The Fifth Floor: India's deadliest scam
Instant loan apps promise easy money. But what's the catch? Investigative reporter Poonam Agarwal and filmmaker Ronny Sen take us behind the scenes of their award-winning documentary The Trap: Inside ...
29 Kesä 202421min
BBC OS Conversations: Hajj pilgrims
The annual pilgrimage to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, is something millions of people look forward to as an immensely spiritual experience. A main pillar of Islam, Muslims try to do it at least once in the...
29 Kesä 202424min
Saint Sara: Patron saint of the Romani people
Roma photographer Artúr Čonka joins the annual Romani pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the south of France. Thousands of Romani from across western Europe gather in the small town in Provence...
28 Kesä 202428min
The West Indies’ first black captain: Sir Frank Worrell
The brilliant cricketer Frank Worrell became the first permanent Black captain of the West Indies team in 1960 – but he had to wait for a decade to get the job, denied by the elitism, insularity and ...
27 Kesä 202428min
Trending: The American pushing Russian disinformation
The websites have names like DC Weekly and Chicago Crier. They are filled with thousands of legitimate-looking stories, plucked from real news websites and rewritten by artificial intelligence. But BB...
26 Kesä 202417min
Assignment: Germany’s AI detectives
In late 2023 a group of German journalists released a podcast series, Legion: Most Wanted. It described their ultimately unsuccessful search for a terrorist suspect, Daniela Klette, using an AI facial...
25 Kesä 202426min
In the Studio: Hanna Harris
Hanna Harris is Helsinki’s chief design officer and the second person in the job since the role was created in 2016. But why does a city need a chief design officer? And, what can design do to boost w...
24 Kesä 202426min
The Global Jigsaw: The evolution of the Islamic State Group
After a lull in activities, in 2024 the Islamic State Group claimed to be behind several major attacks, showing the world they have not gone away. Among them was the storming by gunmen of a Moscow con...
23 Kesä 202437min
