Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2022 episodes
The ways in which real events are reflected in the lyrics of popular songs
22 Nov 2020,·49 mins
Ahead of the release of his memoirs, the former President talks to David Olusoga
19 Nov 2020,·26 mins
Voters talk about waiting for results of the unusually protracted US presidential election
18 Nov 2020,·26 mins
Why are Buddhist monks in Thailand more obese than the population at large?
17 Nov 2020,·26 mins
The frenzied attack in a farmhouse that left two dead and a South African town divided
15 Nov 2020,·49 mins
Rajini Vaidyanathan searches for one of the many Indian children trafficked into slavery.
10 Nov 2020,·26 mins
Philippa Thomas introduces a rapid-fire round-up of the US presidential election
04 Nov 2020,·26 mins
The shocking violence against Native American women
03 Nov 2020,·26 mins
What does a pioneering scientist's story reveal about China and America?
27 Oct 2020,·26 mins
How the Korean War forced the US military to desegregate
24 Oct 2020,·49 mins
The inequalities in US healthcare exposed through a deeply personal story
20 Oct 2020,·26 mins
Sophia Smith Galer finds out how TikTok could influence the outcome of the US election
17 Oct 2020,·49 mins
The Star-Spangled Banner
Why America's national anthem, by Francis Scott Key, inspires emotion and controversy
14 Oct 2020,·26 mins
Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is?
How the song Is That All There Is? by Leiber and Stoller inspired and connected people
07 Oct 2020,·26 mins
The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
People who connect directly with Simon & Garfunkel's song discuss what it means to them
30 Sep 2020,·26 mins
Mozart's Requiem
How Mozart's Requiem, written when he was dying, has touched and changed people's lives
23 Sep 2020,·26 mins
Stella Sabin looks at the continuing impact of dyslexia in adult life.
13 Oct 2020,·26 mins
How a WW2 icon was made, piece by piece, against all odds. With historian Victoria Taylor
10 Oct 2020,·49 mins
Toby Withers explores how you can be dyslexic in one language, but not in another
06 Oct 2020,·26 mins
The story of Roger Payne’s best-selling environmental album, released 50 years ago
29 Sep 2020,·26 mins
What it takes to win a Nobel prize and what it means for the lives and careers of winners
26 Sep 2020,·49 mins
How I disappear
The phenomenon of disappearance is rooted in Japanese culture. Meet those who disappear
19 Aug 2020,·26 mins
Veteran on the tracks
The handbook for train hopping American hobo culture and the man behind the guide
26 Aug 2020,·26 mins
A beautiful prison
Why Greenland is opening up its first prison, after years as a modern prison-less society
02 Sep 2020,·26 mins
Accused of hacking the Pentagon
This is what happened to my life when I was accused of hacking the Pentagon
09 Sep 2020,·26 mins
The shepherd and the settler
A Palestinian shepherd fights for his livelihood under pressure from Israeli settlers
16 Sep 2020,·26 mins
Black Music in Europe: 1900-1910
Clarke Peters uncovers the stories of black musicians in Europe up to the Jazz Age
23 May 2020,·26 mins
Black Music in Europe: 1910-1920
Clarke Peters uncovers the stories of black musicians in Europe during World War One
30 May 2020,·26 mins
Black Music in Europe: 1920-1930
The sounds of Zonophone records and African-American jazz in 1920s Paris, Josephine Baker
06 Jun 2020,·26 mins
Before the war
Jazz in Weimar Berlin, calypso in Cardiff Bay and the sounds of the Beguine in Paris
08 Aug 2020,·26 mins
