Ros Atkins on: China-Taiwan tensions
In recent weeks, China has sent a record number of military jets into Taiwan’s air defence zone. The Taiwanese Defence Minister, Chiu Kuo-cheng, has said that tensions between China and the self-gover...
16 Okt 202110min
Russia: The limits of freedom
In August, the BBC’s Moscow correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, was expelled from Russia – a country she’s reported on from the start of Vladimir Putin’s presidency over two decades ago. Now she has been ...
14 Okt 202127min
Somalia’s forgotten hostages
The sailors held captive for years, and the man who managed to free them.Somali pirates made millions of dollars hijacking ships and holding their crews hostage, if no ransom was paid though, sailors ...
12 Okt 202127min
World Book Café: PEN
100 years ago English PEN was founded to create a “common meeting ground in every country for all writers.” and it quickly grew into an international organisation. The organisation has long campaigned...
11 Okt 202149min
A Geochemical History of Life on Earth: 2. When bacteria ruled the world
Justin explores the Precambrian period: a kind of dark ages, spanning most of our planet's history, but about which we have very few fossil records. What we do know is that it contained two of the mos...
10 Okt 202124min
World of Wisdom: Hope and children
The pandemic has made many people unsure about the future. Issues such as climate catastrophe have come to seem all the more real. How do we keep hope alive for our children and ourselves? Reverend Ca...
9 Okt 202118min
The Story of Aids: 1. The beginning
We return to the beginning of the global Aids crisis and explore the personal and political struggles of the epidemic, as it unfolded in two very different countries – the United States and South Afri...
9 Okt 202150min
Coronavirus: Protecting vulnerable children
Children who have a compromised immune system remain at high risk during the ongoing pandemic if they develop Covid-19. Their parents continue to protect their children from those who no longer wear m...
9 Okt 202124min
