Global Dancefloor: Tbilisi
Frank McWeeny heads to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, to meet the underground music community leading protests against government clampdown on freedom of expression and civil society groups. How vital is ...
2 Sep 202440min
Three Million: 8. Road to the past
Kavita Puri goes to India to meet the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine. She looks for traces of how war and famine impacted Kolkata and then travels from the city along the road to where the s...
1 Sep 202440min
The Fifth Floor: Ukraine's 'Memory Cafés'
Could a cup of coffee become an act of love and remembrance? BBC Ukrainian's Ilona Hromliuk speaks to the relatives of fallen soldiers who have opened 'memory cafés' to pay tribute to their loved ones...
31 Aug 202426min
BBC OS Conversations: Three years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan
The withdrawal of US troops in 2021 prompted the collapse of the Afghan military, an interim government and then a power grab by the hardline Islamist regime. Since then there have been increasingly h...
31 Aug 202423min
Heart and Soul: Afghanistan 20 years on
Twenty years ago, reporter Julia Paul was teaching media to young women in an Afghanistan where the Taliban were in retreat, if only temporarily. Now she has tracked down two of them again to find out...
30 Aug 202426min
Courting success: A journey to Paris 2024
One of the highlights of the Paralympics is wheelchair tennis and one of its true champions is Kgothatso Montjane. KG, as she likes to be known, was born with amniotic band syndrome, a condition that ...
29 Aug 202428min
Bonus: The Inquiry - What does Hezbollah want?
Hezbollah has both political and military wings both of which are designated by several countries as terror organisations. It emerged several decades ago in Lebanon.Since Israel launched its war in Ga...
28 Aug 202423min
Assignment: The struggle for Jerusalem’s Old City
Why Armenians in Jerusalem say they are fighting an existential battle. Is the identity of the Old City of Jerusalem changing - house by house? This small patch of land is of vital importance to Chris...
27 Aug 202427min
