Deadly Everest avalanche
On 18 April 2014, an avalanche on Mount Everest killed 16 men, who were carrying supplies for commercial expeditions to higher camps.The sherpas were on the Khumbu Icefall, just above Base Camp in Nep...
18 Huhti 202410min
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
The 2014 Ebola outbreak devastated West Africa, killing more than 11,000 people over a two year period. One country that suffered was Sierra Leone.The disease started in Guinea, but quickly spread to ...
17 Huhti 20249min
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
When the train service between India and Bangladesh was suspended in 1965, following war between Pakistan and India, it lay dormant for 43 years.But in a day of celebration in 2008, the Maitree (or Fr...
16 Huhti 20249min
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
A group of men known as the ‘Cairo 52’ were arrested in Egypt in May 2001. They were on board the Queen Boat, a floating gay nightclub on the River Nile.Omer, not his real name, was arrested and impri...
15 Huhti 20248min
Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender
Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who spent nearly 30 years in the Philippine jungle, believing World War Two was still going on.Using his training in guerilla warfare, he...
12 Huhti 20249min
St Teresa of Avila's severed hand
After winning the Spanish Civil War in 1939, Franco's dictatorship began. During the war, he acquired St Teresa of Avila's severed hand and kept it for spiritual guidance, it was returned when he died...
11 Huhti 20249min
The Scream: A stolen masterpiece
When Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream was stolen in 1994, an undercover operation was launched to get it back.Thirty years on from its recovery, hear from the art detective at the centre of the stor...
10 Huhti 20249min
How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
Lake Karla supported hundreds of families in Thessaly, providing fish for all of the region and beyond. Christos and Ioanna Kotsikas grew up on the shores of the wetland and have mixed memories of the...
9 Huhti 20248min
