The Fifth Floor: Pakistan's internet mystery
Why are people in Pakistan struggling to use messaging apps and social media? BBC Urdu's editor Asif Farooqi explains why this might be more than just a simple internet glitch. Plus, we hear from coll...
7 Sep 202422min
BBC OS Conversations: What's it like to have mpox
Mpox causes a headache, fever and a blistering rash all over the body. There have been more than 1,200 cases in parts of Central and West Africa since the start of this year. The milder version is now...
7 Sep 202423min
Heart and Soul: Synagogue for sale
Dr Aleksandra Janus is a Polish Cultural Anthropologist with a Jewish background from Warsaw, Poland. Living in the capital flattened by Nazi bombs and then recreated by Communism, her multi-layered i...
6 Sep 202426min
Bonus: CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?
In a bonus episode from CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?When listener Watum heard about the Titan submersible implosion in the news in 2023, a question popped up in his mind: if a...
5 Sep 202428min
West Bank: Settlers, guns and sanctions
For more than six months, a BBC Eye team has been investigating extremist settlers establishing a new type of illegal settlement known as a “herding outpost”. Some have been sanctioned by the UK and U...
3 Sep 202426min
Assignment: The 'ghost city' of Cyprus
The once glamorous Cypriot beach resort of Varosha has stood empty and frozen in time since war divided the island 50 years ago, but it is now partially open to tourists and there are hotly contested ...
3 Sep 202426min
Global Dancefloor: Tbilisi
Frank McWeeny heads to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, to meet the underground music community leading protests against government clampdown on freedom of expression and civil society groups. How vital is ...
2 Sep 202440min
In the Studio: Laurie Anderson
American artist Laurie Anderson is putting the finishing touches to her new album Amelia at Miraval Studios in southern France. This is Laurie's first record in six years, and she tells the story of r...
2 Sep 202423min
