Stories from around the world and the people at the heart of them.
Radio 4,·460 episodes
Linda Pressly on the rifts and sexual politics challenging Thai Buddhism and its devotees.
31 Mar 2016,·28 mins
Lucy Ash asks what is behind a violent protest by thousands of Romanian shepherds.
24 Mar 2016,·28 mins
Can Belgium solve the problems of the Brussels district dubbed Jihadi Central?
14 Jan 2016,·28 mins
Untangling the web of corruption in a forgotten corner of Brazil. With Linda Pressly.
07 Jan 2016,·28 mins
Tim Whewell is on a quest to find a Syrian football team who were torn apart by civil war.
31 Dec 2015,·28 mins
India's Parsi population is declining. Can Parsis be persuaded to make more babies?
24 Dec 2015,·28 mins
The risks people take in rural Cambodia to get basic healthcare.
17 Dec 2015,·28 mins
Five school children starve to death in the Malaysian jungle. Why weren't they protected?
10 Dec 2015,·28 mins
Maria Margaronis explores the debris of Albania's painful past.
03 Dec 2015,·28 mins
The complex business of dying in Greece. With Chloe Hadjimatheou.
26 Nov 2015,·28 mins
Peru's drug 'mules' - youngsters hiking cocaine from the jungle to the highlands.
19 Nov 2015,·28 mins
The sacking of a newspaper editor strains an old friendship between Norway and Russia.
12 Nov 2015,·28 mins
Why is Paraguay facing an epidemic of schoolgirl pregnancies?
10 Sep 2015,·28 mins
A young man disappears on a night out in Antwerp. Where did he go and how can he vanish?
03 Sep 2015,·28 mins
James Fletcher travels to the disappearing coastal wetlands of Louisiana.
27 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Lucy Ash meets the young people who burn their identity papers and head to Europe.
20 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Will Grant takes a ride on Cuba's bumpy roads where change is in the air.
13 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Celia Hatton explores how China is struggling to contain underground ketamine.
06 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Gabriel Gatehouse aboard a rescue ship searching for migrants in the Mediterranean.
30 Jul 2015,·28 mins
South African electricity powers half the continent, but can it keep its own lights on?
23 Jul 2015,·28 mins
Peru's wildlife is under threat from illicit trafficking. Linda Pressly investigates.
14 May 2015,·28 mins
A report on Georgia's schools and the radical priests who want to influence them.
07 May 2015,·28 mins
In India, a wrestler in the family can mean a ticket out of poverty. Rupa Jha reports.
30 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Does Portugal have a problem with police brutality and racism?
23 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Why does Vladimir Putin fear a tiny drama company that operated from a Moscow basement?
16 Apr 2015,·28 mins
How a cluster of tiny US cities are accused of fuelling community tensions.
09 Apr 2015,·28 mins
The story of a Tanzanian safe house where girls find refuge from female genital mutilation
02 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Gaza's only grand piano is lovingly restored as music offers hope to troubled children.
26 Mar 2015,·28 mins
The cleaners who have raised their rubber gloves in defiance of Greek public sector cuts.
15 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Why are cartoons depicting children in explicit sexual situations still legal in Japan?
08 Jan 2015,·28 mins
