Solutions Journalism: The art of air pollution
Air Pollution is responsible for around seven million deaths every year. Governments around the world have been trying to tackle it with a variety of measures. But now, the fight against air pollution...
14 Aug 202422min
Assignment: Rejecting Public Education in Arizona
The so-called ‘parents’ revolution’ is happening in America - and it’s a revolt against the public education system. School choice campaigns are gaining ground across the country, fighting for tax-fun...
13 Aug 202426min
In the Studio: Munch on the move
The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is best known for his expressionist painting The Scream. A pastel version of it fetched $ 120 million when it was last auctioned in 2012, making it the most expensive...
12 Aug 202426min
'Indocumentados’: America’s undocumented migrants
The US is home to around seven million undocumented migrants from central and south America. Many have been in the US for years, providing a vital workforce for many sectors of the US economy. But the...
11 Aug 202426min
The Fifth Floor: Vietnam's matchmakers
According to the UN, from 2008-2018 over 18,000 Vietnamese citizens a year married foreigners. The vast majority of them are women, and many find their foreign husbands through special matchmaking age...
10 Aug 202419min
BBC OS Conversations: Gen Z and power change in Bangladesh
After weeks of student-led demonstrations and violence across Bangladesh, which caused the deaths of hundreds of people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has fled to India and resigned after 15 years of c...
10 Aug 202423min
Heart and Soul: Digital grief
New digital technologies including AI have started to find a place in the grieving process, sometimes alongside more traditional religious rituals. 'Grief tech' concepts are springing up across the wo...
9 Aug 202426min
The Global Jigsaw: The Taliban’s war on women
A bonus episode from The Global Jigsaw looks at how the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan has led to the erasure of women from public life. There’s a UN-led campaign to recognise it as “gender ...
8 Aug 202437min
