Breaking through

How breaking went from the inner city streets of New York City to the Olympic Games

• 49 mins

China in slogans

How Communist Party slogans reveal a turbulent century of Chinese history

• 49 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode three

How do the Unicode Consortium decide what is included in the official emoji keyboard?

• 23 mins

Lex Gillette: A leap in the dark

Paralympian Lex Gillette and guide coach Wesley go for Gold in 2021

• 26 mins

The road to rock'n'roll

How a network of black performance venues in a segregated USA shaped music history

• 49 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode four

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication

• 23 mins

A tale of two Tokyos

Ken Nishikawa and Nick Luscombe take inspiration and hope from the Tokyo Olympics of 1964

• 26 mins

Beijing: Beyond the masks

Liyang Liu explores her home city Beijing in the wake of the pandemic

• 49 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode five

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication

• 23 mins

Africa’s vaccine ambitions

What efforts are underway in Africa to build a home grown vaccine manufacturing industry?

• 26 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode six

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication

• 23 mins

Hiroshima successors

As memories of the atomic bomb fade, an unusual practice keeps survivors’ stories alive

• 26 mins

Three Pounds In My Pocket

Three pounds in my pocket

British South Asians and the 1990s: a golden decade

• 26 mins

Three Pounds In My Pocket

Three pounds In my pocket

In 2001 everything changed for British South Asians as the progress of the 1990s stalled

• 26 mins

Three Pounds In My Pocket

Three pounds in my pocket

British South Asians and the 1990s: a golden decade

• 26 mins

A bad business

Twenty years after the collapse of Enron, how difficult is it to commit corporate fraud?

• 49 mins

Archiving Black America

Maya Millett speaks to the archivists amplifying the buried stories of African-Americans

• 26 mins

The world according to search

A look at popular and puzzling internet searches from around the world

• 49 mins

Mikis Theodorakis remembered

Beyond Zorba – the prolific and turbulent life of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis

• 49 mins

9/11: The day that changed our lives forever

New Yorkers and others remember how they coped with the trauma of 9/11

• 49 mins

Afghanistan and me

Thirty years of Afghan’s tumultuous history, told through one woman’s experience

• 49 mins

Smart women, male genius

Science writer and broadcaster Angela Saini debunks the myth of male genius

• 26 mins

World Book Café: PEN

An exploration of Freedom of Expression around the world.

• 49 mins

Somalia’s forgotten hostages

The sailors held captive for years and the retired British Colonel who helped free them

• 26 mins

The lost art of breathing

Each of us takes more than 25,000 breaths a day. But are we even doing it right?

• 26 mins

More yield, less field

Could a farming technique called Pfumvudza be Zimbabwe's answer to food security?

• 26 mins

On the Covid ward

How medical teams look after the emotional well-being of Covid patients and families

• 49 mins

The hack that changed the world

Who was behind the 2009 hack and leak of emails that fuelled climate change sceptics?

• 49 mins

Trading tribulation

Exploring the highs and lows of financial trading on smartphone apps.

• 26 mins

Regarding the pain of others

The gulf between the reality of war and our ability to comprehend it

• 49 mins

Drone academy: Reaching for the sky

How drone technology is inspiring young Malawians to reach for the sky

• 26 mins

Changing country music

Lady Nade explores the roots of country and Americana and its debt to black music

• 49 mins

Internet instigators

Meet the internet instigators who are who are organising protests through social media

• 26 mins

Poison: Jacob Zuma's toxic obsession

Is Jacob Zuma the victim of an elaborate international conspiracy to poison him?

• 49 mins

Into the Stephen Sondheim archive

The work of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim explored by actor Maria Friedman

• 49 mins

Only bleeding: How Swedes opened up about periods

The provocative and practical ways Swedes made menstruation less taboo

• 26 mins

Malcolm in the Midlands

Why did one of the world’s most prominent civil rights activists visit Britain in 1965?

• 49 mins

The big $ giveaway

What's behind the trend for giving away money online?

• 26 mins

Parcels of CARE

How food packages from American relief organisation CARE eased starvation after WW2

• 49 mins

When the Beatles didn't meet Imelda

The disastrous visit to the Philippines by the Beatles in 1966

• 49 mins

CODA: I'm the thumb in my family

The remarkable stories of the children who act as interpreters for their deaf parents

• 26 mins

I Wonder as I Wander

The origins and emotional impact of the Appalachian carol I Wonder as I Wander

• 26 mins

Afghan girls given a sporting chance

The fortunes of teenage football players settling into new lives in the UK and Europe

• 49 mins

MTV@40

The birth of a ground-breaking concept - MTV, 24-hour music TV

• 49 mins

Generation change: Part one

The new generation of change makers working to fight hunger and climate change

• 49 mins

Generation change: Part two

The new generation fighting to taboos around organ donation and for diversity in STEM

• 49 mins

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Reflecting on the life of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning campaigner

• 26 mins

Instahappiness

Could one online inspirational quote actually change your life?

