In the Studio: Steve Reich
For 60 years, New York composer Steve Reich has been one of classical music’s most celebrated revolutionaries. Pioneering minimalism in the 1960s, a musical style based on repetition and shifting rhyt...
14 Apr 202526min
Defeated: How ordinary Germans experienced the end of World War Two
On 8 May 1945 Britain, the US and many other countries were rejoicing. Germany had surrendered, and World War Two was over, at least in Europe. Yet it was not a day of celebration for everyone - for t...
13 Apr 202549min
The Fifth Floor: Stranded in Panama
On his first day as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order shutting down the asylum system at the US-Mexico border. He also promised huge changes to the US immigration system, including arr...
12 Apr 202520min
BBC OS Conversations: The impact of Trump's tariffs
Donald Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on global trade has sent the world reeling. Stock markets have tanked. Gloomy economists have hit the airwaves. Governments, their backs against the wall, have ...
12 Apr 202526min
Heart and Soul: Guns, grief and god
On 4 September 2024, the town of Winder in the US state of Georgia became the latest scene of a school mass shooting. Two students and two teachers were killed. The suspect was 14 years old. The deadl...
11 Apr 202526min
Heart and Soul: Violence, children and Cambodia’s monks
***This programme contains descriptions of genocide and violence against children*** Fifty years ago the fall of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, to the Khmer Rouge sparked a modern-day genocide that ...
10 Apr 202526min
The Cultural Frontline: South East Asian cinema - a love story
In South East Asia, cinema attendances are growing, thanks to a renewed interest in local product. For instance, the Thai movie How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, broke box office records this ...
9 Apr 202525min
Assignment: Unidentified flying drones in Denmark
When mysterious orb-like lights were recorded in the sky above Koge, a small port town in Denmark, the UFO scene took notice. But it wasn't just believers who wanted to know what these unidentified fl...
8 Apr 202526min
