022.
How do we deal with a nagging sensation of guilt?
On the war's 40th anniversary, Mike Wooldridge reports on life in the Falklands today
The impact of the most restrictive abortion law in the United States
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2022.
Author Jerry Barnett investigates the recent decline in sex in the western world
Published on Tuesday, 22nd March 2022.
How do we find peace with our mothers when we have a difficult relationship with them?
Published on Saturday, 19th March 2022.
Tim Whewell follows the story of a Russian prisoner of war in Ukraine
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2022.
Why do governments shut down the internet during times of conflict?
Published on Wednesday, 16th March 2022.
Is the Pacific island of Bougainville ready to become the world's newest country?
Published on Tuesday, 15th March 2022.
The UN says war in Ukraine has created Europe's fasting growing refugee crisis since WW2
Published on Saturday, 12th March 2022.
How do we learn to adapt when life does not turn out the way we planned?
A lethal drugs crisis is changing politics in one of America’s most permissive cities
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2022.
Why do internet shut downs happen during elections and what is the impact on democracy?
Published on Wednesday, 9th March 2022.
Living under attack in Kherson, Kharkiv and Kyiv
Published on Saturday, 5th March 2022.
How do we overcome the feelings of guilt and grief that can arise when a loved one dies?
Lal Bihari - the farmer who discovered he was dead when he was very much alive
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2022.
India has been responsible for more shutdowns each year than any other country. Why?
Published on Wednesday, 2nd March 2022.
The men and women helping to run Unicef's central distribution hub in Copenhagen
Published on Tuesday, 1st March 2022.
We hear ordinary Ukrainians as they prepare for war and try to live as normal
Published on Sunday, 27th February 2022.
Can self-love help us to believe in ourselves more and trust our own abilities?
Published on Saturday, 26th February 2022.
The billion dollar subscription scam industry
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2022.
How people were hired to work for a successful design agency but the whole thing was fake
Published on Tuesday, 22nd February 2022.
Reporting in one of the world’s most violent countries
Published on Saturday, 19th February 2022.
When someone we trust betrays us, the feelings can be corrosive. How might we move on?
How Italy has failed to confront the scourge of clerical sex abuse
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2022.
The complex web designs manipulating us to click, buy or subscribe
Published on Tuesday, 15th February 2022.
Has the 2016 peace accord delivered on its promises to help women?
Published on Sunday, 13th February 2022.
Radio stations around the world keeping traditions alive
Published on Saturday, 12th February 2022.
We hear from people impacted by the truckers' protest in Ottawa
Ros Atkins looks at the western military alliance’s influence in global politics
Have you ever looked back at your past and thought – I wish I hadn’t done that?
Lucy Ash catches up with a warzone bakery comforting people in an east Ukrainian town
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2022.
Why young people are having less sex than previous generations
Published on Tuesday, 8th February 2022.
The challenges of helping communities caught in Ethiopia's brutal war
Published on Sunday, 6th February 2022.
Who hear from two skiers from Peru and Lebanon who will be competing in Beijing.
Published on Saturday, 5th February 2022.
Ros Atkins looks at the Spotify misinformation controversy
When we seem to have lost some of the passion for life, how do we re-engage?
The impact of Mexican 'narco cultura' on the women of Sinaloa
Published on Thursday, 3rd February 2022.
Owen Bennett-Jones examines the long game Pakistan played in the US defeat in Afghanistan
Published on Tuesday, 1st February 2022.
Can lessons from past atrocities help resolve the current political crisis?
Published on Sunday, 30th January 2022.
How music was kept alive by Jewish musicians in the camps and ghettos of Nazi Europe
Published on Saturday, 29th January 2022.
We speak to women in Kyiv and Moscow about tensions between Russia and Ukraine
Ros Atkins explains why everyday essential items are costing more now
Can we learn to let go of negative thoughts that are bringing us down?
The high stakes cat and mouse game between police and darknet drug dealers
Published on Thursday, 27th January 2022.
The story of Brenda Chitindi's efforts to introduce a Tobacco Control Bill in Zambia
Published on Tuesday, 25th January 2022.
A female student in Afghanistan speaks to former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Published on Sunday, 23rd January 2022.
The wealth of music during the Nazi era including secret sessions by Jewish musicians
Published on Saturday, 22nd January 2022.
What happens if you disagree with your relatives on Covid vaccines?
Ros Atkins looks at why China is still pursuing a strict zero-Covid strategy
Can developing self-love mean we need less appreciation from others?
Imagine walking down a street in a European capital and meeting your torturer
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2022.
The last prison writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa in the run-up to his execution
Published on Saturday, 15th January 2022.
How global sports stars are approaching Covid vaccines.
Ros Atkins looks at the issue of vaccination in sport
Trying to become the real you can be hard, especially if it means upsetting your family.
How a new motorway is fuelling fears about debt, corruption, and submission to Beijing
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2022.
Deforestation allows what's hidden within to get out, possibly to spread deadly pathogens
Published on Saturday, 8th January 2022.
We connect to people helping to administer vaccines in different parts of the world.
Ros Atkins looks at the aftermath of the attack in 2021
It can be hard to choose how to spend our precious time in later life. How do we decide?
The ambitious new canal project that's dividing opinion in Istanbul
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2022.
Wafa Mustafa has been searching for her dad since he went missing in Syria in July 2013
Published on Tuesday, 4th January 2022.
Lyse Doucet hears about the hopes of a younger generation of Afghans
Published on Sunday, 2nd January 2022.
How will we wean ourselves off fossil fuels?
Published on Saturday, 1st January 2022.
Three experts who have been tracking the spread and the impact of Covid-19
The pandemic has changed many of the ways we connect socially with others
The hidden pandemic in Peru; the thousands of children who have lost a parent to Covid-19
Published on Thursday, 30th December 2021.
Reflecting on the life of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid campaigner
Published on Sunday, 26th December 2021.
Lyse Doucet speaks to two key players who have shaped Afghanistan's recent history
Our modern comfortable way of life and how it was made possible by fossil fuels
Published on Saturday, 25th December 2021.
The birth of a ground-breaking concept - MTV, 24-hour music TV
Vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, Delta, Omicron. What’s it like reporting on the pandemic?
How do you find inner happiness when life in your home country has become very hard?
The fortunes of teenage football players settling into new lives in the UK and Europe
Published on Friday, 24th December 2021.
A delicate rescue operation is helping hundreds of young African women trapped in Arabia
Published on Thursday, 23rd December 2021.
The remarkable stories of the children who act as interpreters for their deaf parents
Published on Tuesday, 21st December 2021.
Justin Rowlatt looks at the energy revolutions that drove human history
Published on Sunday, 19th December 2021.
How food packages from American relief organisation CARE eased starvation after WW2
Published on Saturday, 18th December 2021.
Health workers discuss abuse and death threats during the pandemic.
Ros Atkins looks at how the pandemic evolved this year
Recovery from a life-threatening illness doesn't always mean we know how to live again
The story of a cryptocurrency scam that cost two men in India their life savings
Published on Wednesday, 15th December 2021.
The mastery of fire by early humans and how it transformed our metabolism
Published on Sunday, 12th December 2021.
The pressures on people’s mental health after caring for those who are sick or dying.
Published on Saturday, 11th December 2021.
Ros Atkins looks at the debate around Covid vaccine mandates
A battle of wills between Belarus and the EU leaves a border community divided.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2021.
The provocative and practical ways Swedes made menstruation less taboo
Published on Tuesday, 7th December 2021.
Is Jacob Zuma the victim of an elaborate international conspiracy to poison him?
Published on Saturday, 4th December 2021.
A new variant in a festive season where many people traditionally come together
Ros Atkins looks at the debate around abortion rights in the US
Korea is one of the most tired nations on earth and helping people sleep is big business.
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2021.
Meet the internet instigators who are who are organising protests through social media
Published on Tuesday, 30th November 2021.
We speak to people who are resisting or refusing to get the jab
Published on Saturday, 27th November 2021.
Ros Atkins looks at the politics of migration in the UK
How drone technology is inspiring young Malawians to reach for the sky
Published on Tuesday, 23rd November 2021.
The gulf between the reality of war and our ability to comprehend it
Published on Saturday, 20th November 2021.
Several European countries are seeing surges in coronavirus infections
Ros Atkins looks at recent developments between Russia and the West
How a bitter fight is playing out in the American west over the future of a fish
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2021.
The highs and lows of financial trading on smartphone apps
Published on Tuesday, 16th November 2021.
Who was behind the 2009 hack and leak of emails that fuelled climate change sceptics?
Published on Saturday, 13th November 2021.
How medical teams look after the emotional well-being of Covid patients and families
Two coal miners in North America discuss the impact of climate regulations on their lives
Ros Atkins on how the British-Iranian is caught up in a complex geo-political situation
The wildfires on the Greek island Evia which devastated lives and landscapes
Published on Thursday, 11th November 2021.
Could a farming technique called Pfumvudza be Zimbabwe's answer to food security?
Published on Tuesday, 9th November 2021.
Three people explain why they take part in civil disobedience to fight climate change
Published on Saturday, 6th November 2021.
Ros Atkins looks at why vast tree planting initiatives are concerning some experts
In July, the River Ahr in Germany rose engulfing ancient towns and villages in its path
Published on Thursday, 4th November 2021.
Could human engineering stabilise the Earth's climate and chemistry in the long term?
Published on Sunday, 31st October 2021.
How activists and medical staff fought the government to U-turn on Aids treatment in SA
Published on Saturday, 30th October 2021.
We consider the impact of climate change on animals and the food chain
Ros Atkins looks at the climate promises of two of the world’s biggest polluters
Climate Crisis isn't coming. It's here!Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal
Published on Thursday, 28th October 2021.
What can the last 66 million years teach us about the consequences of climate change?
Published on Sunday, 24th October 2021.
How South Africa became the epicentre of the global HIV-Aids crisis
Published on Saturday, 23rd October 2021.
We hear from people the in the countries affected by sea level rise
Ros Atkins explains why Covid-19 cases in the UK are higher than most of its neighbours
A unique project aimed at reducing harm to women selling sex in Copenhagen
Published on Thursday, 21st October 2021.
Each of us takes more than 25,000 breaths a day. But are we even doing it right?
Published on Tuesday, 19th October 2021.
How a chemical element may have held evolution back for a billion years
Published on Sunday, 17th October 2021.
How the Aids protest group Act Up accelerated America's response to the crisis
Published on Saturday, 16th October 2021.
Forgiving someone who has hurt us badly can seem impossible. Is it?
We discuss climate activism through generations
Ros Atkins looks at what’s behind China’s military pressure on Taiwan
The story of BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford’s expulsion from Russia
Published on Thursday, 14th October 2021.
The sailors held captive for years and the retired British Colonel who helped free them
Published on Tuesday, 12th October 2021.
An exploration of Freedom of Expression around the world.
Published on Monday, 11th October 2021.
How two of the most important developments in our planet's evolution occurred
Published on Sunday, 10th October 2021.
Many worry for the world their children will live in. How do we keep hope alive?
Published on Saturday, 9th October 2021.
The early years of the HIV-Aids crisis, as told by the people who lived through it
We speak to parents whose children have weakened immune systems
Ros Atkins examines if the UK is on track to reach its 2050 net zero goal
How money made from the 'world's biggest bribery scandal' ended up in UK property
Published on Thursday, 7th October 2021.
The myth of male genius is debunked by science writer and broadcaster Angela Saini
Published on Tuesday, 5th October 2021.
How did the continuous chemical reaction that we call "life" first begin?
Published on Saturday, 2nd October 2021.
Big life decisions can seem overwhelming. Can we learn to make them?
Two Americans share how they refused vaccine and ended up in hospital with Covid-19
Ros Atkins on how global supply chain problems have led to some shortages in the West
Can a new generation of pro-British Unionists build a more harmonious Northern Ireland?
Published on Thursday, 30th September 2021.
Is love coaching really the route to finding love, or simply a way to sell a dream?
Published on Tuesday, 28th September 2021.
How do you create a successful relationship? Can wishing for one stand in your way?
Published on Saturday, 25th September 2021.
We hear experiences of the pandemic in Vietnam and the Philippines
Ros Atkins on the race to succeed Angela Merkel
BBC journalist Nga Pham investigates people-smuggling from Vietnam into the UK
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 2021.
Why are learning disability athletes still feeling the impact of cheating 21 years on?
Published on Tuesday, 21st September 2021.
Thirty years of Afghan’s tumultuous history, told through one woman’s experience
Published on Saturday, 18th September 2021.
Dreams can inspire our lives, but what if they are distraction from what matters most?
We hear from nurses who are battling Covid-19 surge in Florida
Ros Atkins looks into the issue of vaccine inequity
The rise and fall of Hushpuppi – the social media influencer and global money-launderer.
Published on Thursday, 16th September 2021.
A criminal case is brought against the alleged cheats. Will justice be done?
Published on Tuesday, 14th September 2021.
Jealousy, rudeness, lack of respect - it can be hard to cope with how others treat us
Published on Saturday, 11th September 2021.
We hear from people caught up in the demonstrations
New Yorkers and others remember how they coped with the trauma of 9/11
Published on Friday, 10th September 2021.
The mystery illness that has struck American diplomats and spies
Published on Thursday, 9th September 2021.
An investigation into whether the cheating went wider has shocking consequences
Published on Tuesday, 7th September 2021.
The prolific and turbulent life of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis
Published on Sunday, 5th September 2021.
The personal challenges of 'opening up' again after Covid restrictions are lifted
Published on Saturday, 4th September 2021.
We hear from Afghan women inside and outside the country
Stories from people who survived the fire in the Greek refugee camp a year ago
Published on Thursday, 2nd September 2021.
The truth is out, the medals handed back. Now the questions. How? And why?
Published on Tuesday, 31st August 2021.
A look at popular and puzzling internet searches from around the world
Published on Saturday, 28th August 2021.
How can we stay at peace in a time of war?
We hear from people who left the country and those who stayed
How Catalonia’s housing crisis spawns opportunities for organised crime
Published on Thursday, 26th August 2021.
Maya Millett speaks to the archivists amplifying the buried stories of African-Americans
Published on Wednesday, 25th August 2021.
Some of the gold-medal-winning team are recognised back home - and they're not disabled
Published on Tuesday, 24th August 2021.
Twenty years after the collapse of Enron, how difficult is it to commit corporate fraud?
Published on Saturday, 21st August 2021.
Dr Shefali Tsabary offers guidance to a man who has lost his mother and his sister
We hear from people desperate to leave Afghanistan
Published on Thursday, 19th August 2021.
Team captain Ray is genuinely disabled - and going to Sydney is beyond his wildest dreams
Published on Tuesday, 17th August 2021.
Afghans who fear for the future of their country
Published on Monday, 16th August 2021.
Sister Dang Nghiem, Dr Shefali Tsabary and Eckhart Tolle offer advice on wellbeing
Published on Friday, 13th August 2021.
The violent crime wave afflicting Arab communities in Israel
Published on Thursday, 12th August 2021.
As memories of the atomic bomb fade, an unusual practice keeps survivors’ stories alive
Published on Tuesday, 10th August 2021.
How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication
Published on Saturday, 7th August 2021.
We speak to athletes who won gold at the Tokyo Games
The story of how three teenage refugees ended up being accused of terrorism in Malta.
Published on Thursday, 5th August 2021.
The effort to make vaccine manufacturing in Africa a home grown industry
Published on Tuesday, 3rd August 2021.
Published on Sunday, 1st August 2021.
Liyang Liu explores her home city Beijing in the wake of the pandemic
Published on Saturday, 31st July 2021.
We hear from people affected by floods and wildfires
Can Beirut’s unique Karantina district survive after the blast that rocked the city?
Published on Thursday, 29th July 2021.
Ken Nishikawa and Nick Luscombe take inspiration and hope from the Tokyo Olympics of 1964
Published on Tuesday, 27th July 2021.
Published on Sunday, 25th July 2021.
How a network of black performance venues in a segregated USA shaped music history
Published on Saturday, 24th July 2021.
The Tokyo Olympics are underway, a year late than planned
The impact of Mexican 'narco cultura' on the women of Sinaloa...
Published on Thursday, 22nd July 2021.
Paralympian Lex Gillette and guide coach Wesley go for Gold in 2021
Published on Tuesday, 20th July 2021.
How do the Unicode Consortium decide what is included in the official emoji keyboard?
Published on Sunday, 18th July 2021.
How Communist Party slogans reveal a turbulent century of Chinese history
Published on Saturday, 17th July 2021.
How breaking went from the inner city streets of New York City to the Olympic Games
Reflecting the conversations ahead of the lifting of legal Covid restrictions
James Clayton on a new technique for solving cold case murders using ancestry websites
Published on Wednesday, 14th July 2021.
Paralympian Tanni-Grey Thompson explores the role of women in sport through history
Published on Tuesday, 13th July 2021.
Published on Sunday, 11th July 2021.
Nora Fakim takes a look at mixed identity and how it’s evolving over generations
Published on Saturday, 10th July 2021.
We hear from countries struggle with vaccine hesitancy among their populations
As America’s biggest city emerges from the pandemic, Lucy Ash asks what’s changed
Published on Thursday, 8th July 2021.
They are both feared and revered but what can we learn about bats?
Published on Tuesday, 6th July 2021.
How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication.
Published on Sunday, 4th July 2021.
We hear from Israel, Italy and Russia as the debate around mask-wearing continues
Published on Saturday, 3rd July 2021.
Tricked, abused and trapped in a foreign land. Who will rescue the African maids of Oman?
Published on Thursday, 1st July 2021.
Ishleen Kaur investigates abuse allegations at a yoga organisation she once called home
Published on Tuesday, 29th June 2021.
Have we learned how to permanently accelerate drug development?
Published on Sunday, 27th June 2021.
What will be the biggest healthcare issue in the next decade?
Published on Saturday, 26th June 2021.
We hear how some Covid-19 survivors are struggling with guilt
How armed gangs are inflicting terror upon schools in northern Nigeria
Published on Thursday, 24th June 2021.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd June 2021.
Celebrating the life and legacy of Kenneth Kaunda, the first President of Zambia
Published on Sunday, 20th June 2021.
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that caused the largest environmental disaster
Published on Saturday, 19th June 2021.
Three young Iranian women discuss their lives, their families and their futures
How Syria's secret photographer worked and survived under every force in the conflict
Published on Thursday, 17th June 2021.
Allegations of abuse at the Sivananda Yoga, one of the world’s most revered yoga schools
Published on Tuesday, 15th June 2021.
How Henry Kissinger's secret to trip China 50 years ago changed the Cold War
Published on Saturday, 12th June 2021.
We bring together Iranians to discuss their lives and future prospects
The astonishing story of a group of young men who chose to resist so-called Islamic State
Published on Thursday, 10th June 2021.
Ateira Griffin challenges assumptions about black single motherhood
Published on Tuesday, 8th June 2021.
Introducing our new original podcast. Here’s episode 1: Hacking Hollywood. #LazarusHeist
Published on Saturday, 5th June 2021.
Hacking Hollywood and the billion-dollar plot. Hear all about our new original podcast
Doctors in Tokyo discuss their concerns about the Olympics going ahead in July
The story of a library in a besieged Syrian town which was a lifeline to the community
Published on Thursday, 3rd June 2021.
Karishma Vaswani in conversation with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
Published on Tuesday, 1st June 2021.
Alvin Hall tells the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Published on Saturday, 29th May 2021.
How the local community is using art and music to commemorate the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Two people talk about how they got Covid-19 after being fully vaccinated.
Lina Sinjab and Tim Whewell on a how civil war split friends from a Syrian football team
Published on Thursday, 27th May 2021.
Can a human chain between New York and LA ever form again?
Published on Tuesday, 25th May 2021.
Behind the scenes of the Covid vaccine rollout
Published on Saturday, 22nd May 2021.
How Yuri Gagarin's first human flight into space launched a new chapter in exploration
People on both sides describe the impact of the Israel-Gaza conflict on their lives
Lina Sinjab presents a special series on the 10 years of civil war in Syria
Published on Thursday, 20th May 2021.
Ed Adoo and DJ T Storm examine the global impact of “Stop and Search” policies
Published on Tuesday, 18th May 2021.
Three doctors talk about working under pressure during the pandemic
Published on Saturday, 15th May 2021.
Linda Pressly reports from the coast of Baja California on a dangerous clash of interests
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2021.
Memories of when Jamaica came to a standstill for Bob Marley’s funeral
Published on Tuesday, 11th May 2021.
The experiences of parents raising transgender children around the world
Published on Saturday, 8th May 2021.
We hear from two pilots who lost their jobs during the pandemic
The brutal military coup puts three young activists in a fight for their future
Published on Thursday, 6th May 2021.
Days before his company embarked on a share listing, billionaire Jack Ma went missing
Published on Tuesday, 4th May 2021.
A single mother shares her experiences of raising her transgender daughter
Published on Saturday, 1st May 2021.
Two Indian doctors talk about the coronavirus crisis in their country
Daring escapes and tragic consequences after militants attack a remote town in Mozambique
Published on Thursday, 29th April 2021.
Meet Rohan, a young Jamaican farmer, who faces the challenges of drought and the pandemic
Published on Tuesday, 27th April 2021.
The pioneering women of NYC dance music Gladys Pizarro, Gail Sky King, Carla Bandini-Lory
Published on Saturday, 24th April 2021.
We hear the experiences of three women in Sudan during the coronavirus pandemic
The villagers who believe Prince Philip is returning to his ancestral home on their island
Published on Friday, 23rd April 2021.
What is it like to spend decades as a prisoner in solitary confinement?
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 2021.
Alan Dein follows 19-year-old Mursalina in Kabul as she strives to promote education
Published on Tuesday, 20th April 2021.
Meet the pioneering women of New York’s underground dance music
Published on Saturday, 17th April 2021.
Nuala McGovern hears from single parents and those who are isolating alone in quarantine
People around the world remember their meetings with Prince Philip
Healing the deepest of battle wounds through ground-breaking sexual therapy
Published on Thursday, 15th April 2021.
Alan Dein follows 25-year-old entrepreneur Fahad in Dhaka, who has over 200 employees
Published on Tuesday, 13th April 2021.
Three people describe what it is like to lose sense of smell and taste for months
Published on Saturday, 10th April 2021.
The Philippines’ fight to contain Islamist extremism in the wake of the Marawi siege
Remembering the projects and causes to which the Duke of Edinburgh dedicated his life
Jonny Dymond looks back at Prince Philip's links with the armed forces
The global impact of Prince Philip's work with charities
Remembering the life of Prince Philip, who has died aged 99
Can Denmark's mink industry rise again?
Published on Thursday, 8th April 2021.
Margaret in Uganda cares for nine children orphaned by Aids and has HIV herself
Published on Tuesday, 6th April 2021.
