Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,·2020 episodes
A medical scandal has world-shattering consequences
08 May 2024,·26 mins
Why can the process of pregnancy and childbirth still be so dangerous for women?
04 May 2024,·49 mins
Why being a twin in Nigeria could mean life or death
02 May 2024,·26 mins
Why is Sweden home to so many dollar billionaires?
The bizarre origins of a world-altering act of violence
01 May 2024,·26 mins,·
Our technology dominated world is in a crisis – what are the solutions?
27 Apr 2024,·49 mins
Can teaching a child to raise, call and bluff help them learn lessons about life?
25 Apr 2024,·26 mins
What would it take for you to give up meat?
20 Apr 2024,·49 mins
Dr Zoe Williams examines historical inequalities in the diagnosis and treatment of women
Can Salvadoran children adopted during the country’s civil war find their birth families?
18 Apr 2024,·26 mins
Why a celebrated astrophysicist believes space research needs a new approach
13 Apr 2024,·49 mins
Children separated from their parents by civil war now want to find their birth families
11 Apr 2024,·26 mins
The dilemmas caused by treatments that could tackle some of our most serious illnesses
06 Apr 2024,·49 mins
Ukrainian citizens and soldiers who survived the siege of Azovstal recount their ordeal
04 Apr 2024,·26 mins
Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide
30 Mar 2024,·49 mins
Three million people died in the Bengal Famine - but why are they not better remembered?
30 Mar 2024,·26 mins
How has Oregon’s radical drug decriminalisation policy changed lives?
26 Mar 2024,·26 mins
The discovery of cassette tapes that throw new light on colonial responsibility.
23 Mar 2024,·26 mins
The fight to bring home a group of Malawian domestic workers trapped in servitude
19 Mar 2024,·26 mins,·
Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?
16 Mar 2024,·49 mins
Famine grips Bengal but publicly no-one is calling it a famine
16 Mar 2024,·26 mins
Meet the young scuba divers of colour who are searching for sunken slave ships
12 Mar 2024,·26 mins
The escalating food crisis forces people to make life and death decisions.
09 Mar 2024,·26 mins
The story of the 1943 Bengal Famine which led to the death of at least 3 million people
02 Mar 2024,·26 mins
The farmers and industry leaders working to secure the identity and future of Nepali tea
27 Feb 2024,·26 mins
The Global News Podcast and Ukrainecast have come together to answer your questions
24 Feb 2024,·26 mins
Oleg Boldyrev on how ordinary Russians are dealing with life in a country at war.
20 Feb 2024,·26 mins
For this year's World Radio Day, we celebrate women in community radio
17 Feb 2024,·49 mins
Greek journalist say intimidation and surveillance is restricting their ability to report
13 Feb 2024,·25 mins
Eight numbers that shed light on modern China.
10 Feb 2024,·26 mins
