BBC OS Conversations: Living in Kashmir
What is it like to grow up and live in one of the most disputed regions on Earth? After 26 tourists were killed by militants in Indian-administered Kashmir last month, many feared that the series of c...
17 Touko 202523min
Heart and Soul: Malcolm X and his Letter from the Hajj
Malcolm X is one of the most iconic and complex figures of the 20th Century. Known globally for his fiery speeches and radical advocacy for Black empowerment, he was often portrayed as a fierce separa...
16 Touko 202526min
Autism, empathy and psychopaths
Autistic people have been thought to all lack empathy by both science and society for decades. But after receiving an extremely low empathy score as part of a recent autism assessment, science journal...
15 Touko 202528min
BBC Trending: Are we dating the same person?
At the start of 2025, a chat appeared on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. It was named Are We Dating The Same Girl? At first only a few hundred people joined. Soon that was thousands, and its con...
14 Touko 202518min
Assignment: Syria - return to ruins
Thirteen million Syrians - half the population - left their homes during their country's 13-year civil war. Seven million were internally displaced. Six million fled abroad. Bringing them home is perh...
13 Touko 202527min
In the Studio: Luke Black
Luke Black is a Serbian singer-songwriter who represented his country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023, the world’s largest live music event, with an audience of over 160 million. Performing his...
12 Touko 202526min
Women warriors
In the last few decades western militaries have been training more women for combat than ever, yet female recruitment and retention is stalling. But with warfare changing, new technologies and new thr...
11 Touko 202549min
The Fifth Floor: The Russian grandma who went to jail
Natalya Filonova is a former kindergarten teacher, a mother, a grandmother. But she’s also an activist and in 2022 she was arrested during a demonstration against the war in Ukraine. Nina Nazarova fro...
10 Touko 202524min
