The legacy of the great patriotic wars against Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte
Published on Wednesday, 8th March 2023.
How Catherine the Great extended Russian influence south and west
Published on Wednesday, 1st March 2023.
Misha Glenny looks at the development of Russia.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd February 2023.
Misha Glenny on early Moscow before the Russian Empire
Published on Wednesday, 15th February 2023.
Peter White visits Tel Aviv and teams up with another blind person to explore the city
Published on Wednesday, 11th January 2023.
Peter White, blind since birth, uses the sounds to guide him as he explores new places.
Published on Wednesday, 4th January 2023.
How Indian journalist Rajkumar Keswani foretold the 1984 industrial accident of Bhopal
Published on Wednesday, 21st December 2022.
How former world leaders try to influence global politics
Published on Wednesday, 14th December 2022.
How ex-world leaders work with international organisations
Published on Wednesday, 7th December 2022.
How former presidents continue to influence our world - even after leaving office
Published on Wednesday, 30th November 2022.
Sharing a border with the US, will Mexico ever join China’s Belt and Road initiative?
Published on Wednesday, 23rd November 2022.
From mega-projects to medicine, who benefits from Jamaica’s relationship with China?
Published on Wednesday, 16th November 2022.
What impact has China’s Belt and Road initiative had on Panama five years on?
Published on Wednesday, 9th November 2022.
What impact is China’s Belt and Road initiative having on the people of Ecuador?
Published on Wednesday, 2nd November 2022.
Tim Marshall on Narva the only EU city to border the Russian Federation
Published on Wednesday, 26th October 2022.
The story of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, the only capitals straddling a border
Published on Wednesday, 19th October 2022.
How the communities at either side of the Niagara Falls are shaped by the changing border
Published on Wednesday, 12th October 2022.
What do borders mean in the city where the European Union was born?
Published on Wednesday, 5th October 2022.
How a healthy soil teeming with fungi and microbes can enhance the flavour of food
Published on Wednesday, 28th September 2022.
Isabelle Legeron explores the thrilling complexity of Soil
Published on Wednesday, 21st September 2022.
The indigenous Californians reviving ancestral methods of tending to the land
Published on Wednesday, 14th September 2022.
How is the world going to get to net zero by 2050 and who is paying the bill?
Published on Wednesday, 31st August 2022.
How is Iceland is embracing the challenges of getting to a net zero future?
Published on Wednesday, 24th August 2022.
Why are some renewable energy projects proving controversial?
Published on Wednesday, 17th August 2022.
Allan Little investigates the ‘inconvenient truths’ of transitioning to green energy
Published on Wednesday, 10th August 2022.
Kema Sikazwe meets people reclaiming spaces to tell new histories
Published on Wednesday, 3rd August 2022.
How Western museums tell the stories of others.
Published on Wednesday, 27th July 2022.
Kema Sikazwe is in Zambia exploring colonial legacies through museum collections
Published on Wednesday, 20th July 2022.
The uncomfortable stories behind some of the objects exhibited in UK museums
Published on Wednesday, 13th July 2022.
A shared love of nature is helping heal centuries of conflict and division in the Balkans
Published on Wednesday, 29th June 2022.
Mary-Ann Ochota meets the people who reunified Germany through nature
Published on Wednesday, 22nd June 2022.
The future of Ladakh amidst military unrest between India and China
Published on Wednesday, 15th June 2022.
Ed Douglas visits community projects looking to mitigate the impact of climate change
Published on Wednesday, 8th June 2022.
Ed Douglas reveals what life is like for those who live on the 'roof of the world'
Published on Wednesday, 1st June 2022.
The global management of money and the pressures towards decentralisation
Published on Wednesday, 25th May 2022.
Trust expert Rachel Botsman looks into the psychology and the morality of money
Published on Wednesday, 18th May 2022.
Broadcaster and trust expert Rachel Botsman asks what is the value of money?
Published on Wednesday, 11th May 2022.
Should we put our faith in money? Trust expert Rachel Botsman investigates
Published on Wednesday, 4th May 2022.
We meet the people involved in Nigeria’s vast illegal oil business
Published on Wednesday, 27th April 2022.
How does oil pollution affect Ogoniland today?
Published on Wednesday, 20th April 2022.
Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state
Published on Wednesday, 13th April 2022.
When Shell D’Arcy strikes black gold, there are celebrations on the Niger Delta creeks
Published on Wednesday, 6th April 2022.
Henrietta Bowden Jones talks totalks to June Angelides about how she set up Mums In Tech
Published on Wednesday, 30th March 2022.
Civil rights campaigner Halima Begum on her formative experiences of racism
Published on Wednesday, 23rd March 2022.
A musician's painful decision not to return to Damascus when Syria's civil war began
Published on Wednesday, 16th March 2022.
The author of The Ungrateful Refugee on her experience of leaving Iran and seeking asylum
Published on Wednesday, 9th March 2022.
How noise pollution impacts on birds' ability to learn to sing
Published on Wednesday, 2nd March 2022.
How water birds, poultry, jays and sage grouse have alerted us to the spread of diseases
Published on Wednesday, 23rd February 2022.
How the deaths of birds have alerted the world to serious environmental problems
Published on Wednesday, 16th February 2022.
We don’t have to stop playing as we reach old age, and we probably shouldn’t
Published on Wednesday, 2nd February 2022.
What role does play have in our adult lives and how can it increase productivity at work?
Published on Wednesday, 26th January 2022.
How video games help teenagers to navigate issues of anxiety, depression, and identity
Published on Wednesday, 19th January 2022.
How play is crucial to building our understanding of our surroundings, culture and self
Published on Wednesday, 12th January 2022.
What does the future hold for the countries of the Arab Spring?
Published on Wednesday, 5th January 2022.
How the aftereffects of the Arab Spring led to a mass displacement of people
Published on Wednesday, 29th December 2021.
Have economic opportunities improved since the Arab Spring?
Published on Wednesday, 8th December 2021.
Ten years after the Arab Spring, what did the 2011 protests achieve in Tunisia and Egypt?
Published on Wednesday, 1st December 2021.
One hundred years after the first modern refugee crisis, how much has changed?
Published on Wednesday, 24th November 2021.
Published on Wednesday, 17th November 2021.
How do refugee crises begin and who can be considered a refugee?
Published on Wednesday, 10th November 2021.
How space can help transform science education for the next generation
Published on Wednesday, 3rd November 2021.
Is artificial intelligence evolving too rapidly for regulators to keep up?
Published on Wednesday, 27th October 2021.
How do conspiracy theories take root and what can be done to combat them?
Published on Wednesday, 20th October 2021.
Science journalist Sue Nelson explores why have so many people given up on science
Published on Wednesday, 13th October 2021.
Lainy Malkani digs into the story of sugar in Thailand and sustainable production
Published on Wednesday, 6th October 2021.
How sugar became a central commodity to American culture, its diet and economy today
Published on Wednesday, 29th September 2021.
Lainy Malkani digs into the history of sugar and how it helped shape the city of London
Published on Wednesday, 22nd September 2021.
A decade after the end of dictatorship, can Libya expect a peaceful and democratic future?
Published on Wednesday, 15th September 2021.
Why did plans to integrate Libya's militias into a unified national army come to nothing?
Published on Wednesday, 8th September 2021.
Why is the revolution that overthrew Libya's Col Gaddafi still unfinished, 10 years on?
Published on Wednesday, 1st September 2021.
Jim O’Neill investigates the impact of President Biden’s ambitions to ‘build back better’
Published on Wednesday, 28th July 2021.
Can China challenge the dollar's dominance or will digital currencies be more disruptive?
Published on Wednesday, 21st July 2021.
Can the Biden administration’s policies redefine US economy and its place in the world?
Published on Wednesday, 14th July 2021.
