A Syrian football team torn apart by civil war. Tim Whewell is on a quest to find them.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2015.
The Dhnie family find themselves sleeping rough and getting caught up in riots
Published on Wednesday, 30th December 2015.
Tracing the history of the sari and how it can symbolise loss, love and nostalgia
Twenty three of Libya's finest technology graduates plan to rebuild their country
Published on Tuesday, 29th December 2015.
Meet the Dhnie family in Turkey as they prepare to make the journey to Greece from Syria.
Published on Monday, 28th December 2015.
Marc Almond goes in search of a Russian superstar who vanished in Siberia
Published on Sunday, 27th December 2015.
The key moments that shaped the migrant numbers reaching Europe at unprecedented levels
Published on Saturday, 26th December 2015.
Five school children starve to death in the Malaysian jungle. Why weren't they protected?
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2015.
The children's home in Kampala where every child is given a musical chance for a future
Published on Wednesday, 23rd December 2015.
How consumers in India are embracing the online shopping revolution
Published on Tuesday, 22nd December 2015.
An original drama retelling the story Greece, its creditors and its bailout
Published on Sunday, 20th December 2015.
Why war in space is not just Hollywood fantasy but a fast-approaching threat
Published on Saturday, 19th December 2015.
The risks people take in rural Cambodia to get basic healthcare
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2015.
How dance during the Cold War was designed to challenge America's military image.
Published on Wednesday, 16th December 2015.
Can Uganda’s burgeoning tech scene help fast-track the country’s development?
Published on Tuesday, 15th December 2015.
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the International Space Station
Published on Sunday, 13th December 2015.
How fictional universes, from Star Wars to Harry Potter took over global culture
Published on Saturday, 12th December 2015.
How did Robert Jones spend 23 years in jail for crimes another man had been convicted of?
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2015.
Does in-game betting pose a threat to the integrity of some our most popular sports?
Published on Wednesday, 9th December 2015.
Meet the people making sure Ghana’s girls are plugged in to the tech revolution
Published on Tuesday, 8th December 2015.
Maria Margaronis explores the debris of Albania's painful past
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2015.
Meet the black women challenging the tech industry’s lack of diversity
Published on Wednesday, 2nd December 2015.
What chance is there for a deal on climate change in Paris?
The complex business of dying in Greece
Published on Friday, 27th November 2015.
How can we meet the energy needs of a growing population without creating CO2 emissions?
Published on Wednesday, 25th November 2015.
Peru's drug 'mules' - youngsters hiking cocaine from the jungle to the highlands
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2015.
A look at the science behind climate change ahead of this year's summit in Paris
Published on Wednesday, 18th November 2015.
Catholic bishops gather in Rome to debate their Church’s teachings on sex and family
Published on Tuesday, 17th November 2015.
Three women from the Bangladeshi community speak candidly about the Bangladeshi diaspora
Published on Sunday, 15th November 2015.
Three Bangladeshi women in east London talk about the changes in their community
The sacking of a newspaper editor strains an old friendship between Norway and Russia
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2015.
Why are children hooked on Minecraft? Does it stimulate creativity or disengage them?
Published on Wednesday, 11th November 2015.
Is Aung San Suu Kyi on the brink of power in Myanmar?
Published on Tuesday, 10th November 2015.
Lyse Doucet speaks to Egyptian President al-Sisi ahead of his visit to London this week
Published on Friday, 6th November 2015.
Why locals are leaving, and super-rich Americans are coming in the opposite direction
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2015.
Musician Philip Glass revisits his life '70s New York as a taxi driver and as a composer
Published on Wednesday, 4th November 2015.
Austria – on the frontline of the battle over Catholic doctrine on sex and the family
Published on Tuesday, 3rd November 2015.
Stories of the pioneers who came to post war Britain from the Indian subcontinent.
Published on Sunday, 1st November 2015.
Tim Franks asks why the world's youngest nation is falling apart
Published on Thursday, 29th October 2015.
The emotions and humanity of the Syrian people as seen through the eyes of its poets
Published on Wednesday, 28th October 2015.
How youth radio is helping to shape Myanmar's shift from military rule
Published on Tuesday, 27th October 2015.
Exploring stereotypes of Japan from workaholics to submissive women and bizarre crazes
Published on Saturday, 24th October 2015.
Lucy Ash reports from the French city of Beziers which has become a Far-right fortress
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2015.
Virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie explores the story of the Hang
Published on Wednesday, 21st October 2015.
Homosexuality in Namibia and the LGBT community's struggle for social acceptance
Published on Tuesday, 20th October 2015.
Does harsh interrogation yield reliable intelligence in the fight against terror?
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2015.
Was Jacques Attali right when he predicted the value of recorded music would plummet?
Published on Tuesday, 13th October 2015.
Did the 'Decade of the Roma Inclusion' succeed in helping Europe’s poorest minority?
Published on Monday, 12th October 2015.
Why Edward Snowden exposed the mass surveillance by American and British intelligence
The rewards and Challenges of AI and how it is changing our world
Published on Friday, 9th October 2015.
Why has Germany become the choice destination for thousands of refugees across Europe
Published on Thursday, 8th October 2015.
Should a city owing $18 billion sell its prestigious art collection?
Published on Wednesday, 7th October 2015.
How Eleanor Roosevelt helped shape the role of First Lady
Published on Tuesday, 6th October 2015.
Neal Razzell reports on Spain’s economic crisis which has hit bullfighting hard
Published on Thursday, 1st October 2015.
A portrait of African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950
Published on Wednesday, 30th September 2015.
The invisible cultural and mental divide between former East Germans and West Germans
Published on Tuesday, 29th September 2015.
Recalling the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and its continuing legacy
Published on Saturday, 26th September 2015.
Jane Deith investigates conditions for tea workers in Assam
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2015.
The life of Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, poet Mirabai, Mughal ruler Akbar, Malik Akbar
Published on Sunday, 20th September 2015.
Gabriel Gatehouse looks at a humanitarian crisis and allegations of war crimes in Yemen
Published on Thursday, 17th September 2015.
The ancient Japanese art of sit-down comedy, known as Rakugo
Published on Wednesday, 16th September 2015.
Religious tensions in Zanzibar, South Africa's schools and China's influence in Africa
Published on Tuesday, 15th September 2015.
Profiles of the Buddha; Mahavira Jain; Ashoka and Aryabhata.
Published on Saturday, 12th September 2015.
Why are Paraguayan children so vulnerable to abuse?
Published on Thursday, 10th September 2015.
Changes in education, health and the media - Ethiopia; Mozambique; Tanzania; South Africa
Published on Tuesday, 8th September 2015.
A young man disappears on a night out in Antwerp.Where did he go and how could he vanish?
Published on Thursday, 3rd September 2015.
Arabic hip hop artists explore the effect of politically charged words on the Arab Spring
Published on Wednesday, 2nd September 2015.
Meet the community struggling to survive on one of the world’s fastest eroding coastlines
Published on Thursday, 27th August 2015.
Could recent developments in 3D printing benefit the natural world?
Published on Wednesday, 26th August 2015.
Britain’s former mould-breaking ambassador to Lebanon, Tom Fletcher.
Published on Tuesday, 25th August 2015.
The Harragas of Algeria - young people who burn their identity papers and head to Europe.
Published on Thursday, 20th August 2015.
Trista Goldberg looks at the story of Vietnamese Amerasians.
Published on Wednesday, 19th August 2015.
An interview with one of Iran's vice presidents, Masoumeh Ebtekar, in Tehran.
Exploring the audio archive found in Osama Bin Laden's compound in Afghanistan.
Published on Tuesday, 18th August 2015.
Will Grant takes a ride on Cuba's bumpy roads where change is in the air
Published on Thursday, 13th August 2015.
Deserted beaches and empty hotels: a package holiday after the terror attack in Sousse.
Published on Wednesday, 12th August 2015.
Peter Oborne investigates why bank accounts of some British Muslims were closed.
Published on Tuesday, 11th August 2015.
Celia Hatton explores how China is struggling to contain underground ketamine
Published on Thursday, 6th August 2015.
In Kabul a 28-year-old woman was beaten to death after being accused of burning the Koran
Published on Wednesday, 5th August 2015.
Alexander Litvinenko died after being poisoned with polonium. But who wanted him dead?
Published on Friday, 31st July 2015.
Gabriel Gatehouse aboard a rescue ship searching for migrants in the Mediterranean
Published on Thursday, 30th July 2015.
Are there more productive ways of dealing with ugly attitudes to ageing?
Published on Wednesday, 29th July 2015.
