'The bad boy of Welsh politics'

In 2014, the ice bucket challenge craze took over the internet.Millions of people including sports stars and celebrities filmed themselves being doused in ice cold water for charity.Nancy Frates' son ...

2 Aug 202410min

A warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners - this programme contains the names of people who have died.Nearly 60 years ago, a group of university students set out on a bus to challe...

1 Aug 20249min

In 1998, brown bears were declared a protected species in Bulgaria and the ancient tradition of forcing them to dance for people's entertainment became illegal.A veterinarian called Dr Amir Khalil hel...

31 Jul 20248min

When Islamic State (IS) militants took control of Syria and Iraq in June 2014, the entire Yazidi population in Sinjar were immediately in grave danger. The Sunni Muslims of IS believed Yazidis were in...

30 Jul 20249min

In 1983, punk rock was strictly forbidden in East Berlin. However, that didn’t stop young music obsessive Mark Reeder, from Manchester in the UK, smuggling cassettes, and then a punk band across the B...

29 Jul 20249min

In 1974, Ghana pioneered a new system which would help in the roll-out of the immunisation of serious diseases across Africa and the rest of the world. The World Health Organisation chose the country ...

26 Jul 20249min

More than 10,000 Russian workers built the first line of the Moscow Metro which opened in 1935 to great fanfare. The spectacular stations were designed to show the world the power and possibility of R...

25 Jul 20248min

At the London 2012 Olympics, the Somali sprinter Zamzam Farah became a crowd favourite after finishing last in her 400m heat by 27 seconds. Zamzam had grown up in war-torn Mogadishu, where she had to ...

24 Jul 202410min