Podcast Episodes

My blessed boy: The millennial saint

How does a seemingly ordinary boy prove to be so extraordinary that he’s given a halo by the Catholic Church? Saint Carlo Acutis was just 15 years ol…

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Saving Gaza's past

The history of Gaza dates back more than 5000 years. In antiquity, it was a key port on the Mediterranean coast. Assyrians, Ancient Greeks, Romans, B…

1 year, 1 month ago

Kharkiv: Love in a warzone

Over the past year, BBC Eye has documented life in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, helping to capture the deeply personal stories of those li…

1 year, 1 month ago

MAST: Architecture on water

Rising sea levels and a worldwide shortage of buildable land make the prospect of floating buildings and infrastructure more beneficial than ever. M…

1 year, 2 months ago

Colombia's cocaine submarines

Deep inside the Colombian Amazon hi-tech submarines are being built. When it comes to making the cocaine trade more profitable, there’s nothing narco…

1 year, 2 months ago

Grey divorce

There’s plenty of chat on social media about so-called ‘grey divorce’. But are older people around the world really splitting up in record numbers?

Th…

1 year, 2 months ago

Blessed with bread

To Italians, bread is life. With 250 varieties across the country, it’s eaten with almost every meal. Its importance speaks to national values of com…

1 year, 2 months ago

Germany's timber detectives

On the outskirts of Hamburg, Dr Gerald Koch is surrounded by wooden objects - chairs, board games, paint brushes - ready for inspection. His team of …

1 year, 2 months ago

Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk

BBC Trending: Why are some Americans yelling at clouds?

On 4 July, just hours after flash floods hit the US state of Texas, killing more than 130 peop…

1 year, 2 months ago

Galicia’s wild horses in peril

Europe’s largest herd of wild horses, in north-west Spain, is under threat. Numbers have halved in the last fifty years. Now around ten thousand wild…

1 year, 2 months ago