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The Art of Air Pollution
Air Pollution is responsible for around seven million deaths every year. Governments around the world have been trying to tackle it with a variety of…
1 year, 10 months ago
Assignment: Rejecting Public Education in Arizona
The so-called ‘parents’ revolution’ is happening in America - and it’s a revolt against the public education system. School choice campaigns are gain…
1 year, 10 months ago
In the Studio: Munch on the move
The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is best known for his expressionist painting The Scream. A pastel version of it fetched $ 120 million when it was l…
1 year, 10 months ago
'Indocumentados’: America’s undocumented migrants
The US is home to around seven million undocumented migrants from central and south America. Many have been in the US for years, providing a vital wo…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Fifth Floor: Vietnam's matchmakers
According to the UN, from 2008-2018 over 18,000 Vietnamese citizens a year married foreigners. The vast majority of them are women, and many find the…
1 year, 10 months ago
BBC OS Conversations: Gen Z and power change in Bangladesh
After weeks of student-led demonstrations and violence across Bangladesh, which caused the deaths of hundreds of people, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina…
1 year, 10 months ago
Heart and Soul: Digital grief
New digital technologies including AI have started to find a place in the grieving process, sometimes alongside more traditional religious rituals. '…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Global Jigsaw: The Taliban’s war on women
A bonus episode from The Global Jigsaw looks at how the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan has led to the erasure of women from public life. Th…
1 year, 10 months ago
Bonus: The Engineers - Intelligent Machines
This is a bonus episode for The Documentary of The Engineers: Intelligent Machines. This year, we speak to a panel of three engineers at the forefron…
1 year, 10 months ago
Solutions Journalism: Going bananas
A killer fungus is ravaging plantations of the Cavendish banana worldwide. It travels through the soil at lightning speed and chokes the banana plant…
1 year, 10 months ago