BBC OS Conversations: Beyoncé and the changing face of country music
The latest Beyoncé song, Texas Hold ‘Em, has topped the charts in the US and UK. More significantly, however, this is the first time a black woman has gone to No. 1 in the US country music charts, pro...
2 Mar 202422min
Heart and Soul: The new iconographers
Dr Irena Bradley and Kelly Latimore are both iconographers taking the ancient tradition of iconography into the 21st Century. Both interpret their icons very differently. Irena is more traditional in ...
1 Mar 202427min
Assignment: Botswana - living with elephants
The battle to keep the peace between people and elephants in northern Botswana. The earth’s largest land mammal, the elephant, is an endangered species. Poaching, habitat loss and disease have decimat...
29 Feb 202427min
Trending - The disinformation war in the Middle East
"A flood of disinformation has erupted across social media in the online propaganda battle that’s being waged alongside the physical conflict between Israel and Hamas.Everything from video game clips ...
28 Feb 202419min
Storm over a teacup
In the mountainous east of Nepal many communities are dependent on tea. The nitrogen-rich soil of the high-elevation estates allow tea bushes to produce a unique flavour, but the picking has to be don...
27 Feb 202427min
In the Studio: Claudia Piñeiro
Claudia Piñeiro is a multi-award winning novelist, with many of her books being adapted for television. She's one of Argentina's most translated writers, as well as being a popular screenwriter and pl...
26 Feb 202427min
Bonus: The Global Story
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Is #Me Too finally exploding in French cinema?. The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around...
25 Feb 202425min
Bonus: Hardtalk - Defying Putin
Russian authorities have announced the death of one of the country’s most significant opposition leaders Alexey Navalny in a remote penal colony in the Arctic Circle. Stephen Sackur spoke to him in Mo...
24 Feb 202424min
