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In the Studio: Willard Wigan
Dr Willard Wigan MBE creates the smallest handmade sculptures in the world. He uses high powered microscopes and custom-made tools formed from shards…
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Las Patronas
We visit the Las Patronas women 30 years on from when the young Romero Vazquez sisters first threw a loaf of bread onto the infamously dangerous La B…
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The Fifth Floor: Make-up and rebellion
In countries like Somalia and Iran, where women are largely expected to present themselves with modesty, what role can make-up play? Bella Hassan of …
1 year, 7 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: Supporters of Kamala Harris
Could a woman of colour be the next president of the United States? That is what much of America has been asking this week and it is at the heart of …
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Heart and Soul: America’s Atheist Street Pirates
On a busy street in Los Angeles a group of people in yellow vests are holding a ladder against a lamppost. Up the ladder, 34-year-old Evan Clark is r…
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India's wrestling school for girls
In the industrial town of Haryana in Northern India, young girls are breaking barriers training hard to become the next generation of gold medal-winn…
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The gay activists who won an Olympic-sized battle
In 1993 the legislators in Cobb County Atlanta passed a resolution stating that “lifestyles advocated by the gay community are incompatible with the …
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Introducing: World of Secrets S3
The Apartheid Killer. All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Relatives are still searching for graves, years later. At le…
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In the Studio: Massimo Bottura
Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana has twice been named the world’s best restaurant. Situated in Bottura’s hometown of Modena, a place renowned fo…
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The Romani holocaust: An unfinished history
The destruction of the Roma by the Nazi state and allies and their subsequent post war fate is little understood and still being written. Historian C…
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