The Cultural Frontline: Exposing the fake Russian modern art collection
Over the past twenty years, paintings from a private collection of Russian and Ukrainian modern art have been sold to museums and private collectors around the world. Paintings were sold for hundreds ...
28 Apr 202426min
The Fifth Floor: The disinformation wars
How is disinformation created and spread, and how is it impacting the way journalists work? We'll look at what's going on in Latin America, Russia and Nigeria with the help of three World Service jour...
27 Apr 202426min
BBC OS Conversations: Ukrainian aid from the US
After months of delays, US politicians agreed a $61bn aid package of military assistance for Ukraine to support their fight with Russia. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said it could save thous...
27 Apr 202423min
Heart and Soul: The whale worshippers of Vietnam
On the southern shores of Vietnam, whales are revered as gods of the oceans. Eliza Lomas visits whale temples and a whale cemetery, hearing about the roots and rituals of the belief. We learn how wors...
26 Apr 202426min
Super-rich Swedes
Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has more dollar billionaires, relative to its population size, than almost anywhere else on the planet. Stockholm-...
25 Apr 202432min
Forward Thinking: Can feminism fix the internet?
From deepfakes to the fear of AI taking jobs, to the social media giants making money from abusive content, our technology dominated world is in a crisis – what are the solutions?AI researcher Kerry M...
24 Apr 202449min
Assignment: Armenia's lost garden
For three decades Armenians ruled Karabakh – literally “Black Garden” – an unrecognised statelet inside neighbouring Azerbaijan. Many saw it as the cradle of their civilisation. But as Azerbaijan reto...
23 Apr 202427min
In the Studio: David Haig and Max Webster
Philip K. Dick's novella The Minority Report was famously adapted into a science fiction blockbuster by director Steven Spielberg in 2002. More than 20 years later, it is now being adapted for the sta...
22 Apr 202426min
