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Assignment: Ivory Coast's cocoa crisis
From the journey from cocoa to chocolate in Ivory Coast. The price of cocoa - the essential ingredient in chocolate - has more than quadrupled on the…
2 years, 1 month ago
In The Studio: Tuan Andrew Nguyen - The healing power of art
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam in 1976, was only two years old when his family were made refugees by the war. They ended up in Texas, in…
2 years, 1 month ago
Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary
A bonus episode from the Lives Less Ordinary podcast.
In 1982 Mississippi, two boys, Chris Strompolos and Eric Zala, aged 10 and 11, embarked on a cra…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Fifth Floor: Pakistan's internet mystery
Why are people in Pakistan struggling to use messaging apps and social media? BBC Urdu's editor Asif Farooqi explains why this might be more than jus…
2 years, 1 month ago
What's it like to have mpox
Mpox causes a headache, fever and a blistering rash all over the body. There have been more than 1,200 cases in parts of Central and West Africa sinc…
2 years, 1 month ago
Synagogue for sale
Dr Aleksandra Janus is a Polish Cultural Anthropologist with a Jewish background from Warsaw, Poland. Living in the capital flattened by Nazi bombs a…
2 years, 1 month ago
Bonus: CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?
In a bonus episode from CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?
When listener Watum heard about the Titan submersible implosion in the n…
2 years, 1 month ago
West Bank: settlers, guns and sanctions
For more than six months, a BBC Eye team has been investigating extremist settlers establishing a new type of illegal settlement known as a “herding …
2 years, 1 month ago
Assignment: The 'ghost city' of Cyprus
The once glamorous Cypriot beach resort of Varosha has stood empty and frozen in time since war divided the island 50 years ago, but it is now partia…
2 years, 1 month ago
Global Dancefloor: Tbilisi
Frank McWeeny heads to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, to meet the underground music community leading protests against government clampdown on freedom of…
2 years, 1 month ago