Podcast Episodes

The Fifth Floor: Russia's crackdown on gay clubs

There have been at least 12 police raids on gay clubs in Russia since November 2023, when the country’s Supreme court banned what they call 'the global LGBT movement'. BBC Russian Anastasia Golubeva …

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

BBC OS Conversations: The first days of the Gaza ceasefire

We witness the first Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners being released following the signing of the ceasefire deal. More exchanges are expected over the coming weeks. Meanwhile some displaced…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Glorifying God through wine

When Father Père Basile was 12 years of age, he started thinking of a religious life. But it never crossed his mind that he would someday be living in a cloistered abbey in the south of France produc…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Israel’s UNRWA ban

What will it mean for Palestinians if Israel bans UNRWA, the UN agency that provides vital aid and essential services to millions of refugees in Gaza and the West Bank? The proposals have drawn wides…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

BBC Trending: Passport bros

Dating in Medellín, Colombia is being promoted to foreign men on YouTube, TikTok and other social media platforms. Lots of the videos, in English and Spanish, contain misogynistic language and sugges…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

Assignment: Death marches - uncovering the truth beneath the soil

How a town in Poland – once in Germany - is discovering its troubling past.

Eighty years ago Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi extermination camp. Over 1.1 million people, m…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

In the Studio: Michael Visocchi

In an old schoolroom in the Scottish Highlands, sculptor Michael Visocchi is working on Commensalis, a huge work that will be installed thousands of miles away, in Grytviken, an abandoned whaling sta…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

The Coming Storm: Inaugrutaion

America through the looking glass, a world where nothing is as it seems. Gabriel Gatehouse follows a cast of characters who have propelled Trump into the White House – twice. Many of them are now set…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

The Fifth Floor: IVF and me

When BBC Mundo journalist Ana Maria Roura found out she couldn't get pregnant, she decided to turn the camera on herself and document her struggle to become a parent through in vitro fertilisation, o…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

BBC OS Conversations: Living through the Los Angeles fires

Vast areas of Los Angeles have been destroyed since these fires began on 7 January. Thousands of homes and businesses have been lost, and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. We …

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago