Assignment: Ivory Coast's cocoa crisis
From the journey from cocoa to chocolate in Ivory Coast. The price of cocoa - the essential ingredient in chocolate - has more than quadrupled on the international market in the last two years. Yet ma...
10 Sep 202428min
In The Studio: Tuan Andrew Nguyen - The healing power of art
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam in 1976, was only two years old when his family were made refugees by the war. They ended up in Texas, in the US and in his early twenties, he decided to re...
9 Sep 202426min
Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary
A bonus episode from the Lives Less Ordinary podcast.In 1982 Mississippi, two boys, Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala, aged 10 and 11, embarked on a crazy mission: to remake Indiana Jones Raiders of the ...
8 Sep 202440min
The Fifth Floor: Pakistan's internet mystery
Why are people in Pakistan struggling to use messaging apps and social media? BBC Urdu's editor Asif Farooqi explains why this might be more than just a simple internet glitch. Plus, we hear from coll...
7 Sep 202422min
BBC OS Conversations: What's it like to have mpox
Mpox causes a headache, fever and a blistering rash all over the body. There have been more than 1,200 cases in parts of Central and West Africa since the start of this year. The milder version is now...
7 Sep 202423min
Heart and Soul: Synagogue for sale
Dr Aleksandra Janus is a Polish Cultural Anthropologist with a Jewish background from Warsaw, Poland. Living in the capital flattened by Nazi bombs and then recreated by Communism, her multi-layered i...
6 Sep 202426min
Bonus: CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?
In a bonus episode from CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?When listener Watum heard about the Titan submersible implosion in the news in 2023, a question popped up in his mind: if a...
5 Sep 202428min
West Bank: Settlers, guns and sanctions
For more than six months, a BBC Eye team has been investigating extremist settlers establishing a new type of illegal settlement known as a “herding outpost”. Some have been sanctioned by the UK and U...
3 Sep 202426min
