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Make me perfect: Manufacturing beauty in China
In China today, looking good is seen as key to career success. With beauty videos promoting extreme weight-loss flooding social media, beauty apps making booking surgery click of a button away, China…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
The Fifth Floor: Inside the Taliban's surveillance network
There are over 90,000 hi-definition CCTV cameras in Kabul, watching everyone’s movements. What are the Taliban using this footage for? BBC Afghan Services' journalist Mahjooba Nowrouzi was granted ex…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
BBC OS Conversations: Colourism
The issue of colourism was highlighted in a recent BBC news report about a Nigerian woman who bleached the skin of her six young children leaving them with discoloured skin, burns and scars. It is a …
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Heart and Soul: Our Sacred Harp
Sacred Harp pioneer and former punk frontman, Tim Eriksen, takes us into the hair-raising sound of shape note singing – an American choral tradition experiencing a resurgence across the US and in Eur…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Braille and me
Built around a game of braille Scrabble, Emma Tracey presents a celebration of braille, 200 years after it was invented. Emma, who’s been blind since birth, talks to others who love the six tiny dots…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Olympique Lyonnais: The Champions League trailblazers
Olympique Lyonnais is the most successful club in women’s football, dominating Europe over the last 15 years winning eight Champions League titles. Only Barcelona have recently been able to compete. …
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Assignment: New Zealand: What counts as Maori equality?
Maori have been protesting in large numbers, in a 9-day hikoi or march of defiance, walking from the top of New Zealand down to the capital Wellington, joined by non-Maori supporters too. They’re dem…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
In the Studio: Steve Reich
For 60 years, New York composer Steve Reich has been one of classical music’s most celebrated revolutionaries. Pioneering minimalism in the 1960s, a musical style based on repetition and shifting rhy…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Defeated: How ordinary Germans experienced the end of WW2
On 8 May 1945 Britain, the US and many other countries were rejoicing. Germany had surrendered, and World War Two was over, at least in Europe. Yet it was not a day of celebration for everyone - for …
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Fifth Floor: Stranded in Panama
On his first day as president, Donald Trump signed an executive order shutting down the asylum system at the US-Mexico border. He also promised huge changes to the US immigration system, including ar…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago