Graphene is a super-strong and super-conductive material. Gerry Northam looks at its...
Published on Tuesday, 31st December 2013.
The US Federal Reserve, America's central bank, is one hundred years old.
Brazil's anti-slavery hit-squads are unique. Linda Pressly joins a raid with a band of...
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2013.
Childcare options in Fiji, where children are taken care of by the community, and as...
Published on Wednesday, 25th December 2013.
The emerging Jihadi challenge across the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa.
Published on Tuesday, 24th December 2013.
Farhana Haider investigates the prosecution of alleged war criminals from the conflict...
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2013.
The story of Kampala Music School told by its pupils and teachers. Kampala Music began...
Published on Saturday, 14th December 2013.
When a group of young Texan women found naked pictures of themselves online, they but...
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2013.
Forty years after the premiere of Jamaican cult film The Harder They Come, Chris asks...
Published on Tuesday, 10th December 2013.
Mandela's 1962 pan-African journey to explain the mission of the ANC and seek support,...
Published on Sunday, 8th December 2013.
Nelson Mandela on the struggle against apartheid, with words from those who fought - -...
Published on Friday, 6th December 2013.
A look back at the life of Nelson Mandela by the BBC's former South Africa Allan...
One year on from the horrific attack on a student in Delhi, Joanna Jolly hears from to...
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2013.
The cult classic Jamaican crime film The Harder They Come, its reggae soundtrack - and...
Published on Tuesday, 3rd December 2013.
Pope Francis is being acclaimed for his leadership of the Roman Catholic Church - but...
Published on Saturday, 30th November 2013.
Be it in Lagos, Minneapolis or Rio de Janeiro, how have shopping malls become such a...
Vladimir Hernandez meets the Mexican Catholic priests who believe the country's drug -...
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2013.
How decisions noted by Ebenezer Morley in 1863 allowed football to become the most of...
Published on Tuesday, 26th November 2013.
Tiny Moldova is the world's 7th biggest wine exporter so a ban on exports to Russia...
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2013.
Are military metaphors such as 'battling' always appropriate when it comes to dealing...
Published on Tuesday, 19th November 2013.
People with a perspective on the assassination and death of John F Kennedy in Dallas:...
Published on Saturday, 16th November 2013.
With rare access to the government's rehabilitation programme Tom Esslemont meets as...
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2013.
Jamaica's gay rights and anti-homosexuality movements: what it is like to be a gay in...
Published on Tuesday, 12th November 2013.
Can Indonesia create the world's largest public health system? Claire Bolderson...
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2013.
Madeleine Morris explores alternative childcare with a visit a boarding school where...
Published on Tuesday, 5th November 2013.
Melilla is one of Europe’s most southerly land borders with Africa, a town under...
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2013.
Childcare - its costs and its developmental implications - has become one of the most...
Published on Tuesday, 29th October 2013.
The inside story of the world’s most successful gang of jewel thieves, nicknamed The...
Published on Sunday, 27th October 2013.
Neal Razzell spends days and nights in Lagos with the electricity teams who are to to...
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2013.
Emma Barnett examines which countries in the world do allow women to serve, and the of...
Published on Tuesday, 22nd October 2013.
The toils and tribulations of Polly Apio a smallholder in rural Uganda, where men own...
Published on Monday, 21st October 2013.
James Fletcher travels to Alice Springs in Australia to hear first-hand how alcohol is...
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2013.
As the global population ages, is it time for a re-think about how we view elderly to...
Published on Wednesday, 16th October 2013.
"Anything that can happen on earth, at some point happens in the sky. " Air hostess the...
Published on Tuesday, 15th October 2013.
Cancer-fighting BBC foreign correspondent Helen Fawkes shares her list of things she...
Published on Monday, 14th October 2013.
The dramatic, disturbing and inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the...
Published on Saturday, 12th October 2013.
More than a thousand garment workers died and several thousand were injured in the of...
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2013.
The BBC's North America Editor, Mark Mardell, travels to China to explore the most in...
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2013.
Lucy Ash looks at the conflicts within Iraq between 2005 and 2012, told from the point...
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2013.
Man is a social creature, so how does he cope in situations of isolation - bereft of -...
Published on Sunday, 29th September 2013.
The BBC’s Anne Soy reflects on what these last few days will mean for the future of...
Published on Saturday, 28th September 2013.
Ed Butler follows consumer’s quest for goods, the phenomenon of widespread and asks...
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2013.
Lucy Ash looks at the mistakes made early in the occupation of Iraq during the period...
Published on Tuesday, 24th September 2013.
The Red Cross turns 150 this year, but is their humanitarian role still relevant?...
Published on Sunday, 22nd September 2013.
Linda Pressly investigates the threat from mercury poisoning to the health of gold...
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2013.
The inside story of the invasion of Iraq and the ensuring decade of conflict, told the...
Published on Tuesday, 17th September 2013.
As Burma (also known as Myanmar), opens up, one new freedom comes in the form of - the...
Published on Sunday, 15th September 2013.
Lucy Ash reports on China’s gender imbalance which by 2020 will leave 24 million for...
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2013.
Turkish businessmen have been rapidly rebuilding their links with the Balkan states as...
Published on Tuesday, 10th September 2013.
The history of tension between the US President and Congress over taking military action.
Published on Monday, 9th September 2013.
James Fletcher travels to Mackay in Queensland’s coal country to hear one town’s...
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2013.
Turkey's new relationships with its traditional allies - the Balkans, North Africa and...
Published on Tuesday, 3rd September 2013.
Shaimaa Khalil looks at the Arab Spring through the eyes of prominent writers Egypt's...
Published on Monday, 2nd September 2013.
Mobeen Azhar investigates life in gay, urban Pakistan and finds out what it's really...
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2013.
Allan Little charts the politcal changes in Turkey from the birth of the republic and...
Published on Tuesday, 27th August 2013.
Emre Azizlerli explores the strange new alliances forged in Turkey's anti-government...
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2013.
The Soviet Gulag system is said to live on in Kazakhstan's jails, the prison are be...
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2013.
America's Food for Peace programme ships American-grown food in sacks across the world...
Published on Tuesday, 13th August 2013.
In many Middle East countries being gay can lead to the death penalty.
Published on Sunday, 11th August 2013.
Hilary Andersson investigates what really lay behind the Boston marathon bombings and...
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2013.
Dr Geoff Bunn investigates the latest lie-detecting technology. He discovers that the...
Published on Tuesday, 6th August 2013.
Miracle Village is home to over a hundred sex offenders. But do Florida’s strict the...
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2013.
Ghana sent just four Paralympians to the 2012 Olympics, none of whom made it to the...
Published on Tuesday, 30th July 2013.
Sisters Lata and Asha have forged Bollywood singing careers spanning more than six and...
Published on Sunday, 28th July 2013.
In September 2011, Judith and David Tebbutt set off to Kenya on holiday.
Published on Saturday, 27th July 2013.
In Spain a doctor offers reconstructive surgery to women who have had female genital...
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2013.
The Threat from Cyberspace: The alarming extent to which cyberspace is being used to...
Published on Sunday, 21st July 2013.
London families talk to Nina Robinson about the reality of new welfare reforms.
Published on Thursday, 18th July 2013.
Tatyana McFadden is one of the most successful wheelchair racers in Paralympic history...
Published on Tuesday, 16th July 2013.
Meet the Kenyan prisoners acting as lawyers on behalf of themselves and fellow inmates.
Published on Sunday, 14th July 2013.
Zeinab Badawi talks to doctors and patients who struggle to cope as hospitals in are...
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2013.
Meet the Somali community whose families first settled in Cardiff's Butetown in 1890,...
Published on Tuesday, 9th July 2013.
Tim Mansel reports from Stockholm in the wake of riots that started in the suburbs and...
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2013.
In the fourth and final part of the programme, Mark Coles considers the lessons that -...
Published on Tuesday, 2nd July 2013.
Authorities knew there were big problems at Dr Kermit Gosnell’s west Philadelphia...
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2013.
Why are new forms of video production and delivery such as You Tube's recently so Mark...
Published on Tuesday, 25th June 2013.
The northern French town of Amiens has two tyre factories with very different fates, a...
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2013.
Mark Coles discovers that in Africa, the medium is evolving to suit delivery over with...
Published on Tuesday, 18th June 2013.
Rob Walker investigates a mysterious death in London’s suburbia. Its the story of a...
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2013.
1/4. Does the internet mean the end of the daily newspaper?
Published on Tuesday, 11th June 2013.
In this intimate, revealing programme, Lina Sinjab combines dramatic scenes and with a...
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2013.
The rise - and legacy - of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How did this with a...
Published on Tuesday, 4th June 2013.
Heroes and villains in Azerbaijan and what they tell us about national identity there.
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2013.
Egypt’s youth were at the forefront of the revolutionary protests in Tahrir Square...
Published on Tuesday, 28th May 2013.
While the low tax bills of Google, Starbucks and Amazon trigger political uproar, how...
Published on Sunday, 26th May 2013.
Many of America’s mass killers have had mental health problems yet America is a who...
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2013.
Shaimaa accompanies a young revolutionary back to his home town to see whether the is...
Published on Tuesday, 21st May 2013.
Tim Franks meets Romario - Brazil's World Cup-winning footballer, turned serious...
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2013.
Can Egypt’s police force rebuild its reputation and will the army stay out of Khalil...
Published on Tuesday, 14th May 2013.
Rob Walker returns to the port of Takoradi, the hub for Ghana’s new oil industry, to...
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2013.
Shaimaa Khalil examines the state of Egypt’s economy two years after its revolution.
Published on Tuesday, 7th May 2013.
Mobeen Azhar investigates violence against Pakistan’s Hazara minority in the city of...
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2013.
Shaimaa Khalil listens to the new voices of the Egyptian revolution. Under President...
Published on Tuesday, 30th April 2013.
Few dare to speak out in Belarus but the opposition has found a way of making it’s...
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2013.
As Egypt struggles with its new democracy, Shaimaa Khalil examines the dramatic facing...
Published on Tuesday, 23rd April 2013.
Top chief executives - including Lenovo's Chairman Liu Chuanzhi and Sir Martin Sorrell...
Published on Saturday, 20th April 2013.
In many parts of Mexico, insecurity has become the principle preoccupation for most...
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2013.
Mark Dowd travels to Argentina to probe the background of the new Pope.
Published on Saturday, 13th April 2013.
Ukraine is second only to Russia in having the highest infection rates in Europe.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2013.
Sarfraz Manzoor tells the story of the African American cowboys. How did they get out...
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2013.
Simon Cox finds out from employees and executives at the now defunct Laiki Bank how in...
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2013.
Penny Dale travels to Tanzania to explore the state of science and technology in one...
Published on Saturday, 30th March 2013.
Informants play a key role in the US justice system. But there are few regulations how...
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2013.
The music of refugee camps of the Saharawi people in Algeria and their efforts to to a...
Published on Tuesday, 26th March 2013.
As the number of cars on the road increases, how can they be developed to prevent and...
Published on Saturday, 23rd March 2013.
How an internet dance craze has become a sometimes violent battleground between and in...
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2013.
Will a sophisticated revolution in online teaching - from the best universities on the...
Published on Tuesday, 19th March 2013.
People with ideas flock to Silicon Valley, where innovation and invention are and are...
Published on Saturday, 16th March 2013.
The families of those who disappeared during Nepal’s civil war demand answers and...
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2013.
Hugh Sykes visits the Marsh Arabs and Basra, occupied by British forces for six years.
Published on Tuesday, 12th March 2013.
Neil Trevithick and Kirsti Melville drive south from the Kimberley into the area of 50...
Published on Saturday, 9th March 2013.
As the future world faces huge changes in everything from family size to opportunities...
Dee Dee Myers, former White House Press Secretary to Bill Clinton, looks at the US –...
Published on Friday, 8th March 2013.
Every year thousands of young men and women make the treacherous journey from Eritrea...
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2013.
How have Iraqis' lives changed in the 10 years since an invasion toppled Saddam Hugh...
Published on Tuesday, 5th March 2013.
The story of a photograph, a mother who died young and the desire to honour those and...
Published on Sunday, 3rd March 2013.
Neil Trevithick and Kirsti Melville journey across Western Australia to a pristine of...
Published on Saturday, 2nd March 2013.
A separatist group on Kenya’s coast is calling on voters there to boycott the...
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2013.
How Hurricane Sandy prompted New York and other coastal cities to face the reality of...
Published on Tuesday, 26th February 2013.
February marks the centenary of the birth of Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her...
Published on Saturday, 23rd February 2013.
The family may be central to Italian business life, but many economists believe that...
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2013.
How does it feel to be part of ending someone's life? Liz Carr talks to the doctors to...
Published on Wednesday, 20th February 2013.
It is possible to balance the right of the individual who wants to die with the of to...
Published on Tuesday, 19th February 2013.
How do men treat women when they are out for a night? Five young women compare in Rio,...
Published on Monday, 18th February 2013.
What kind of Pope does the Catholic Church need? A conservative or a reformer? Dan and...
Nine short stories from around the world, looking at who we fall in love with, the way...
Published on Saturday, 16th February 2013.
Tom Esslemont investigates why assassinations are happening in Corsica and why so few...
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2013.
Drowning is the cause of a quarter of a million child fatalities every year.
Published on Tuesday, 12th February 2013.
Kim Ghattas analyses Hillary Clinton’s record as America’s chief diplomat and an...
Published on Saturday, 9th February 2013.
Jill McGivering investigates health clinics in rural India where thousands of private...
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2013.
A mobile health clinic called Phelophepa (meaning good, clean health) is a permanently...
Published on Tuesday, 5th February 2013.
Could test tube or laboratory-reared chicken ever replace meat from birds? And how to...
Published on Saturday, 2nd February 2013.
Why are so many children from Europe’s biggest ethnic minority – the Roma – into...
Published on Thursday, 31st January 2013.
Meet the people learning English from scratch in the UK. Many of them are immigrants...
Published on Tuesday, 29th January 2013.
Chicken farming dates back 10,000 years and produces 50 billion chickens to eat each year.
Published on Sunday, 27th January 2013.
A little over a year after Gaddafi's death, writer and journalist, Justin Marozzi, if...
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2013.
Could better financial education be the key to providing for African footballers in...
Published on Tuesday, 22nd January 2013.
Amy Cordell's family still cleaves to the ancient traditions of her Bukharian who were...
Published on Saturday, 19th January 2013.
Rustam Qobil travels to remote border villages in Tajikistan to find out how are being...
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2013.
Why do so many African football stars go from rags to riches - and back to rags again?...
Published on Tuesday, 15th January 2013.
Oyneg Shabbat was the contemporaneous and clandestine project to record the history,...
Published on Monday, 14th January 2013.
A guide to Burma’s extraordinary year. What are the challenges for 2013? James and...
Published on Sunday, 13th January 2013.
Is it true that Americans hate paying tax? Owen Bennett-Jones explores the reasons why...
Published on Saturday, 12th January 2013.
Natalia Antelava investigates the trafficking of girls within India for sale into or...
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2013.
Since 1989, the EU's centre of gravity has shifted from Western Europe - in particular...
Published on Tuesday, 8th January 2013.
In Japan the majority of crimes are solved by the use of confessions. But there’s of...
Published on Thursday, 3rd January 2013.
Governments, companies and criminals do it. But in recent years some of the highest...
Published on Tuesday, 1st January 2013.