Brazil’s healthcare system is on the brink of collapse
Published on Saturday, 3rd April 2021.
How can Germany make up for its colonial atrocities in Namibia?
Published on Thursday, 1st April 2021.
Yoshie Matsumoto examines how the overwork culture affects women in Japan
Published on Tuesday, 30th March 2021.
A look at what is being done to help with the impact of the virus on health and finance
Published on Sunday, 28th March 2021.
Ros Atkins considers whether Joe Biden's policies have led to a spike in child migration
Published on Saturday, 27th March 2021.
Two people who became homeless because of the pandemic tell us their stories
Lifting the lid on the dangerous and polluting world of international shipbreaking
Published on Thursday, 25th March 2021.
Is it time the US Constitution got a 21st Century makeover?
Published on Tuesday, 23rd March 2021.
Life-lessons on kids in lockdown, coping with bereavement and learning to love yourself
Published on Sunday, 21st March 2021.
Three wise people offer advice on anxiety, screen dependence and learning from lockdown
Published on Saturday, 20th March 2021.
How did a vaccine hailed as a gamechanger end up in a scientific and political storm?
We speak to journalists who have spent the past year reporting on the pandemic
From Dundee to the Orkneys we hear voices on both sides of Scotland’s independence debate
Published on Thursday, 18th March 2021.
Nada Tawfik explores economic empowerment, opportunity and pay for women in the US economy
Published on Tuesday, 16th March 2021.
Ros Atkins examines the monarchy's role in a modern, multicultural and democratic society
Published on Saturday, 13th March 2021.
We hear from people whose lives have followed an extraordinary path during the pandemic
China’s new strategy of promoting disinformation in the West through social media
Published on Thursday, 11th March 2021.
Why are women experiencing disproportionate job losses due to Covid in the US?
Published on Tuesday, 9th March 2021.
Ros Atkins on Joe Biden’s first foreign policy test - how to deal with Saudi Arabia
Published on Saturday, 6th March 2021.
How does the experience of a pandemic compare to being in a war?
Meet the team devising President Biden’s foreign policy
Published on Thursday, 4th March 2021.
The story of a year of Covid-19 told through the voices of England’s doctors and nurses
Published on Tuesday, 2nd March 2021.
Ros Atkins considers whether the company is now too powerful and its impact on democracy
Published on Saturday, 27th February 2021.
Two doctors in Venezuela talk about the healthcare crisis in their country
How one young doctor’s death has exposed problems in Kenya’s health sector
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2021.
The story of the first African-American to have a full face transplant
Published on Tuesday, 23rd February 2021.
Fergal Keane explores the profound influence the Irish have had on Britain
Published on Sunday, 21st February 2021.
With millions of schools shut worldwide, how do we get children back in the classroom?
Published on Saturday, 20th February 2021.
A Syrian father and his daughter talk about life in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan
Can Norwegians with psychosis benefit from radical, drug-free treatment?
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2021.
The ideas that made Jeff Bezos the richest man on Earth
Published on Tuesday, 16th February 2021.
For World Radio Day, we visit community radio stations around the globe.
Published on Sunday, 14th February 2021.
Why does so much remain unknown about the start of the pandemic?
Published on Saturday, 13th February 2021.
A hospital porter and a hospital cleaner talk about their work during the pandemic
How protected are the factory workers who make gloves used by doctors fighting Covid?
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2021.
The medical teams at Bradford investigate the hesitancy over the Covid-19 vaccine
Published on Tuesday, 9th February 2021.
Challenges of parenting and home schooling during lockdown
Published on Saturday, 6th February 2021.
Ros Atkins looks at the future of the GOP after Donald Trump and the Capitol storming
Bucharest’s crumbling buildings are full of life despite the frequent earth tremors
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2021.
Winifred Robinson reports on the global race to create a vaccine for Covid-19
Published on Tuesday, 2nd February 2021.
Are people in the medical and humanitarian professions suffering from emotional burnout?
Published on Sunday, 31st January 2021.
We hear why some people from ethnic minorities are worried about the vaccine
Published on Saturday, 30th January 2021.
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters facing a tough decision. Do they stay or do they flee?
Published on Thursday, 28th January 2021.
Republican voters in Idaho reflect on President Trump’s legacy and their country’s future
Published on Tuesday, 26th January 2021.
The contemporaneous attempt to preserve the memory of life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Published on Sunday, 24th January 2021.
Nuala McGovern hosts conversations on the challenges ahead for the Biden presidency
Published on Saturday, 23rd January 2021.
The story behind one of America’s most shocking murders – and the woman who did it
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2021.
James Naughtie charts the life of the soon-to-be 46th president of the USA, Joe Biden
Published on Tuesday, 19th January 2021.
Colm Flynn tracks down the internet’s original viral video superstars
Published on Sunday, 17th January 2021.
Women who have founded a support group after losing their husbands to Covid-19
Published on Saturday, 16th January 2021.
How online influencers get paid to promote cosmetic surgery
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores how the digital world influences the way we live
Published on Wednesday, 13th January 2021.
Mark Coles presents a profile of Kamala Harris, vice president-elect
Published on Tuesday, 12th January 2021.
We hear from ICU doctors in the US, Brazil and South Africa
Published on Saturday, 9th January 2021.
How seven ruthless brothers held a small Libyan town in their murderous grip.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2021.
Aleks Krotoski explores how violent content is viewed and why
Published on Wednesday, 6th January 2021.
The impact of the Trump presidency on US policy convention and political discourse
Published on Tuesday, 5th January 2021.
The businessman and TV show host who became the 45th President of the United States
Nuala McGovern catches up with people she spoke to earlier in the year
Published on Saturday, 2nd January 2021.
As the year draws to a close, correspondents muse on the upcoming global events of 2021
Published on Friday, 1st January 2021.
Dr Kevin Fong talks to the people who have created a coronavirus vaccine in record time
How one young man went missing after Nigerian troops opened fire at a protest
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2020.
Does how we treat our subservient robots affect how we treat one another?
Published on Wednesday, 30th December 2020.
In 1914 an Indian student caused a sensation when she won a top Welsh cultural prize
Published on Tuesday, 29th December 2020.
Has Covid-19 changed the way we hear, see, smell, taste and touch?
Published on Sunday, 27th December 2020.
We return to some of the people we've featured to hear how their lives have changed
Published on Saturday, 26th December 2020.
Why do so many of us treat Silicon Valley billionaires like our new messiahs?
Published on Wednesday, 23rd December 2020.
Former Samburu warriors turn their skills to caring for baby elephants in Kenya
Published on Tuesday, 22nd December 2020.
Conversations about Christmas during a pandemic
Published on Saturday, 19th December 2020.
As UN peacekeepers leave Sudan’s troubled Darfur region, who will now protect civilians?
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2020.
Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic
Published on Wednesday, 16th December 2020.
Two Kenyan doctors explain why they’re prepared to strike over their working conditions
Published on Saturday, 12th December 2020.
The young Syrians who find themselves fighting in the war in Nagorno Karabakh
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2020.
Published on Wednesday, 9th December 2020.
Dazzling poet Valzhyna Mort explores a hundred days of protest in Belarus
Published on Tuesday, 8th December 2020.
Is it time to abandon dreams of human space travel?
Published on Saturday, 5th December 2020.
Is imminent large-scale vaccination a path back to normality?
One victim’s quest to discover why complete strangers tormented her on social media
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2020.
The UN Secretary General joins Lucy Hockings and activists from around the world
Published on Wednesday, 2nd December 2020.
Day 115 of the astonishing protests in Belarus
Published on Tuesday, 1st December 2020.
Mary Ann Sieghart hears the inspiring stories of women in power
Published on Sunday, 29th November 2020.
Conversations about the impact of coronavirus in the US, Japan and Gaza
Published on Saturday, 28th November 2020.
The Mapuche battle to get respect for their approach to healthcare in southern Chile
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2020.
Published on Wednesday, 25th November 2020.
How Chido Govera's curiosity with mushrooms helped feed her family and other growers
Published on Monday, 23rd November 2020.
Three women in Latin America talk about how coronavirus has affected their societies
Published on Saturday, 21st November 2020.
The historic link between slavery and the toxic contamination of a Caribbean island
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2020.
Voters talk about waiting for results of the unusually protracted US presidential election
Published on Wednesday, 18th November 2020.
Why are Buddhist monks in Thailand more obese than the population at large?
Published on Tuesday, 17th November 2020.
The frenzied attack in a farmhouse that left two dead and a South African town divided
Published on Sunday, 15th November 2020.
US voters discuss the election
Published on Saturday, 14th November 2020.
Investigating a palm oil giant buying vast areas of Asia’s largest remaining rainforest
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2020.
Rajini Vaidyanathan searches for one of the many Indian children trafficked into slavery
Published on Tuesday, 10th November 2020.
Voters from across the country share their thoughts and feelings about the election
Published on Saturday, 7th November 2020.
Eighteen Sicilian fishermen are in jail in Benghazi, accused of fishing in Libya’s waters
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2020.
The shocking violence against Native American women
Published on Tuesday, 3rd November 2020.
Conversations with serving officers, Black Lives Matter protesters and former Neo-Nazis
Published on Saturday, 31st October 2020.
Two socially distanced views of the pre-election political landscape of America
Published on Thursday, 29th October 2020.
What does a pioneering scientist's story reveal about China and America?
Published on Tuesday, 27th October 2020.
How the Korean War forced the US military to desegregate
Published on Sunday, 25th October 2020.
Truck drivers and farmers talk about the past four years of Trump presidency
Published on Saturday, 24th October 2020.
Grimsby, the once-mighty UK fishing port that hopes Brexit will bring a renaissance
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2020.
The inequalities in US healthcare exposed through a deeply personal story
Published on Tuesday, 20th October 2020.
Sophia Smith Galer finds out how TikTok could influence the outcome of the US election
Published on Sunday, 18th October 2020.
Americans consider how their lives have changed since the election of Donald Trump
Published on Saturday, 17th October 2020.
People across America talk about losing their jobs during the pandemic
A death-defying migrant's story...
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2020.
Stella Sabin looks at the continuing impact of dyslexia in adult life
Published on Tuesday, 13th October 2020.
How a WW2 icon was made, piece by piece, against all odds. With historian Victoria Taylor
Published on Sunday, 11th October 2020.
Americans discuss President Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis
Published on Saturday, 10th October 2020.
How the death of a black teenager highlighted America’s struggle with white gang violence
Published on Thursday, 8th October 2020.
Toby Withers explores how you can be dyslexic in one language, but not in another
Published on Tuesday, 6th October 2020.
What have Americans made of President Trump's response to the pandemic?
Published on Monday, 5th October 2020.
Published on Thursday, 1st October 2020.
The story of Roger Payne’s best-selling environmental album, released 50 years ago
Published on Tuesday, 29th September 2020.
What it takes to win a Nobel prize and what it means for the lives and careers of winners
Published on Sunday, 27th September 2020.
What life is like now in the Chinese city where Covid-19 was first detected
Published on Saturday, 26th September 2020.
The row over sexuality that threatens to unleash a culture war in Poland
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2020.
A conversation about friendships during the pandemic
Published on Saturday, 19th September 2020.
Must the Netherlands' world-beating cows be sacrificed to save the country's environment?
Published on Thursday, 17th September 2020.
A Palestinian shepherd fights for his livelihood under pressure from Israeli settlers
Published on Wednesday, 16th September 2020.
The stories behind the numbers in the coronavirus pandemic
Published on Friday, 11th September 2020.
The price of going ‘dry’ during the pandemic
Published on Thursday, 10th September 2020.
This is what happened to my life when I was accused of hacking the Pentagon
Published on Wednesday, 9th September 2020.
An investigation into the deep-seated and increasing passion for motorcycling in India
Published on Tuesday, 8th September 2020.
We hear about life on Pacific islands with no coronavirus cases
Published on Monday, 7th September 2020.
The Pakistani journalist on holding her country’s powerful elite to account
Published on Thursday, 3rd September 2020.
Why Greenland is opening up its first prison, after years as a modern prison-less society
Published on Wednesday, 2nd September 2020.
The army of Soviet women spreading feminist ideas in Afghanistan
Published on Tuesday, 1st September 2020.
How parents of children with special educational needs have coped in lockdown
Published on Sunday, 30th August 2020.
A summer of protest in Belarus recorded by Minsk journalist Ilya Kuzniatsou
Published on Saturday, 29th August 2020.
Hugh Sykes recounts the drama, danger and humour of life on the journalistic frontline
Published on Thursday, 27th August 2020.
The handbook for train hopping American hobo culture and the man behind the guide
Published on Wednesday, 26th August 2020.
Can refugees save the small, conservative town of Cactus, Texas?
Published on Tuesday, 25th August 2020.
People who have had Covid-19 but are still suffering from debilitating symptoms
Published on Sunday, 23rd August 2020.
The writer Barbara Demick discusses her ‘narrative non-fiction’ style of journalism
Published on Thursday, 20th August 2020.
The phenomenon of disappearance is rooted in Japanese culture. Meet those who disappear
Published on Wednesday, 19th August 2020.
What will it really take to vaccinate the world against Covid 19?
Published on Tuesday, 18th August 2020.
How two men fought their addictions during lockdown
Published on Sunday, 16th August 2020.
Maria Margaronis sews and hears the stories of Gee’s Bend's historic quilters
How a boy from Soweto rose to become the BBC’s chief journalist in Africa.
Published on Thursday, 13th August 2020.
What impact does the language we use around cancer have on those living with the disease?
Published on Wednesday, 12th August 2020.
What will it really take to vaccinate the world against Covid-19?
Published on Tuesday, 11th August 2020.
We speak to people in Beirut following a massive explosion at its port
Published on Sunday, 9th August 2020.
If globalisation is on its last legs - again - what might the impacts be?
In the United States a small but increasingly vocal group of people believe that of to...
Published on Friday, 7th 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.
Driver Safdar's experiences reveal a remarkable story of life and death in Pakistan
Published on Tuesday, 4th August 2020.
Spanish business owners react to the news as the UK adds Spain to its quarantine list
Published on Saturday, 1st August 2020.
A failed coup in Venezuela - a story of hubris, incompetence, and treachery
Published on Thursday, 30th July 2020.
Why some of us are unable to digest dairy and the intricate process of creating a baby
Published on Wednesday, 29th July 2020.
What can ambulance drivers tell us about political change in Pakistan?
Published on Tuesday, 28th July 2020.
We hear from Sheneen McClain, whose son Elijah died after being detained by police
Published on Sunday, 26th July 2020.
Why is watching sport so important to us as a species? What happens when it disappears?
Published on Thursday, 23rd July 2020.
The origins of the ginger gene and the genes that can increase the risk of breast cancer
Published on Wednesday, 22nd July 2020.
How Jewish children and French nuns together defied the Nazis
Published on Tuesday, 21st July 2020.
How does banning alcohol sales help doctors tackling Covid-19?
Published on Sunday, 19th July 2020.
Tony May was abandoned as a baby in 1942. Can DNA testing reveal who his parents were?
What is the impact of Coronavirus on Africa?
Published on Saturday, 18th July 2020.
What’s behind the scandal sparked by a delivery of tainted fuel to crisis-ridden Lebanon?
Published on Thursday, 16th July 2020.
What do at-home DNA test kits tell us about our identity?
Published on Tuesday, 14th July 2020.
Listening to conversations on black-owned radio after the killing of George Floyd
Published on Sunday, 12th July 2020.
From vaccine trials to new treatments, this investigation tracks Covid-19 breakthroughs.
Families search for their loved ones, victims of Covid-19, in Ecuador’s largest city
Published on Thursday, 9th July 2020.
Why is so much of Africa still not mapped properly?
Published on Tuesday, 7th July 2020.
Three women share the history of slavery in their families and discuss its impact today
Published on Saturday, 4th July 2020.
Where did Covid-19 come from? John Sudworth searches for answers where it first emerged
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2020.
A scheme which trains up grandmothers in talking therapy has helped over 50,000 people
Published on Tuesday, 30th June 2020.
Alongside the medical emergency, what will Covid-19 mean for the global economy?
Published on Sunday, 28th June 2020.
Health experts and listeners share their views of life in a post-pandemic world
How can engineers re-imagine the everyday and make life safer across the globe?
Published on Saturday, 27th June 2020.
As desert locusts swarm across East Africa, can Kenya’s locust hunters prevent a plague?
Published on Thursday, 25th June 2020.
Public health leader Dr Tom Frieden reflects on the global pandemic.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd June 2020.
How the coronavirus pandemic has created new opportunities to change our world
Published on Monday, 22nd June 2020.
How local newspapers the Mumbai Mirror and the Courier Journal reported the pandemic
Published on Sunday, 21st June 2020.
With job cuts and falling salaries, does going to university still make financial sense?
Published on Saturday, 20th June 2020.
A new spike in China's capital, escaping a violent partner and reopening a business
Assignment investigates how bad science could be damaging people’s health
Published on Thursday, 18th June 2020.
Who wrote a fake story that smeared a Senegalese politician in Michelle Madsen’s name?
Published on Sunday, 14th June 2020.
The impact of Coronavirus on Latin America: how has it dealt with the pandemic?
Published on Saturday, 13th June 2020.
The debate surrounding the push for change by protests after the death of George Floyd
How thousands of seafarers are stuck working on vessels and unable to go home
Published on Thursday, 11th June 2020.
People across the world broadcast their experience of the coronavirus pandemic
Published on Tuesday, 9th June 2020.
Rapper Killer Mike made a plea for calm after George Floyd’s death
Published on Sunday, 7th June 2020.
Six authors on different continents convey their thoughts during their present isolation
Published on Saturday, 6th June 2020.
Powerful conversations about race and racism in America
How can America move beyond its history of racial discrimination?
Who is behind the wave of assassinations and attacks on Chechen asylum seekers in Europe?
Published on Thursday, 4th June 2020.
What happened in Texas when coronavirus closed the abortion clinics?
Published on Tuesday, 2nd June 2020.
How the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the job prospects of the class of 2020
Published on Sunday, 31st May 2020.
Parents of children with autism, Brazilian doctors and US obituary editors
What should we be taught about sexual pleasure?
Published on Saturday, 30th May 2020.
Jerzy Dudek relives his star role in Liverpool's extraordinary 2005 Champions League win
Alan Dein connects with people experiencing sleepless nights during the pandemic
Carry on regardless says Belarus’s president in the face of the coronavirus pandemic
Published on Thursday, 28th May 2020.
An inmate’s first-hand account of creating a book club on Death Row
Published on Tuesday, 26th May 2020.
New mums, being pregnant in prison and Covid-19 survivors
Published on Sunday, 24th May 2020.
Why is Spain rubbish at recycling and Chile so much better? Leena Vuotovesi finds out
Published on Saturday, 23rd May 2020.
Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic.
Homage to Harlem with poetry, music and the story of chef and resident Marcus Samuelsson
The desperate race to save migrants at sea over one weekend
Published on Thursday, 21st May 2020.
Zeinab Badawi looks at doctors from developing countries working in the developed world
Published on Wednesday, 20th May 2020.
Listeners offer their perspectives on a global crisis and their lives in lockdown
Published on Tuesday, 19th May 2020.
Stories from an August weekend of gun violence in Chicago, narrated by Clarke Peters
Published on Sunday, 17th May 2020.
Comedians, loneliness and going back to school
How does the financial help on offer where you are compare to other parts of the world?
Published on Saturday, 16th May 2020.
Alan Dein connects with people who are anxious about their family businesses
What catching Covid-19 reveals about the politics and leadership style of Boris Johnson
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2020.
In December 2019, Chinese doctors and officials grapple with a mysterious new virus
Published on Tuesday, 12th May 2020.
One hundred days with new MPs in the North of England from Brexit, Day to lockdown
Published on Sunday, 10th May 2020.
Hairdressers, funeral directors and sex workers
World Questions explores the impact of Covid-19 with experts from around the world.
Published on Saturday, 9th May 2020.
Published on Friday, 8th May 2020.
The devastating effect of the coronavirus pandemic on Bangladesh’s garment industry
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2020.
Listeners from different countries offer their unique perspectives on a global crisis
Published on Tuesday, 5th May 2020.
Losing loved ones on the frontline, coping during 40-day lockdown and hospital chaplains
Published on Sunday, 3rd May 2020.
Why did so many people die in just one elderly care home in Madrid?
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2020.
Every citizen gets an annual dividend from the state’s oil fund. Mark Whitaker reports
Published on Wednesday, 29th April 2020.
The foreign care workers who look after Britain’s elderly and disabled people
Published on Tuesday, 28th April 2020.
Coronavirus Global Conversations is a place to talk about the impact of the disease
Published on Sunday, 26th April 2020.
Published on Saturday, 25th April 2020.
Honey bees, cow dung and mulch; how a company in Zimbabwe is preventing deforestation
Published on Thursday, 23rd April 2020.
Has the epidemic weakened or strengthened the grip of China’s Communist Party?
Published on Wednesday, 22nd April 2020.
Are millennials across the world being hit by a mid-20s crisis?
Published on Tuesday, 21st April 2020.
Listeners across the globe share their experiences of lockdown and the coronavirus crisis
Losing loved ones, getting married in a lockdown and the risk to black Americans
Published on Sunday, 19th April 2020.
As coronavirus spreads people are worrying about their money as well as their health
Published on Saturday, 18th April 2020.
Students and teachers in Chile demand an end to inequality in education
Published on Thursday, 16th April 2020.
Two very different uses for everyday waste in Paraguay and Sweden
Published on Tuesday, 14th April 2020.
A place to talk about the impact of the disease on you, your family and your communities
Published on Sunday, 12th April 2020.
The challenges posed by and the consequences of the outbreak of Covid-19 in Europe
Published on Saturday, 11th April 2020.
Kim Chakanetsa talks to the acclaimed authors Isabel Allende and Edna O’Brien
Can extremists who murder people like Jack Merritt ever be de-radicalised?
Published on Thursday, 9th April 2020.
Saeedeh Hashemi explores the upsides of ADHD for individuals and society
Published on Wednesday, 8th April 2020.
Peter White, blind since birth, explores Melbourne through the sounds he hears.
Published on Tuesday, 7th April 2020.
Coronavirus Global Conversations is a place to talk about the impact of the disease.
Published on Sunday, 5th April 2020.
As Germany struggles with a teacher shortage, can refugee teachers fill the gap?
Published on Saturday, 4th April 2020.
A mystery killing has shocked Romania as the fight over its ancient forests turns deadly
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2020.
Peter White, blind since birth, explores Miami through the sounds he hears
Published on Tuesday, 31st March 2020.
What does the future hold on either side of the Ethiopia-Eritrea border?
Published on Monday, 30th March 2020.
How North Korean defectors have become a hugely valuable commodity in South Korea
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2020.
Saying no to dating is part of a growing ultraconservative social movement in Indonesia
Becky Milligan presents a profile of Jurgen Klopp, manager of Liverpool Football Club
Published on Tuesday, 24th March 2020.
