Biniam Girmay: Africa’s new cycling hero
On 1 July 2024, Biniam Girmay made history as the first black African rider to win a stage of cycling’s biggest race: the Tour de France. After a hard upbringing as one of six children in the Eritrean...
27 Jun 202327min
In the Studio: Matthew Xia
***This programme contains racially sensitive language and themes that may be upsetting.*** Matthew Xia is a theatre director and Olivier award-winning artistic director of the Actors Touring Company....
26 Jun 202327min
BBC OS Conversations: Survival
Race against time rescue stories have been among the dominating international headlines in the past couple of weeks. There was the missing sub in the Atlantic and before that the incredible survival o...
24 Jun 202324min
Heart and Soul: Windrush at 75
Prof. Robert Beckford interviews Barbara Blake-Hannah the UK’s first black news reporter who returned to Jamaica after just eight years after coming over as part of the Windrush generation. She talks ...
23 Jun 202327min
South Korea: A room with a view
“It’s like living in a cemetery.” Jung Seongno lives in a banjiha, or semi-basement apartment in the South Korean capital Seoul. Last August parts of Seoul experienced major flooding. As a result seve...
22 Jun 202328min
The monkey haters
There is disturbing material, including descriptions of violence and torture of monkeys, from the start of this programme.There's a horrific and disturbing trade in the torture of Macaque monkeys that...
20 Jun 202344min
In the Studio: Wayne McGregor
Wayne McGregor is a choreographer and director whose future-focused, multi-award-winning works take inspiration from technology, literature and visual art. As resident choreographer for the Royal Ball...
19 Jun 202327min
Controlled and connected: 50 years of the cell phone
Fifty years on from the first mobile phone call, this programme examines how the device has revolutionised the way we lives our lives. It was 1973 when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher made the fi...
18 Jun 202349min
