Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2022 episodes
What will the end of the world’s dependence on oil mean for geopolitics?
03 Jan 2020,·49 mins
The seamstresses who sewed soft goods components for space craft and space suits
31 Dec 2019,·26 mins
The Soviet War in Afghanistan told through its teenage soldiers and their music.
29 Dec 2019,·49 mins
The town of Ii in northern Finland is a green trailblazer
24 Dec 2019,·26 mins
How Star Wars changed the cinematic universe in 1977
22 Dec 2019,·49 mins
Razia Iqbal speaks to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
21 Dec 2019,·26 mins
How has Romania moved on from its totalitarian past?
18 Dec 2019,·26 mins
A Canadian organisation is helping LGBT people escape persecution via a secret network.
17 Dec 2019,·26 mins
The story of Judy Garland's last concerts in London at the Talk of The Town nightclub
15 Dec 2019,·49 mins
How Scarborough saved the world
GCHQ's Scarborough station and its role in WW2, the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis
04 Dec 2019,·26 mins
From Bude to Berlin
GCHQ's listening station at Bude, its hidden past and how it was forced out into the open
11 Dec 2019,·26 mins
What happens when an Iranian marries a South Korean and their families meet?
10 Dec 2019,·26 mins
US political media expert Travis Ridout assesses efforts to influence UK voters.
07 Dec 2019,·26 mins
Francine Jones returns to the scene of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed in for peace.
03 Dec 2019,·26 mins
The colourful roots of how British black music has entered the mainstream
01 Dec 2019,·49 mins
Huang built China’s first 'privatised city'. Is it utopia or his personal fiefdom?
26 Nov 2019,·26 mins
Preserving the treasure trove of traditional harmonies, rhythms and instruments of Malawi
24 Nov 2019,·49 mins
How have the protests affected the married lives between Hong Kong and mainland Chinese?
12 Nov 2019,·26 mins
How Communist East Germany tried to influence Africa via radio during the Cold War
10 Nov 2019,·49 mins
Singer Huey Morgan celebrates the life and work of blind musician Moondog.
06 Nov 2019,·26 mins
Francis Ngannou's odyssey from child labour in a sand quarry to superstardom in the UFC
05 Nov 2019,·26 mins
Battle lines
How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began in August 1969
23 Oct 2019,·26 mins
The violence spreads
Ruth Sanderson looks back at the Scarman testimonies and the violence in Belfast in 1969
30 Oct 2019,·26 mins
The guerrilla war in Uganda, which led to the current leadership.
27 Oct 2019,·49 mins
Nalini Sivathasan meets young Zoroastrians trying to save their religion from extinction
22 Oct 2019,·26 mins
Meet the inspirational women on whose shoulders today's female sport stars stand
20 Oct 2019,·49 mins
Gordon Brown meets billionaires inspired by the great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
16 Oct 2019,·26 mins
Black eye eyeliner is more than just make-up. It's a symbol of the power of Persian women
15 Oct 2019,·26 mins
Cubans are getting online – so how is the internet transforming this communist country?
13 Oct 2019,·49 mins
Meet the children who help their immigrant parents navigate life in the UK by translating
09 Oct 2019,·26 mins
