Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2022 episodes
What can President Trump's tweets tell us about his presidency and the US?
20 Jan 2018,·49 mins
How criminal gangs in Venezuela use children as young as 10 and teenagers in their wars
16 Jan 2018,·26 mins
How the flu pandemic of 100 years ago affected every corner of the world
13 Jan 2018,·49 mins
Intellectuals banished to an inhospitable land created a pool of talent and creativity
09 Jan 2018,·26 mins
In memory of the 'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin who dies aged 76
03 Jan 2018,·26 mins
Tanya Streeter: Free-Diver
Tanya Streeter’s remarkable dive – on just one breath of air – to the depth of 160m
19 Dec 2017,·26 mins
Leo Houlding, Rock Climber
How a hallucinogenic ceremony led to an attempt to climb Cerro Autana in Venezuela
26 Dec 2017,·26 mins
Sarah Marquis, Explorer
In a classic Aboriginal walkabout, Sarah fished, foraged and gathered food from the wild
02 Jan 2018,·26 mins
Robert Mugabe stepped down after four decades in power, the transition took just ten days
25 Dec 2017,·26 mins
Fortune-telling via Turkish coffee grounds, a practice popular across the Middle East.
24 Dec 2017,·26 mins
Stay or go? Lucy Ash explores the choice facing Russia’s brightest and best.
23 Dec 2017,·49 mins
How military service shapes Israeli society and its future
20 Dec 2017,·26 mins
America’s longest running circus, Ringling, Barnum and Bailey, is closing after 146 years
16 Dec 2017,·49 mins
Uncovering the power and passion of the government funded theater in the USA
How former Afghan child refugee Dr Waheed Arian is breaking medical boundaries
13 Dec 2017,·26 mins
Why is the word America such a controversial one outside of the US?
12 Dec 2017,·26 mins
Many thousands of Polish people took a chance to escape Soviet gulags by joining an army
09 Dec 2017,·49 mins
How young offenders and the US legal system are being reformed through neuroscience data
06 Dec 2017,·26 mins
What Chinese magazines and their readers tell us about culture and politics in China
05 Dec 2017,·26 mins
A son uncovers his father's double-life as a CIA spy in a covert mission in 1960s Laos
02 Dec 2017,·49 mins
Is taking offence on social media over-sensitivity or a force for progress?
29 Nov 2017,·26 mins
How did stockfish - cod that is dried in Norway’s cold air - become a Nigerian staple?
28 Nov 2017,·26 mins
Blind Man Roams the Globe: Berlin
The sounds and smells of Berlin experienced through the senses of a blind man
15 Nov 2017,·26 mins
Blind Man Roams the Globe: Christchurch
Life in Christchurch, New Zealand, as it recovers from two earthquakes
22 Nov 2017,·26 mins
Europe's Illiberal Democrats: Hungary
Hungary is becoming an "illiberal democracy". Is that its right, or a slide to autocracy?
14 Nov 2017,·26 mins
Europe's Illiberal Democrats: Poland
Is Poland sliding towards autocracy or just on a different, democratic path?
21 Nov 2017,·26 mins
Wally Funk looks at mankind's return to the Moon and if a woman might actually get there
18 Nov 2017,·49 mins
Five Solidarity members reflect on the movement that ended communist rule in Poland
11 Nov 2017,·49 mins
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times examines the economic impact of President Donald Trump
08 Nov 2017,·26 mins
The indoctrination of Japan’s World War Two suicide pilots told by the last survivors
07 Nov 2017,·26 mins
