Magazine programme looking at arts, history and social issues from around the world
World Service,·591 episodes
Writer Nien Cheng talks about living through the Chinese Cultural Revolution
03 Jul 1997,·28 mins
MARRIAGE MADE IN MALTA - rising divorce rates in Malta
08 Jul 1997,·28 mins
A profile of the the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
22 Jul 1997,·28 mins
Richard Mabey discusses nightingales and what makes their song so special
29 Jul 1997,·27 mins
A journey with a long distance truck-driver in South Africa
30 Jul 1997,·28 mins
A look at the variety of thrill-seeking physical challenges available around the world
05 Aug 1997,·28 mins
Crossing Australia by train on the Indian Pacific Express
11 Aug 1997,·28 mins
'They had the right stuff but they were the wrong sex'. Female astronauts in 1961
13 Aug 1997,·27 mins
A look back at the Partition of India in 1947
The recreation of St Colmcille's journey to Iona in a currach
26 Aug 1997,·28 mins
Blacksmith Ron Carter talks about the philosphy of 'make do and mend'
16 Sep 1997,·28 mins
A profile of the first non-white circus proprietor in Britain
23 Sep 1997,·28 mins
The life of the fighter pilot and their role in air warfare
30 Sep 1997,·29 mins
Bringing in the wheat harvest in the USA
13 Oct 1997,·27 mins
A look at the world of fox hunting in the UK as it faces being banned
13 Oct 1997,·28 mins
A revisionist profile of the communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
21 Oct 1997,·27 mins
How the plight of unemployed Welsh miners led to the political awakening of Paul Robeson
22 Oct 1997,·28 mins
The San people of the Kalahari Desert and the fight to preserve their language
30 Oct 1997,·27 mins
How common is murder in Chicago?
11 Nov 1997,·27 mins
What happens to the estimated 30,000 African women held in ritual servitude?
25 Nov 1997,·28 mins
The story of the British resistance movement during World War Two
08 Dec 1997,·28 mins
A look at the nature of pain and the wide variety of ways people deal with it
10 Dec 1997,·28 mins
Japan, where older, wealthy men offer money and gifts to young girls in exchange for sex
16 Dec 1997,·27 mins
A look at why the story of the sinking of the Titanic still fascinates
13 Jan 1998,·27 mins
A look at investigations into the paranormal
20 Jan 1998,·28 mins
A visit to the tiny island off the coast of Donegal in Ireland
10 Feb 1998,·27 mins
A look at the culture and history of the Maori people of New Zealand
10 Mar 1998,·28 mins
Are there genetic or biological roots to anti-social behaviour?
13 Mar 1998,·27 mins
Chico Buarque and life in a Brazilian favela
16 Mar 1998,·27 mins
Spending time with the gauchos of the Argentine Pampas
25 Mar 1998,·28 mins
