It all started with a letter
In 2007, BBC Urdu's Arif Shamim made a documentary based on letters he discovered after the death of his great-uncle in Lahore. They were written in 1947 by the original owner of his uncle's house, ...
11 Aug 20178min
The Trouble with Che
The Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara is an iconic figure whose face adorns countless t-shirts and posters. But some of his countrymen have mixed feelings about him, and there's even a campaign t...
4 Aug 20177min
Brazil: Facing the Legacy of Slavery
Cais do Valongo, or Valongo Wharf, was recently designated a world heritage site. It's an old stone pier in Rio de Janeiro built for the landing of almost one million enslaved Africans in the 19th ce...
28 Jul 20178min
Inside Myanmar's Rakhine State
This week a Thai court convicted 60 people for human trafficking, with victims including Rohingya people. Rohingya are a muslim minority in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, but the Burmese government ...
21 Jul 201710min
Taking Journalism to New Heights
BBC Urdu's Aliya Nazki and Suhail Haleem talk us through their reporting trip up a mountain in Indian-administered Kashmir - to visit the remarkable Haji Public School. The only way up was on foot or...
14 Jul 201710min
Biafra War 50 Years On
This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Biafra war. Millions died, mostly from famine, as Nigerian government forces defeated attempts by the Igbo people in the south east to claim an independen...
7 Jul 20178min
South Africa and the Land Question
Audrey Brown's documentary Give Back the Land tells the story of a white Western Cape vineyard owner attempting to make reparations for the land his family "stole" 6 generations ago. Land rights and...
30 Jun 201711min
Kashmir: Letters across the Divide
BBC Hindi recently brought together two schoolgirls, one from Delhi and one from Indian-administered Kashmir, to became penfriends. What they have in common is music and youth, but they're divided by...
23 Jun 20178min
