The Fifth Floor: Message in a bottle to North Korea
Park Jung-oh defected to South Korea from the North 26 years ago. Hearing how North Koreans in the Hwanghae Province suffer from food shortage, he started throwing bottles filled with rice and a USB s...
18 Touko 202426min
BBC OS Conversations: The floods in Brazil
Vast areas of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul remain under water after the worst flooding in 80 years. Homes have been destroyed, thousands are without power or drinking water, and e...
18 Touko 202423min
Heart and Soul: Glorifying God through wine
When Father Père Basile was 12 years of age, he started thinking of a religious life. But it never crossed his mind that he would someday be living in a cloistered abbey in the south of France produci...
17 Touko 202426min
Bonus: The Global Story
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. EncroChat: The crime family brought down by their violent messages. The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news wit...
16 Touko 202425min
Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary
A bonus episode from the Lives Less Ordinary podcast. Manni Coe’s brother Reuben has Down’s syndrome, and had become isolated and non-verbal in a UK care home during the Covid pandemic – so he decided...
15 Touko 202441min
Assignment: Return of the Benin Bronzes
In 1897 British colonial forces attacked and looted the ancient Kingdom of Benin in what is now southern Nigeria. Thousands of precious objects were taken, including stunning sculptures made of bronze...
14 Touko 202428min
Crime and punishment in South Africa
Outside of a war zone, South Africa is one of the most dangerous places in the world. The country’s murder rate is now at a 20-year high. With trust in the police falling, communities say they have no...
12 Touko 202426min
In the Studio: Cressida Cowell
Enter the magical world of children’s writer Cressida Cowell. She created the hugely successful How to Train Your Dragon series, which continues to excite children across the globe and has been turned...
12 Touko 202426min
