Assignment: Georgia - keeping the protest alive
Daily protests across the country have continued in Georgia since disputed elections in October, particularly since the ruling Georgian Dream party announced it would suspend discussions about joining...
18 Mar 202526min
In the Studio: Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser
Artists Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser explore the complex weave of histories and myths around Britain’s imperial salt monopoly in India. Paul Waters joins them as they create an open-air i...
17 Mar 202526min
LOUD: Is noise an invisible killer?
BBC health correspondent James Gallagher investigates how our noisy world is damaging our health. He finds out why noise increases our risk of health problems, like heart attacks, sleep problems and a...
16 Mar 202549min
The Fifth Floor: The Kenyan women saying no to motherhood
According to Kenya’s Health Ministry, between 2020 and 2023, about 16,000 women in Kenya decided to undergo a sterilisation procedure known as tubal ligation. While some of them already had children a...
15 Mar 202526min
BBC OS Conversations: Cuts to US foreign aid funding
On his first day in office, Donald Trump froze foreign aid funding, ordering an immediate review into USAID, the government agency which was running programmes in around 120 countries. The review was ...
15 Mar 202523min
Heart and Soul: Ayahuasca and the new spiritual tourism
For centuries, ayahuasca has been a sacred plant for the Shipibo-Konibo peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. Part medicine, part spiritual ceremony, ayahuasca and other plant medicines are revered practice...
14 Mar 202526min
The village of sex offenders
Set among endless sugar-cane fields in a remote part of southern Florida, Restoration Destination is a community made up of registered sex offenders. Created by a Christian ministry as a response to s...
13 Mar 202526min
Assignment: Guatemala’s ‘Indigenous Spring’
Guatemala’s been going through huge political upheavals. Protestors brought the country to a standstill with roadblocks and national strikes which lasted more than one hundred days, until they got the...
11 Mar 202526min
