Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2022 episodes
This is the account of one hospital’s race to help those made ill by the Coronavirus
08 Apr 2020,·23 mins
Melbourne
Peter White, blind since birth, explores Melbourne through the sounds he hears.
07 Apr 2020,·26 mins
Miami
Peter White, blind since birth, explores Miami through the sounds he hears.
31 Mar 2020,·26 mins
Becky Milligan presents a profile of Jurgen Klopp, manager of Liverpool Football Club
24 Mar 2020,·26 mins
A new wave of end of life rituals is emerging across northern England
17 Mar 2020,·26 mins
What’s motivating the demonstrators on the city’s streets – and their opponents?
15 Mar 2020,·49 mins
He2She2He
Transgender journeys of people who transitioned and then returned to their birth gender
03 Mar 2020,·26 mins
She2He2She
Nele and Ellie identified as transmen in their teens. Both are now reidentifying as female
10 Mar 2020,·26 mins
A panel of experts answers questions from listeners around the world
02 Mar 2020,·26 mins
MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learnin to rap on Rikers Island jail
01 Mar 2020,·49 mins
Don't log off: Part one
Using social media, Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world seeking fulfilment
19 Feb 2020,·26 mins
Don't log off - part two
People in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and beyond explore what unites them
26 Feb 2020,·26 mins
Can new judges transform Houston’s criminal justice system?
25 Feb 2020,·26 mins
South Korea’s hope in hell
The personal stories of students and young people struggling with the pressure to succeed
28 Jan 2020,·26 mins
Survival and revival in the Torres Strait
The islanders fighting to save their home and their language
29 Jan 2020,·26 mins
Polygamous marriage in modern Malaysia
All sorts of Muslims, some very dynamic and modern, are embracing polygamy in Malaysia.
01 Feb 2020,·26 mins
Vanuatu’s stolen generation
Thousands of boys and young men were kidnapped and taken to work on sugar plantations
02 Feb 2020,·26 mins
Cattle farmers from the USA and South Africa share perspectives
18 Feb 2020,·26 mins
Award winning UK rapper Guvna B explores the ‘gospel hip-hop’ music genre
16 Feb 2020,·49 mins
How can beauty pageants adapt in the wake of the #MeToo movement?
15 Feb 2020,·49 mins
Relationships between black and Asian origin South Africans
11 Feb 2020,·26 mins
What is life like for the billions of people who live along earthquake fault lines?
09 Feb 2020,·49 mins
The 2020 US Presidential campaign as it unfolds over the countertop of a New Jersey diner
08 Feb 2020,·26 mins
Lilo and Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin.
26 Jan 2020,·49 mins
Why do we hold our opponents in contempt?
22 Jan 2020,·26 mins
How would you feel if your father was a convicted torturer?
21 Jan 2020,·26 mins
Kate Molleson explores music’s place on the world’s largest island
19 Jan 2020,·49 mins
Meet the New Zealanders making an art-form out of coffin creation
14 Jan 2020,·26 mins
How has Germany tried to come to terms with the legacy of its Nazi past?
12 Jan 2020,·49 mins
The controversial laws over how people can change gender in Japan
07 Jan 2020,·26 mins
