BBC OS Conversations: Migrating from Africa
More than 60 people are currently feared lost at sea after trying to escape Senegal by boat for a better life in Europe. According to the UN, Africa accounts for only 14 percent of the global migrant ...
26 Aug 202324min
Heart and Soul: 60 years since ‘I have a dream’
Baptist minister Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered his "I have a dream" speech on 28 August 1963 to crowds of over 250,000 in Washington DC as part of the Great March, which called for jobs and freed...
25 Aug 202327min
Belize's blue bond
In 2020 Belize was broke. Again. This small, climate-vulnerable, Central American nation is home to the western hemisphere’s longest barrier reef. And it was about to default on a debt of over half a ...
24 Aug 202328min
Back to school: Supporting neuro-divergent students through LARP
Neurodivergent students learn, think, and process information differently than their neurotypical peers. Because of this, they often face unique challenges in the school setting. Students may struggle...
23 Aug 202323min
In the Studio: Nicola Benedetti
World famous violinist Nicola Benedetti starts her new job as Director of the Edinburgh International Festival. Anna Bailey follows her as she enters unchartered territory, commissioning new works and...
21 Aug 202327min
The famine at the edge of the ocean
Madagascar is experiencing its worst famine for over 30 years. With successive years of drought, this began in the country’s deep south but as successive cyclones hit Madagascar in 2022 and 2023, peop...
20 Aug 202350min
BBC OS Conversations: The fires in Hawaii
It is the deadliest wildfire in the United States in more than a century. On the Hawaiian island of Maui, block after block of the seaside town of Lahaina lies in ruins. Only the twisted wreckage of b...
19 Aug 202323min
Heart and Soul: German, soldier, Jew
After the horrific role played by the German military in the Holocaust, arguably the last place you would expect to find a Jew would be in the German Armed Forces. And yet it is estimated that today t...
18 Aug 202327min
