The Mengele Twins
The testimonies of twins who survived the brutal medical experiments of Dr Josef Mengele during the second world war in Auschwitz.
31 Jan 201526min
The Best Nightclub in Africa
World renowned DJ and BBC 1Xtra presenter DJ Edu is on a journey to find the best nightclub in Africa. This programme is part of the BBC’s Richer World season
30 Jan 201549min
French, Republican and Muslim, Insha'Allah
In the wake of the recent attacks in Paris, do France’s Muslims feel there’s a place for them in the strongly secular Republic?
29 Jan 201526min
August Shines
British actor Lenny Henry traces the life and works of August Wilson, the great black playwright, whose work brought the lives of working-class, Pittsburgh African-Americans to Broadway and across the...
28 Jan 201527min
Love Your Wife Day
Even by the sometimes-bizarre standards of modern Japanese culture, the annual love-your-wife shout-out is one of the stranger rituals to have emerged in recent years. But what does it tell us about l...
27 Jan 201526min
Govindpuri Sound
Slum settlements have a strong visual identity. We are used to seeing TV footage of densely packed, ramshackle homes squeezed onto strips of land in inner cities. Dr Tom Rice, a sound anthropologist, ...
25 Jan 201550min
The Lives and Deaths of Naftali and Mohammed
Last summer the deaths of four innocent teenagers in Israel, three Jewish and one Israeli Arab, heightened tensions leading to the start of the 2014 Gaza war. Mike Thomson travels to Israel to speak w...
23 Jan 201550min
Germany, Islam and the new Right
Germany's nascent anti-Islamisation movement, Pegida, is attracting a new middle aged following to its weekly marches around the country. Catrin Nye meets its leader.
22 Jan 201526min