Rajvi Vora looks at the environmental cost of goldmines and the people who work at them
Published on Wednesday, 7th July 2021.
Gold and its impact around the world from Colombia to Ghana to the gold vaults of Dubai
Published on Wednesday, 30th June 2021.
We explore gold's past, present and future and humanity’s obsession with it.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd June 2021.
Could automation lead to the end of work, and what would that mean for the world?
Published on Wednesday, 16th June 2021.
What does the new wave of high-tech automation mean for jobs?
Published on Wednesday, 9th June 2021.
Daniel Susskind explores automation’s impact on the future of work in America
Published on Wednesday, 2nd June 2021.
The Native American Tribes feeling threatened by the rise in online sports betting
Published on Wednesday, 5th May 2021.
Is banning gambling the best way to tackle the problems it causes in Albania?
Published on Wednesday, 28th April 2021.
Dr Heather Wardle meets the students gambling on football to try and earn a living
Published on Wednesday, 21st April 2021.
Alok Jha shows how water itself may offer solutions to give us hope
Published on Wednesday, 14th April 2021.
The ecological crises threatening water supplies from the lakes of Bangalore to Lake Chad
Published on Wednesday, 7th April 2021.
Alok Jha uncovers the broken economics and politics of water
Published on Wednesday, 31st March 2021.
How our relationship with water evolved through time and shaped our deepest psychology
Published on Wednesday, 24th March 2021.
Jessica J. Lee explores the myriad ways that forests operate in our lives
Published on Wednesday, 3rd March 2021.
Radical new ways of recognising forests as communities of mutually supportive trees
The role that forests play in our imaginations and how they reflect our inner wildness
As tensions rise between Russia, Nato and China in the Arctic is a new cold war likely?
Published on Wednesday, 24th February 2021.
Tourism in the Arctic is growing but is it a sustainable industry?
Published on Wednesday, 17th February 2021.
As the ice retreats can the scramble for resources beneath the Arctic benefit communities?
Published on Wednesday, 10th February 2021.
Allan Little investigates how the climate crisis is impacting Arctic communities
Published on Tuesday, 2nd February 2021.
Can other cities learn from Barcelona's community-building initiatives?
Published on Wednesday, 27th January 2021.
An Indian city making female entrepreneurship a priority
Published on Wednesday, 20th January 2021.
A Dutch city lauded for its policies on integrating immigrant populations
Published on Wednesday, 13th January 2021.
In Vienna housing is considered a human right. Is it a model other cities should follow?
Published on Wednesday, 6th January 2021.
Has Singapore found a solution to improving its citizens’ wellbeing?
Published on Wednesday, 30th December 2020.
Is a Canadian city's approach to unemployment one that other cities should consider?
Published on Wednesday, 23rd December 2020.
What chance do communities have of getting looted artefacts back?
Published on Wednesday, 16th December 2020.
Calls for the return of objects, looted from around the world are growing ever louder
Published on Wednesday, 9th December 2020.
Should priceless stolen objects that form part of history be returned to their origins?
Published on Wednesday, 2nd December 2020.
Is Germany ready to be more assertive on the world stage?
Published on Wednesday, 25th November 2020.
As governments rethink their economies and societies, could Germany provide the answers?
Published on Wednesday, 18th November 2020.
Can Angela Merkel teach the world a lesson about managing crises?
Published on Wednesday, 11th November 2020.
What impact is climate change having on human security in Central and Northern America?
Published on Wednesday, 4th November 2020.
How climate change is acting as a catalyst for conflict in Africa's Sahel region
Published on Wednesday, 28th October 2020.
As temperatures rise in the Arctic, global superpowers are eyeing new opportunities
Published on Wednesday, 21st October 2020.
How drought is fuelling conflict in India and Pakistan
Published on Wednesday, 14th October 2020.
Will Robson examines the links between climate change and global conflicts
Published on Wednesday, 7th October 2020.
Synaesthesia: We meet the man whose sister tastes of blackcurrant yoghurt
Published on Wednesday, 26th August 2020.
‘Everything smelled of rotting flesh, even perfume’: What happens when smell goes wrong?
Published on Wednesday, 19th August 2020.
‘I could hear my eyeballs moving’: How rogue messages pass between our ears and brain
Published on Wednesday, 12th August 2020.
How glitches between our eyes and brain cause bewildering, even terrifying, images.
Published on Wednesday, 5th August 2020.
When our sensory system goes wrong, we learn how our senses help us understand the world
Published on Wednesday, 29th July 2020.
Ian Goldin analyses the Covid pandemic, economic disaster and the future of globalisation
Published on Wednesday, 22nd July 2020.
How should governments respond to the pandemic?
Published on Thursday, 16th July 2020.
Why did world leaders fail to work together to prevent the spread of Covid-19?
Published on Wednesday, 8th July 2020.
A new space telescope promises to transform our view of the universe.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd April 2020.
Is it up to tech companies to police what people should or shouldn’t say, post or tweet?
Published on Wednesday, 15th April 2020.
Robin Lustig explores journalists' freedom to report against threats to their own safety
Published on Wednesday, 8th April 2020.
Robin Lustig explores the challenge of blasphemy over the right to free speech
Published on Wednesday, 1st April 2020.
Robin Lustig explores the threats to and opportunities for the right to free speech
Published on Wednesday, 25th March 2020.
Published on Wednesday, 18th March 2020.
Five communities consistently outlive the rest of the planet boasting members aged 100+
Published on Wednesday, 11th March 2020.
Professor Cregan-Reid explores why people have grown so fast in the 20th Century
Published on Wednesday, 4th March 2020.
How do we get a good nights sleep in an increasingly noisy world?
Published on Wednesday, 26th February 2020.
What men in Poland are really thinking about the pivotal point for gender relations
Published on Wednesday, 19th February 2020.
Gender is a fraught political issue in Poland and many women are feeling challenged
Published on Wednesday, 12th February 2020.
As the MeToo movement gains momentum in Mexico City how do the men see gender equality?
Published on Wednesday, 5th February 2020.
Mexican women are calling on authorities to do more to combat the high rates of femicide
Published on Wednesday, 29th January 2020.
Where is the complicated relationship between India and China heading?
Published on Wednesday, 22nd January 2020.
How is China’s growing role in Kenya’s media scene changing perceptions of China?
Published on Wednesday, 15th January 2020.
The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Canada sparks a geopolitical crisis
Published on Wednesday, 8th January 2020.
Will China's rise help Chinese-Indonesians or encourage more discrimination and envy?
Published on Wednesday, 1st January 2020.
Is China interfering in Australian politics?
Published on Wednesday, 25th December 2019.
As China grows richer and more powerful, how is its impact felt around the world?
Published on Monday, 23rd December 2019.
Teenagers inspired to try and make a difference in the world around them.
Published on Wednesday, 11th December 2019.
The 18-year-old student who built a school and a 15-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur
Published on Wednesday, 4th December 2019.
How Stella Bowles' school project and persistence led to a clean-up of her local river
Published on Wednesday, 27th November 2019.
What will it take for Angola to be truly free of the legacy of Africa’s Cold War?
Published on Wednesday, 20th November 2019.
What can Oslo – the European Green Capital of 2019 – offer to the perfect city?
Published on Sunday, 17th November 2019.
How is India navigating international relations today?
Published on Wednesday, 13th November 2019.
In 1965, some half a million people died in military-led killings of suspected communists
Published on Wednesday, 6th November 2019.
Jair Bolsonaro has vowed to wipe the reds off the map. Is Brazil reliving the Cold War?
Published on Wednesday, 30th October 2019.
What do new generations of Czechs feel about the future as well as the communist past?
Published on Wednesday, 23rd October 2019.
Writers explore our attitude to animals and attempt to uncover what our human values are
Published on Wednesday, 16th October 2019.
The impact of philosophy and religion on animals as food
Published on Wednesday, 9th October 2019.
What part does language play in how we think about other animals?
Published on Wednesday, 2nd October 2019.
The people seeking to strengthen animals' legal rights
Published on Wednesday, 25th September 2019.
Who's controlling the media messages in advance of the 2020 presidential election?
Published on Wednesday, 18th September 2019.
How geo-political forces are shaping the media landscape in Ukraine
Published on Wednesday, 11th September 2019.
How journalists in the Philippines are fighting back against challenges to press freedom
Published on Wednesday, 4th September 2019.
What are the challenges for a free and independent media in India?
Published on Wednesday, 28th August 2019.
What future is there for millennial farmers amidst an increasingly fragile environment?
Published on Wednesday, 21st August 2019.
Ground Shift talks to the next generation of farmers in Ghana, Australia and the USA
Published on Wednesday, 14th August 2019.
How digital and mobile phone technology is changing farming and boosting prosperity
Published on Wednesday, 7th August 2019.
Published on Wednesday, 31st July 2019.
Lanzhou city on the Yellow River is benefiting from the Belt and Road Initiative
Published on Wednesday, 26th June 2019.
How a new Silk Road connecting transport hubs from Kenya to Kazakhstan is changing lives.
Published on Wednesday, 19th June 2019.
Khorgas in Kazakhstan was the gateway of the ancient Silk Road. How is it transforming?
Published on Wednesday, 12th June 2019.
The new Chinese Mombasa–Nairobi railway has replaced the British-built Uganda Railway
Published on Wednesday, 5th June 2019.
How our faces are evolving from jaws that are shorter to our teeth and eyes
Published on Wednesday, 29th May 2019.
How modern life has promoted back pain and why it is the number one cause of disability
Published on Wednesday, 22nd May 2019.
What modern living is doing to our feet and why our trainers may not be the best for them
Published on Wednesday, 15th May 2019.
The visionary project that transformed the violent barrios of Colombia's second city
Published on Wednesday, 8th May 2019.
How Glasgow, which has one of the highest murder rates in Europe, is tackling knife crime
Published on Wednesday, 1st May 2019.
In Paris citizens vote on how to spend the city’s budget. Is this a model to follow?
Published on Wednesday, 24th April 2019.
How the UK capital makes money around the clock
Published on Wednesday, 17th April 2019.
How is data being used to help Seoul run smoothly?
Published on Wednesday, 10th April 2019.
Is San Francisco’s recycling scheme and sustainable public transport a model to follow?
Published on Wednesday, 3rd April 2019.
Could the future be rubbish-free?
Published on Wednesday, 23rd January 2019.
Three historical landmarks that shaped modern attitudes to waste
Published on Wednesday, 16th January 2019.
Can Japan’s gun control policies, Norway’s prisoner scheme and Uganda’s law scheme work?
Published on Wednesday, 9th January 2019.
How our relationship with rubbish has evolved over time
What does being deprived of sunlight do to you?
Published on Wednesday, 2nd January 2019.
What effect could solar winds have on life on Earth?
Published on Wednesday, 26th December 2018.
How the Sun’s light and heat inspired rituals dating back to the earliest humans
Published on Wednesday, 19th December 2018.
How much energy can we get from the Sun?
Published on Wednesday, 12th December 2018.
It's the source and sustainer of all life on Earth, but what do we really know about it?
Published on Wednesday, 5th December 2018.
Could China break the World Trade Organisation?
Published on Wednesday, 28th November 2018.
Could President Trump’s trade wars break the World Trade Organisation?
Published on Wednesday, 21st November 2018.
What does the principle of self-determination mean in 2018?
Published on Wednesday, 14th November 2018.
Will new forms of war present even more of a challenge to the world order?
Published on Wednesday, 7th November 2018.
Is the world order that was forged after WW2 unravelling?
Published on Wednesday, 31st October 2018.
