One boat, two families; trying to escape war in Syria, desperate to start a new life...
Published on Tuesday, 30th December 2014.
The richest man of all time was 14th Century monarch King Mansa Musa, who reigned over...
A startling 300-year journey of a Stradivarius violin through the lives of geniuses,...
Published on Sunday, 28th December 2014.
How ordinary people – soldiers, mothers, nurses, even children – experienced World...
Published on Thursday, 25th December 2014.
Assignment follows Abdi Nor, a winner of the annual US green card lottery, as he to a...
Is karaoke now an art form? Music critic Katie Puckrik hits the clubs in Portland, to...
Published on Wednesday, 24th December 2014.
Tupac Shakur trained as an actor, posed as a street thug and became a best selling but...
Published on Tuesday, 23rd December 2014.
The Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste or Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra, is the only in...
Music pulsates in Lisbon, from the traditional and dramatic Fado to the contemporary a...
Published on Sunday, 21st December 2014.
An international NGO, Women without Borders, based in Vienna, with years of experience...
Tim Whewell gains rare access to the shadowy world of Russia's radical nationalists in...
Published on Thursday, 18th December 2014.
A vivid portrait of the everyday lives of girls and women at a turning point in Afghan...
Published on Wednesday, 17th December 2014.
For 100 years, an intriguing mix of people have been criss-crossing the US by bus...
Published on Tuesday, 16th December 2014.
Mike Wendling explores the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins.
Published on Thursday, 11th December 2014.
For most people in the West, the swastika remains inextricably linked to the committed...
Published on Wednesday, 10th December 2014.
In the wake of the global economic crisis, what does capitalism mean to us today? Colm...
Published on Tuesday, 9th December 2014.
For Assignment, Chris Rogers goes undercover to reveal the hidden shame of hospital...
Published on Thursday, 4th December 2014.
In 1974, New York City became the canvas for a new generation of Graffiti pioneers.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd December 2014.
Two decades after the death of notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar in 1993, he still in...
Published on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014.
Director Orson Welles was asked to write his life story in his later years.
Published on Sunday, 30th November 2014.
Gabriel Gatehouse and his team go in search of Annie and along the way meet the medics...
Published on Thursday, 27th November 2014.
Former commander of the British and Coalition forces in Helmand province Major General...
Published on Wednesday, 26th November 2014.
The story of Canadian-born Aimee Semple McPherson and how she went from farm girl to...
Published on Tuesday, 25th November 2014.
British journalist Nick Baker and Anglo-Cuban journalist Arnaldo Hernandez Diaz a of a...
Published on Sunday, 23rd November 2014.
How Ebola is affecting not just health services in West Africa, but tourism, and the...
Published on Friday, 21st November 2014.
Mobeen Azhar is in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, where police are fighting an...
Published on Thursday, 20th November 2014.
The Star-Spangled Banner is embedded in American national identity and yet it only the...
Published on Wednesday, 19th November 2014.
There are now more pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea than off the coast of Somalia...
Published on Saturday, 15th November 2014.
Natalia Antelava charts the downfall of Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of the Uzbek...
Published on Thursday, 13th November 2014.
In August 2013 the Assad regime in Syria was accused of deploying chemical weapons its...
Published on Wednesday, 12th November 2014.
Can the world come together to beat diseases with pandemic potential? We've spoken to...
Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the arts in restoring the 20...
Hidden away in the backrooms at Humbolt University and the Ethnological Museum in are...
Published on Sunday, 9th November 2014.
Ali Hamedani has been to Turkey to meet the Iranian lesbian and gay people who’ve to...
Published on Thursday, 6th November 2014.
When the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984 by her two Sikh...
Published on Wednesday, 5th November 2014.
Mustafa Nayyem is one of Ukraine's leading investigative reporters, who has decided to...
Published on Tuesday, 4th November 2014.
Kavita Puri goes to Switzerland to hear the extraordinary stories of survivors who as...
Published on Thursday, 30th October 2014.
Linard Davies is a baggage attendant at San Francisco airport. He deals with the that...
Published on Wednesday, 29th October 2014.
What are changes in voting laws doing to demoracy in the USA? Rajini Vaidyanathan to...
Published on Tuesday, 28th October 2014.
In the Indian capital Delhi stands India Gate, the largest memorial to the war for 1...
Published on Friday, 24th October 2014.
Women abused in institutions run by the Catholic Church are demanding answers from and...
Published on Thursday, 23rd October 2014.
Ebola is now regarded as an international threat to peace and security, according to...
Published on Wednesday, 22nd October 2014.
Texas is crucial in the race for national power. Gary O’Donoghue travels to the Lone...
Published on Tuesday, 21st October 2014.
Music from the rising stars of Africa, including wordsmiths M. Anifest from Ghana and...
Published on Saturday, 18th October 2014.
Tim Whewell is one of the few foreign reporters who’ve made it to Tobruk, last of a...
Published on Thursday, 16th October 2014.
India is falling in love with Western classical music. In his home-city Mumbai, Zareer...
Published on Wednesday, 15th October 2014.
Everything's bigger in Texas and that goes for the personalities who run for election...
Published on Tuesday, 14th October 2014.
Linda Pressly travels to Kosovo and meets the sister of ISIS’ first suicide-bomber...
Published on Thursday, 9th October 2014.
In recent years, sperm has been shipped out of Denmark at an astonishing rate, of - in...
Published on Wednesday, 8th October 2014.
Orania, South Africa, remains a 'whites only' town despite the end of apartheid 20 ago...
Published on Tuesday, 7th October 2014.
Neal Razzell goes to work with Copenhagen’s hot dog vendors who tell how the humble...
Published on Thursday, 2nd October 2014.
Since the 18th Century, Tamil fishermen have claimed to navigate by the mysterious of...
Published on Wednesday, 1st October 2014.
The rockets and missiles fly, from Israel into Gaza, from Gaza into Israel.
Published on Saturday, 27th September 2014.
Tim Mansel on the lives of people in Sierra Leone as they face a three day "lock-down"...
Published on Thursday, 25th September 2014.
In the late 1930's a young Mildred Cummings from Dayton, Ohio is barefoot, standing in...
Published on Wednesday, 24th September 2014.
Music from the most promising bands of the Mexican music scene. Hear rapper Eptos One,...
Published on Saturday, 20th September 2014.
In Ivory Coast, men are going back to the classroom. It's an innovative project dubbed...
Published on Thursday, 18th September 2014.
The legacy of jazz pianist James Booker. Classically trained in piano and a child with...
Published on Wednesday, 17th September 2014.
After becoming a Paralympics champion, Oscar Pistorius rose to fame as the first to in...
Published on Friday, 12th September 2014.
Hilary Andersson investigates the more than one million mentally ill prisoners held in...
Published on Thursday, 11th September 2014.
Ten years ago, Ireland became the first country in the world to ban smoking in the...
Published on Wednesday, 10th September 2014.
Could women's football provide a new, more sustainable model to the men's game? Yvonne...
Published on Tuesday, 9th September 2014.
At least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the northern English town of by of...
Published on Sunday, 7th September 2014.
Natalio Cosoy meets the miners of northern Spain who sing to their patron saint, Santa...
Published on Thursday, 4th September 2014.
Giving Africa's obscure musical gems a new lease of life - meet the fans of sounds...
Published on Wednesday, 3rd September 2014.
King George VI spoke to the world about the declaration of war on Germany in 1939.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd September 2014.
Air traffic controllers have guided trans-Atlantic flights since 1919.
Published on Saturday, 30th August 2014.
Pentecostal churches in Guatemala run many of the country's compulsory drug centres...
Published on Thursday, 28th August 2014.
Million's Poet is a hugely popular televised competition to find the best poet in the...
Published on Wednesday, 27th August 2014.
TV made in the USA by tribal people, for tribal people covering everything from to and...
Published on Tuesday, 26th August 2014.
Did President Johnson take the US to war with Vietnam on a lie, or was he misled? DD...
Published on Saturday, 23rd August 2014.
As more young people leave Ireland, Gaelic Football is losing its lifeblood.
Published on Thursday, 21st August 2014.
Rastafari's global impact after the explosion of Jamaica's Roots Reggae scene in the...
Published on Wednesday, 20th August 2014.
The classic novel, a parable of America's Great Depression, as applied to the US today.
Published on Tuesday, 19th August 2014.
The BBC's China Editor investigates an elusive cult at the centre of a grisly murder...
Published on Thursday, 14th August 2014.
How Rastafari turned from an ostracised religious sect into a global phenomenon - and...
Published on Wednesday, 13th August 2014.
The Helmand valley dam complex, is the biggest engineering project in Afghanistan.
Published on Tuesday, 12th August 2014.
Presenter Nihal Arthanayake visits UK immigration lawyer Harjap Singh Bhangal who to...
As Ukrainian holidaymakers stay away from Crimea's beaches following Russia's of the...
Published on Thursday, 7th August 2014.
David Loyn investigates how a lost document is helping Afghanistan come to terms with...
Published on Wednesday, 6th August 2014.
Forty years on from President Nixon’s resignation we hear from Bob Woodward and...
In Colombia’s Marxist guerrilla war, thousands of rebel fighters have been female.
Published on Tuesday, 5th August 2014.
Tim Whewell meets the dynamic young women in Turkish Kurdistan who are defining the of...
Published on Thursday, 31st July 2014.
Theatre director Mehmet Ergen guides us through the politically charged arts scene of...
Published on Wednesday, 30th July 2014.
‘I’ll marry your sister if you marry mine. And if you divorce my sister, I’ll...
Published on Tuesday, 29th July 2014.
***WARNING: This programme includes graphic descriptions of sexual violence*** 'A how...
Published on Saturday, 26th July 2014.
Six talented young writers under 35 explore a great grandparent or grandparent's in...
What do you do when a twisting funnel drops from the sky with tearing winds of up to...
Published on Thursday, 24th July 2014.
As Nato troops withdraw from Afghanistan, British and Afghan women share their stories...
Published on Wednesday, 23rd July 2014.
Following recent botched executions in several states, Rajini Vaidyanathan asks the of...
Published on Tuesday, 22nd July 2014.
Claire Bolderson reports from Kentucky on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare,...
Published on Thursday, 17th July 2014.
In 1896 the British sent thousands of labourers from India to Kenya, to build the from...
Published on Wednesday, 16th July 2014.
Ahead of sporting mega-events such as the Olympic Games, local people are being given...
Published on Tuesday, 15th July 2014.
Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War and at the time of increasing tensions...
Published on Saturday, 12th July 2014.
Yalda Hakim hears from residents deep in Boko Haram territory, in northern Nigeria,...
Published on Thursday, 10th July 2014.
Sarfraz Manzoor charts the extraordinary story of jazz in India when some of the most...
Published on Wednesday, 9th July 2014.
Meet New York's rookie cabbies - fledgling taxi-drivers trying to earn a living in the...
Published on Tuesday, 8th July 2014.
Are international regulations designed to stop money and equipment reaching terrorist...
Published on Thursday, 3rd July 2014.
Baroness Oona King, former British Labour MP, discovers her American family's role in...
Published on Wednesday, 2nd July 2014.
Alvin Hall delves into the inspirations and fears that influence people’s differing...
Published on Tuesday, 1st July 2014.
Between 1981 and 1990 teams 'representing' England, Sri Lanka, West Indies and toured...
Published on Saturday, 28th June 2014.
The median age in many Silicon Valley tech firms is under 30. So where does that leave...
Published on Thursday, 26th June 2014.
With the power of nuclear weapons and the potential to wipe out life on Earth, hit...
Published on Wednesday, 25th June 2014.
Why do some people who have plenty of cash choose to sit on a secret nest egg, rather...
Published on Tuesday, 24th June 2014.
Seven up-coming Ghanaian musicians perform a song especially for the BBC, and talk in...
Published on Saturday, 21st June 2014.
In April 16 Sherpas lost their lives in an avalanche whilst working for expedition...
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2014.
More and more wealthy Russians are settling in London. From a lavish Russian Ball at -...
Published on Wednesday, 18th June 2014.
Mona Eltahawey visits her home country of Egypt where women, who stood side-by-side to...
Published on Tuesday, 17th June 2014.
Historian Heather Jones tackles the familiar image of a war centred on a static front...
Published on Saturday, 14th June 2014.
For some in South Korea, old age has meant making some tough choices. In a park in an...
Published on Thursday, 12th June 2014.
How will Brazil cope with the pressures of hosting the World Cup - on and off the have...
Published on Wednesday, 11th June 2014.
Edward Stourton examines Vladimir Putin’s strategic vision for Eastern Europe, of -...
Published on Tuesday, 10th June 2014.
Meet the women who are trying to be heard. Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy meets who...
In spring 1944 American women war correspondents gathered in London in anticipation of...
Published on Friday, 6th June 2014.
Residents of Glasgow are some 30% more likely to die young than people in similar UK...
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2014.
As Brazil hosts the World Cup, Musa Okwonga explores the role the beautiful game has...
Published on Wednesday, 4th June 2014.
Bobby Friction traces how young people in India are expressing themselves through and...
Published on Saturday, 31st May 2014.
Andrea Catherwood examines the movement for integrated schools in Northern Ireland.
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2014.
Ros Atkins brings three teenage girls from the programme All that Stands in the Way in...
Published on Saturday, 24th May 2014.
As Ukraine prepares for elections amid rising tension, Tim Whewell travels there to to...
Published on Thursday, 22nd May 2014.
The parents of four teenage girls in the BBC World Service programme All That Stands...
Published on Wednesday, 21st May 2014.
Four teenage girls from the BBC World Service programme All That Stands In The Way,...
Published on Tuesday, 20th May 2014.
Simon Cox investigates a notorious miscarriage of justice in Iceland which many see as...
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2014.
Finding Nigeria's missing girls has become a global cause with a massive online...
Published on Wednesday, 14th May 2014.
As the World’s media prepares to descend on Brazil for the 2014 World Cup, Julia...
Published on Tuesday, 13th May 2014.
Most people who face criminal charges in Kenya go to court without a lawyer.
Published on Saturday, 10th May 2014.
Across Argentina’s vast GM belt, there are claims of an on-going health crisis.
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2014.
In the 1960s and early '70s, Addis Ababa's nightlife was electrified by a blend of and...
Published on Wednesday, 7th May 2014.
As the World’s media prepares to descend on Brazil for the 2014 World Cup, Julia the...
Published on Tuesday, 6th May 2014.
After the humiliations of World War Two, France was insistent on reasserting itself as...
Published on Saturday, 3rd May 2014.
Mark Mardell examines America's Grand Old Party which has been engaged in a civil war;...
Published on Thursday, 1st May 2014.
Egyptian author Tarek Osman examines the build up to the Arab Spring. As with the with...
Published on Wednesday, 30th April 2014.
How is technology transforming education, and what will the classroom of the future to...
Published on Tuesday, 29th April 2014.
Neal Razzell spends days and nights in Lagos with the electricity teams who are to to...
Published on Thursday, 24th April 2014.
Eyptian author Tarek Osman explores the events which converged and led to the rise of...
Published on Wednesday, 23rd April 2014.
How technology is transforming education. How do children learn best? And have methods...
Published on Tuesday, 22nd April 2014.
The African quarter of Jerusalem, Ethiopian Jews returned to their ancient homeland to...
Published on Saturday, 19th April 2014.
Vietnamese now cross in their thousands to visit Cambodian border casinos.
Published on Thursday, 17th April 2014.
Tracing the history of the modern Arab world through some of the great political that...
Published on Wednesday, 16th April 2014.
Lu Olkowski reports on New York's growing 'prepper' movement - people who are fearful...
Published on Tuesday, 15th April 2014.
How Manchester helped shape the modern age. Communism, free trade, the co-operative or...
Published on Saturday, 12th April 2014.
Can a unique friendship between two men of god end the killings in the Central African...
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2014.
The history of the Arab world, including Egypt's 19th Century encounters with Europe...
Published on Wednesday, 9th April 2014.
How does being on a map affect your work, education and rights? Meet the The who are -...
Published on Tuesday, 8th April 2014.
The story of Capt Mbaye Diagne, one of the unsung heroes of Rwanda’s genocide.
Published on Saturday, 5th April 2014.
How can an airplane go missing in the 21st Century and why - nearly a month after it -...
Published on Friday, 4th April 2014.
Lucy Ash talks to the Ukrainian volunteers and activists who are painstakingly a stash...
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2014.
Hacking, security, encryption: Gordon Corera explores the history of the war between...
Published on Wednesday, 2nd April 2014.
Sarah Montague turns her attention to universities, in particular, to MOOCs (Massive...
Published on Tuesday, 1st April 2014.
Mustapha Mohammed meets Nigerian boys who have to work to support their families in of...
Published on Monday, 31st March 2014.
In 1983 at the height of the deprivations and repression of Nicolae Ceausescu's regime...
Each year, thousands of Latin American migrants illegally cross the US border via a...
Published on Saturday, 29th March 2014.
More gun deaths are due to suicide than homicide in the US. But what happens to the to...
Tim Whewell travels to the Turkish border and to Lebanon to talk to the doctors and to...
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2014.
Monica Vasconcelos reports that fifty years after the coup, Brazil has started to deal...
Published on Tuesday, 25th March 2014.
Under apartheid in South Africa, stand-up comedy was exclusively the domain of white...
Published on Monday, 24th March 2014.
Young women lack the same opportunities as men, despite most countries legislating...
Published on Saturday, 22nd March 2014.
The BBC’s Valeria Perasso is on the US border, exploring the journey taken by as the...
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2014.
Does 'paid media' threaten democracy? Shilpa Kannan investigates corruption in India...
Published on Tuesday, 18th March 2014.
Catherine Carr charts the course of one day in the lives of many people, making many...
Published on Saturday, 15th March 2014.
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, the Middle East has experienced a of new TV to...
Hungarian conductor – Ivan Fischer – is holding up a mirror to Hungarian society...
Published on Thursday, 13th March 2014.
With regulation of newspapers planned, Steve Hewlett and a panel of international ask:...
Published on Wednesday, 12th March 2014.
Fashion magazines, consumerism, and the changing face of Chinese fashion.
Published on Tuesday, 11th March 2014.
A decision by his father to send him to ballet school changed the direction of Carlos...
Published on Saturday, 8th March 2014.
Rupa Jha meets fellow Indian women who choose to be, or are forced to be, single.
Thousands of Uruguayans are hooked on a highly addictive cocaine derivative –...
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2014.
Ingrid Betancourt - who was held captive for six years - explores how people's minds...
Published on Tuesday, 4th March 2014.
The number of families in India employing detectives to spy on future brides and is on...
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2014.
Ex-Guantanamo detainees talk about freedom and how detention in the military prison...
Published on Tuesday, 25th February 2014.
They are Asia’s economic giants – yet the historical record of Japan and China to...
Published on Saturday, 22nd February 2014.
Kim Ghattas travels through her native country Lebanon exploring the deepening sense...
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2014.
They are Asia’s economic giants - yet the historical record of Japan and China to...
Published on Saturday, 15th February 2014.
The story of Russia's volunteer diggers armed with spades and metal detectors who and...
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2014.
What role does music play for today’s soldiers? Soldiers stationed at Camp Bastion -...
Published on Saturday, 8th February 2014.
Voluntary euthanasia for adults has been legal since 2002 in Belgium. Now legislators...
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2014.
With accusations of corruption and criminality, are the concerns about Sochi Given all...
Published on Tuesday, 4th February 2014.
For centuries, Turkish traders have exploited their location on the historic Silk Road...
Published on Monday, 3rd February 2014.
Mexico's hope of becoming the workshop of North America was shattered by China's of is...
Turkey has notoriously vague and extensive anti-terror laws which have been used to of...
Published on Saturday, 1st February 2014.
Can Indonesia break its old reliance on exporting raw materials to realise the of a...
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2014.
Nigeria is a nation of young, vibrant and natural entrepreneurs. Can they overcome the...
What does the popularity of controversial comedian Dieudonné tell us about France of...
meet Ruhan Jia one of the young hopefuls in the world of state-manufactured pop.
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2014.
Why and how illegal migrants from Burma and Cambodia are being forced onto Thai boats...
Published on Monday, 27th January 2014.
Nick Thorpe reports from Hungary where the government has adopted controversial laws...
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2014.
Natalia Antelava profiles Gulnara Karimova, the socialite, pop star and philanthropist...
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2014.
It has taken scientists almost 50 years to cure rare diseases through gene therapy.
Published on Tuesday, 14th January 2014.
Prostitution is said to be one of the world's oldest professions, and one which has of...
Published on Saturday, 11th January 2014.
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2014.
Tim Whewell investigates claims that millions of dollars of aid meant for Syria has to...
Indonesia has enjoyed a boom created by its exports of raw materials to China, India...
Published on Wednesday, 8th January 2014.
Breakthrough on the identity of a man found on a London street. Months after Jose from...
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2014.
Will the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi showcase a resurgent Russia or hide real Lucy...
Published on Monday, 6th January 2014.
Jim O'Neill investigates Nigeria; can a nation of young, vibrant, natural overcome of...
James Fletcher asks if mining for rare earths and uranium will destroy Greenland's –...
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2014.
