Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2022 episodes
Black music in Europe: 1939-45
Nazi propaganda jazz, black American trumpet stars in Paris, and Caribbean swing bands
15 Aug 2020,·26 mins
Black music in Europe: After 1945
The music of Ambrose Campbell, Sterling Betancourt MBE, and calypso star Lord Kitchener
22 Aug 2020,·26 mins
Late 1950s-1960s
Congolese rumba recorded in Brussels, Algerian chaabi in Paris and Notting Hill Carnival
29 Aug 2020,·26 mins
The 1960s
Guitar legend Francis Bebey, Fela Kuti, Don Cherry, and the story of The Blue Notes
05 Sep 2020,·26 mins
The 1970s
Surinamese music in the Netherlands, black flamenco in Spain and lover’s rock in London
12 Sep 2020,·26 mins
An investigation into the deep-seated and increasing passion for motorcycling in India
08 Sep 2020,·26 mins
The Soviet women spreading feminist ideas in Afghanistan
01 Sep 2020,·26 mins
Authors Naoise Dolan and Caitriona Lally on living and writing in Dublin
29 Aug 2020,·49 mins
A summer of protest in Belarus recorded by Minsk journalist Ilya Kuzniatsou
29 Aug 2020,·23 mins
Can refugees save the small, conservative town of Cactus, Texas?
25 Aug 2020,·26 mins
Vaccines, money and politics
What will it really take to vaccinate the world against Covid-19?
11 Aug 2020,·26 mins
What will it really take to vaccinate the world against Covid 19?
18 Aug 2020,·26 mins
Maria Margaronis sews and hears the stories of Gee’s Bend's historic quilters
15 Aug 2020,·49 mins
What impact does the language we use around cancer have on those living with the disease?
12 Aug 2020,·26 mins
If globalisation is on its last legs - again - what might the impacts be?
08 Aug 2020,·49 mins
An explosion that changed history. Could one man have stopped it?
Is the West losing the technological race for supremacy with China?
05 Aug 2020,·26 mins
Karachi's ambulance drivers
What can ambulance drivers tell us about political change in Pakistan?
28 Jul 2020,·26 mins
Driver Safdar's experiences reveal a remarkable story of life and death in Pakistan
04 Aug 2020,·26 mins
01 Aug 2020,·49 mins
The ginger gene and breast cancer gene
The origins of the ginger gene and the genes that can increase the risk of breast cancer
22 Jul 2020,·26 mins
The milkshake gene and the cyclops gene
Find out what you’re made of – one gene at a time
29 Jul 2020,·26 mins
Why is watching sport so important to us as a species? What happens when it disappears?
25 Jul 2020,·49 mins
How Jewish children and French nuns together defied the Nazis
21 Jul 2020,·26 mins
Tony May was abandoned as a baby in 1942. Can DNA testing reveal who his parents were?
18 Jul 2020,·49 mins
California: From Hollywood to Silicon Valley
The story of Francis Boggs and William Mulholland, two early pioneers of California
17 Jun 2020,·26 mins
The story of preacher Aimee Semple McPherson who vanished in 1926 and Hattie McDaniel
24 Jun 2020,·26 mins
The story of Leon Lewis who hunted down Nazis in LA and founder William Shockley
01 Jul 2020,·26 mins
The story of Kathleen Cleaver. the Black Panther Party and Dianne Feinstein
08 Jul 2020,·26 mins
The story of Ice-T, the original gangster rapper of 1990s LA and governor Jerry Brown
15 Jul 2020,·26 mins
