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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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years ago
Assignment: The Italian town where praying is a political issue
The Italian town of Monfalcone on the Adriatic coast has an ethnic make-up unique to the country. Of a population of just over thirty thousand, more …
2 years ago
In the Studio: B-girl Ray Gun
Known to many as breakdancing, breaking sprung up in the economic and social unrest of 1970s New York, as a form of expressive protest. Today, it is …
2 years, 1 month ago
Erasing Hong Kong
Hong Kong's history is being revised and erased - it's early origins, colonial legacy, post 1997 handover period and the crucial years since the mass…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Fifth Floor: Three years of Taliban rule
Three years ago the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. BBC Afghan journalists Shekiba Habib and Shoaib Sharifi were living and following the events…
2 years, 1 month ago
BBC OS Conversations: Protests in Bangladesh
It began as a peaceful student protest against the way some government jobs are reserved for war veterans and their families. The violence that follo…
2 years, 1 month ago
Heart and Soul: Wrestling for redemption in Jordan
Injuries meant wrestler Dan Russell missed out on two opportunities for glory at the Olympics back in the 1990s. But missing the chance to fight for …
2 years, 1 month ago
BONUS: World Book Club - Edna O'Brien
Following the death of the acclaimed Irish author Edna O’Brien, who died aged 93 in July 2024, a bonus edition of World Book Club which was first pub…
2 years, 1 month ago