BBC OS Conversations: Covid-19 'long-haulers'
Thousands of people across the globe are experiencing a worrying cycle of Covid-19 symptoms months after recovering from the disease. Four of the so-called 'Covid long-haulers’ - from South Africa, Ca...
23 Aug 202024min
Barbara Demick: True stories from North Korea
North Korea and Tibet are two of the most tightly-controlled societies on earth, and as a consequence their peoples are often misunderstood by the world’s media, caricatured respectively as aggressive...
20 Aug 202026min
Rulebreakers: How I disappear
In Japan, if you want to disappear from your life, you can just pick up the phone and a ‘night moving company’ will turn you into one of the country’s ‘johatsu,’ or literally ‘evaporated people.’ You ...
19 Aug 202027min
Vaccines, money and politics
Sandra Kanthal looks at what strategies are being put in place to transport a vaccine to countries around the world, who will be the first in those countries to get the vaccine, and, once it is availa...
18 Aug 202027min
BBC OS Conversations: Addiction during a pandemic
Nuala McGovern considers alcohol and drug addiction relapse during the pandemic. We hear from two men, in Kenya and the United States, about how they have fought their addictions while under lockdown....
16 Aug 202024min
Stitching souls
The women of Gee’s Bend have held on to their creative traditions, passed down from mother to daughter: spine-tingling gospel singing, and a unique style of bold, improvised quilting. Made from old cl...
16 Aug 202050min
Milton Nkosi: The apartheid child who changed Africa’s story
As a child of Soweto, apartheid South Africa’s most notorious black township, Milton Nkosi could easily have become an embittered adult; in June 1976 he witnessed the Soweto uprising in which white po...
13 Aug 202026min
Fighting talk: How language can make us better
When we talk about cancer it’s often hard to find the right words. As we search for the perfect thing to say, we find ourselves reaching for familiar metaphors; the inspiring people fighting or battli...
12 Aug 202027min
