The gift of science
Our present to you is the science of gifts. First, we investigate the health benefits of donating blood, and find out about the predator sharing a feast of food in the Arctic. We are then joined in th...
25 Dec 202549min
Bonus: 2025 in conversations from The Interview
2025 on The InterviewIn 2025, the BBC launched The Interview, bringing you the best conversations from across the BBC. People shaping our world from all over the world.This special episode for The Doc...
24 Dec 202526min
Argentina's elusive big cats
After decades of extinction, wild jaguars are once again roaming in Northern Argentina. It has been at least thirty five years since a wild jaguar cub was spotted in this dry and dusty part of Argenti...
23 Dec 202526min
Michael Symmons Roberts' Christmas card poem
There’s a tradition among poets to write a poem to put inside the Christmas cards they send. So, the BBC World Service has commissioned one specially from the poet, dramatist and novelist Michael Symm...
22 Dec 202526min
United in space: How we built the ISS
Celebrating 25 unbroken years of humans living in space, former international director of the UK Space Agency Dr Alice Bunn charts how nations put aside differences to create the ultimate symbol of hu...
21 Dec 202549min
Living in fear on South Africa's farms
In February, American President Donald Trump signed an executive order which said that South African Afrikaners - descendants of mainly Dutch settlers who arrived in the 17th Century - could be admitt...
20 Dec 202526min
Jewish Australians on the Bondi Beach attacks
The Australian government says it will crack down on hate speech following the deadly shooting that targeted a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach. People had come together to celebrate Hanukkah when two g...
20 Dec 202523min
Prayers through the checkpoints
Imagine being able to see your place of worship, but not be able to reach it. For many Palestinian Muslims in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, stricter Israeli security measures, rising tens...
19 Dec 202526min
