The Fifth Floor: The Kenyan women saying no to motherhood
According to Kenya’s Health Ministry, between 2020 and 2023, about 16,000 women in Kenya decided to undergo a sterilisation procedure known as tubal ligation. While some of them already had children a...
15 Mar 202526min
BBC OS Conversations: Cuts to US foreign aid funding
On his first day in office, Donald Trump froze foreign aid funding, ordering an immediate review into USAID, the government agency which was running programmes in around 120 countries. The review was ...
15 Mar 202523min
Heart and Soul: Ayahuasca and the new spiritual tourism
For centuries, ayahuasca has been a sacred plant for the Shipibo-Konibo peoples of the Peruvian Amazon. Part medicine, part spiritual ceremony, ayahuasca and other plant medicines are revered practice...
14 Mar 202526min
The village of sex offenders
Set among endless sugar-cane fields in a remote part of southern Florida, Restoration Destination is a community made up of registered sex offenders. Created by a Christian ministry as a response to s...
13 Mar 202526min
Assignment: Guatemala’s ‘Indigenous Spring’
Guatemala’s been going through huge political upheavals. Protestors brought the country to a standstill with roadblocks and national strikes which lasted more than one hundred days, until they got the...
11 Mar 202526min
In the Studio: Kwaku Bediako
Ghanaian fashion innovator Kwaku Bediako is redefining luxury with sustainability at its heart. We step inside his world as he transforms second-hand garments into bold, high-fashion pieces, worn by g...
10 Mar 202526min
Witness History: Women's History Month special
Extraordinary stories from global women's history, as told by the people who were there. We hear about the Jewish feminists who demanded to pray as freely as men, the fight for transgender women right...
9 Mar 202552min
The Fifth Floor: Russia’s gymnastic drama
The head of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation has recently fallen from glory. Irina Viner has been the most powerful person in the sport for nearly 20 years, and has produced multiple world c...
8 Mar 202526min