Joe Pascal meets Darryl McDaniels of the legendary rap group Run-DMC
Published on Sunday, 22nd March 2020.
How young people in Ireland are facing a huge housing crisis
Published on Thursday, 19th March 2020.
A new wave of end of life rituals is emerging across northern England
Published on Tuesday, 17th March 2020.
What is motivating the demonstrators on the city’s streets – and their opponents?
Published on Sunday, 15th March 2020.
Illegal logging of the endangered rosewood tree is decimating forests in Casamance
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2020.
Nele and Ellie identified as transmen in their teens. Both are now reidentifying as female
Published on Tuesday, 10th March 2020.
Jump on-board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story
Published on Monday, 9th March 2020.
Cabin crew claim toxic air is harming them, but airlines say there’s no proven link
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2020.
Transgender journeys of people who transitioned and then returned to their birth gender
Published on Tuesday, 3rd March 2020.
MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learning to rap in Rikers Island jail
Published on Sunday, 1st March 2020.
Dominic Casciani gets exclusive access to a former mafia boss turned prosecution witness
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2020.
People in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and beyond explore what unites them
Published on Wednesday, 26th February 2020.
Can new judges transform Houston’s criminal justice system?
Published on Tuesday, 25th February 2020.
Published on Sunday, 23rd February 2020.
California’s homeless take a ride on the ‘Motel 22’
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2020.
Using social media, Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world seeking fulfilment
Published on Wednesday, 19th February 2020.
Cattle farmers from the USA and South Africa share perspectives
Published on Tuesday, 18th February 2020.
Award-winning UK rapper Guvna B explores the ‘gospel hip-hop’ music genre
Published on Sunday, 16th February 2020.
How can beauty pageants adapt in the wake of the #MeToo movement?
Published on Saturday, 15th February 2020.
A woman is murdered in El Salvador every 3 days. Karla Turcios was one of them
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2020.
Relationships between black and Asian origin South Africans
Published on Tuesday, 11th February 2020.
What is life like for the billions of people who live along earthquake fault lines?
Published on Sunday, 9th February 2020.
The 2020 US Presidential campaign as it unfolds over the countertop of a New Jersey diner
Published on Saturday, 8th February 2020.
“They’re coming for our children”: How fear of social workers has gripped Bulgaria
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2020.
Thousands of boys and young men were kidnapped and taken to work on sugar plantations
Published on Wednesday, 5th February 2020.
All sorts of Muslims, some very dynamic and modern, are embracing polygamy in Malaysia
Published on Tuesday, 4th February 2020.
Michael Buchanan gets rare access to Colombia’s cocaine producers and smugglers
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2020.
The islanders fighting to save their home and their language
Published on Wednesday, 29th January 2020.
The personal stories of students and young people struggling with the pressure to succeed
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2020.
Lilo and Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin
Published on Friday, 24th January 2020.
The Finnish fisherman who believes he has a solution to climate change
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2020.
Why do we hold our opponents in contempt?
Published on Wednesday, 22nd January 2020.
How would you feel if your father was a convicted torturer?
Published on Tuesday, 21st January 2020.
Kate Molleson explores music’s place on the world’s largest island
Published on Sunday, 19th January 2020.
Psychedelic plants, the spiritual tourism backlash - and sexual abuse
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2020.
Meet the New Zealanders making an art-form out of coffin creation
Published on Tuesday, 14th January 2020.
How has Germany tried to come to terms with the legacy of its Nazi past?
Published on Sunday, 12th January 2020.
'We lived with wolves' says 90-year-old Galina - a witness to life before Chernobyl
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2020.
The controversial laws over how people can change gender in Japan
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2020.
What will the end of the world’s dependence on oil mean for geopolitics?
Published on Friday, 3rd January 2020.
A grisly discovery in a murder investigation in Thailand may lead to significant change
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2020.
The seamstresses who sewed soft goods components for space craft and space suits
Published on Tuesday, 31st December 2019.
The Soviet War in Afghanistan told through its teenage soldiers and their music
Published on Sunday, 29th December 2019.
Iceland's glaciers are melting and scientists predict they could be gone in 200 years.
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2019.
The town of Ii in northern Finland is a green trailblazer
Published on Tuesday, 24th December 2019.
Razia Iqbal speaks to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Published on Sunday, 22nd December 2019.
How Star Wars changed the cinematic universe in 1977
The story of girls trapped in the violent world of cross-country drugs gangs in the UK
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2019.
How has Romania moved on from its totalitarian past?
Published on Wednesday, 18th December 2019.
A Canadian organisation is helping LGBT people escape persecution via a secret network.
Published on Tuesday, 17th December 2019.
The story of Judy Garland's last concerts in London at the Talk of The Town nightclub
Published on Sunday, 15th December 2019.
How a corrupt system condemns Lebanese to the misery of constant power-cuts
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2019.
GCHQ's listening station at Bude, its hidden past and how it was forced out into the open
Published on Wednesday, 11th December 2019.
What happens when an Iranian marries a South Korean and their families meet?
Published on Tuesday, 10th December 2019.
US political media expert Travis Ridout assesses efforts to influence UK voters
Published on Saturday, 7th 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.
GCHQ's Scarborough station and its role in WW2, the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Published on Wednesday, 4th December 2019.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bed-in for peace protest and the people who witnessed it
Published on Tuesday, 3rd December 2019.
Remembering Raed Fares the Radio Fresh FM founder who fought hatred with humour in Syria.
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2019.
Huang built China’s first 'privatised city'. Is it utopia or his personal fiefdom?
Published on Tuesday, 26th November 2019.
Preserving the treasure trove of traditional harmonies, rhythms and instruments of Malawi
Published on Sunday, 24th November 2019.
Domestic violence is endemic and often deadly in Russia but some women are fighting back
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2019.
What happens to migrants who give up trying to reach Europe – and go home as failures?
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2019.
How have the protests affected the married lives between Hong Kong and mainland Chinese?
Published on Tuesday, 12th November 2019.
How Communist East Germany tried to influence Africa via radio during the Cold War
Published on Sunday, 10th November 2019.
Who are Albania’s Iranian guests?
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2019.
Huey Morgan celebrates the life and work of blind musician Moondog
Published on Wednesday, 6th November 2019.
Francis Ngannou's odyssey from child labour in a sand quarry to superstardom in the UFC
Published on Tuesday, 5th November 2019.
Inside the lives of Liberia’s forgotten child soldiers
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2019.
Ruth Sanderson looks back at the Scarman testimonies and the violence in Belfast in 1969
Published on Wednesday, 30th October 2019.
How the guerrilla war in Uganda led to the current leadership
Published on Sunday, 27th October 2019.
Meet the black Italians fighting to claim their place in a nation that’s still very white
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2019.
How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began in August 1969
Published on Wednesday, 23rd October 2019.
Nalini Sivathasan meets young Zoroastrians trying to save their religion from extinction
Published on Tuesday, 22nd October 2019.
Meet the inspirational supersisters on whose shoulders today's female sport stars stand
Published on Sunday, 20th October 2019.
Are lithium-powered electric vehicles as ‘green’ as we think they are?
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2019.
Gordon Brown meets billionaires inspired by the great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
Published on Wednesday, 16th October 2019.
Black eyeliner is more than just make-up. It's a symbol of the power of Persian women
Published on Tuesday, 15th October 2019.
Cubans are getting online – so how is the internet transforming this communist country?
Published on Sunday, 13th October 2019.
University professors sexually harassing and blackmailing female students in Nigeria
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2019.
Meet the children who help their immigrant parents navigate life in the UK by translating
Published on Wednesday, 9th October 2019.
In Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific Island Nation, a controversial passport scheme is a concern
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2019.
The clerics facilitating so-called ‘pleasure marriages’ in return for payment
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2019.
The winners and losers from the booming global citizenship trade
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2019.
In America children can get married legally in most states. Jane O'Brien investigates
Published on Sunday, 29th September 2019.
A Chilean man - adopted at birth - searches for the mother forced to give him up
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2019.
Searching for justice for South Africa’s Imam Abdullah Haron who spoke against apartheid
Published on Tuesday, 24th September 2019.
How the countries involved in WW2 fought to feed their people and fund their armies
Published on Sunday, 22nd September 2019.
Long hours, little pay, for the workers who pick Turkey's hazelnuts.
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2019.
Aleks Krotoski on the history of leprosy and its stigma.
Published on Tuesday, 17th September 2019.
Precipitous mountain roads, specially-modified bikes, and deadly consequences.
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2019.
What does life sound like for someone whose hearing has suddenly changed?
Published on Tuesday, 10th September 2019.
Audrey Brown looks back at the life of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe
Published on Friday, 6th September 2019.
The Philippine city that was besieged by Islamic State supporters
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2019.
A Costa Rican city is an unexpected home for people in search of a better life in the US
Published on Wednesday, 4th September 2019.
Imran fled violence in Myanmar – now he is in detention in Papua New Guinea
Dead bodies travel along mountain passes for cremation in another country
Wild elephants surround a village in Assam, India. And they’re hungry
Medical student Elena ran out of money, so she started writing fake stories for cash
How Michelle Bachelet rose to be the first woman to serve as president of Chile
Published on Tuesday, 3rd September 2019.
Inside the ruin of Brazil’s National Museum – and the struggle to revive it
Published on Sunday, 1st September 2019.
Brazil’s party capital, Rio de Janeiro, is witnessing a killing spree.
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2019.
On its 50th anniversary, we explore the social impact of the legendary Woodstock Festival
Talent show finalist Zahra Elham and the musicians defying the Taliban
Published on Wednesday, 28th August 2019.
As a critic of President Duterte, her arrest this year was seen as politically motivated.
Published on Tuesday, 27th August 2019.
When Julia discovers she has more than twenty siblings, she must redefine her family
Published on Saturday, 24th August 2019.
Can one man's campaign for motorways in Romania make a difference and save lives?
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2019.
The TV talent show at the forefront of the continuing struggle in Afghanistan
Published on Wednesday, 21st August 2019.
Betty Bigombe spent much of her career trying to negotiate peace with warlord Joseph Kony
Published on Tuesday, 20th August 2019.
Who will shape the future of the hurricane-hit, tropical isle of Barbuda?
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2019.
On 16 August 1819, troops charged the crowds in St Peter's Field in Manchester
Published on Wednesday, 14th August 2019.
Vaira Viķe-Freiberga became president of Latvia in 1999 and re-elected in 2003
Published on Tuesday, 13th August 2019.
An icon of Italian design; a centrepiece of a community; a tragedy waiting to happen?
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2019.
Does maintaining good hair stop black girls from getting into the water?
Published on Tuesday, 6th August 2019.
A small town goes on life-support after its lone hospital closes
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2019.
A former CIA officer begins 20 years in prison for selling secrets to the Chinese
Published on Tuesday, 30th July 2019.
Linda Yueh uncovers the trend of Africans moving to live in China
Published on Sunday, 28th July 2019.
How sophisticated spy-ware can be used to track our everyday activities. Who's watching?
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2019.
Is there even something sinister and oppressive to the idea of monolingualism?
Published on Tuesday, 23rd July 2019.
The history of the space race told through music and lyrics
Published on Sunday, 21st July 2019.
A celebration of the life and music of Zimbabwe’s Oliver Mtukudzi
Published on Saturday, 20th July 2019.
The harrowing story of rape, murder and violence on a Kenyan tea plantation
Published on Thursday, 18th July 2019.
What is it like to live in a place where you have to speak several languages to get by?
