India’s Wedding detectives
The number of families in India employing detectives to spy on future brides and grooms is on the rise. Many dozens of premarital investigations happen each week, it’s now reported. Ed Butler has bee...
27 Feb 201426min
Guantanamo Voices
Ex-Guantanamo detainees talk about freedom and how detention in the military prison changed their lives and thinking.
25 Feb 201427min
Missing Histories: China and Japan
They are Asia’s economic giants – yet the historical record of Japan and China continues to cause tensions. In programme two, Japanese journalist Mariko Oi and Chinese journalist Haining Liu, travel ...
22 Feb 201449min
Lebanon – Dancing into the Abyss
Kim Ghattas travels through her native country Lebanon exploring the deepening sense of anxiety there over the war in neighbouring Syria.
20 Feb 201426min
Missing Histories: China and Japan
They are Asia’s economic giants - yet the historical record of Japan and China continues to cause tensions. China’s leaders accuse Japan of failing to apologise for its wartime aggression – while Jap...
15 Feb 201449min
Digging up the Dead in Russia
The story of Russia's volunteer diggers armed with spades and metal detectors who search forests and swamps for the remains of Red Army soldiers seventy years after World War Two.
13 Feb 201426min
My War, My Playlist
What role does music play for today’s soldiers? Soldiers stationed at Camp Bastion describe their music as an essential part of their lives - helping to drown out the hum of activity around camp and h...
8 Feb 201450min
The Right to Die for Children
Voluntary euthanasia for adults has been legal since 2002 in Belgium. Now legislators are considering extending the right to die to children who are terminally ill.
6 Feb 201426min