Ian Goldin examines how the 2008 financial crisis has changed the world
Published on Wednesday, 24th October 2018.
How should economists rethink their ideas to better spot financial dangers in the future?
Published on Wednesday, 17th October 2018.
How the 2008 financial crisis led to a shift in power from West to East
Published on Wednesday, 10th October 2018.
Did Governments’ handling of the 2008 financial crisis make things better or worse?
Published on Wednesday, 3rd October 2018.
How did the 2008 financial crisis affect our trust in authorities and experts?
Published on Wednesday, 26th September 2018.
What is the relationship between sound, the forest and the people in India?
Published on Wednesday, 15th August 2018.
Glacial streams, the wind and the cry of ravens are familiar sounds of Lofoten islands
Published on Wednesday, 8th August 2018.
Life in the Namib Desert from the solo notes of birds at dawn to the wind at night
Published on Wednesday, 1st August 2018.
A sonic journey through the plains of the Maasai Mara in Africa
Published on Friday, 27th July 2018.
How can we prepare against antibiotic resistant diseases in the future?
Published on Wednesday, 18th July 2018.
How do we hack our own biology to counteract the effects of ageing, pain and ill health?
How companies amass data about you and how to win the data race against tech companies
Published on Wednesday, 11th July 2018.
Can we all continue to be gainfully employed for years to come?
Published on Wednesday, 4th July 2018.
Practical advice on how to stop yourself going out of date
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2018.
Will English continue to dominate or decline, diminish cultures or enrich them?
Published on Wednesday, 13th June 2018.
Have you used the words antwacky, jarg and squinny recently?
Published on Wednesday, 6th June 2018.
How is the 21st Century transforming English - the world’s most widely used language
Published on Wednesday, 30th May 2018.
How is the 21st Century transforming English - the world’s most widely used language?
Published on Wednesday, 23rd May 2018.
In the US Supreme Court nine judges hear the latest major abortion case
Published on Wednesday, 16th May 2018.
In Kentucky a legal case is under way aimed at closing the last clinic for abortions
Published on Wednesday, 9th May 2018.
Could abortion be banned in the USA?
Published on Wednesday, 2nd May 2018.
Meet the communities living in the shadow of hydro-electric dams
Published on Wednesday, 25th April 2018.
Fresh ideas to stop the damage caused by melting glaciers
Published on Wednesday, 18th April 2018.
Yin Yuzhen has planted a million trees in 70,000 hectares of desert
Published on Wednesday, 11th April 2018.
Moving on from uninhabitable land and building state-of-the-art sea defences
Published on Wednesday, 4th April 2018.
From closing the gender gap to sustainable fishing, which policy will be adopted?
Published on Wednesday, 21st February 2018.
Is Canada’s catch share model for sustainable fishing a contender for an imagined utopia?
Published on Wednesday, 14th February 2018.
How has Nepal dramatically reduced maternal death – and can their policy be replicated?
Published on Wednesday, 7th February 2018.
How has Norway managed to have the lowest rate of prisoners reoffending in Europe?
Published on Wednesday, 31st January 2018.
Is the way Germany has handled refugee integration a model other countries could follow?
Published on Wednesday, 24th January 2018.
Does Cuba hold the best policy for surviving hurricanes?
Published on Wednesday, 17th January 2018.
Rwanda has closed its gender gap by 80%. Is it a model other countries should follow?
Published on Wednesday, 10th January 2018.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the challenges of bringing the disease in control
Published on Wednesday, 3rd January 2018.
Four years on since the collapse of the Rana Plaza has anything changed in Bangladesh?
Published on Wednesday, 27th December 2017.
How did people rebuild their lives after the devastating Japanese tsunami of 2011?
Published on Wednesday, 20th December 2017.
Tourism brings opportunity to the Solomon Islands and the Philippines but at what cost?
Published on Wednesday, 13th December 2017.
The melting ice is changing the sea's composition completely
Published on Wednesday, 6th December 2017.
