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BBC OS Conversations: Covid-19 four years later
It is four years since we reported the first cases of an outbreak of a mysterious viral pneumonia in the city of Wuhan in China. Within months, what become known as Covid-19, had spread around the wo…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Assignment: Bones that speak
In 2016, the Philippines’ newly elected president, Rodrigo Duterte declared there was one, common enemy: the drugs trade. What followed was a bloodbath. Addicts, alleged traffickers, and many who hap…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
An octopus's garden
The octopus is prized as the most intelligent of all marine species – immortalised in stories, poems and songs worldwide. In Madagascar it is also a vital source of income. Hazel Healy takes a journe…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
The Approach
Adriana Brownlee is a mountaineering pioneer. The British woman became the youngest female to summit K2 - the second-highest mountain on Earth - in 2022. But mountains are changing and becoming more …
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
In the Studio: Manal AlDowayan
Internationally renowned Saudi artist Manal AlDowayan is midway through an ambitious public installation that will be shown in the Valley of Arts, in the desert of north-west Saudi Arabia. She has ju…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
HARDtalk: Past notes
A special programme remembering past HARDtalk guests who died in 2023. All of them left an indelible mark on public life and all, in their different ways, relished the opportunity we gave them to dis…
Published on 2 years ago
BBC OS Conversation: Adventurers
We have spent the last year here on BBC OS Conversations covering some of the World’s major news stories. As the year draws to a close, however, we thought it would be interesting to hear from three …
Published on 2 years ago
Assignment: Bolivia’s giant fish intruder
Some people said it was created by Peruvian scientists, that it gorged on the blood of farm animals, that it was a monster. Many myths have grown up in Bolivia around the Paiche, one of the world’s l…
Published on 2 years ago
HARDtalk: 2023 in review
Stephen Sackur looks back at some of HARDtalk’s most impactful and thought-provoking interviews of 2023.
Published on 2 years ago
In the Studio: Andrea Hernández
Photographer Andrea Hernández has been travelling around her native Venezuela documenting people and nature for her ongoing project called Mango Season. Mango season in Venezuela is a time of abunda…
Published on 2 years ago