Spanning the World - Part Two
The Ponte Milvio, the bridge that spans the Tiber river in Rome, is a site of both romantic and religious pilgrimage. What place has the bridge had in ancient - and modern - history?
5 Mars 201022min
Great Expectations, part two
Nina Robinson returns to east London for the second part of Great Expectations, the series discovering the community living in the shadows of the London 2012 Olympics. She hears from Hilary, who has t...
3 Mars 201023min
The Virtual Revolution - Enemy Of The State
How has the online world impacted on global politics? Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping power.
1 Mars 201023min
Spanning the World - Part One
Italian artist Joseph Stella depicted the Brooklyn Bridge in New York as a metaphor for the immigrant experience in America. What does the bridge mean to people who cross it today?
26 Feb 201023min
Assignment: Taxing Questions for Greeks
No-one likes paying tax - but avoiding it is a way of life for many people in Greece, whose black economy is estimated to be worth more than a quarter of its GDP. This certainly hasn't helped the gove...
25 Feb 201022min
Great Expectations, part one
The world may be coming to East London in 2012, but the world is already represented and residing in Hackney, East London. With the Olympics arriving on their doorstep, BBC World Service will be follo...
24 Feb 201023min
The Virtual Revolution -- The Great Leveller
Since its birth almost twenty years ago, the World Wide Web has transformed our world : A quarter of the planet is now online and able as never before to communicate, publish, and garner information s...
22 Feb 201022min
Polar Bear Kebabs
Iranian Kazem Ariaiwand runs the most northerly kebab shop on the planet. This is his extraordinary story.
19 Feb 201023min
