Stories from around the world and the people at the heart of them.
Radio 4,·460 episodes
Can one man's campaign for motorways in Romania make a difference and save lives?
22 Aug 2019,·30 mins
Who will shape the future of the hurricane-hit, tropical isle of Barbuda?
15 Aug 2019,·28 mins
An icon of Italian design; a centrepiece of a community; a tragedy waiting to happen?
08 Aug 2019,·28 mins
A small town goes on life-support after its lone hospital closes.
01 Aug 2019,·27 mins
A young Ghanaian man goes undercover on the perilous migrant trail, with a hidden camera.
25 Jul 2019,·28 mins
In 2009, Mennonite women in a far-flung Bolivian colony reported mass rape.
16 May 2019,·28 mins
The dangers of flying in the great wilderness of the Brazilian rainforest.
09 May 2019,·27 mins
How does a lonely, Spanish shepherd find love when single women have left for the city?
02 May 2019,·28 mins
Thousands of Bangladeshi addicts are hooked on Yaba, a mix of methamphetamine and caffeine
25 Apr 2019,·28 mins
Can the treasures lost when Brazil's National Museum burnt down be salvaged or replaced?
18 Apr 2019,·27 mins
For some in Poland the Cursed Soldiers are national heroes; for others they are murderers.
11 Apr 2019,·28 mins
Hunting western paedophiles is a priority for a new police unit in Nepal.
04 Apr 2019,·27 mins,·
Tensions are rising on Ukraine's western border
28 Mar 2019,·27 mins
Elderly pensioners in Japan commit petty crimes so that they can be sent to prison.
17 Jan 2019,·28 mins
Old enemies Serbia and Kosovo discuss what for some is unthinkable - an ethnic land swap.
10 Jan 2019,·28 mins
How one boy’s dream was cut short by the beautiful game’s ugly prejudice in Brazil.
03 Jan 2019,·28 mins
Two British firefighters revisit the scene of Armenia's devastating earthquake in 1988.
27 Dec 2018,·28 mins
How home DNA testing kits are revealing more than some people bargained for.
20 Dec 2018,·28 mins,·
The BBC gains rare access to a region of China where Muslims are being held without trial.
13 Dec 2018,·28 mins
An investigation into repression in Burundi, one of Africa's most secretive countries.
06 Dec 2018,·28 mins
Locked up for renting out their wombs, mothers in Cambodia must make an agonising choice.
29 Nov 2018,·28 mins
Nigerian patients held in hospital because they can’t pay their medical bills.
22 Nov 2018,·28 mins
Simon Cox investigates a new far right youth organisation in Europe, Generation Identity.
20 Sep 2018,·28 mins
The dark secrets of Chile's Catholic Church.
13 Sep 2018,·28 mins
Nevada's legal sex trade faces a campaign for reform.
06 Sep 2018,·28 mins
'He was using prisoners like oxen' - an ex-convict recalls life on a Ugandan prison farm.
30 Aug 2018,·28 mins
A life in limbo for two Britons. Not wanted in the UK and not wanted in Jamaica.
23 Aug 2018,·28 mins
The crop that has put women on top in Zanzibar.
16 Aug 2018,·28 mins
Aurelia Brouwers had mental illness - when she died from euthanasia in Holland she was 29.
09 Aug 2018,·28 mins
Norway's child protection system under scrutiny once again after expert's conviction.
02 Aug 2018,·28 mins
