The digital election: How social media is reshaping UK democracy
In the UK’s 2019 general election, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram are playing a more prominent role than in any previous campaign. As the election enters its fina...
7 Joulu 201927min
Sri Lanka: The new climate of fear
There’s a new climate of fear in Sri Lanka. This time it’s the Muslim community who are fearful of the future. The Easter bomb attacks in Sri Lanka - targeting churches and international hotels - horr...
5 Joulu 201926min
How Scarborough saved the world
The work of GCHQ started just after the end of World War One as telegraph became a vital means of military communications. We hear from people who worked at the listening station in the Yorkshire seas...
4 Joulu 201927min
Giving peace a chance
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bed-in for peace protest and the people who witnessed it
3 Joulu 201932min
The man who laughed at al-Qaeda
Raed Fares, founder of Syria's legendary Radio Fresh FM, was mowed down by unknown gunmen as he left his studios in rebel-held Idlib in November 2018. The death of the man who fought hatred with humou...
28 Marras 201927min
Emperor complex
In the span of five years, Chairman Huang turned farmland in China’s Sichuan province into Seaside City. The ocean-themed town, which Huang says was inspired by Dubai and Disneyland, is now home to mo...
26 Marras 201927min
The Malawi tapes
A race is on to save thousands of tapes of traditional Malawian music in danger of disintegrating in the archives of state broadcaster, Malawi Broadcasting Corporation. The old reel-to-reel tapes date...
24 Marras 201950min
Russian women fight back
Domestic abuse in Russia is endemic with thousands of women dying at the hands of their partners every year. Despite this a controversial law was passed in 2017, which scrapped prison sentences for fi...
21 Marras 201926min
