Crossing Continents

Stories from around the world and the people at the heart of them.

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Bulgaria's Criminal Football
Investigating the links between football, corruption and politics in Bulgaria.
23 Aug 2012,28 mins
Korea Host Bars
The host bars revealing the cracks in South Korea's conservative social structures.
16 Aug 2012,28 mins
Cold Turkey in Karachi
Mobeen Azhar finds out how a charity is helping heroin addicts in Karachi.
09 Aug 2012,28 mins
Rwanda Cycling
Rwanda's new heroes, its cycling team, are helping it to overcome the trauma of genocide.
02 Aug 2012,28 mins
Spain's White Elephants
Spain is in economic crisis. What can a new, closed airport tell us about what went wrong?
26 Jul 2012,28 mins
China Tweeting
Shanghai-based journalist Duncan Hewitt finds out how microblogging is changing China.
19 Jul 2012,28 mins
Some Promised Land
Migrants fleeing war or poverty who are risking their lives to reach the European Union.
12 Jul 2012,28 mins
China: Too Old to Get Rich?
Mukul Devichand tells the stories of Shanghai's rapidly ageing population.
17 May 2012,28 mins
Russia's New Energy Frontier
Lucy Ash visits Russia's Arctic where reindeer herders and gas companies compete for land.
10 May 2012,28 mins
A Death in Honduras
A profile of the People's Funeral Service in Honduras, the most murderous nation on earth.
03 May 2012,28 mins
The Marriage Breakers of Bangladesh
Angus Crawford joins Bangladeshis working to halt the illegal practice of child brides.
26 Apr 2012,28 mins
The Pink Certificate
Emre Azizlerli investigates how gay men in Turkey are humiliated by the army.
19 Apr 2012,28 mins
Forced Sterilisation in Uzbekistan
Natalia Antelava uncovers evidence of the involuntary sterilisation of women in Uzbekistan
12 Apr 2012,28 mins
The Angola 2
Why have two Louisiana prison inmates been held in solitary confinement for 40 years?
05 Apr 2012,28 mins
Canada's prescription drug crisis
Crossing Continents investigates prescription drug abuse among Canada's aboriginal people.
29 Mar 2012,28 mins
What happened to the Kurdish spring?
Gabriel Gatehouse investigates freedom and repression in Kurdish Iraq.
12 Jan 2012,28 mins
Saving the Brazilian Amazon
Justin Rowlatt investigates Brazilian successes in fighting deforestation.
05 Jan 2012,30 mins
Frank Wild's last journey
Retracing the route of Antarctic explorer Frank Wild, Shackleton's second-in-command.
29 Dec 2011,30 mins
The Graves of Kashmir
Who are the thousands of people discovered in mass graves in Indian Kashmir?
22 Dec 2011,30 mins
China's Migrant Worker Mega-City
Tales of discontent and reform from Guangzhou, China's mega-city of migrants.
15 Dec 2011,30 mins
Exposing Bali's Orphanages
Ed Butler investigates abuse of children and scamming of volunteers by Bali's orphanages.
08 Dec 2011,30 mins
Farming Zimbabwe
Martin Plaut investigates Zimbabwe's agriculture ten years after the farm invasions.
01 Dec 2011,30 mins
Roubles and Radicals in Dagestan
Lucy Ash asks if a billionaire's roubles can help to end Dagestan's bloody insurgency.
24 Nov 2011,30 mins
India's Whistleblowers
How local level campaigners against corruption in India face threats and violence.
17 Nov 2011,30 mins
Zimbabwe's child migrants
The stories of young children travelling alone from Zimbabwe to South Africa.
08 Sep 2011,30 mins
9/11 - Toxic Ash
Investigating the health impact on New York from the collapse of the World Trade Centre.
01 Sep 2011,30 mins
The Mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi
Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi.
25 Aug 2011,30 mins
Takoradi, Ghana's Oil City
A portrait of the sleepy Ghanaian city of Takoradi at the start of an oil boom.
18 Aug 2011,30 mins
Murder, migration and Mexico
Linda Pressly joins migrants on their perilous journey north through Guatemala and Mexico.
11 Aug 2011,30 mins
The Mourides of Senegal
Tim Judah reports from Senegal on the growing influence of the Mouride Sufi brotherhood.
04 Aug 2011,30 mins