Braille and me
Built around a game of braille Scrabble, Emma Tracey presents a celebration of braille, 200 years after it was invented. Emma, who’s been blind since birth, talks to others who love the six tiny dots:...
17 Huhti 202526min
Olympique Lyonnais: The Champions League trailblazers
Olympique Lyonnais is the most successful club in women’s football, dominating Europe over the last 15 years winning eight Champions League titles. Only Barcelona have recently been able to compete. L...
16 Huhti 202549min
Assignment: New Zealand - what counts as Māori equality
Māori in New Zealand have been resisting moves by the current right-of-centre government to abolish certain indigenous-specific rights aimed at combatting disadvantage.In a 9-day hikoi or march of def...
15 Huhti 202527min
In the Studio: Steve Reich
For 60 years, New York composer Steve Reich has been one of classical music’s most celebrated revolutionaries. Pioneering minimalism in the 1960s, a musical style based on repetition and shifting rhyt...
14 Huhti 202526min
Defeated: How ordinary Germans experienced the end of World War Two
On 8 May 1945 Britain, the US and many other countries were rejoicing. Germany had surrendered, and World War Two was over, at least in Europe. Yet it was not a day of celebration for everyone - for t...
13 Huhti 202549min
The Fifth Floor: Stranded in Panama
On his first day as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order shutting down the asylum system at the US-Mexico border. He also promised huge changes to the US immigration system, including arr...
12 Huhti 202520min
BBC OS Conversations: The impact of Trump's tariffs
Donald Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on global trade has sent the world reeling. Stock markets have tanked. Gloomy economists have hit the airwaves. Governments, their backs against the wall, have ...
12 Huhti 202526min
Heart and Soul: Guns, grief and god
On 4 September 2024, the town of Winder in the US state of Georgia became the latest scene of a school mass shooting. Two students and two teachers were killed. The suspect was 14 years old. The deadl...
11 Huhti 202526min
