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Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.

World Service,2022 episodes

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Black Music in Europe
Black music in Europe: 1980-1990
Stories from the history of black music in Europe over the last four decades
30 Mar 2022,26 mins
Black Music in Europe
Black music in Europe: 1970-1980
Clarke Peters presents his history of black music in Europe
23 Mar 2022,26 mins
A coastal town in fear of the sea
Three fatal shark attacks have changed the remote, ocean-loving community of Esperance
05 Apr 2022,26 mins
The house that Viktor built
Viktor Orban and the war in Ukraine. How dangerous is it for him and for Hungary?
29 Mar 2022,26 mins
Counting them in
Forty years on from the war, Mike Wooldridge reports on life in the Falklands today
26 Mar 2022,49 mins
Why are we having less sex?
Author Jerry Barnett investigates the recent decline in sex in the western world
22 Mar 2022,26 mins
Mass incarceration: From the inside
Ryan Burvick hears from those who have been through the prison system
19 Mar 2022,49 mins
Bougainville's long road to independence
Is the Pacific island of Bougainville ready to become the world's newest country?
15 Mar 2022,26 mins
Sumo's soaring success
Sumo star Konishiki Yasokichi discovers how the Japanese tradition is going global
08 Mar 2022,26 mins
Ukraine: How did we get here?
Edward Stourton and expert guests explain the steps that led to the conflict
01 Mar 2022,26 mins
Inside the world's biggest humanitarian warehouse
Meet the men and women helping to run Unicef's central distribution hub in Copenhagen
01 Mar 2022,26 mins
Jobfished
How people were hired to work for a successful design agency but the whole thing was fake
22 Feb 2022,26 mins
The River Man
Why did the IRA execute Irish former policeman James Kane 100 years ago?
19 Feb 2022,49 mins
Dark patterns
The complex web designs manipulating us to click, buy or subscribe
15 Feb 2022,26 mins
World Wide Waves '22: The sounds of community radio
Radio stations around the world keeping traditions alive
12 Feb 2022,49 mins
No satisfaction
Why young people are having less sex than previous generations
08 Feb 2022,26 mins
Pakistan's long game
Owen Bennett-Jones examines the long game Pakistan played in the US defeat in Afghanistan
01 Feb 2022,26 mins
Music that survived the Nazis: Part two
How music was kept alive by Jewish musicians in the camps and ghettos of Nazi Europe
29 Jan 2022,49 mins
Fighting tobacco in Zambia
The story of Brenda Chitindi's efforts to introduce a Tobacco Control Bill in Zambia
25 Jan 2022,26 mins
Music that survived the Nazis: Part one
The wealth of music during the Nazi era including secret sessions by Jewish musicians
22 Jan 2022,49 mins
Tale of a tiny fish: Part two
The tale of the disappearing Yaboi - a tiny nutritious fish from Senegal
18 Jan 2022,26 mins
Silence would be treason
The last prison writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa in the run-up to his execution
15 Jan 2022,49 mins
Tale of a tiny fish: Part one
The tale of the disappearing yaboi - a tiny nutritious fish from Senegal
11 Jan 2022,26 mins
Forest fear
Deforestation allows what's hidden within to get out, possibly to spread deadly pathogens
08 Jan 2022,49 mins
Gone but not forgotten: Syria's missing persons
Wafa Mustafa has been searching for her dad since he went missing in Syria in July 2013
04 Jan 2022,26 mins
Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
The impact of Talking Heads' iconic single Once in a Lifetime
29 Dec 2021,26 mins
Instahappiness
Could one online inspirational quote actually change your life?
28 Dec 2021,26 mins
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Reflecting on the life of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaigner
26 Dec 2021,26 mins
Generation change: Part two
The new generation fighting to taboos around organ donation and for diversity in STEM
25 Dec 2021,49 mins
Generation change: Part one
The new generation of change makers working to fight hunger and climate change
25 Dec 2021,49 mins