Published on Tuesday, 16th July 2019.
How the death of nine Russian students has fuelled conspiracy theories for 60 years
Published on Sunday, 14th July 2019.
A German forest is disappearing; devoured by a coalmine. Can the trees be saved?
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2019.
Meet the people who speak many languages. How do they do it, and why?
Published on Tuesday, 9th July 2019.
Denmark's immigration policy is among the most controversial in western Europe.
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2019.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd July 2019.
The Dalai Lama shares his thoughts on President Trump, Brexit, the EU and China
Published on Sunday, 30th June 2019.
Iraq’s female archaeologists return to Mosul to work on restoring their ancient heritage
Students throw sabers and rifles in the American Sport of the Arts
Published on Saturday, 29th June 2019.
As its city centre falls apart, Marseille is facing a crisis.
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2019.
The life behind the magic fingers of Afghan spin bowler Rashid Khan
Published on Tuesday, 25th June 2019.
Eight female archaeologists from Mosul travel to London to train with the British Museum
Published on Sunday, 23rd June 2019.
How mistrust of vaccine has brought a forgotten disease back to Europe
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2019.
Why do people hesitate over vaccinations around the world?
Published on Wednesday, 19th June 2019.
Liyang Liu talks to Chinese school students studying in the UK
Published on Tuesday, 18th June 2019.
Ahmad Zahir died in 1979 yet his music still unites generations of Afghans
Published on Sunday, 16th June 2019.
Growers, smugglers and the police who’d stop them.
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2019.
The challenges faced by Native American young people
Published on Tuesday, 11th June 2019.
Many Pacific Islanders enter New Zealand’s visa lottery. What happens to the winners?
Published on Sunday, 9th June 2019.
How Mexico’s illegal petrol trade is creating a new culture through film, song and prayer
Published on Saturday, 8th June 2019.
How has rivalry on the football field reflected the political divisions in Turkey?
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2019.
The Tanzanian mothers forced to hide their children with Down syndrome due to stigma
Published on Tuesday, 4th June 2019.
Sudan’s doctors on the frontline. The white-coated men and women who defied a president
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2019.
What happened to the Nigerian women trafficked to Europe during the migrant crisis?
Published on Wednesday, 29th May 2019.
The stories of six Syrian refugees across the world, followed over five years
Published on Sunday, 26th May 2019.
Amar was orphaned in an Iraqi bombing so who is the woman claiming he is her son?
Published on Saturday, 25th May 2019.
The extraordinary story of a young man from Ghana going undercover on the migrant trail
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2019.
Is a driverless future really just round the corner?
Published on Tuesday, 21st May 2019.
How Syrian refugees have found new lives in Canada and Lebanon
Published on Sunday, 19th May 2019.
The story of a 12-year-old girl seeking asylum in a strange county – told from the inside
In 2009, Mennonite women in a far-flung Bolivian colony reported mass rape.
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2019.
Tayo Popoola discovers the story of the slaves owned by the Cherokee Indian tribe
Published on Tuesday, 14th May 2019.
Migrants make headlines all the time, but what about those they leave behind?
Published on Sunday, 12th May 2019.
South America’s second poorest nation is about to get very rich
Published on Wednesday, 8th May 2019.
The coalition of centre-right and far-right parties that are running Austria and Italy
An internet of things insider reflects on the implications of ‘things’ that talk
Published on Tuesday, 7th May 2019.
The British gangs making big money smuggling migrants across the English Channel.
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2019.
The populists governing European nations along the former Iron Curtain’s route
Published on Wednesday, 1st May 2019.
If data is the new oil, are data centres the new oil rigs?
Published on Tuesday, 30th April 2019.
What went wrong in flat 113 at Grenfell Tower? Katie Razzell pieces together the evidence
Published on Sunday, 28th April 2019.
Thousands of Bangladeshi addicts are hooked on Yaba, a methamphetamine and caffeine mix
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2019.
What the Trump presidency means for America's old European allies
Published on Wednesday, 24th April 2019.
South Africa 25 years after the 1994 elections that brought Nelson Mandela to power
Published on Tuesday, 23rd April 2019.
10, 9, 8, 7: The dramatic missions that made the Moon landing possible
Published on Sunday, 21st April 2019.
Can the treasures lost when Brazil's National Museum burnt down be salvaged or replaced?
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2019.
Stephen Hendry examines the rise in popularity of snooker in China
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2019.
A deep dive into the life and work of an Indian newspaper
Published on Sunday, 14th April 2019.
The secretive radio stations that link the Big Apple’s vibrant migrant communities
Published on Saturday, 13th April 2019.
Mark D’Arcy reviews the chaotic past few weeks of debates on Brexit in the UK Parliament
For some in Poland the Cursed Soldiers are national heroes; for others they are murderers
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2019.
How inter-faith and inter-caste marriages are leading to bitter divisions in India
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2019.
Will robotisation prevent poorer countries taking the traditional route to prosperity?
Published on Saturday, 6th April 2019.
Hunting western paedophiles is a priority for a new police unit in Nepal
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2019.
Will the competition between China and the US inevitably lead to military conflict?
Published on Wednesday, 3rd April 2019.
Helene Daouphars asks why #MeToo was so controversial in France.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd April 2019.
Tensions are rising on Ukraine's western border
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2019.
Romanians work right across the UK economy. So why do they get such a bad press?
Published on Wednesday, 27th March 2019.
People in London are asked where they are going to reveal hidden truths about their lives
Published on Tuesday, 26th March 2019.
Exploring the growing role of robots in education and elderly care in Singapore and Japan
Published on Sunday, 24th March 2019.
Cryptocurrencies have been around for 10 years, so why are many still dogged by scandal?
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2019.
In a series of five programmes, Neil MacGregor explores how other countries see Britain
Published on Wednesday, 20th March 2019.
In Belfast, strangers are asked where they are going to reveal insights into their lives
Published on Tuesday, 19th March 2019.
Robots are designed to help us, so why do humans like to hurt them?
Published on Sunday, 17th March 2019.
The dangers of flying in the great wilderness of the Brazilian rainforest
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2019.
Denys Arcand, Madeleine Thienand and Chrystia Freeland share their views of Britain
Published on Wednesday, 13th March 2019.
One question reveals hidden truths about the lives of strangers in Cardiff
Published on Tuesday, 12th March 2019.
Anne Soy investigates why there is no business like slum business
Published on Sunday, 10th March 2019.
How a Church of Denmark priest sexually abused children for a decade without detection.
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2019.
Wole Soyinka, Yeni Kuti daughter of Fela Kuti; and Muhammadu Sanusi II on Britain
Published on Wednesday, 6th March 2019.
One question reveals hidden truths about the lives of strangers around the world
Published on Tuesday, 5th March 2019.
Emmanuel 'Jagari' Chanda, Zambia’s first rock star tells his story and that of Zamrock
Published on Saturday, 2nd March 2019.
How does a lonely, Spanish shepherd find love when single women have left for the city?
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2019.
Neil MacGregor explores how other countries see Britain
Published on Wednesday, 27th February 2019.
Published on Tuesday, 26th February 2019.
How an impoverished school achieved amazing success on and off the basketball court
Published on Sunday, 24th February 2019.
A ground-breaking re-sentencing project has changed the fates of more than 100 inmates
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2019.
Political and cultural figures in Germany on how they and their communities see Britain
Published on Wednesday, 20th February 2019.
Is Liberia’s footballing President George Weah achieving his goals?
Published on Tuesday, 19th February 2019.
The inside story of how players and betting gangs are fixing matches in tennis
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2019.
Republican insider Ron Christie assesses how Donald Trump has shaken up his own party
Published on Wednesday, 13th February 2019.
If space aliens are out there…why haven’t we found them?
Published on Tuesday, 12th February 2019.
Fourteen year-old Emmett Till was murdered in 1955. His death has resonated ever since
Published on Sunday, 10th February 2019.
Students die every year on US college campuses because of dangerous “hazing” rituals
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2019.
For Adrian Goldberg, Brexit has raised a dilemma: should he get a German passport?
Published on Wednesday, 6th February 2019.
Imtiaz Dharker presents a reflective evocation of the broom, in words, sound and music
Published on Tuesday, 5th February 2019.
How Mongolia’s massive hip hop scene is shaping the country’s future
Published on Saturday, 2nd February 2019.
Elderly pensioners in Japan commit petty crimes so that they can be sent to prison
Published on Thursday, 31st January 2019.
How best to live and die with dementia and the difficult choices people have to make
Published on Tuesday, 29th January 2019.
Blessed with a photographic memory Aleksander Kulisiewicz recorded songs of the damned...
Published on Sunday, 27th January 2019.
Hundreds of illegal orphanages in Uganda, many funded by UK charities, face closure.
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2019.
How will governments find the money and workers to care for Alzheimer’s sufferers?
Published on Tuesday, 22nd January 2019.
Who killed Benazir Bhutto? Why has a 10-year investigation failed to find her killers?
Published on Sunday, 20th January 2019.
A widow’s 60 year campaign for the truth about her husband’s death in the Algerian War
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2019.
Is there a viable case for drone deliveries in East Africa?
Published on Wednesday, 16th January 2019.
How fear and lack of understanding of Alzheimer’s is stigmatising those who have it
Published on Tuesday, 15th January 2019.
Who killed Benazir Bhutto? And why has 10-year investigation failed to find her killers?
Published on Sunday, 13th January 2019.
Old enemies Serbia and Kosovo discuss what for some is unthinkable - an ethnic land swap
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2019.
Ordinary Cubans reveal what their lives have really been like under Castro’s socialism
Published on Tuesday, 8th January 2019.
The Central African Republic and its struggle to develop after years of conflict
Published on Saturday, 5th 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.
What does it take to make a living in the New York flower market?
Published on Tuesday, 1st January 2019.
How and why Childish Gambino’s This is America video echoed around the world in 2018
Published on Sunday, 30th December 2018.
Two British firefighters revisit the scene of Armenia's devastating earthquake in 1988.
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2018.
A profile of US First Lady Melania Trump
Published on Tuesday, 25th December 2018.
Composer Bob Chilcott explores the history of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Published on Sunday, 23rd December 2018.
How home DNA testing kits are revealing more than some people bargained for.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2018.
The story of the US servicemen captured and imprisoned 50 years ago by North Korea
Published on Tuesday, 18th December 2018.
A sound-rich immersive journey along the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Published on Saturday, 15th 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.
Exploring how ancient cave paintings in Somaliland can be protected from terrorists
Published on Wednesday, 12th December 2018.
Ana Matronic visits a retreat for people who have tired of tech
Published on Tuesday, 11th December 2018.
Is the rise of online porn in India to blame for sexual violence against women?
Published on Sunday, 9th December 2018.
An investigation into repression in Burundi, one of Africa's most secretive countries.
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2018.
How one woman uncovered a medical scandal that rocked Ireland
Published on Wednesday, 5th December 2018.
Radio La Colifata confronts prejudices by broadcasting from a psychiatric hospital
Locked up for renting out their wombs, mothers in Cambodia must make an agonising choice.
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2018.
How migrants' food businesses have shaped communities in northern Britain
Published on Wednesday, 28th November 2018.
Why do women in Canada women give birth to somebody else’s baby without getting paid?
Published on Tuesday, 27th November 2018.
Is the media reporting the issues that matter to Women?
Published on Sunday, 25th November 2018.
Marking the 50th anniversary of Bristol’s cultural gem – the St Pauls Carnival
Published on Saturday, 24th November 2018.
Nigerian patients held in hospital because they can’t pay their medical bills.
