Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2022 episodes
North Korea's celebrity defectors
How North Korean defectors have become a hugely valuable commodity in South Korea
28 Mar 2020,·49 mins
The effect of coronavirus on the employment prospects and lives of the class of 2020.
30 May 2020,·49 mins
How top military commander Qasem Soleimani helped advance Iranian national interests
27 May 2020,·26 mins
Potential treatments for Covid-19 are trialled on patients
27 May 2020,·23 mins
An inmate’s first-hand account of creating a book club on Death Row.
26 May 2020,·26 mins
New York stories with Joe Pascal
Joe Pascal meets Darryl McDaniels of the legendary rap group Run-DMC
22 Mar 2020,·49 mins
Homage to Harlem with poetry, music and the story of chef Marcus Samuelsson
23 May 2020,·49 mins
Why is Spain rubbish at recycling and Chile so much better? Leena Vuotovesi finds out.
Zeinab Badawi looks at doctors from developing countries working in the developed world
20 May 2020,·26 mins
The Coronavirus Frontline follows covid positive patients discharged to recover at home
20 May 2020,·23 mins
Soul Music: Crazy
People reflect on the pop country classic Crazy, made famous by Patsy Cline
16 May 2020,·26 mins
As violence rockets across the USA we look back at a weekend of shootings in Chicago
16 May 2020,·49 mins
BBC World Service listeners talk about lockdown life during the coronavirus pandemic
15 May 2020,·23 mins
Loyle Carner in Guyana
UK rapper Loyle Carner joins flautist Keith Waithe in Guyana for a musical collaboration
06 May 2020,·26 mins
Nubya Garcia in Ethiopia
Rising British jazz star Nubya Garcia travels to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa
13 May 2020,·26 mins
This is the account of one hospital’s race to help those made ill by the Coronavirus.
13 May 2020,·23 mins
In December 2019, Chinese doctors and officials grapple with a mysterious new virus
12 May 2020,·26 mins
Chinese Dreams: Canada
The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Canada sparks a geopolitical crisis
09 May 2020,·26 mins
Chinese Dreams: Indonesia
Will the growing prominence of ethnic Chinese create further resentment in Indonesia?
02 May 2020,·26 mins
Chinese Dreams: Australia
How countries across the world are responding to the rise of China
25 Apr 2020,·26 mins
One hundred days with new MPs in the North of England from Brexit, Day to lockdown
09 May 2020,·49 mins
06 May 2020,·23 mins
Tracking the virus hunters who race to understand and extinguish new pathogens.
03 May 2020,·49 mins
Every citizen gets an annual dividend from the state’s oil fund. Mark Whitaker reports
29 Apr 2020,·26 mins
This is the account of one hospital’s race to help those made ill by the Coronavirus
29 Apr 2020,·23 mins
The foreign care workers who look after Britain’s elderly and disabled people
28 Apr 2020,·23 mins
Has the epidemic weakened or strengthened the grip of China’s Communist Party?
22 Apr 2020,·26 mins
22 Apr 2020,·23 mins
Professor John Wright follows frontline NHS staff as they race to help covid-19 patients
15 Apr 2020,·23 mins
Kim Chakanetsa talks to the acclaimed authors Isabel Allende and Edna O’Brien.
11 Apr 2020,·49 mins
