Kenya’s locust hunters
East Africa has seen the worst invasion of desert locusts for decades and there are warnings of even larger swarms to come. Millions of people across the region, who are already feeling the impact of ...
25 Jun 202026min
New York Covid-19 diary
Public health leader Dr Tom Frieden reflects on the ongoing global pandemic. An expert on infectious disease, Dr Frieden is a former director of the US States Centers for Disease Control and Preventio...
23 Jun 202027min
Rethink: The edge of change
BBC Media editor Amol Rajan and a panel of guests analyse how the coronavirus pandemic has created new opportunities to change our world. They range across topics including geopolitics and the rise of...
22 Jun 202050min
Reporting Covid-19
As the pandemic continues to impact the world, BBC World Service's Nina Robinson, talks to journalists from two daily newspapers in India and the United States as we explore its impact on people in th...
21 Jun 202050min
Rethink: Class of Covid-19 - Should I go to university?
The pandemic has led to job cuts and reduced salaries, so does going to university still make financial sense? And if you took a cut in wages during lockdown but are now back at work, how should you t...
20 Jun 202050min
Coronavirus conversations: Another Beijing lockdown
We speak to people in China's capital, Beijing, where a fresh spike of Covid-19 cases has been detected. Fan Fan and Richard tell us what it feels like to go through lockdown all over again. Meanwhile...
20 Jun 202027min
The 5G con that could make you sick
Since the outbreak of coronavirus something strange has been happening – attacks on telephone masts and telecom workers are being reported all across the world. That’s because some people think that 5...
18 Jun 202026min
My fake news whodunnit
When a name very similar to journalist Michelle Madsen’s was used as the cover for a fake news hatchet job on a Senegalese politician, she found herself entangled in a web of deception that she is see...
14 Jun 202051min
