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Bringing the Muppets to Moscow
Natasha Lance Rogoff’s daunting task of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia.
In the early 90s, American journalist Natasha Lance Rogoff was cov…
2 years, 11 months ago
Introducing: Love, Janessa
All episodes of our catfishing podcast are now available. You meet someone online. It turns out many others think they have fallen for the same perso…
2 years, 11 months ago
My life in seven swimming pools
Amjed Tantesh is determined to teach kids in Gaza to swim no matter how many pools he has to build.
Finding freedom in the water as a child, Amjed wan…
3 years ago
The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by a bullet
Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers.
He was a volunteer helping refugees escape Eastern Ukraine du…
3 years ago
I didn’t know I was part of an experiment
When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away.
In 1951, Greenland native Helene Thiesen was just seven years ol…
3 years ago
Eyes on the prize: Pakistan’s first trans film star
Rejected by family and society, trans actor Alina Khan was forced to spend time on the streets of her native Lahore as a child. Through dance, she fo…
3 years ago
Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2
In the ring, Blair finds calm amidst the chaos of his life. Back in the US Blair Cobbs falls again on hard times; homeless in Philadelphia his boxin…
3 years, 1 month ago
Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 1
From Beverly Hills to hiding from the law with his dad, Blair’s seen it all. To help him get through the tough times – and there’d be quite a few of …
3 years, 1 month ago
The mystery of the tartan twins
A baby left in a car, another in a telephone box. It would take decades to find out why.
When he was just a baby, David McBride made headline news in …
3 years, 1 month ago
Breaking my addiction to war
Fergal Keane's work as a war correspondent was destroying him, but he couldn't stop.
It was his job as a BBC journalist to help the audience make sens…
3 years, 1 month ago