Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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20/10/2026 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.
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13/10/2026 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.
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06/10/2026 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.
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29/09/2026 GMT
Investigations and journeys into the heart of global events from BBC correspondents.
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Has Poland fallen out of love with Ukraine?
Why has anti-Ukrainian feeling been growing in Poland, especially in recent months?
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Turkey on trial: Can courts control a nation?
From jailed mayors to comedians, Emily Wither investigates Turkey's crackdown (R)
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Ukraine: Fighting Russia, fighting Russian
Is Russian an enemy language in Ukraine? Or just the language of millions of citizens?
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‘Big Surveillance’, Flock, and ICE
The Texas surveillance network authorities want to keep quiet
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Brazil’s gambling addiction
Millions of Brazilians have become problem gamblers after an explosion in online betting
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Raiders of the lost art
How Manhattan's Antiquities Trafficking Unit works to track and return stolen art
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Victoria Falls: Wilderness on the edge
How to preserve one of the natural wonders of the world
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Getting Gaza back online
How amid the tents and the rubble Gaza is developing once again as an unlikely tech hub
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The Kenyans taking on multinational chemical companies
We follow a lawyer and a nurse who are building this unprecedented case
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Italy’s child obesity time-bomb
How Italian children have become some of the most overweight in Europe
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Euthanasia in Spain: Whose life is it anyway?
The fall-out from the death by euthanasia of Noelia Castillo in Spain earlier this year
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China’s collapsing population
Why is China’s population about to plummet and what could the consequences be?
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Switzerland's population cap referendum
What’s behind Swiss concerns about immigration?
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How Germany fails disabled people
In Germany it’s hard for disabled people to find work. So how could it be more inclusive?
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Lebanon's abandoned lives
People describe what life is like in Lebanon, a country repeatedly hit by war
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Khartoum: Lessons in war
Helping Sudanese children overcome the scars of civil war
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Italy’s migrant fruit pickers
Why Italy’s anti-immigration government is issuing thousands of visas for migrant workers
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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
