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Female founders: Green tech in the blue economy
Subsistence fishing employs hundreds of millions of people around the world. It’s an enormous business worth trillions of dollars. It’s also a dirty business. High-cost diesel motors and expensive, i…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Inside Afghanistan's secret schools
In March 2022, seven months after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, second level education was banned for girls, leaving around 1.1 million of them without access to formal schooling. The…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
In the Studio: Ajay Chowdhury
The Indian-born crime fiction author, Ajay Chowdhury, is writing the fifth instalment of his Detective Kamil Rahman series, set between India and the UK. But Ajay is also a leading digital tech entre…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Beats, rhymes and life: Hip-hop at 50
DJ and writer Lynnée Denise marks hip-hop’s 50th year by speaking to leading names about the music, the art and the creativity of this global cultural movement. Legendary hip-hop producer Pete Rock r…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
BBC OS Conversatioms: Living through a coup
Niger has been the focus of international and diplomatic attention over the past week after its democratically elected president was removed from power by the military. In recent days, we have seen h…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Heart and Soul: Online spiritual communities
A doctor in New York, Anjoli has been longing for a space to practise spirituality within a like-minded community, but she does not want to go to her parents’ Hindu temple. Whilst she likes the ritua…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Returning to Romania
Millions of people left Romania after it entered the EU in 2007. They were haemorrhaging doctors at such a rate they had to shut entire hospitals and losing so many builders they had to cancel major …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
A billion batteries
Fourteen-year-old Sri Nihal Tammana is on a mission to prevent billions of batteries going to landfill. After watching devastating fires cause by discarded lithium-ion batteries, the kind of batterie…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Invading the past: Russia and science fiction
Science fiction flourished from the earliest days of the Soviet Union. A rare space to explore other realms and utopian dreams of progress. But with the Soviet Union's collapse different narratives b…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
In the Studio: Sophie Hannah
The crime writer Agatha Christie remains the best-selling novelist of all time even though her death was almost 50 years ago. Her fictional detective Hercule Poirot has attained legendary status, so …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago