The Kremlin and its opponents
This week, as the leading opposition figure in Russia, Alexei Navalny, lies comatose in Berlin’s Charité hospital, Sarah Rainsford in Moscow considers the Kremlin’s peculiar hate and fear of its criti...
29 Aug 202028min
From Our Home Correspondent 25/08/2020
Mishal Husain presents a range of perspectives on Britain today.Edinburgh is usually thronged with crowds and alive with performers from around the world at Festival time. But the Scottish capital is ...
25 Aug 202027min
The Democrats unconventional convention
Former US Vice-president Joe Biden accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for the presidency via video-link from his home in Wilmington, Delaware. The party convention was going to be a big celebr...
22 Aug 202028min
Japan's Second World War Legacy
It's the 75th anniversary of VJ Day today, Victory over Japan, when Japan surrendered to the US, Britain and China. That ended the Second World War. Japan was given a new, pacifist constitution by the...
15 Aug 202026min
The death knell for Beirut?
In Lebanon, shock is turning to anger at the authorities and political class at large, after the catastrophic blast in the capital Beirut. It was caused by explosive chemicals stored improperly at the...
8 Aug 202028min
From Our Home Correspondent 04/08/2020
In the latest programme of the monthly series, Mishal Husain introduces dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom reflecting contemporary life.When lockdown dramatically curtai...
4 Aug 202027min
Taking on the ruler of Belarus
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya had nothing to do with politics until recently, and has now become the main opposition candidate for the presidential election in Belarus on the 9th of August. She became a cand...
1 Aug 202028min
Unrest in Russia's eastern outpost
Tens of thousands of people in Russia's Far-Eastern city of Khabarovsk have been demonstrating against the removal of the popular local governor Sergei Furgal. He was arrested on old murder charges da...
25 Juli 202028min
