The Watergate Legacy
Forty years on from President Nixon’s resignation we hear from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate story. Did their reporting make Americans more mistrustful of government and r...
6 Aug 201427min
Colombia's Lost Children
In Colombia’s Marxist guerrilla war, thousands of rebel fighters have been female. When they got pregnant, they were forced to have abortions or give their babies up. Now, many of these rebel mothers ...
5 Aug 201426min
Fearless Women in Turkish Kurdistan
Tim Whewell meets the dynamic young women in Turkish Kurdistan who are defining the future of their society.
31 Jul 201426min
A Tale of Two Theatres
Theatre director Mehmet Ergen guides us through the politically charged arts scene of his native homeland Turkey, as he negotiates national and cultural borders to stage work that is as unpretentious ...
30 Jul 201426min
Yemen's Swap Marriages
‘I’ll marry your sister if you marry mine. And if you divorce my sister, I’ll divorce yours.’ That is Yemen’s ‘Shegar’, or swap marriage, an agreement between two men to marry each other’s sisters, th...
29 Jul 201427min
Open Eye: Crying Meri
***WARNING: This programme includes graphic descriptions of sexual violence*** 'A humanitarian crisis', that's how the medical charity Medicins Sans Frontiers describes the levels of violence against ...
26 Jul 201449min
I Don't Remember the War
Six talented young writers under 35 explore a great grandparent or grandparent's involvement in World War One. This centenary offers a chance to reflect on the gulf that separates young people from th...
26 Jul 201450min
Tornado: Hide and Seek
What do you do when a twisting funnel drops from the sky with tearing winds of up to 500 km an hour? Neal Razzell goes out and about with the storm chasers in Oklahoma City, USA.
24 Jul 201426min
