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In the Studio: Amin Gulgee - Heavy metal
Amin Gulgee defies easy categorisation: he’s a metal sculptor, a curator, and one of Pakistan’s most innovative and cherished artists, the beating he…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
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 ma…
10 months, 2 weeks 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 Ser…
10 months, 2 weeks 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 the…
10 months, 3 weeks 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 …
10 months, 3 weeks 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…
10 months, 3 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. O…
10 months, 3 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 Wellingto…
10 months, 3 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 …
10 months, 3 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 i…
10 months, 3 weeks ago