The tiny libraries dotting the New Zealand countryside providing books for local readers
Published on Tuesday, 28th July 2015.
The ordinary Italians coping with the Mediterranean migrant crisis
Published on Saturday, 25th July 2015.
President Obama talks about the US and Africa, Britain leaving the EU and US gun laws
Published on Friday, 24th July 2015.
Why is Africa’s biggest provider of energy unable to keep the lights on?
Published on Thursday, 23rd July 2015.
The history of salt from the production of artisan salts to its role in our diet
Published on Wednesday, 22nd July 2015.
The booming and lucrative business of multinational companies suing governments
Published on Tuesday, 21st July 2015.
India’s Parsi population is declining. Can Parsis be persuaded to make more babies?
Published on Thursday, 16th July 2015.
An exploration into the diverse history of Salt
Published on Wednesday, 15th July 2015.
Jazz pianist Horace Parlan relfects on his life in jazz from his Danish care-home
Published on Monday, 13th July 2015.
A sister’s story of loss - and hope – in the aftermath of the downing of MH17.
Published on Thursday, 9th July 2015.
Izzat Majeed could have retired quietly, but instead he formed the Sachal Jazz Ensemble.
Published on Wednesday, 8th July 2015.
London's East End is rapidly changing. How can residents preserve their local community?
Published on Tuesday, 7th July 2015.
Deradicalising young Moslems in Denmark – is the Aarhus Model working?
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2015.
The world of head-hunting, looking for high-profile candidates for prestigious positions
Published on Wednesday, 1st July 2015.
How emigration, low birth rate and early deaths mean a demographic time-bomb for Ukraine
Published on Tuesday, 30th June 2015.
This NATO nation has readied for war – but fears being undermined from within.
Published on Friday, 26th June 2015.
German comedian Henning Wehn explores the growing use of ELF – English as a lingua franca
Published on Wednesday, 24th June 2015.
What exactly is Interpol and how does it function?
Published on Tuesday, 23rd June 2015.
The impact of WW1 on the political landscape of the Middle East
Published on Saturday, 20th June 2015.
How did a billion dollars mysteriously disappear from banks in Moldova?
Published on Thursday, 18th June 2015.
Exploring the themes of place and contested space amongst South Africa's literary talent
Published on Wednesday, 17th June 2015.
How did the collapse of East Germany shape Putin's career and behaviour today?
Published on Tuesday, 16th June 2015.
The real and reel history of the classic American Western The Searchers
Published on Saturday, 13th June 2015.
The suspicious death of a prosecutor who accused Argentina's government of a cover-up
Published on Friday, 12th June 2015.
A picture of South Africa as seen by a new generation of writers and poets
Published on Wednesday, 10th June 2015.
The business of acquiring and selling dead bodies for medical research and science
Published on Tuesday, 9th June 2015.
The run-down area of Istanbul standing against Erdogan’s bid for more power
Published on Thursday, 4th June 2015.
A picture of South Africa now, as seen by a new generation of writers and poets
Published on Wednesday, 3rd June 2015.
The struggles of the Tibet women’s soccer team as the Fifa Women's World Cup 2015 begins
Published on Tuesday, 2nd June 2015.
Spats, tantrums and explosions from the archive. American satirist Joe Queenan presents
Published on Saturday, 30th May 2015.
Will the aid money pouring in to Nepal after the earthquakes end up in the right place?
Published on Thursday, 28th May 2015.
Claudia Taranto travels to the Philippines where 10% of the population work overseas.
Published on Wednesday, 27th May 2015.
Claudia Taranto travels to Australia where she hears how temporary workers are the of...
Published on Tuesday, 26th May 2015.
The story of how Islamic State, a small band of fanatical jihadi fighters, became the...
Published on Saturday, 23rd May 2015.
With defectors inside the militant group al-Shabab is Somalia turning against extremism?
Published on Thursday, 21st May 2015.
Claudia Taranto visits Singapore, which is increasingly reliant on labour from abroad...
Published on Wednesday, 20th May 2015.
Claudia Taranto travels to Nepal where - until the recent disasters - 1600 people were...
Published on Tuesday, 19th May 2015.
Peru is one of the most biodiverse nations in the world. But its precious wildlife is...
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2015.
Over 35,000 African students studied at British universities last year - part of a of...
Published on Wednesday, 13th May 2015.
The Jordanian social media campaign run in response to the burning of pilot Moaz...
Published on Tuesday, 12th May 2015.
American historian David Blight explores the legacy of the American Civil War - the of...
Published on Saturday, 9th May 2015.
Natalia Antelava asks if the creeping influence of the Orthodox Church in Georgia’s...
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2015.
Following the end of World War Two, the BBC began a series of special radio appeals on...
Published on Wednesday, 6th May 2015.
Tarek Osman considers how the impact of the Arab Uprisings of 2011 was felt in Saudi...
Dominic Casciani explores the way the so called Islamic State use social media to to...
Published on Tuesday, 5th May 2015.
Lucy Ash investigates the mass rapes committed by Soviet troops in Germany at the end...
Published on Saturday, 2nd May 2015.
In India, a wrestler in the family can mean a ticket out of poverty. Rupa Jha meets to...
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2015.
Tarek Osman investigates the rise of the Kindgom of Saudi Arabia. In this second he at...
Published on Wednesday, 29th April 2015.
American satirist PJ O’Rourke travels across Britain trying to work out why party in...
Published on Tuesday, 28th April 2015.
Will Coley listens to the stories of Ethiopian and Eritrean migrants who have made the...
Published on Saturday, 25th April 2015.
Does Portugal have a problem with police brutality and racism? The residents of Cova a...
Published on Thursday, 23rd April 2015.
American writer and satirist PJ O’Rourke hits the campaign trail to give his own on...
Published on Wednesday, 22nd April 2015.
Egyptian writer Tarek Osman follows the dramatic events that led to the establishment...
As the UK heads towards a highly competitive general election with an uncertain Mary a...
Published on Saturday, 18th April 2015.
Teatr Doc is widely praised for its hard-hitting plays about contemporary Russia.
Published on Thursday, 16th April 2015.
Comedian Des Bishop finds out what makes the chinese laugh. He has learnt Mandarin to...
Published on Tuesday, 14th April 2015.
More women and girls from Canada's Aboriginal population go missing or are murdered of...
Published on Thursday, 9th April 2015.
Imagine your nationality was used by people all around the world to describe someone a...
Published on Wednesday, 8th April 2015.
Dawood Azami talks to some of the descendants of the thousands of Afghan pioneers in...
Published on Tuesday, 7th April 2015.
World renowned DJ Edu, aka The ‘Afro Boss’, is on a journey across Africa to how...
Published on Saturday, 4th April 2015.
The story of a Tanzanian safe house, a place where girls find refuge from female - a...
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2015.
Ahmed has spent much of the last three and a half years sleeping on London’s night...
Published on Wednesday, 1st April 2015.
Dawood Azami focuses on the life and legacy of the Afghan cameleers, who first arrived...
Published on Tuesday, 31st March 2015.
What’s in your fridge? That’s the question former BBC Africa Service editor Ohene...
Published on Sunday, 29th March 2015.
Edward Stourton looks back at the remarkable life of Lee Kuan Yew, who transformed a...
Tim Whewell tells the story of how Gaza's only grand piano is being restored and of -...
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2015.
Formerly known as Burma, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar is in a state of upheaval.
Published on Wednesday, 25th March 2015.
Indian Journalist Rupa Jha travels to her own state of Bihar, where nearly 10% of the...
Published on Tuesday, 24th March 2015.
How did the disease originate & how was its deadly progress checked? Statistician Hans...
Published on Monday, 23rd March 2015.
Detroit Soup is an innovative crowdfunding dinner which has raised more than $85,000 -...
Published on Saturday, 21st March 2015.
Lyse Doucet talks to journalist Safa al-Ahmad about her recent reporting trip to Yemen...
Published on Thursday, 19th March 2015.
Bhutan is a landlocked country in the eastern Himalaya, best known as a Buddhist where...
Published on Wednesday, 18th March 2015.
Journalist Rupa Jha travels to her own state of Bihar, where nearly 10% of the now and...
Published on Tuesday, 17th March 2015.
Theo Leggett looks at our apparent addiction to economic growth as the secret to and...
Published on Sunday, 15th March 2015.
Has Eritrea reached its Millenium Development Goals target early? BBC’s Yalda Hakim...
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2015.
In a rapidly changing Russia, Sasha Tsaliuk continues to fight for the existence of...
Published on Wednesday, 11th March 2015.
India is home to an extraordinary number of people, languages and religions, but one...
Published on Tuesday, 10th March 2015.
As evidence grows that major historical sites are being looted in Syria, how much are...
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2015.
Four reigning Arab monarchs have passed through the UK's Royal Military Academy or its...
Published on Wednesday, 4th March 2015.
Lucy Ash examines the Russian military strategy of deception, maskirovka, from the to...
Published on Tuesday, 3rd March 2015.
If the statistics can be believed, over the last 30 years the gap between rich and in...
Published on Sunday, 1st March 2015.
Claire Bolderson reports on the tiny independent cities that make up St Louis County...
Published on Thursday, 26th February 2015.
As part of the BBC's A Richer World season, Rustam Qobil visits a desert where people...
Published on Wednesday, 25th February 2015.
My Africa offers a series of inspiring snapshots of a continent working towards future...
Published on Tuesday, 24th February 2015.
The Chinese Cricket Association has set itself the target of achieving Test match and...
Published on Thursday, 19th February 2015.
Australia is one of the most popular destinations for asylum seekers escaping their...
As part of the BBC's Richer World season, Alan Kasujja travels to three countries in a...
Published on Tuesday, 17th February 2015.
The imperial summer palace in Beijing was looted and destroyed by French and British...
Published on Monday, 16th February 2015.
One year on from the massacre in Kiev’s Maidan square, when more than fifty...
Published on Thursday, 12th February 2015.
For Stalin, privacy was key. So how would he feel about his secrets being revealed? to...
Published on Wednesday, 11th February 2015.
Claire Read has spent the last six months following a court case in Egypt and trying...
Published on Tuesday, 10th February 2015.
A Vietnamese woman's perspective of the Vietnam War. Her memoirs have inspired film an...
Published on Wednesday, 4th February 2015.
Tata is the biggest industrial employer in the UK, owning Jaguar, Land Rover & Tetley.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd February 2015.
The testimonies of twins who survived the brutal medical experiments of Dr Josef the...
Published on Saturday, 31st January 2015.
World renowned DJ and BBC 1Xtra presenter DJ Edu is on a journey to find the best in...
Published on Friday, 30th January 2015.
In the wake of the recent attacks in Paris, do France’s Muslims feel there’s a for...
Published on Thursday, 29th January 2015.
British actor Lenny Henry traces the life and works of August Wilson, the great black...
Published on Wednesday, 28th January 2015.
Even by the sometimes-bizarre standards of modern Japanese culture, the annual is one...
Published on Tuesday, 27th January 2015.
Slum settlements have a strong visual identity. We are used to seeing TV footage of of...
Published on Sunday, 25th January 2015.
Last summer the deaths of four innocent teenagers in Israel, three Jewish and one to...
Published on Friday, 23rd January 2015.
Germany's nascent anti-Islamisation movement, Pegida, is attracting a new middle aged...
Published on Thursday, 22nd January 2015.
For decades rubbish pickers crawled their way over the biggest rubbish dump in South...
Published on Wednesday, 21st January 2015.
Machado de Assis was born in 1839 of mixed race, an epileptic with little formal...
Published on Tuesday, 20th January 2015.
The protest by cleaners, laid off from tax offices and the Greek Finance Ministry, has...
Published on Thursday, 15th January 2015.
The olive harvest in the West Bank is all about tradition. The first rains of the the...
Published on Wednesday, 14th January 2015.
Allen Ginsberg arrived in early 1960s Calcutta to discover a collective of angry young...
Published on Tuesday, 13th January 2015.
In the 1950s and 1960s tens of thousands of migrants came to Britain from the Indian...
Published on Sunday, 11th January 2015.
Former jihadi Aimen Dean gives a unique insight into the workings of Islamic State.
Published on Saturday, 10th January 2015.
James Fletcher travels to Japan to find out why they decided earlier this year not to...
Published on Thursday, 8th January 2015.
Noor Inayat Khan was one of the most courageous, unusual secret agents of World War Two.
Published on Wednesday, 7th January 2015.
We like to think of our romantic lives as pure and unbothered by the cold business of...
Published on Tuesday, 6th January 2015.
A year ago, we asked former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill to identify the next -...
Published on Thursday, 1st January 2015.
In Medellin there's a huge dump. Locals say it's where the truth is buried - they're...