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2018.
The Sahrawi women clearing up unexploded bombs left in the world's longest minefield
Published on Wednesday, 21st November 2018.
The feminist revolution taking place in the home of machismo and the Tango
Published on Tuesday, 20th November 2018.
How instant noodles went global with the help of students, travellers and prisoners
Published on Sunday, 18th November 2018.
Babies addicted to opioids and the school kids caught up in the US addiction crisis
Published on Friday, 16th November 2018.
How the police and courts deal with the opioid epidemic in one city—Louisville, Kentucky.
Exploring the real-time impact of the US opioid epidemic in Louisville, Kentucky
The African genocide that fed a gruesome trade in human body parts
Published on Wednesday, 14th November 2018.
US politician Joe Tydings shares vivid memories of the Kennedys in his final interview.
Published on Tuesday, 13th November 2018.
Mohammed bin Salman is under intense scrutiny following the killing of Jamal Khashoggi
Published on Thursday, 8th November 2018.
The amazing work of the little known astronomer George Ellery Hale
Published on Wednesday, 7th November 2018.
Moira Stuart tells the astonishing story of the Unknown Soldier
Published on Tuesday, 6th November 2018.
Stories from the travelling underbelly of America, collected on Greyhound buses
Published on Saturday, 3rd November 2018.
An important fish that millions depend on is being turned into animal feed for export.
Published on Friday, 2nd November 2018.
Could voting laws and partisan district maps swing November’s US midterm elections?
Published on Tuesday, 30th October 2018.
How young, cool Kazakhstanis are forging a new identity for their country
Published on Saturday, 27th October 2018.
Violence against women is a persistent problem in Serbia. Nicola Kelly reports.
Published on Thursday, 25th October 2018.
Ruth Alexander looks at the rise in violent crime in Sweden
Published on Wednesday, 24th October 2018.
The impact of Africa's new wealth and social media on home-grown philanthropic causes
Published on Tuesday, 23rd October 2018.
Down but not out in a Colombian border town, four Venezuelans pin their hopes on music.
Published on Thursday, 18th October 2018.
Is money from foreign investors helping or hindering African farmers?
Published on Tuesday, 16th October 2018.
Do some athletes exaggerate or even fake a disability in order to win Paralympic medals?
Published on Thursday, 11th October 2018.
The impact of philanthropy on healthcare and disease reduction in Africa
Published on Tuesday, 9th October 2018.
When someone takes their own life, how does it affect those left behind?
Published on Saturday, 6th October 2018.
Over a hundred people with disabilities have been killed by the police in the US in 2018
Published on Thursday, 4th October 2018.
An exploration of loneliness – seen through the eyes of one 94-year-old woman
Published on Tuesday, 2nd October 2018.
A survivor of the Holocaust reunites with her 15-year-old self via BBC archive recordings
Published on Sunday, 30th September 2018.
Brazil’s Zika babies – now toddlers – and their 'warrior' mums
Published on Saturday, 29th September 2018.
The name ‘Macedonia’ is disputed by two neighbouring nations. That may be about to change
Published on Thursday, 27th September 2018.
Spartan conditions and demanding casting directors - the challenges of aspiring models
Published on Tuesday, 25th September 2018.
Simon Cox investigates a new far right youth organisation in Europe, Generation Identity.
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2018.
Tales of colourful figures from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Published on Wednesday, 19th September 2018.
How humans make babies could be about to change, thanks to IVF and reproductive tech
Published on Tuesday, 18th September 2018.
One small country and the legacy of a local crisis that went global
Published on Sunday, 16th September 2018.
Dark secrets of Chile's Catholic Church - one of South America's devout congregations
Published on Thursday, 13th September 2018.
How the late Victorian institution has remained relevant in the internet age
Published on Wednesday, 12th September 2018.
Forty years after the first IVF baby, Krupa Padhy explores how human beings procreate
Published on Tuesday, 11th September 2018.
Nevada’s legal sex trade faces a campaign for reform
Published on Thursday, 6th September 2018.
How has comedy helped Northern Ireland cope with conflict and move on?
Published on Tuesday, 4th September 2018.
'He was using prisoners like oxen' - an ex-convict recalls life on a Ugandan prison farm.
Published on Monday, 3rd September 2018.
Anthony Zurcher looks back at the life and career of US Senator John McCain.
Published on Tuesday, 28th August 2018.
The everyday reality of living and dying under siege in Syria.
Dr Keon West explores the good and bad of shedding your clothes
Published on Sunday, 26th 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.
Personal recollections of the legendary American conductor and composer
Published on Tuesday, 21st August 2018.
Why does South Korea have the lowest fertility rate in the world?
Published on Thursday, 16th August 2018.
The amazing stories of strangers in Seoul, uncovered by asking - Where are you going?
Published on Tuesday, 14th August 2018.
How footballer Mo Salah is changing the world on and off the football pitch
Published on Sunday, 12th August 2018.
Aurelia Brouwers had mental illness - when she died from euthanasia in Holland she was 29
Published on Thursday, 9th August 2018.
Amazing stories in Vietnam are uncovered by asking strangers - Where are you going?
Published on Tuesday, 7th August 2018.
Norway's child protection system under scrutiny once again after expert's conviction.
Published on Thursday, 2nd August 2018.
The amazing stories of strangers in Japan revealed by asking where they are going
Published on Tuesday, 31st July 2018.
The best from OZY Fest with Salman Rushdie, Rose McGowan, hip hop artist Common and more.
Published on Sunday, 29th July 2018.
The resurrection of a murdered Kremlin critic in Ukraine.
Published on Friday, 27th July 2018.
Legendary newspaper man Harold Evans reveals his lifelong pursuit of the truth.
Published on Wednesday, 25th July 2018.
Can a blockchain technology boom reboot the fate of hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico?
Published on Tuesday, 24th July 2018.
How a wooden board with four roller-skate wheels started a sub-culture across the globe
Published on Monday, 23rd July 2018.
How much does the state of our teeth depend on what's in our bank balance?
Published on Thursday, 19th July 2018.
With no lower age limit on running for Governor, Kansas teens are standing for the role.
Will the plan to privatise entire cities in Honduras work?
Published on Wednesday, 18th July 2018.
Is China using its economic clout to lure the youth of Taiwan?
Published on Tuesday, 17th July 2018.
Pakistani immigrants living in Oslo return to the Punjab to build their dream home
Published on Sunday, 15th July 2018.
The rescue of 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand
Published on Friday, 13th July 2018.
The ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate is thought to be the most powerful global Mafia syndicate
Published on Thursday, 12th July 2018.
Exploring the idea that money is power by looking at the fetish of financial domination
Published on Wednesday, 11th July 2018.
The story of Labour politician Nye Bevan, who created Britain’s National Health Service
Published on Tuesday, 10th July 2018.
How do you deradicalise and reintergrate former ISIS members who have returned to the UK?
Published on Thursday, 5th July 2018.
Lottery jackpot winners around the globe on whether their windfall has made them happier
Published on Wednesday, 4th July 2018.
Is it really so odd to have an only child?
Published on Tuesday, 3rd July 2018.
As the NHS reaches its 70th birthday how is it viewed by those who work within it?
Published on Sunday, 1st July 2018.
Stories of entrepreneurs who have tried and failed – and are trying again
Published on Saturday, 30th June 2018.
Lucy Ash meets farmers of Paje, looking at ways they fight to save their livelihood
Published on Thursday, 28th June 2018.
A life coach invites couples in Nairobi to talk honestly about their finances
Published on Wednesday, 27th June 2018.
A financial therapist invites couples in Miami to talk honestly about their finances
Published on Tuesday, 26th June 2018.
MEPs have launched an investigation into 'Golden Passport' programmes across Europe
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2018.
How weddings in Uganda are costing couples more than they bargained for
Published on Wednesday, 20th June 2018.
What do our plans for spending $100 reveal about us and the buying power of money?
Published on Tuesday, 19th June 2018.
What does the way you handle your finances say about your relationship?
Published on Sunday, 17th June 2018.
Why did no one heed the loud warning bells about Virgen de la Asuncion?
Published on Thursday, 14th June 2018.
The noisiest metro, 24-hour police sirens and throbbing music are features of Moscow city
Published on Wednesday, 13th June 2018.
The Warren Commission was set up to investigate John F. Kennedy's assassination
Published on Tuesday, 12th June 2018.
Can children, if taught properly, become the firewall against alternative facts?
Published on Sunday, 10th June 2018.
Hundreds of Syrians are risking their lives to leave Europe & return home. But why?
Published on Thursday, 7th June 2018.
Hear the extraordinary soundscape of Mount Denali National Park, Alaska
Published on Tuesday, 5th June 2018.
Assignment follows one local man on his mission to save the “witches” of Papua New Guinea
Published on Thursday, 31st May 2018.
Plant scientists claim that plants cannot just sense, but communicate, learn and remember
Published on Wednesday, 30th May 2018.
Africa’s first and only World Scrabble Champion tells his story
Published on Tuesday, 29th May 2018.
Why did Bobby Kennedy leave such a lasting impression on US politics and society?
Published on Sunday, 27th May 2018.
What happened to Itai Dzamara and can the government of Zimbabwe ever be trusted?
Published on Thursday, 24th May 2018.
Filipina migrant workers in the UK and their children tell their stories
Published on Tuesday, 22nd May 2018.
Highlights from Windsor on the day that saw Prince Harry marry Meghan Markel.
Published on Saturday, 19th May 2018.
Why do people still place their faith in marriage?
Published on Friday, 18th May 2018.
Download the latest documentaries Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2018.
Emmanuel Macron’s first year in office and what he is doing for France – and Europe
Published on Tuesday, 15th May 2018.
How do young people of mixed heritage decide what cultural and racial boxes they tick?
Published on Sunday, 13th May 2018.
How a small rural school could help China achieve its World Cup dream
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2018.
A new digital currency gold rush is sweeping the world but is the bubble about to burst?
Published on Wednesday, 9th May 2018.
The indigenous Kuikuro people in Brazil share a day in their lives
Published on Tuesday, 8th May 2018.
An investigation into Jim Dowson, the front-man for the Knights Templar International.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2018.
Masculinity plays out against a backdrop of class, caste and a rapidly changing economy
Published on Sunday, 29th April 2018.
Athletes prepare to run a marathon through the forgotten land of Western Sahara
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2018.
The Commonwealth’s has its origins in the British Empire, what is its value now?
Published on Wednesday, 25th April 2018.
Stories direct from China sent using the smartphone technology in our pockets
Published on Tuesday, 24th April 2018.
What is life truly like for men in these confusing times?
Published on Sunday, 22nd April 2018.
Inside, ‘the largest foreign bribery case in history’
Published on Saturday, 21st April 2018.
How hundreds of Russian jihadi brides and their children vanished in Iraq
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2018.
How Bermuda has become the first country in the world to repeal same-sex marriage
Published on Wednesday, 18th April 2018.
How are the Solomons, remote islands in the Pacific, at the front line of climate change?
Published on Tuesday, 17th April 2018.
A 50th anniversary look at the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy
Published on Saturday, 14th April 2018.
One woman's mission to re-unite families in Mosul
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2018.
The story of Zambia’s embattled firefighters facing flames, protests and thrown stones
Published on Tuesday, 10th April 2018.
And how their words and deeds continue to shape America
Published on Monday, 9th April 2018.
How is the city of Athens finding homes for the thousands of refugees who live there?
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2018.
A difficult and long journey for both Odysseus and modern day refugees - caught in limbo
Published on Wednesday, 4th April 2018.
