Podcast Episodes

Coffee: Time for a new bean?

The Liberica bean is a species of coffee that growers are hoping will make their crops sustainable in the future as the climate changes.

We speak to …

3 years, 1 month ago

Fair pay for rooibos tea

The Khoi and San people, who discovered rooibos tea, have only recently started receiving a share of the industry's multimillion-pound profits.

They …

3 years, 1 month ago

Happy Birthday barcode

The barcode has become an essential part of the modern world. There are 10 billion barcode scans every day and they are used on products in every cou…

3 years, 1 month ago

Population: Your questions answered

As India is poised to overtake China as the world's most populous country, we put questions from World Service listeners to the author of 8 Billion a…

3 years, 1 month ago

Japan's aging population

Japan is the world’s fastest ageing country, nearly 30% of Japan’s population is already over 65. Devina Gupta looks into what the ever decreasing wo…

3 years, 1 month ago

Nigeria's brain drain

Bisi Adebayo investigates why so many young, highly skilled people leave Nigeria, known in the country as Japa.

Bisi hears from journalist Victoria Id…

3 years, 1 month ago

Italy's low birth rate

Italy’s population has decreased by approximately one million residents in the space of one year and forecasts predict that this is likely to worsen.…

3 years, 1 month ago

India's growing population

Devina Gupta reports on India's growing population and what that means for people living, working and running businesses there.

66 year old Radha Gup…

3 years, 1 month ago

The business of returning treasures

David Reid delves into the debate around the repatriation of problematic art and treasures. He visits one museum in the north-west of England attempt…

3 years, 1 month ago

Venezuela: 10 years on

Ten years ago this month, in March 2013, Venezuela’s charismatic socialist leader Hugo Chavez died and current president Nicolas Maduro took over.

In …

3 years, 1 month ago