Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKazakhstan's new capital
How Kazakhstan's strongman president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, created a new capital, which would eventually be named after him; transformation in the U…
4 years, 7 months ago
Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
In one of the most controversial episodes of 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in Janu…
4 years, 8 months ago
The rise of Boko Haram
In 2009, Boko Haram, a small Islamist group, launched an insurgency in the north eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri. The conflict would eventually f…
4 years, 8 months ago
Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
The Indian independence campaigner, Subhas Chandra Bose, sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two to try to free his country from British rul…
4 years, 8 months ago
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Mozambique’s struggle to end Portuguese colonial rule and the assassination of Eduardo Mondlane, we'll hear from his daughter Nyeleti Brooke Mondlane…
4 years, 8 months ago
A history of games
The inside story of games that shaped the modern world. Including Atari's Nolan Bushnell on his game Pong which helped launch the video game industry…
4 years, 9 months ago
The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
In 2011, cybersecurity expert Manal Al-Sharif helped found the Women2Drive movement. It was designed to force the Saudi Arabian government to overtur…
4 years, 9 months ago
The birth of Bangladesh
A special edition on the Bangladesh War of Independence, which ended 50 years ago in December 1971. The conflict killed hundreds of thousands of peop…
4 years, 9 months ago
Four decades of HIV/Aids
It’s forty years since the first report on HIV/Aids appeared in a medical journal. Back in the early days in the 1980s a misunderstanding made one ma…
4 years, 9 months ago
The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
The three Mirabal sisters were leading figures in the Dominican Republic's opposition movement against the dictator General Rafael Trujillo. They wer…
4 years, 10 months ago