BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine and three years of war
The past week has seen talks between the United States and Russia – without Ukraine. This was followed by what seems to be a deepening rift between US President Trump and Ukrainian leader President Ze...
22 Feb 202524min
Heart and Soul: The only thing certain in life
In 2019, performer and writer Rochi Rampal found herself attending 10 funerals in one year. To contend with this, she embarked on her own “crash course” to better deal with death, and felt she had fou...
21 Feb 202526min
Witness History: US Black History Month special
Extraordinary stories from African-American history, told by the people who were there. We hear tales of bravery and survival against all odds, from the first African-American woman to lead a World Wa...
20 Feb 202552min
BBC Trending: Quadrobic panic in Russia over craze to dress and walk on all fours like animals
There’s a moral panic in Russia and several former Soviet states about a craze in which teenagers and children dress up as animals and walk on all fours like their favourite animals. In one TikTok vid...
19 Feb 202519min
Assignment: The village that came back from the dead
In Germany some 300 villages have been destroyed since the Second World War because of the coal that lay beneath them. Villagers have grown up in the knowledge that one day their house will be torn do...
18 Feb 202526min
In the Studio: Jennifer Walshe
Dublin-born Jennifer Walshe is one of the world’s most bold and imaginative contemporary classical composers, and holds the prestigious post of professor of composition at Oxford University. Whether i...
17 Feb 202526min
Ukraine: The architects' plan
As the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine approaches, we explore how the country will be rebuilt, who is coming up with the redesign of damaged cities, and what they might look like in ...
16 Feb 202552min
The Fifth Floor: What the US left behind in Afghanistan
When the American troops withdrew from Afghanistan, they left behind $7bn of military supplies. Where are they now? Hafizullah Maroof from BBC Afghan will take us inside the Kabul flea market that sel...
15 Feb 202526min
