Solutions Journalism: Going bananas
A killer fungus is ravaging plantations of the Cavendish banana worldwide. It travels through the soil at lightning speed and chokes the banana plant so its leaves shrivel up and die. The disease is k...
7 Aug 202423min
Assignment: The Italian town where praying is a political issue
The Italian town of Monfalcone on the Adriatic coast has an ethnic make-up unique to the country. Of a population of just over thirty thousand, more than six thousand are from Bangladesh. They’ve come...
6 Aug 202426min
In the Studio: B-girl Ray Gun
Known to many as breakdancing, breaking sprung up in the economic and social unrest of 1970s New York, as a form of expressive protest. Today, it is also a globalised and dizzyingly virtuosic competit...
5 Aug 202426min
Erasing Hong Kong
Hong Kong's history is being revised and erased - it's early origins, colonial legacy, post 1997 handover period and the crucial years since the mass 2019 democracy protests are being uprooted, overtu...
4 Aug 202432min
The Fifth Floor: Three years of Taliban rule
Three years ago the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. BBC Afghan journalists Shekiba Habib and Shoaib Sharifi were living and following the events as they unfolded and continue to do so.Produced by...
3 Aug 202426min
BBC OS Conversations: Protests in Bangladesh
It began as a peaceful student protest against the way some government jobs are reserved for war veterans and their families. The violence that followed is some of the worst the country has witnessed ...
3 Aug 202423min
Heart and Soul: Wrestling for redemption in Jordan
Injuries meant wrestler Dan Russell missed out on two opportunities for glory at the Olympics back in the 1990s. But missing the chance to fight for gold twice was not what left him feeling empty when...
2 Aug 202426min
Bonus: World Book Club - Edna O'Brien
In a bonus edition of World Book Club following the death of the acclaimed Irish author Edna O’Brien, who died aged 93 in July 2024, we look back to an interview with Edna from 2008.Edna O’Brien was b...
1 Aug 202426min
