In Search of The Real Searchers
Sixty years ago John Ford travelled to Monument Valley to make his greatest Western, The Searchers. Based on Alan LeMay’s novel, it is still a powerful tale of race, violence and redemption as Ethan E...
13 Jun 201552min
Who Killed Alberto Nisman?
Wyre Davies investigates the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor who had accused Argentina’s government of trying to cover up the deadliest terror attack in the country’s histor...
12 Jun 201526min
Writing a New South Africa: Page and Stage
Poet Thabiso Mohare looks at the challenges, tensions and solutions facing South African writers. He talks to publishers, writers and poets about the issue of a small book-reading culture being exacer...
10 Jun 201526min
The Resurrection Men
For centuries, students of medicine have dissected the dead. But the idea of wilfully donating one’s body to medicine is somewhat new. People donating their bodies to science has sufficed the medical ...
9 Jun 201527min
Istanbul: Resisting Erdogan’s Bulldozer
Turkey goes to the polls on Sunday in a critical general election. Many of the voters opposed to the ruling party of President Erdogan are putting their hopes in the HDP, which has its roots in Kurdis...
4 Jun 201526min
Writing a New South Africa: Johannesburg
Poet Thabiso Mohare talks to Johannesburg-based writers and poets about the changing cityscape and how the past impacts on the present in their work. He speaks to Ivan Vladislavic, who has documented ...
3 Jun 201527min
Soccer Nuns
With the Fifa Women’s World Cup kicking off in Canada on 6 June, we join the Tibetan women’s soccer team, the Snow Lionesses, as they begin the match of their lives, including trying to achieve intern...
2 Jun 201527min
A Brief History of Anger
Spats, tantrums and explosions from the archive. American satirist Joe Queenan presents.
30 Mai 201550min
