Podcast Episodes

In the Studio: Shezad Dawood

The British artist, Shezad Dawood is known for his colourful textiles and multimedia artworks, often featuring music and VR to explore issues such as migration, the environment and climate change. Hi…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

BBC OS Conversations: What do Russians and Belarusians make of the Wagner Group?

Following the Wagner group march on Moscow, we hear from Russians and Belarusians.

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Heart and Soul: Nick Cave on grief, faith and music

The songwriter, poet and author, Nick Cave has a conversation about grief, faith and the spirituality of music with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. Nick writes hauntingly beautiful songs –…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

The Organ Harvesters

Assignment tells the story of a young street trader from Lagos who ended up at the heart of an organ harvesting plot involving a senior Nigerian politician and a hospital in the UK. The young man was…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Biniam Girmay: Africa’s new cycling hero

Biniam Girmay stands on the brink of history as the first black African rider to win a stage of cycling’s biggest race: the Tour de France. After a hard upbringing as one of six children in the Eritr…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

In the Studio: Matthew Xia

***This programme contains racially sensitive language and themes that may be upsetting.*** Matthew Xia is a theatre director and Olivier award-winning artistic director of the Actors Touring Company…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

BBC OS Conversations: Survival

Race against time rescue stories have been among the dominating international headlines in the past couple of weeks. There was the missing sub in the Atlantic and before that the incredible survival …

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Heart and Soul: Windrush at 75

Prof. Robert Beckford interviews Barbara Blake-Hannah the UK’s first black news reporter who returned to Jamaica after just eight years after coming over as part of the Windrush generation. She talks…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

South Korea: A room with a view

“It’s like living in a cemetery.” Jung Seongno lives in a banjiha, or semi-basement apartment in the South Korean capital Seoul. Last August parts of Seoul experienced major flooding. As a result sev…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

The monkey haters

There is disturbing material, including descriptions of violence and torture of monkeys, from the start of this programme.

There's a horrific and disturbing trade in the torture of Macaque monkeys tha…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago