The Fake Paralympians: 1. Gold
Ex-Paralympic swimmer Dan Pepper investigates the cheats who won gold and left a devastating legacy for learning disability sport.Ray Torres used to get beaten up every day at school. He stood out bec...
17 Aug 202124min
OS Conversations: Afghanistan
This audio was updated on 16th August.The Taliban is advancing towards Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, as foreign forces prepare to fully withdraw from the country. Thousands of people are being displac...
16 Aug 202123min
World of Wisdom: Self-help for the spirit
Life presents many personal challenges. Three spiritual advisors – Sister Dang Nghiem, Dr Shefali Tsabary and Eckhart Tolle offer guidance to members of the public from across the world on coping with...
13 Aug 202118min
What’s Killing Israel’s Arabs?
Israel’s Arab population is in the grip of a violent and deadly crime wave. Since the start of the year, scores of Arab citizens have lost their lives and increasingly, even women and children are vic...
12 Aug 202126min
Hiroshima successors
When photographer Haruka Sakaguchi set out to Hiroshima to document atomic bomb survivors' stories, she discovered they were far more difficult to find than she expected. Stigmatisation and survivor’s...
10 Aug 202127min
Two smiley faces: Episode six
In the future, 10 years from now, will our fingers still reach for a laughing face with crying eyes? Will Unicode and its strict approval process for new emoji be relevant at all? Possibly not. We tra...
7 Aug 202123min
OS Conversations: Olympic golden moments
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics were always going to be different. They took place a year later than planned and were the first to be held during a pandemic, with fans banned. So as the Games come to an end, ...
7 Aug 202123min
Malta and the El Hiblu 3
This is the curious story of how a child refugee ended up in Malta accused of the most serious crime - of being a terrorist. Lamin was 13 when he ran away from his home in Guinea in search of a better...
5 Aug 202126min
