Heart and Soul: Finding Falun Gong
It’s been more than two decades since the Chinese government launched a crackdown on Falun Gong. The spiritual group claims practitioners face mass arrest, torture and are murdered by the state for th...
3 Nov 202328min
Assignment: Taught to fear - corporal punishment in the classroom
In Kenya, corporal punishment in schools has been banned for over twenty years, yet young students are being beaten by their teachers on a daily basis, and the consequences can be fatal. In the last f...
2 Nov 202327min
The Raspberry Visa
The ‘Raspberry Visa’ is the colloquial name given to the Portuguese passport that workers picking berries in Western Portugal can apply for after 7 years of work. Bhrikuti Rai and Fabian Federl visit ...
1 Nov 202327min
In the Studio: Kieran Stanley - Designing a Zoo
Zoo designer Kieran Stanley has created some of the world's most impressive spaces to care for animals ranging from the Indian rhinoceros to the giant panda. He is passionate about animal welfare, wan...
30 Okt 202327min
BBC OS Conversations: Jewish-Palestinian couples
Observing the suffering on both sides of the Israel and Gaza war, are couples and families around the world in which individuals with Jewish and Palestinian heritage have come together and built a sha...
28 Okt 202323min
Heart and Soul: The New York Supreme Court's first female Hasidic judge
Rachel Freier was 30 when she started her training to be an attorney, and many people told her she was making a mistake. Growing up in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York,...
27 Okt 202327min
Assignment: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Russian Theatre
Tatiana Frolova wasn’t born to be a theatre director. She grew up in the 1960s and ‘70s in a cut-off part of a closed country, the Soviet Far East. She was a shy, nervous girl brought up by a silent m...
26 Okt 202327min
Africa's urban future: What next?
Faced with the ever-quickening pace of urbanisation, what is the future for Africa's swelling cities? Experts predict that Africa could be home to forty percent of humanity by the end of this century,...
24 Okt 202337min