Satire in the Arab world that targets social injustice, corruption and political leaders
Published on Tuesday, 3rd April 2018.
Why is troubled Catalonia now opening up civil war mass graves?
Moral, social and medical: the complexities of egg freezing as a company benefit
Published on Sunday, 1st April 2018.
A story from Zanzibar in which a young wife has to save her life and its resonance today
Published on Wednesday, 28th March 2018.
The Lebanese ski resort, where people go to escape politics and enjoy winter sports
Published on Tuesday, 27th March 2018.
The untold story of the role of Catholic nuns during Northern Ireland’s troubles
Published on Sunday, 25th March 2018.
Linda Pressly travels to Arctic Norway to investigate child sexual abuse
Published on Thursday, 22nd March 2018.
Retelling of an ancient Native American story and its resonance with contemporary issues
Published on Wednesday, 21st March 2018.
Fireflies used to light up the Karachi night sky but now they only exist in folklore
Published on Tuesday, 20th March 2018.
Assignment speaks to witnesses of a tragedy in India that became infamous in community
Published on Thursday, 15th March 2018.
How baritone Ariunbaatar Ganbaataar rose from the Monglian steppe to operatic stardom
Published on Wednesday, 14th March 2018.
How migration has impacted on three generations of women in one family
Published on Tuesday, 13th March 2018.
Gabriel Gatehouse goes on the campaign trail with Ksenia Sobchak
Published on Thursday, 8th March 2018.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa
Published on Wednesday, 7th March 2018.
Exclusive access to newly available recordings from The Rivonia Trial
Published on Tuesday, 6th March 2018.
A postman, hairdresser and a farmer teach a top Swedish diplomat what it is to be British
Published on Saturday, 3rd March 2018.
Ed Butler investigates untold stories of one of west Africa’s dramatic abuses of power
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2018.
Shukria Barakzai was one of a handful of female MPs in Afghanistan to speak up for women
Published on Wednesday, 28th February 2018.
The novel ideas for senior housing and social care emerging in Japan
Published on Tuesday, 27th February 2018.
The Suffragettes' stories of life, prison, force-feeding and secret collaborations
Published on Sunday, 25th February 2018.
Some of the alarming stories from the new Egypt.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2018.
In 1980, Vigdis Finnbogadottir became the first female head of state of Iceland
Published on Wednesday, 21st February 2018.
The innovations for living better in old age in the fastest-ageing society in the world
Published on Tuesday, 20th February 2018.
How attitudes towards family, marriage, divorce, dating differ between generations
Published on Sunday, 18th February 2018.
Becky Milligan looks back at the extraordinary life of South Africa’s new president.
Published on Saturday, 17th February 2018.
How the circle of Ukraine's disgraced ex-president continues to profit from his people.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2018.
Madeha al-Ajroush battled for 30 years to get women the right to drive in Saudi Arabia
Published on Wednesday, 14th February 2018.
How migration from offline to online is bringing people into modern China
Published on Tuesday, 13th February 2018.
How have political, social and economic changes affected relations between generations?
Published on Sunday, 11th February 2018.
Sahar meets the medical staff trying to deal with Afghanistan’s mental health emergency
Published on Friday, 9th February 2018.
Monica McWilliams was one of two women in the negotiations for the Good Friday Agreement
Published on Wednesday, 7th February 2018.
Healthcare reform was top of President Trumps legislative priority. What has changed?
Published on Tuesday, 6th February 2018.
Thousands of people with mental illness live in asylums in Croatia. But not in Osijek
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2018.
The dark, demonic landscape of a 17th Century masterpiece The Temptation of St Anthony
Published on Wednesday, 31st January 2018.
The State Department ends Trump’s first year less resourced and less empowered
Published on Tuesday, 30th January 2018.
Fears of brain damage is leading to Americans stopping playing football
Published on Sunday, 28th January 2018.
The rise of talk show host, philanthropist, media proprietor and actress Oprah Winfrey
Published on Saturday, 27th January 2018.
The ethos of the Paralympic movement is fair and equal competition.
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2018.
George Bellow’s masterpiece Men of the Docks reveals life in the Brooklyn docks in 1912
Published on Wednesday, 24th January 2018.
What has President Trump’s first year has meant for US Defence?
Published on Tuesday, 23rd January 2018.
What can President Trump's tweets tell us about his presidency and the US?
Published on Sunday, 21st January 2018.
Investigation into one of the world’s biggest degree mills
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2018.
Discover life in Regency England through the extraordinary detail of Ann West's Coverlet
Published on Wednesday, 17th January 2018.
How criminal gangs in Venezuela use children as young as 10 and teenagers in their wars
Published on Tuesday, 16th January 2018.
How the flu pandemic of 100 years ago affected every corner of the world
Published on Sunday, 14th January 2018.
Priscilla Ng’ethe joins a family celebration for her 117 year old great grandmother
Published on Saturday, 13th January 2018.
Lucy Ash meets the staff and customers of a bakery which is in war-torn east Ukraine.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2018.
Intellectuals banished to an inhospitable land created a pool of talent and creativity
Published on Tuesday, 9th January 2018.
How black Brazilians are asserting their rights thanks to a controversial education law
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2018.
In a classic Aboriginal walkabout, Sarah fished, foraged and gathered food from the wild
Published on Tuesday, 2nd January 2018.
A journey up the 'suicidal' Pilcomayo river that separates Paraguay from Argentina...
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2017.
How a hallucinogenic ceremony led to an attempt to climb Cerro Autana in Venezuela
Published on Tuesday, 26th December 2017.
Robert Mugabe stepped down after four decades in power, the transition took just ten days
Published on Monday, 25th December 2017.
Fortune-telling via Turkish coffee grounds, a practice popular across the Middle East
Published on Sunday, 24th December 2017.
Stay or go? Lucy Ash explores the choice facing Russia’s brightest and best
Published on Saturday, 23rd December 2017.
There are 33 ways to dispel a mistress according to one of China's top love detectives.
Published on Friday, 22nd December 2017.
How military service shapes Israeli society and its future
Published on Wednesday, 20th December 2017.
Tanya Streeter’s remarkable dive – on just one breath of air – to the depth of 160m
Published on Tuesday, 19th December 2017.
America’s longest running circus, Ringling, Barnum and Bailey, is closing after 146 years
Published on Sunday, 17th December 2017.
The Great Depression and how the US government used the arts to uplift national spirit
Published on Saturday, 16th December 2017.
A brutal killing, an unsolved murder and the divided island of Malta
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2017.
How former Afghan child refugee Dr Waheed Arian is breaking medical boundaries
Published on Wednesday, 13th December 2017.
Why is the word America such a controversial one outside of the US?
Published on Tuesday, 12th December 2017.
Many thousands of Polish people took a chance to escape Soviet gulags by joining an army
Published on Sunday, 10th December 2017.
Kati goes to meet her biological parents for the first time since she was abandoned
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2017.
How young offenders and the US legal system are being reformed through neuroscience data
Published on Wednesday, 6th December 2017.
What Chinese magazines and their readers tell us about culture and politics in China
Published on Tuesday, 5th December 2017.
A son uncovers his father's double-life as a CIA spy in a covert mission in 1960s Laos
Published on Saturday, 2nd December 2017.
How our ancient forebears made music and how ancient sites affected sounds of their time
A love for Arabian horses unites Israelis and Palestinians
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2017.
Is taking offence on social media over-sensitivity or a force for progress?
Published on Wednesday, 29th November 2017.
How did stockfish - cod that is dried in Norway’s cold air - became a Nigerian staple?
Published on Tuesday, 28th November 2017.
The chilling story of a massacre of Rohingya muslims in a small village in Myanmar
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2017.
Life in Christchurch, New Zealand, as it recovers from two earthquakes
Published on Wednesday, 22nd November 2017.
Is Poland sliding towards autocracy or just on a different, democratic path?
Published on Tuesday, 21st November 2017.
Mark Urban examines the impact General Mladic had on the lives of thousands of people
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2017.
The sounds and smells of Berlin experienced through the senses of a blind man
Published on Wednesday, 15th November 2017.
Hungary is becoming an "illiberal democracy". Is that its right, or a slide to autocracy?
Published on Tuesday, 14th November 2017.
Five Solidarity members reflect on the movement that ended communist rule in Poland
Published on Friday, 10th November 2017.
David Grossman on Namibia’s missing tax millions revealed in the Paradise Papers
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2017.
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times examines the economic impact of President Donald Trump
The indoctrination of Japan’s World War Two suicide pilots told by the last survivors
Published on Tuesday, 7th November 2017.
Donald Trump’s election win revisited - could he do it again in 2020?
Published on Saturday, 4th November 2017.
Searching for captive children still lost after the retreat of so-called Islamic State
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2017.
Four people share their life-affirming experience of living with a terminal illness
Published on Wednesday, 1st November 2017.
The story of the Red Terror in the North of Russia nearly 100 years ago
Published on Tuesday, 31st October 2017.
A tiny South Pacific island hosts 25,000 cruise ship tourists a month but at what cost?
Published on Saturday, 28th October 2017.
Why do asylum-seeking children in Sweden withdraw from the world & how can they recover?
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2017.
Nigerian director Tope Oshin celebrates women film-makers currently reinventing Nollywood
Published on Wednesday, 25th October 2017.
How foreign troops incarcerated Russians on 'Death Island' in the White Sea
Published on Tuesday, 24th October 2017.
How a reforming priest brought revolution to Russia’s Orthodox Church
Published on Sunday, 22nd October 2017.
The mentally-sick in Zanzibar turn to profiteering exorcists for treatment
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2017.
Brazil is the caesarean capital of the world. What is behind this C-section “epidemic”?
Published on Wednesday, 18th October 2017.
The story of a forgotten war fought by Western troops in Arctic Russia at the end of WW1
Published on Tuesday, 17th October 2017.
"Growing up and not speaking the language, I felt this loss or this void"
Published on Saturday, 14th October 2017.
Indonesia has just conducted its first ever national survey on domestic violence
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2017.
Rates of domestic violence in the Peruvian Andes are particularly high
Published on Wednesday, 11th October 2017.
Unity is a village without men set up by Samburu women in response to domestic abuse
Published on Tuesday, 10th October 2017.
Manveen Rana uncovers hate speech and sectarianism in the UK's Urdu media
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2017.
Five decades after his death, how important is El Che for young Cubans today?
Published on Tuesday, 3rd October 2017.
How the locals of Thailand and Myanmar are resisting the destruction of their forests
Published on Sunday, 1st October 2017.
Why some people want to eradicate the lionfish from Florida's waters
Published on Saturday, 30th September 2017.
Africa’s migrant trade is among the most lucrative. Can it ever be stopped?
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2017.
The global expansion of British music exams, and its very modern challenges
Published on Wednesday, 27th September 2017.
The amazing success story of the avocado in the US as a case study for the future trade
Published on Tuesday, 26th September 2017.
The communities of rainforests of South-east Asia resisting destruction of their forests
Published on Sunday, 24th September 2017.
How thousands of Americans given life sentences as children now have a chance of freedom
Published on Saturday, 23rd September 2017.
Panama’s idyllic islands are threatened by a rising sea, but one community has a plan
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2017.
Meet the self-experimenters and scientists trying to add years to our lives
Published on Wednesday, 20th September 2017.
Periods are a taboo in many places but for some in Tanzania first periods are celebbrated
Published on Tuesday, 19th September 2017.
Behind the bars of New York’s notorious jail, Rikers Island, inmates are learning to rap
Published on Sunday, 17th September 2017.