• 26 mins

Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime

The impact of Talking Heads' iconic single Once in a Lifetime

• 26 mins

Gone but not forgotten: Syria's missing persons

Wafa Mustafa has been searching for her dad since he went missing in Syria in July 2013

• 26 mins

Forest fear

Deforestation allows what's hidden within to get out, possibly to spread deadly pathogens

• 49 mins

Tale of a tiny fish: Part one

The tale of the disappearing yaboi - a tiny nutritious fish from Senegal

• 26 mins

Silence would be treason

The last prison writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa in the run-up to his execution

• 49 mins

Tale of a tiny fish: Part two

The tale of the disappearing Yaboi - a tiny nutritious fish from Senegal

• 26 mins

Music that survived the Nazis: Part one

The wealth of music during the Nazi era including secret sessions by Jewish musicians

• 49 mins

Fighting tobacco in Zambia

The story of Brenda Chitindi's efforts to introduce a Tobacco Control Bill in Zambia

• 26 mins

Music that survived the Nazis: Part two

How music was kept alive by Jewish musicians in the camps and ghettos of Nazi Europe

• 49 mins

Pakistan's long game

Owen Bennett-Jones examines the long game Pakistan played in the US defeat in Afghanistan

• 26 mins

No satisfaction

Why young people are having less sex than previous generations

• 26 mins

World Wide Waves '22: The sounds of community radio

Radio stations around the world keeping traditions alive

• 49 mins

Dark patterns

The complex web designs manipulating us to click, buy or subscribe

• 26 mins

The River Man

Why did the IRA execute Irish former policeman James Kane 100 years ago?

• 49 mins

Jobfished

How people were hired to work for a successful design agency but the whole thing was fake

• 26 mins

Inside the world's biggest humanitarian warehouse

Meet the men and women helping to run Unicef's central distribution hub in Copenhagen

• 26 mins

Ukraine: How did we get here?

Edward Stourton and expert guests explain the steps that led to the conflict

• 26 mins

Sumo's soaring success

Sumo star Konishiki Yasokichi discovers how the Japanese tradition is going global

• 26 mins

Bougainville's long road to independence

Is the Pacific island of Bougainville ready to become the world's newest country?

• 26 mins

Mass incarceration: From the inside

Ryan Burvick hears from those who have been through the prison system

• 49 mins

Why are we having less sex?

Author Jerry Barnett investigates the recent decline in sex in the western world

• 26 mins

Counting them in

Forty years on from the war, Mike Wooldridge reports on life in the Falklands today

• 49 mins

The house that Viktor built

Viktor Orban and the war in Ukraine. How dangerous is it for him and for Hungary?

• 26 mins

A coastal town in fear of the sea

Three fatal shark attacks have changed the remote, ocean-loving community of Esperance

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Black music in Europe: 1970-1980

Clarke Peters presents his history of black music in Europe

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Black music in Europe: 1980-1990

Stories from the history of black music in Europe over the last four decades

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Black music in France and Italy

Clarke Peters focuses on the era of Zouk and Kassav’ to MC Solaar, Tommy Kuti , RayJeezy

• 26 mins

The shadow of Algiers

Stories from France’s troubled history with Algeria and why they still matter today

• 49 mins

Healing with fire on koala country

In the land of the Yuin people, cultural burning is being reintroduced to revitalise land

• 26 mins

Who killed my grandfather?

The unsolved murder of Yemen’s former Foreign Minister, Mohamed Noman, in 1974

• 49 mins

Saving our species

Could paying farmers to conserve nature help save Australia’s unique wildlife?

• 26 mins

Ingenious II

Delve into the weird and wonderful world of your genes with Dr Kat Arney

• 49 mins

Shifting Cultures: From paddock to plate

The sisters embracing the environment, and sustainability into Australia's cattle farming

• 26 mins

Zelensky: The making of a president

From political novice to Ukraine’s wartime leader - a profile of President Zelensky

• 26 mins

War on truth

What is fake, what is real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine

• 49 mins

The Grand Egyptian Museum

Jonathan Glancey travels to Cairo to report on a truly remarkable construction project

• 26 mins

Unspun World with John Simpson

Sorting propaganda from wishful thinking in Russia’s war in Ukraine

• 26 mins

Grenada: Confronting the past

Laura Trevelyan discovers her family’s connection to the slave trade in Grenada

• 26 mins

Daria: Love and war

Daria in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, talks to Alan Dein about unexpectedly finding love at war

• 26 mins

Billionaire ball game

How the super-rich bought English football

• 49 mins

Escape from the Taliban

Sana Safi follows the stories of Afghan women judges trying to escape the Taliban.

• 26 mins

Don't log off: Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Alan Dein talks to Anna, Verena and Roman and hears how their lives have been blown away

• 26 mins

Mariupolchanka FC: Surviving the siege of Mariupol

The women of Mariupolchanka FC football team trying to find ways to endure the war

• 26 mins

The advertising trap

Digital advertising has taken over the world. But is it all based on smoke and mirrors?

• 49 mins

The other side of death row

What effect does having a relative facing execution have on families of the condemned?

• 26 mins

Don't log off: People are alike all over

Alan Dein talks to anyone, anywhere about their lives and their world

• 26 mins

The Royal diplomat

Emma Barnett tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II's unique global diplomacy

• 49 mins

Guarding the art

Meet the security staff at the Baltimore Museum of Art who are curating their own show

• 26 mins

Don't log off: Roads less travelled

Alan Dein talks to Shugofa, an Afghan refugee in Rome, Leo in Moldova, nurse Maureen

• 26 mins

The day I met the Queen

People the world over remember their meetings with The Queen during her 70 year reign

• 49 mins

The interview: Tina Brown

Katty Kay meets award-winning writer and magazine editor Tina Brown

• 23 mins