Deep sea exploration of the Indian Ocean and the people making a living from the sea
Published on Wednesday, 29th November 2017.
The fishing communities living and working along the shores of the Atlantic
Published on Wednesday, 22nd November 2017.
The insurgent popular movements that changed America's democracy
Published on Wednesday, 15th November 2017.
The 1924 Scopes Trial that banned the teaching of Charles Darwins' evolution in Tennessee
Published on Wednesday, 8th November 2017.
2/4 How money became an important feature in American politics
Published on Wednesday, 1st November 2017.
1/4 How America became the world’s first big democracy and the limits of its constitution
Published on Wednesday, 25th October 2017.
4/4 Entrepreneurs coming up with innovative solutions for agriculture in India and Kenya
Published on Wednesday, 18th October 2017.
3/4 OkHi is a navigation device which allows you to find an address, however remote
Published on Wednesday, 11th October 2017.
2/4 Start-ups who are innovating products in Kenya and India
Published on Wednesday, 4th October 2017.
1/4 New mini-series. The reality of being an entrepreneur serving “the bottom billion”
Published on Wednesday, 27th September 2017.
The scientist running the Square Kilometre Array, the world's biggest telescope: 5/5
Published on Wednesday, 20th September 2017.
The proposed Thirty Metre Telescope on sacred mount Mauna Kea that's causing a rift: 4/5
Published on Wednesday, 13th September 2017.
The James Webb Space Telescope: its journey to discover how our universe came to be. 3/5
Published on Wednesday, 6th September 2017.
ALMA, the remote observatory in Chile, tracks the 'radio sky': 2/5
Published on Wednesday, 30th August 2017.
How the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus revealed the true model of the universe: 1/5
Published on Wednesday, 23rd August 2017.
The Crimean coast, where Russia meets Turkey, is a region of great strategic importance
Published on Wednesday, 16th August 2017.
What is life like in Abkhazia, an independent state that is not recognised elsewhere?
Published on Wednesday, 9th August 2017.
Black Sea truckers are tough. They transport everything from biscuits to fridges to pigs.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd August 2017.
The Black Sea is an archaeologist’s dream but an ecologist’s nightmare.
Published on Monday, 24th July 2017.
A journey around the Black Sea, where Russian warships sail for Syria and Nato watches
Published on Wednesday, 19th July 2017.
In Kuala Lumpur the regeneration of the Klang River is seen as key to modernisation
Published on Wednesday, 5th July 2017.
The regeneration of the Los Angeles river and the challenges of turning it 'green'
Published on Wednesday, 28th June 2017.
How do young people in Sierra Leone cope faced with staggering rates of unemployment?
Published on Wednesday, 17th May 2017.
The struggle to get a good education, in an overpopulated school system
Published on Wednesday, 10th May 2017.
How technology might change our economic futures for the better
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2017.
How access to critical resources might change the way our economies work
Published on Wednesday, 29th March 2017.
How the coming technical revolution in finance will create new winners and losers
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2017.
How economic power will shift as the world’s population changes
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2017.
How the global economy is being shaped by political backlash
Published on Friday, 10th March 2017.
The city's cultural hub attracts young people with both an Eastern and Western outlook
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2017.
Dating, marriage and why young people are delaying the traditional family in Shanghai
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2017.
What draws young graduates to study and work in Shanghai?
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2017.
Water, housing, gun control, women's rights and more are debated by a panel and listeners
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2017.
Is Australia's anti-smoking policy a model for other countries to follow?
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2017.
Has Shanghai found the perfect formula for teaching maths?
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2017.
Is Tunisia’s approach to what women can and can't do an example for other Arab countries?
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2017.
How Japan's rigorous gun control policy has reduced gun violence to single digits
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2017.
Peru has cut poverty by 50% in 10 years. Is it a model others could - or should - follow?
Published on Tuesday, 3rd January 2017.
The island's roofs catch every drop of rain, purify water and store it for daily use
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2016.
