Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2020 episodes
Irish crime journalist Paul Williams asks whether Europe’s drugs wars are out of control
01 Jul 2017,·49 mins
Blind Man Roams the Globe: Marrakesh
The sounds of Marrakesh explored through the ears of a blind man
21 Jun 2017,·26 mins
Blind Man Roams the Globe: London's Square Mile
Peter White explores the sounds and smells of London’s Square Mile
28 Jun 2017,·26 mins
The post-1997 generation of Hong Kong, how they see themselves and what makes them tick
27 Jun 2017,·26 mins
How have the hopes and fears of Hong Kong's handover from Britain to China played out?
24 Jun 2017,·49 mins
Why does Germany fear becoming a military power?
20 Jun 2017,·26 mins
Behind the gambling, glitz and glamour of this extraordinary desert oasis
17 Jun 2017,·49 mins
What the UK election results say about Britain, Brexit, and the different generations
14 Jun 2017,·26 mins
How Brazil went from economic boom years to its worst recession on record
The highly complex cultural practice of cockfighting and its place in the modern world
13 Jun 2017,·26 mins
The 1958 Grand Prix in Havana that ended with the kidnapping of F1's Juan Manuel Fangio
10 Jun 2017,·49 mins
Damien McGuinness is in Berlin to ask what excites its book lovers
07 Jun 2017,·26 mins
A portrait of the UK Election and the impact of the Manchester attack on the campaigns
06 Jun 2017,·26 mins
Where did the idea in which nothing is impossible as long as you work hard originate?
31 May 2017,·26 mins
The rise in suicide rates among Indian farmers and the impact on their families
30 May 2017,·26 mins
Four people affected by the Challenger space shuttle disaster reflect on the event
27 May 2017,·49 mins
The Sound of Soweto - Part One
The role of music as defiance in Soweto, South Africa's oldest township
17 May 2017,·26 mins
The Sound of Soweto - Part Two
Poet Thabiso Mohare explores the role of music as defiance in Soweto, South Africa
24 May 2017,·26 mins
The Israeli doctors treating Syrians who have been smuggled over the border with injuries
23 May 2017,·26 mins
The Muslim male actors taking over Bollywood amidst growing Hindu fundamentalism in India
20 May 2017,·49 mins
How might robots help us live, work and even love in the future?
16 May 2017,·26 mins
Port chaplains provide support to the world's 1.5 million merchant seafarers
13 May 2017,·49 mins
The story of African-American novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston
10 May 2017,·26 mins
How veterans of Colombia's war are dealing with genital wounds and loss of masculinity
09 May 2017,·26 mins
How the murky world of subversion still dominates East-West relations
06 May 2017,·49 mins
Many people rent out their homes or cars - in Japan some are now renting middle-aged men
03 May 2017,·26 mins
A journey to the The Valle de los Caidos, the monument at the heart of Spain’s past
02 May 2017,·26 mins
The practice of chhaupadi, in which menstruating women are isolated from community life.
29 Apr 2017,·49 mins
Reconstructing the events surrounding the attack on aid workers on 11 July 2016
29 Apr 2017,·54 mins
Mr Trump supporter Joe Borelli kept an audio diary about the president’s first 100 days
26 Apr 2017,·26 mins
