Deep Waters: Container ships
Container ships are the monsters of the seas - the very biggest are almost half a kilometre long and piled high with up to 20,000 huge boxes. At any one time, there are tens of thousands of these floa...
10 Apr 202327min
Deep Waters: Sanctions and the new 'dark' fleet
Shipping has long been one of the most opaque of global industries. Now many operations in the oil sector, which accounts for nearly a third of all seaborne trade, have become still more secretive, fo...
10 Apr 202327min
Deep Waters: The hidden world of global shipping
Bulk carriers are the ships that keep the modern world going - like the MV Raeda and the MV Olivian Confidence carrying grain from Ukraine to Turkey, and flour to Afghanistan and Yemen. Zig zagging ac...
10 Apr 202328min
OS Conversations: Guns in America
Funerals have been taking place for victims of the latest mass shooting in the United States. Six people – including three children aged 9 – were killed in the attack at the Covenant School in Nashvil...
7 Apr 202324min
Heart and Soul: Clergy in cartel land
Mexico has become the most dangerous country in the world to be a Catholic priest. In the past 15 years, 50 were killed in narco-related violence. And the young men who enter the priesthood in the reg...
6 Apr 202327min
Vienna: Getting housing right
Affordable housing is in widespread crisis. Many cities around the world have failed to build enough houses with good design and make living in them affordable – whether rented or bought. This effects...
6 Apr 202327min
In the Studio: Nikita Gill
The poet Nikita Gill has written several volumes of poetry, and enjoys engaging poetically with her audience using social media. Her work often explores Greek myths, and her latest project is a series...
3 Apr 202327min
Being gay in Africa
It’s illegal in around 30 countries in Africa to be in a same-sex relationship and recently there’s been political debate in places such as Uganda and Ghana around stricter laws. We’ve also reported o...
1 Apr 202324min