Safa Al Ahmad chairs a discussion about the role of Islam in politics in the Arab world.
Published on Friday, 9th December 2016.
The debate within Shi’ism about the role of Islam in government
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2016.
Why the Muslim Brotherhood has fractured since the Arab uprisings
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2016.
Disputes in Islam’s most misunderstood sect - the Wahhabis, also known as Salafis
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2016.
The battle of ideas that accompanied the Arab uprisings
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2016.
The impact of an assertive Russia on Norway's defence policy
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2016.
The impact of an assertive Russia on Norway, and Norway’s involvement in Afghanistan
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2016.
What will the UK vote to leave the EU mean for Northern Ireland and the rest of Ireland?
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2016.
What effect has Brexit had on the people of Scotland?
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2016.
Why did Wales – a big beneficiary of EU funds – vote for Brexit?
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2016.
What does Brexit tell us about divisions between communities in Birmingham?
Published on Monday, 3rd October 2016.
How does culture influence mental health and treatment?
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2016.
What options do people in Ghana have when a person suffers mental illness?
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2016.
Hearing voices was once considered a sign of madness but has there been a cultural shift?
Published on Sunday, 28th August 2016.
'Democratic parenting' and social media use could be behind young people's anxiety
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2016.
Why is Japan going through a revolution in the awareness and treatment of depression?
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2016.
Chris Bowlby hosts a discussion on issues and the future for Europe’s migration crisis
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2016.
How is Germany dealing with hundreds of thousands of new migrants?
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2016.
How are Syrian refugees settling into their new lives in Bradford, UK?
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2016.
Migrants in southern Italy, with starkly varying lives, get very different kinds of help.
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2016.
Fi Glover, Martha Lane Fox and a panel of guests discuss ground-breaking social policies
Published on Saturday, 9th July 2016.
Maria Margaronis explores worlds of hope and chaos for refugees and islanders in Greece.
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2016.
How half a million Syrian refugee children are in need of an education
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2016.
Chris Morris examines the crises facing the EU and asks whether it will survive.
Published on Friday, 3rd June 2016.
How the European Union grew from a small club of six to a 28-state superpower
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2016.
The past and future of the European Union at a critical moment in its history
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2016.
The role of Shakespeare in the politics of South Africa and why he still matters today
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2016.
From the Bollywood screen to village storytellers - how has India adopted Shakespeare?
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2016.
How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life. With Stephen Sondheim.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2016.
How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2016.
The passion and emotional impact of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2016.
Who will stop the flow of young Arab men into the ranks of the so-called Islamic State?
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2016.
Who’s leading the political and spiritual fightback against the so-called Islamic State?
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2016.
How a group of legal experts revolutionised Uganda's legal system through social media
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2016.
Should India's pioneering policies on sanitation be adopted elsewhere?
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2016.
Would Michigan's 'zero suicide model' be a policy for adoption in a perfect country?
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2016.
Is Portugal's view of drugs as a health issue rather than a crime a good model to follow?
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2016.
Could Costa Rica’s green energy policy work in our utopian dream?
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2016.
Is Estonia’s revolutionary digital policy a contender for a perfect country?
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2016.
How are black Americans represented, and what does it mean to be black in America today?
Published on Monday, 25th January 2016.
Despite the civil rights movement, there is a more complicated legacy of desegregation.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2016.
Rajini Vaidyanathan explores economic opportunity, or lack of it, amongst black Americans
The deep, underlying structural issues that impact on black American lives.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2016.
Sasha Khokha asks how her fellow Californians are responding to climate change
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2015.
Nicole Jacinto asks how her fellow Filipinos are responding to climate change
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2015.
Ugochi Oluigbo investigates the effects of climate change in Nigeria.
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2015.
How has the assumption of an adult way of life changed over the last 50 years?
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2015.
How are the young in Modena and Barcelona coping with the path to adulthood?
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2015.
What does it mean to be a grown-up in 21st Century Africa and Europe?
Published on Thursday, 29th October 2015.
