The Fifth Floor: Vietnam's matchmakers
According to the UN, from 2008-2018 over 18,000 Vietnamese citizens a year married foreigners. The vast majority of them are women, and many find their foreign husbands through special matchmaking age...
10 Elo 202419min
BBC OS Conversations: Gen Z and power change in Bangladesh
After weeks of student-led demonstrations and violence across Bangladesh, which caused the deaths of hundreds of people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has fled to India and resigned after 15 years of c...
10 Elo 202423min
Heart and Soul: Digital grief
New digital technologies including AI have started to find a place in the grieving process, sometimes alongside more traditional religious rituals. 'Grief tech' concepts are springing up across the wo...
9 Elo 202426min
The Global Jigsaw: The Taliban’s war on women
A bonus episode from The Global Jigsaw looks at how the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan has led to the erasure of women from public life. There’s a UN-led campaign to recognise it as “gender ...
8 Elo 202437min
Bonus: The Engineers - Intelligent Machines
This is a bonus episode for The Documentary of The Engineers: Intelligent Machines. This year, we speak to a panel of three engineers at the forefront of the 'Machine Learning: AI' revolution with an ...
8 Elo 202449min
Solutions Journalism: Going bananas
A killer fungus is ravaging plantations of the Cavendish banana worldwide. It travels through the soil at lightning speed and chokes the banana plant so its leaves shrivel up and die. The disease is k...
7 Elo 202423min
Assignment: The Italian town where praying is a political issue
The Italian town of Monfalcone on the Adriatic coast has an ethnic make-up unique to the country. Of a population of just over thirty thousand, more than six thousand are from Bangladesh. They’ve come...
6 Elo 202426min
In the Studio: B-girl Ray Gun
Known to many as breakdancing, breaking sprung up in the economic and social unrest of 1970s New York, as a form of expressive protest. Today, it is also a globalised and dizzyingly virtuosic competit...
5 Elo 202426min
