The Global Story Podcast
The Global Story: Where the world meets America
Where the world and America meet, with episodes each weekday. The world is changing. Decisions made in the US and by the second Trump administration are accelerating that change. But they are also a symptom of it. With Asma Khalid in DC, Tristan Redman in London, and the backing of the BBC’s international newsroom, The Global Story brings clarity to politics, business and foreign policy in a time of connection and disruption.
Episodes to download
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Will politics steal the show at the Eurovision Song Contest?
Mon 11 Mar 2024
The world's largest music competition is facing backlash over Israel's entry
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Could just 100,000 people decide the US election?
Thu 7 Mar 2024
How big money is chasing a tiny number of voters
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Have we finally solved the mystery of flight MH370?
Wed 6 Mar 2024
The plane vanished 10 years ago. But new evidence brings new hope
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How Man City’s business model is transforming football
Mon 4 Mar 2024
City Football Group’s global empire is setting a trend of buying multiple clubs
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Why everyone wants to get back to the Moon
Thu 29 Feb 2024
The new space race has begun - who's winning?
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Are you ever too old to have a baby?
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Women are having children later in life and global fertility is in decline
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Child soldiers & blood feuds: Sweden's growing gang wars
Mon 26 Feb 2024
The violent wave of crime shaking the Nordic country
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Bengal famine: The WWII tragedy the world forgot
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Three million people died in this disaster but it is rarely remembered
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Ukraine frontline: ordinary lives in extraordinary times
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its third year
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Is #MeToo finally exploding in French cinema?
Wed 21 Feb 2024
High-profile allegations are reigniting media debate in France
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'Category 6': the growing fury of hurricanes
Tue 20 Feb 2024
Scientists clash on how to classify record tropical cyclones
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How Denmark became a super producer of viral 'skinny jabs'
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Weight-loss drugs Ozempic & Wegovy reaping windfall profits for Danish manufacturer
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Alexei Navalny: The death of Putin’s biggest critic
Fri 16 Feb 2024
What the reported death of the jailed opposition leader means for Russia
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Andrew Tate effect: Is misogyny on the rise?
Fri 16 Feb 2024
A generation of young men are being targeted by sexist influencers
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Does Argentina have the patience for Milei’s shock therapy?
Thu 15 Feb 2024
After two months in power, President Milei’s economic experiment is being put to the test
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Ethiopia on the brink: Fears of a famine return and why you should pay attention
Wed 14 Feb 2024
After years of hope and promise, warnings of famine in the cradle of humanity
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Tucker Carlson: What next for America’s right-wing showman?
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Access to Putin and Trump puts him in a powerful position
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Global anxiety: You are not alone
Mon 12 Feb 2024
What’s it like to have the world’s most common mental health condition?
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Could Taylor Swift swing the US election?
Fri 9 Feb 2024
Allies of Donald Trump are worried she will push voters to back Joe Biden
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Europe’s furious farmers and the far right
Thu 8 Feb 2024
Why leaders in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and beyond fear protesting farmers
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''People will keep dying": The spread of fentanyl across the US Mexico border
Wed 7 Feb 2024
The Mexican border town battling fentanyl with scarce antidotes and mounting deaths
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Rare earths: the minerals that could save the world?
Tue 6 Feb 2024
The new geopolitical battleground over seventeen critical elements
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Our memories, their data - the Facebook story 20 years on
Mon 5 Feb 2024
How has the social network shaped our lives and our future?
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I survived the Las Vegas shooting, then was convinced it was staged
Fri 2 Feb 2024
BBC disinformation correspondent asks whether any of us are safe from conspiracy theories
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BYD: The Chinese carmaker challenging Tesla’s dominance
Thu 1 Feb 2024
Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could ‘demolish’ competition
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Families of Israeli Hostages: “Whatever it takes to get them back”
Wed 31 Jan 2024
The politics of growing anger from desperate relatives
