Assignment - Jamaica's Sprint Factory
Jamaica has a reputation for producing world class athletes. Athletes are nurtured from a young age: boys and girls as young as six enter competitions and train intensively throughout their school ye...
29 Heinä 201023min
Listening Post - Part Two
The Listening Post is a new series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals and the histories they carry with them. In Part Two listen to the touching story of Belfast-bor...
28 Heinä 201023min
Shaking the World - Part Three
China's social tensions may threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the world now relies. There have been protests over wages and working conditions in factories of China's east coast but ...
26 Heinä 201023min
Spanning the World - Part Three
What personal stories can a bridge reveal? When the he Oresund Bridge-Tunnel opened between Denmark and Sweden, it forged a connection between two countries with a difficult past. How can Swedes from ...
23 Heinä 201023min
Assignment - Who Jails the Pirates?
Why are so few captured pirates brought to trial? Each year hundreds of ships are attacked by pirate gangs, many off the coast of Somalia. An international Combined Task Force now patrols the region a...
22 Heinä 201023min
Listening Post - Part One
Mary Thida Lun works is a civil servant. She has had postings in Sudan and Iraq. A seemingly ordinary girl, she is Oxford-educated and is dating a cavalry officer. However she has her own story to tel...
21 Heinä 201023min
Shaking the World - Part Two
Part Two of this series looks outwards at the potentially world-shaking clash of cultures between non-democratic state-planned China and the American-centred world of democracy and free market ideolog...
19 Heinä 201023min
The Greatest Hits of the World - Part 2
The song Wimoweh, or The Lion Sleeps Tonight has been exposed to a mass audience with its inclusion in the musical The Lion King. It is reportedly worth $16 million, but the composer died in poverty....
16 Heinä 201018min
