Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2020 episodes
Yusra Mardini went from swimming to survive as a refugee to swimming in the Rio Olympics
18 Sep 2016,·49 mins
Why are Middle Easterners heading to Cyprus to tie the knot?
13 Sep 2016,·26 mins
Three personal testimonies exploring the journey from religious faith to atheism
06 Sep 2016,·26 mins
Google dominates internet searching. Rory Cellan-Jones asks if it is too powerful
31 Aug 2016,·26 mins
Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and its relationship with the Russian psyche and politics
24 Aug 2016,·26 mins
Cruising - New Destinations
The new market for cruise holidays in China and Africa
16 Aug 2016,·26 mins
Cruising: Bad for the World?
The environmental impact of mass tourism on cruise liners as China gets on board
23 Aug 2016,·26 mins
The premature babies in incubators on display in an amusement park before World War II
17 Aug 2016,·26 mins
Her sensual, devout, sometimes provocative poetry is read and admired around the world
10 Aug 2016,·26 mins
Why are some fighting to have the 14th Amendment of the US constitution repealed?
03 Aug 2016,·26 mins
Graffiti: Paint and Protest in Europe
Aside from the physical landscape, what does graffiti and street art actually change?
26 Jul 2016,·26 mins
Graffiti: Paint and Protest in Brazil
What does graffiti and street art actually change?
02 Aug 2016,·26 mins
How did the US Supreme Court become the most powerful institution of American politics?
30 Jul 2016,·49 mins
Why is protectionism from both left and right so potent in US politics?
27 Jul 2016,·26 mins
The Sierra Leonean children expressing their views via an Ebola lifeline radio project
23 Jul 2016,·49 mins
Is modern yoga a product of Scandinavian gymnastics as much as ancient Indian philosophy?
20 Jul 2016,·26 mins
Shakespeare's plays appeal to Brazilians for their mix of sex, politics and intrigue
19 Jul 2016,·26 mins
Aviator and aspiring astronaut Wally Funk meets the pioneering women of space travel
16 Jul 2016,·49 mins
Who was the man who died from a rare kind of poisoning in a remote area of the UK?
13 Jul 2016,·26 mins
Ghana's boycott of 1966 was a protest at the number of places given by FIFA to Africa
12 Jul 2016,·26 mins
As Barack Obama prepares to leave office, Nahal Toosi examines his foreign policy
09 Jul 2016,·49 mins
The tale of gay black diva Sylvester James, famed for his disco hit Mighty Real
06 Jul 2016,·26 mins
A fierce drought in Oklahoma’s ‘No Man’s Land’ stirs up dust storms, memories and myths
05 Jul 2016,·26 mins
The Battle of the Somme and a wartime tragedy that struck Northern England 100 years ago
29 Jun 2016,·26 mins
What motivates Ohio's volatile 'independent' voters who are not Democrats or Republicans?
28 Jun 2016,·26 mins
Personal reflections of those who have survived, or are surviving, the conflict in Syria
25 Jun 2016,·49 mins
The legacy of Sa'adat Manto, who confronted social taboos in Indio-Pakistani society
22 Jun 2016,·26 mins
How a generation of Ukrainian combat veterans are coping with life after the frontline
21 Jun 2016,·26 mins
Film-maker Rex Bloomstein investigates how sex offenders are treated and rehabilitated
18 Jun 2016,·49 mins,·
Why is the UK's classical music scene so resolutely white, and how might it evolve?
15 Jun 2016,·26 mins
