BBC OS Conversations: Living alongside Mexico's drug gangs
When she was sworn in as Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum pledged to tackle the country’s drug gangs. In the past couple of months, local civilian groups have reported hundreds of deaths and ...
19 Okt 202422min
Bonus: What in the World - Liam Payne
A bonus episode for The Documentary from the What in the World podcast.The death of One Direction star Liam Payne has shocked the world, and there’s been a huge outpouring of grief. Many details about...
18 Okt 202416min
Heart and Soul: The dead are not dead
In certain cultures in Uganda and across Africa, a belief exists where departed husbands return as ethereal entities to engage in intimate encounters with their living partners. To ward off this pheno...
18 Okt 202426min
The children's hospital of Entebbe
Until 2021, Uganda had only four paediatric surgeons and a just a few children’s hospital beds for the entire country. In 2020, the mortality rate for children under five was 43 per 1,000 births, comp...
17 Okt 202426min
BBC Trending: Yami Baito - Inside Japan’s dark part-time jobs
A wave of criminal activity in Japan has been blamed on social media. Yami Baito – meaning “dark part-time jobs” in Japanese – refers to job ads posted by criminal gangs on social media and encrypted ...
16 Okt 202417min
Assignment: Singapore – drugs, rehab, execution
Singapore’s drug laws are severe. The penalties for trafficking illegal narcotics range from a prison term to execution. And if you’re caught using any illicit narcotic, including cannabis, you may f...
15 Okt 202453min
In the Studio: Mia Lehrer and the LA River
The Los Angeles river has been a concrete channel since the 1930s, when the US Army Corps of Engineers decided to concrete over the original river for flood mitigation. Ever since then, the river has ...
14 Okt 202426min
An end to Aids?
Over the four decades since the pandemic took off, we have seen around 40 million people worldwide killed by HIV. Today, around the same number of people are living with the virus, and many of them ar...
13 Okt 202448min
