A fight for light in Lebanon
Life in Lebanon is a daily battle to beat the power cuts caused by the country's chronic electricity shortage. If you live in a block of flats, you have to time when you go in and out to avoid getting...
12 Dec 201927min
From Bude to Berlin
Gordon Corera becomes the first journalist allowed to record inside GCHQ's listening station at Bude on Britain’s south-west coast. The station has spied on global communications satellites for decade...
11 Dec 201927min
My Big Korean-Iranian Wedding
Hossein Sharif is an Iranian boy, about to marry Hee Sue, a South Korean girl. As the families begin to meet, Sharif discovers all the criss-crossing roads that the couple's home countries have travel...
10 Dec 201927min
The digital election: How social media is reshaping UK democracy
In the UK’s 2019 general election, social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram are playing a more prominent role than in any previous campaign. As the election enters its fina...
7 Dec 201927min
Sri Lanka: The new climate of fear
There’s a new climate of fear in Sri Lanka. This time it’s the Muslim community who are fearful of the future. The Easter bomb attacks in Sri Lanka - targeting churches and international hotels - horr...
5 Dec 201926min
How Scarborough saved the world
The work of GCHQ started just after the end of World War One as telegraph became a vital means of military communications. We hear from people who worked at the listening station in the Yorkshire seas...
4 Dec 201927min
Giving peace a chance
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bed-in for peace protest and the people who witnessed it
3 Dec 201932min
The man who laughed at al-Qaeda
Raed Fares, founder of Syria's legendary Radio Fresh FM, was mowed down by unknown gunmen as he left his studios in rebel-held Idlib in November 2018. The death of the man who fought hatred with humou...
28 Nov 201927min
