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When Shiraz calls
A personal account of day-to-day life in Iran told through the conversations of two Iranian sisters – one in the UK, the other in the Iranian city of…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Introducing: Focus on Africa - Electric vehicles: fixing Africa's fuel crisis?
Kenya is the latest African country to increase fuel prices citing the US-Israel war with Iran. While announcing one of the steepest pump price incre…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Victim or Accomplice? The Story of Jeffrey Epstein’s Pilot Girlfriend
Nadia Marcinko, originally Marcinková, was born in Slovakia and met Jeffrey Epstein as an 18-year-old model. Later, she became a successful aircraft …
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Thomas Keneally: What’s next for the Schindler’s List author?
Rachel Naylor visits the Booker Prize-winning author Thomas Keneally in his home in Sydney, Australia, to see how he writes his latest book. He gives…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Introducing: CrowdScience - What keeps the universe in balance?
Listener Ndanusa in Ghana, is gazing up at the stars, and wondering what keeps our universe in balance? Ndanusa knows a thing or two about the stars,…
3 weeks ago
How Belarus silenced its free press
Until the end of March this year, BBC News Russian was the only source of independent reporting in Belarus, where journalism has been suppressed. Aro…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Hantavirus nearly killed me
It’s just over six weeks since the ship, MV Hondius, left Argentina for a cruise visiting remote islands in the South Atlantic. A month later, three …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Speaking from the Heart
Anna was just 25, and newly married living near Oxford when she suffered a massive stroke, caused by a tumour in her heart. It initially left her loc…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
An animal exodus
The Natural History Museum of London is getting ready to move 28 million of its precious specimens to a new state-of-the-art home. Imagine moving ten…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Introducing: Not By The Playbook - Why it is never too late
First, the story of Mike Flynn whose remarkable resilience and incredible fitness helped achieve his goal to play college football at the age of fift…
3 weeks, 4 days ago