In the Studio: Kieran Stanley - Designing a Zoo
Zoo designer Kieran Stanley has created some of the world's most impressive spaces to care for animals ranging from the Indian rhinoceros to the giant panda. He is passionate about animal welfare, wan...
30 Okt 202327min
BBC OS Conversations: Jewish-Palestinian couples
Observing the suffering on both sides of the Israel and Gaza war, are couples and families around the world in which individuals with Jewish and Palestinian heritage have come together and built a sha...
28 Okt 202323min
Heart and Soul: The New York Supreme Court's first female Hasidic judge
Rachel Freier was 30 when she started her training to be an attorney, and many people told her she was making a mistake. Growing up in an ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York,...
27 Okt 202327min
Assignment: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Russian Theatre
Tatiana Frolova wasn’t born to be a theatre director. She grew up in the 1960s and ‘70s in a cut-off part of a closed country, the Soviet Far East. She was a shy, nervous girl brought up by a silent m...
26 Okt 202327min
Africa's urban future: What next?
Faced with the ever-quickening pace of urbanisation, what is the future for Africa's swelling cities? Experts predict that Africa could be home to forty percent of humanity by the end of this century,...
24 Okt 202337min
In the Studio: PAC NYC
September 2023 sees the opening of PAC NYC – the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York. It’s the final building in the new piazza, situated on the site of the World Trade Center in lower Manhatt...
23 Okt 202327min
Other people's children
Mothers from all over the world leave their families in search of economic opportunities elsewhere – and they often end up working as nannies, which means they spend their days with children while the...
22 Okt 202350min
BBC OS Conversations: Teenagers in Gaza and Israel
In recent days, there have been warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza amid continual bombardment. In Israel, the discovery of bodies continues in the communities near the border, following th...
21 Okt 202324min
