In the Studio: Thelma Schoonmaker
Thelma Schoonmaker is arguably the world’s most famous film editor, winning three Oscars in her 40-year career. Ever since Raging Bull, she has worked on all of Martin Scorsese’s major feature films l...
15 Jan 202427min
BBC OS Conversations on graduate unemployment
The pandemic, an economic downturn and the cost of living crisis have all taken their toll on the global job market. In China, millions of young people are struggling to find a job and in India 42% of...
13 Jan 202424min
Heart and Soul: Facing death in Kenya
In Kenya, palliative care - which involves end of life care for terminally ill patients - is often treated with suspicion. There's a deep taboo around speaking about the death of a person before it ha...
12 Jan 202427min
Assignment: The struggle for Barbuda's future
Campaigners on the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda are locked in a battle over its development by foreign investors who are building exclusive resorts for wealthy clients. The development of Barbuda ...
11 Jan 202429min
Building a future for cyclone-hit Mozambique
Five years after reporting on one of Mozambique’s worst cyclones, the BBC’s Nomsa Maseko returns to the city of Beira to meet the people on the frontline of climate change. With scientists predicting ...
10 Jan 202427min
The Return
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first recorded enslaved Africans in Virginia, America, in 2019 Ghana launched the ‘Year of Return’, an initiative to encourage the African di...
9 Jan 202445min
In the Studio: Poet Fred D’Aguiar
The poet, novelist and playwright Fred D’Aguiar was born in Britain, grew up in Guyana and now lives in Los Angeles. There he came across the story which became his most recent collection of poems, Fo...
8 Jan 202427min
BBC OS Conversations: Covid-19 four years later
It is four years since we reported the first cases of an outbreak of a mysterious viral pneumonia in the city of Wuhan in China. Within months, what become known as Covid-19, had spread around the wor...
6 Jan 202424min
