Turkey's crazy project
A giant new canal for the world’s biggest ships is the most ambitious engineering plan yet proposed by Turkey’s President Erdogan, whose massive infrastructure projects have already changed the face o...
6 Tammi 202227min
Gone but not forgotten: Syria's missing persons
Wafa Mustafa hasn't heard from her dad since he went missing in July 2013. She, like tens of thousands of others in her position, believes he is being detained by the Syrian government, and is searchi...
4 Tammi 202227min
A Wish for Afghanistan: The advocate and the musicians
Another chance to hear from some of the BBC's acclaimed series examining the seismic events shaping Afghanistan before and after this year's return to power of the Taliban. After last week's episode f...
2 Tammi 202251min
A Pyrotechnic History of Humanity: The future
ustin Rowlatt looks at the monumental challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels. Solar and wind could meet all of humanity’s energy needs, but can we switch over before climate disaster strikes?...
1 Tammi 202224min
BBC OS Conversations: Tracking the pandemic
Two years after the first cases of a mysterious new virus were reported from China, host Nuala McGovern brings together experts in Switzerland, India and Israel who have been tracking the spread and i...
1 Tammi 202224min
World of Wisdom: Social distance
The pandemic has meant stopping so many of the everyday things we used to do, including not hugging and kissing others. For Susanna from Italy, not being able to connect with people socially in the wa...
1 Tammi 202218min
Peru's left behind children
Peru has been battered by Covid-19. It has the highest known death toll in the world per capita. But behind the figures there’s another hidden pandemic. By the end of April 2021 around 93,000 children...
30 Joulu 202128min
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Reflecting on the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African priest who became a prominent figure in the fight against apartheid, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
26 Joulu 202126min
