In the Studio: Cressida Cowell
Enter the magical world of children’s writer Cressida Cowell. She created the hugely successful How to Train Your Dragon series, which continues to excite children across the globe and has been turned...
12 Maj 202426min
The Fifth Floor: China’s global mining for green tech
The BBC's new Global China Unit tell Faranak Amidi about their investigation into Chinese mines overseas, and what it's like to work in them and live near them.
11 Maj 202427min
OS Conversations: Mass tourism
The pandemic stopped most of us travelling anywhere, but now the United Nations predicts that international tourism will soon return to pre-Covid levels. While that might be welcome if you’re making m...
11 Maj 202423min
Heart and Soul: A Colombian Christmas in February
In the heart of Colombia, very special Christmas celebrations take place not in December but in February. Its roots lie in the days of slavery when many Afro-Colombians were serving their masters' fes...
10 Maj 202426min
Twin towns
The small rural town of Igbo-Ora in south-western Nigeria proclaims itself to be the “twin capital of the world". It has an astonishingly high twin birth rate. Everyone here wants to have twins becaus...
9 Maj 202426min
Bonus: World of Secrets: The Disciples investigation live show
A bonus episode from the World of Secrets podcast. Inside the World of Secrets investigation – the story of the journalism behind The Disciples. Hear from the journalists and the whistleblowers about ...
8 Maj 202444min
Assignment: Italy's mafia whistleblower
Last year in Italy the biggest anti-mafia trial in 30 years reached a climax. On the stand were the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta: they are estimated to run 80 percent of Europe’s cocaine and to make more mon...
7 Maj 202426min
In the Studio: Abhishek Singh
Indian artist Abhishek Singh’s comic books have sold more than half a million copies and been translated into Italian, Spanish, French and English. His interpretation of the Indian myth, Krishna: A Jo...
6 Maj 202426min
