Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2020 episodes
Episode 1
Ed Butler assesses the growing threats in cyberspace from hackers and cyber weapons.
23 mins
Episode 2
Ed Butler asks if the net's architecture and governance is still fit for purpose?
Episode 3
In the final episode Ed Butler asks what governments can do to protect the internet.
25 mins
Farayi Mungazi looks at the close links between sport and national identity in South Su...
Nigeria at a Crossroads
Can this huge, complicated country become the pioneer for Africa? Mark Doyle investigates
24/04/2012 GMT
24 Apr 2012,·23 mins
Exploring the notion that soap operas shape societies in subtle but profound ways.
The bitter taste of 'sugars' and the addicts' chance for change.
The People's Mujahedin of Iran - terrorists, victims or Iranian government-in-waiting?
55 mins
How the heavy hand of the law in some US schools is criminalising the very young.
10 Apr 2012,·23 mins
Writer Bart Bull explores the extraordinary story of the Neon Cowboy.
Barbara Plett investigates how the fighting in Syria might reshape the Middle East.
03 Apr 2012,·23 mins
Secrecy for Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland can be a life or death situation.
1989: Reshaping Europe
Allan Little looks at the transformation of Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Breaking the Pact
Allan Little looks at the failure to enforce the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact.
Deeper Not Wider
Allan examines new resentments and divisions within the EU exposed by the crisis.
Why homosexual men are not allowed to be conscripted into the Turkish army.
27 Mar 2012,·23 mins
Ruhal Ahmed spent two years in Guantanamo Bay, where he was repeatedly tortured with music
A profile of musician Alice Cooper - how has he shaped rock performance around the globe?
Meet the Kenyan woman who has opened her home to 49 orphaned children.
Experiences of patients and medical staff whose lives converge in a Jerusalem Eye Hospital
English has been the dominant global language but is it the language of the future in Asia
A year after the fall of President Mubarak of Egypt, what happened to the revolution?
27 Feb 2012,·23 mins
Mair Bosworth looks at conflict between generations in a small family business in London.
A special report from Paul Wood on the four harrowing days he spent under fire in Homs.
Alison Finch meets one of Ireland's last traditional matchmakers.
A dream-walk with Charles Dickens through the London night.
