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Living in a bubble: The headphone revolution
Headphones and earbuds have experienced a phenomenal rise in popularity worldwide, transforming how people consume audio content and impacting on var…
1 year, 2 months ago
Assignment: Lebanon - Hezbollah in trouble
Hezbollah, the militia and political movement in Lebanon, has been battered by the war with Israel. Its leaders were assassinated, hundreds of fighte…
1 year, 2 months ago
In the Studio: Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros
Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros is the most expensive single artwork commission in Australian history. A $14 million, three-tonne, 10-metre wide freestanding s…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Covid generation revisited
Five years on from the global lockdown we catch up with the "Covid Generation", the class of 2020 - school leavers and graduates from around the worl…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Fifth Floor: Tales from Tbilisi
Faranak Amidi visits three places in Tbilisi, Georgia to find out more about its history and what's behind the current political turmoil in the count…
1 year, 2 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: Protests in Turkey
Across Turkey, hundreds of thousands of people have been taking to the streets after the arrest of President Erdogan’s main political rival, the Mayo…
1 year, 2 months ago
Heart and Soul: Kai Höss - My grandfather the Commandant of Auschwitz
In a cinema in south-west Germany, an audience is gathered to watch an Oscar-winning film, The Zone of Interest, about the life of Rudolf Höss, comma…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Cultural Frontline: The Los Angeles fires
The fires that devastated parts of Los Angeles in January this year killed at least 29 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Angelino Laura Hubber…
1 year, 2 months ago
Malawi: Life in your years
Life expectancy in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, increased by 19 years (from 46 to 65) from 2000 to 2019 - mostly due to reducti…
1 year, 2 months ago
Assignment: Who is Alice Guo?
The global online scamming industry is said to be worth some $500 billion a year. It operates in secret, in complexes hidden behind high fences in co…
1 year, 2 months ago