Stories from around the world and the people at the heart of them.
Radio 4,·460 episodes
Men in the Faroe Islands are having to look far beyond their shores for marriage.
27 Apr 2017,·28 mins
In a revolutionary first, one of Cuba's cancer treatments gets a US drug trial.
20 Apr 2017,·28 mins
In Kenya home-grown activists are helping intersex people come out into the open.
13 Apr 2017,·28 mins
The hidden lives of the thousands of people who live on industrial sites in Hong Kong.
06 Apr 2017,·28 mins
A Brazilian novel about street children written 80 years ago still resonates today.
30 Mar 2017,·28 mins
Lucy Ash meets the young Russians taking death-defying photos to gain internet fame.
23 Mar 2017,·28 mins
One night of terror at Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery in July 2016.
12 Jan 2017,·28 mins
Women in Poland are angry with their government and with the Catholic church.
05 Jan 2017,·28 mins
The story of Cheran, a Mexican town that rose up against organised crime.
29 Dec 2016,·28 mins
James Fletcher asks if art and activism can bring about change in Malaysia.
22 Dec 2016,·28 mins
Jill McGivering reports on the rising tide of Hindu extremism in India.
15 Dec 2016,·28 mins
Black sporting talent is still struggling to break through into South Africa's top teams.
08 Dec 2016,·28 mins
Investigating Albania's 'green gold'.
01 Dec 2016,·28 mins
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov - master or pawn in the great game of chess?
24 Nov 2016,·28 mins
Public employee one day, enemy of the state the next. The post-coup reality in Turkey.
17 Nov 2016,·28 mins
The people who are trying to stop the relentless road deaths in India's biggest city.
15 Sep 2016,·28 mins
David Baker meets Israel's new breed of high-tech Haredim.
08 Sep 2016,·28 mins
Heroin, opiates, and suburban Ohio.
01 Sep 2016,·28 mins
Sarah Rainsford looks at how Russia is dealing with dissent in the run-up to elections.
25 Aug 2016,·28 mins
The people displaced by war in Colombia who fear they will never be able to return home.
18 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Why are more people in Poland preparing for war? Tim Whewell investigates.
11 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Vladimir Hernandez reports from Venezuela, which is struggling to feed its own people.
04 Aug 2016,·28 mins
The story of the library in a besieged Syrian town providing a lifeline to its community.
28 Jul 2016,·28 mins
The shocking world of the men in Malawi tasked with stealing the innocence of young girls.
21 Jul 2016,·28 mins
The mid-western city which has become a world centre for the game of chess.
12 May 2016,·28 mins
China's once-hated population police are being turned into child development specialists.
05 May 2016,·28 mins
Nkem Ifejika cannot speak Igbo, the language of his forefathers, and he wants to know why.
28 Apr 2016,·28 mins
The astonishing story of a group of young men in Syria resisting so-called Islamic State.
21 Apr 2016,·28 mins
Norway's child protection policies are attracting sharp criticism both at home and abroad.
14 Apr 2016,·28 mins
The story of Pasca, a young lesbian, and how South Africa's rainbow nation has failed her.
07 Apr 2016,·28 mins