Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2022 episodes
Donald Trump’s election win 8th November 2016 revisited - could he do it again in 2020?
04 Nov 2017,·49 mins
Four people share their life-affirming experience of living with a terminal illness
01 Nov 2017,·26 mins
The Red and the White: Intervention
The story of a forgotten war fought by Western troops in Arctic Russia at the end of WW1
17 Oct 2017,·26 mins
The Red and the White: Britain’s Arctic Prison
How foreign troops incarcerated Russians on 'Death Island' in the White Sea.
24 Oct 2017,·26 mins
The Red and the White: Retribution
The story of the Red Terror in the North of Russia nearly 100 years ago.
31 Oct 2017,·26 mins
A tiny South Pacific island hosts 25,000 cruise ship tourists a month but at what cost?
28 Oct 2017,·49 mins
Nigerian director Tope Oshin celebrates women film-makers currently reinventing Nollywood
25 Oct 2017,·26 mins
How a reforming priest brought revolution to Russia’s Orthodox Church
21 Oct 2017,·49 mins
Brazil is the caesarean capital of the world. What is behind this C-section “epidemic”?
18 Oct 2017,·26 mins
"Growing up and not speaking the language, I felt this loss or this void"
14 Oct 2017,·49 mins
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Kenya
Unity is a village without men set up by Samburu women in response to domestic abuse
10 Oct 2017,·26 mins
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Violence in Peru
Rates of domestic violence in the Peruvian Andes are particularly high
11 Oct 2017,·26 mins
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Indonesia
Indonesia has just conducted its first ever national survey on domestic violence
12 Oct 2017,·26 mins
How Aymara Val and her neighbours are fighting for better jobs, sewage and water systems
04 Oct 2017,·26 mins
Fifty years after his death, what would Che Guevara have thought of today’s Cuba?
03 Oct 2017,·26 mins
The Silent Forest - Part One
The local people of rainforests of Southe-ast Asia resisting destruction of their forests
23 Sep 2017,·49 mins
The Silent Forest - Part Two
How the locals of Thailand and Myanmar are resisting the destruction of their forests
30 Sep 2017,·49 mins
Why some people want to eradicate the lionfish from Florida's waters
The global expansion of British music exams, and its very modern challenges
27 Sep 2017,·26 mins
The amazing success story of the avocado in the US as a case study for the future trade
26 Sep 2017,·26 mins
How thousands of Americans given life sentences as children now have a chance of freedom.
Meet the self-experimenters and scientists trying to add years to our lives
20 Sep 2017,·26 mins
Periods are a taboo in many places but for some in Tanzania first periods are celebrated
19 Sep 2017,·26 mins
Behind the bars of New York’s notorious jail, Rikers Island, inmates are learning to rap
16 Sep 2017,·49 mins
Poet and broadcaster Wana Udobang speaks with lonely and isolated people in the city
We join the world’s cyclists on the gruelling Vuelta a Colombia race
13 Sep 2017,·26 mins
Meeting the people with a passion for flowers in a city of conflict
12 Sep 2017,·26 mins
Following storm Harvey, what are the challenges facing Houston’s diverse population?
10 Sep 2017,·26 mins
The Hundred Million Dollar Question - Part One
What’s the best way to spend $100 million to fix one of humanity’s problems?
30 Aug 2017,·26 mins
The Hundred Million Dollar Question - Part Two
06 Sep 2017,·26 mins
