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The Shiralee: D'Arcy Niland's 1955 Australian western
The Shiralee is a 1955 novel by D'Arcy Niland, telling the story of a wandering swagman on a journey through the Australian outback, accompanied by h…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
'No justice, just kills’
On 19 November 2005, US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, many of them women and children. The incident led to the longest US war crimes …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Film director Gurinder Chadha
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the inspiration behind Gurinder Chadha's new film Christmas Karma. Scrooge becomes Mr Sood, a miserly businessm…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The COP 30 summit and the climate change frontline
The 30th COP climate summit is under way in the Brazilian city of Belém. BBC World Service Environment Correspondent Navin Singh Khadka has been cove…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Changing religion for love
How difficult is it to stay together when you have different religious faiths? US Vice President JD Vance spoke recently about his interfaith marriag…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Finding my true self through Druidry
As a teenager, Mhara was struggling with her gender identity and sexuality. She felt completely alone. But finding books about witchcraft and Druidry…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ukraine's Colombian soldiers
From jungle guerrilla warfare to frozen trenches: why did they leave and will they ever return? The story of the Colombian soldiers choosing to fight…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Chinese crypto queen
Between 2014 and 2017 thousands of ordinary Chinese people handed their money over to a company that promised them fabulous riches by helping them to…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Chef Yoshifumi Yamaguchi
Exploring the culinary artistry of chef Yoshifumi Yamaguchi , a visionary bridging Kyoto and Kampala. As co-founder of Cots Cots, an artistic Japanes…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The great hunger: Stalin's famine in Kazakhstan
Few people outside Kazakhstan know of the famine that destroyed nomadic life in the 1930s, and left more than a third of the population dead or displ…
3 months, 3 weeks ago