Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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07/07/2026 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.
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30/06/2026 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.
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23/06/2026 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.
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16/06/2026 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.
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09/06/2026 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.
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Italy’s migrant fruit pickers
Why Italy’s anti-immigration government is issuing thousands of visas for migrant workers (R)
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Sierra Leone: The diamond that saved a thousand lives
The diamond that brought light, a school and healthcare to one African village
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Victim or accomplice? The story of Jeffrey Epstein’s pilot girlfriend
Was Nadia Marcinko, a model, then a pilot - a victim, or accomplice, of Epstein?
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Return to Khartoum: War, loss and hope
Mohanad Hashim returns home to a fabled city wrecked by war
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Serbia: Under the canopy
A disaster at a Serbian station sparked mass protests. What is its political legacy?
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Driving against net zero
How populists are driving against the politics of net zero
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In Iceland's defence
Iceland is one of the few nations without a military. Is this a sustainable strategy?
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Pakistan: Hospitals putting children at risk of HIV
How and why Pakistani hospitals might be putting children at risk of HIV
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Albania: Land, money and the sea
Albania is aiming to rebrand from a country marked by corruption to one for luxury tourism
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India’s shadow children
Stephanie, a French woman adopted from India, travels to Maharashtra to find her mother
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Nepal: 'Shot like enemies'
The Gen-Z protest that led to the death of 19 young protesters.
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How to spend billions fast: Carney’s defence deadline
Inside Canada's sprint to hit Natos 2% by 31 March 2026
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Ukraine: The War Behind the War
On the road with Serhiy Laziuk. Is his job one of the toughest in the Ukrainian army?
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Can Syria’s Kurds save their women’s revolution?
What’s the future for Syria’s Kurds now they’re losing their autonomy
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Russia's Church in Texas
The Americans converting to Orthodox Christianity in Texas
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Fixing Chile’s fashion graveyard
What happens to dumped fast fashion clothes?
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When Christian nationalists come to town
People in Gainesboro, Tennessee have some new neighbours - and not everyone is happy.
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India's sportswomen playing to be seen
How sport is giving some young women in India a way out of child marriage.
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Nigeria: Killings, land and cattle
Inside a conflict that’s fuelled controversial claims of “Christian genocide”
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Greece: Rescuers on trial
The aid workers put on trial for people-smuggling after saving migrants from drowning
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The Netherlands: 10 new cities?
The Netherlands is experiencing a housing crisis. Could 10 new cities be the answer?
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South Africa and the fight against TB
Why South Africa's global impact in the fight against tuberculosis is under threat.
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Four Months in Gaza
A raw and intimate perspective on the terror, anger, and hope of living through war.
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Argentina's elusive big cats
After decades of extinction, wild jaguars are roaming once again in Northern Argentina.
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Stolen brides of Kazakhstan: the fightback
What if a stranger decided to marry you? Would you agree
