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Storm over a teacup
In the mountainous east of Nepal many communities are dependent on tea. The nitrogen-rich soil of the high-elevation estates allow tea bushes to prod…
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In the Studio: Claudia Piñeiro
Claudia Piñeiro is a multi-award winning novelist, with many of her books being adapted for television. She's one of Argentina's most translated writ…
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Bonus: The Global Story
A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Is #Me Too finally exploding in French cinema?. The Global Story brings you one big story every weekda…
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Bonus: Hardtalk - Defying Putin
Russian authorities have announced the death of one of the country’s most significant opposition leaders Alexey Navalny in a remote penal colony in t…
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BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine war babies and returning home
It is two years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war has claimed tens of thousands of lives, left millions of Ukrainians as refugee…
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Three Million: 5. Ghosts
The Bengal Famine, particularly the experiences of people in the rural areas who suffered the most, is not well remembered today. There is no memoria…
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Three Million: 4. The tapes
Kavita Puri discovers a set of cassette tapes containing rare interviews with Indian civil servants who were on the ground across Bengal during the f…
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Three Million: 3. The f-word
Colonial authorities wanted to censor the famine. They were worried that Britain’s wartime enemies - the Germans and the Japanese - would use it as p…
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Three Million: 2. The cigarette tin
A boy decides how much rice he can give from a cigarette tin to hungry people. A Christian missionary sets up a makeshift relief hospital. A small ch…
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Three Million: 1. War
During the Second World War, at least three million Indian people, who were British subjects, died in the Bengal Famine. It was one of the largest lo…
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