My very extended family

When Julia discovers she has more than twenty siblings, she must redefine her family

• 49 mins

Afghan Stars

Afghan Star: A TV talent show

The TV talent show at the forefront of the continuing struggle in Afghanistan

• 26 mins

Afghan Stars

Afghan Star: Music, tradition and the Taliban

Sahar Zand meets talent show finalist Zahra Elham and musicians defying the Taliban

• 26 mins

The Museum Of Lost Objects

Palmyra

The story and destruction of the Temple of Bel,Mar Elian and the Lion of al-Lat

• 49 mins

The Museum Of Lost Objects

Bombed and Bulldozed in Syria

"Archaeology is supposed to be fun and apolitical...but none of this is now"

• 49 mins

The Museum Of Lost Objects

Looted in Iraq

The treasures that have been destroyed or looted during the wars in Iraq and Syria

• 49 mins

The Museum Of Lost Objects

Museum of Lost Objects: Return to Aleppo

One man’s extraordinary quest to find out what became of his home in Aleppo’s old town.

• 52 mins

The Museum Of Lost Objects

Return to Aleppo

One man’s extraordinary quest to find out what became of his home in Aleppo’s old town.

• 49 mins

The Museum Of Lost Objects

The Necklace That Divided Two Nations

India and Pakistan's tussle for Indus Valley antiquities after partition

• 49 mins

The Museum Of Lost Objects

Delhi's Stolen Seat of Power

The creation and capture of Mughal India’s coveted Peacock Throne

• 49 mins

The Museum Of Lost Objects

The fire that scorched Brazil’s history

Inside the ruin of Brazil’s National Museum – and the struggle to revive it

• 49 mins

Her Story Made History

Her Story Made History: Monica McWilliams

Monica McWilliams was one of two women at the negotiations of the Good Friday Agreement

• 26 mins

Her Story Made History

Her Story Made History: Madeha al-Ajroush

Madeha al-Ajroush battled for 30 years to get women the right to drive in Saudi Arabia

• 26 mins

Her Story Made History

Her Story Made History: Vigdis Finnbogadottir

In 1980, Vigdis Finnbogadottir became the first female head of state of Iceland

• 26 mins

Her Story Made History

Her Story Made History: Shukria Barakzai

Shukria Barakzai was one of a handful of female MPs in Afghanistan to speak up for women

• 26 mins

Her Story Made History

Her Story Made History: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa

• 26 mins

Her Story Made History

Vaira Viķe-Freiberga: The first female president of Latvia

Vaira Viķe-Freiberga became president of Latvia in 1999 and re-elected in 2003

• 26 mins

Her Story Made History

Betty Bigombe: Ugandan peace negotiator

Betty Bigombe spent much of her career trying to negotiate peace with warlord Joseph Kony

• 26 mins

Her Story Made History

Journalist Maria Ressa

Filipina-American journalist and author Maria Ressa is one of a few combating fake news

• 26 mins

Her Story Made History

Michelle Bachelet: Chile's first female president

How Michelle Bachelet rose to be the first woman to serve as president of Chile

• 26 mins

The Sunscreen Song: The class of '99

How director Baz Luhrmann’s unusual pop song became a global hit

• 49 mins

Living with leprosy

Aleks Krotoski on the history of leprosy and its stigma.

• 26 mins

World War Two: The economic battle

How the countries involved in WW2 fought to feed their people and fund their armies

• 49 mins

The imam and the artist

Searching for justice for South Africa’s Imam Abdullah Haron who spoke against apartheid

• 26 mins

America's child brides

In America children can get married legally in most states. Jane O'Brien investigates.

• 49 mins

How to buy your own country

The winners and losers from the booming global citizenship trade.

• 26 mins

Detours

Doctor Fake News

Medical student Elena ran out of money, so she started writing fake news stories for cash

• 26 mins

Detours

Where the homeless elephants go

Forced off their usual feeding routes, wild elephants surround a village in Assam, India

• 26 mins

Detours

Eighteen Greeks a week

Dead bodies travel along mountain passes for cremation in another country

• 26 mins

Detours

Imran is stateless

Imran fled violence in Myanmar – now he is in detention in Papua New Guinea

• 26 mins

Detours

The last cola in the desert

A Costa Rican city is an unexpected home for people in search of a better life in the US

• 26 mins

Useful Idiots

Episode 1

Lenin's description of intellectuals who gave their blessing to tyrannies and tyrants.

• 25 mins

Useful Idiots

Episode 2

Intelligent people manipulated by dictators into saying good things about bad regimes

• 25 mins

Passport to paradise

In Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific Island Nation, a controversial passport scheme is a concern

• 26 mins

Translating for mum and dad

Meet the children who help their immigrant parents navigate life in the UK by translating

• 26 mins

Cuba's digital revolution

Cubans are getting online – so how is the internet transforming this communist country?

• 49 mins

My personal history of sormeh

Black eye eyeliner is more than just make-up. It's a symbol of the power of Persian women

• 26 mins

The Gospel of Wealth

Gordon Brown meets billionaires inspired by the great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie

• 26 mins

Supersisters

Meet the inspirational women on whose shoulders today's female sport stars stand

• 49 mins

Looking for love: The Zoroastrian way

Nalini Sivathasan meets young Zoroastrians trying to save their religion from extinction

• 26 mins

Uganda's war in the bush

The guerrilla war in Uganda, which led to the current leadership.

• 49 mins

Northern Ireland 1969

Battle lines

How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began in August 1969

• 26 mins

Northern Ireland 1969

The violence spreads

Ruth Sanderson looks back at the Scarman testimonies and the violence in Belfast in 1969

• 26 mins

Francis Ngannou: Cameroon's MMA champion

Francis Ngannou's odyssey from child labour in a sand quarry to superstardom in the UFC

• 26 mins

Moondog: Sound of New York

Singer Huey Morgan celebrates the life and work of blind musician Moondog.

• 26 mins

Comrade Africa

How Communist East Germany tried to influence Africa via radio during the Cold War

• 49 mins

Hong Kong: Love in a divided city

How have the protests affected the married lives between Hong Kong and mainland Chinese?

• 26 mins

The Malawi tapes

Preserving the treasure trove of traditional harmonies, rhythms and instruments of Malawi

• 49 mins

Emperor complex

Huang built China’s first 'privatised city'. Is it utopia or his personal fiefdom?

• 26 mins

British music’s Caribbean roots

The colourful roots of how British black music has entered the mainstream

• 49 mins

Giving peace a chance

Francine Jones returns to the scene of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed in for peace.

• 26 mins

The digital election: How social media is reshaping UK democracy

US political media expert Travis Ridout assesses efforts to influence UK voters.

• 26 mins

My Big Korean-Iranian Wedding

What happens when an Iranian marries a South Korean and their families meet?

• 26 mins

The Secret History of GCHQ

How Scarborough saved the world

GCHQ's Scarborough station and its role in WW2, the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis

• 26 mins

The Secret History of GCHQ

From Bude to Berlin

GCHQ's listening station at Bude, its hidden past and how it was forced out into the open

• 26 mins

Judy Garland: The final rainbow

The story of Judy Garland's last concerts in London at the Talk of The Town nightclub

• 49 mins

The Rainbow Railroad

A Canadian organisation is helping LGBT people escape persecution via a secret network.

• 26 mins

Romania’s revolution 30 years on

How has Romania moved on from its totalitarian past?

• 26 mins

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Razia Iqbal speaks to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• 26 mins

Living with Star Wars

How Star Wars changed the cinematic universe in 1977

• 49 mins

Ii: The greenest town in Europe

The town of Ii in northern Finland is a green trailblazer

• 26 mins

Time has chosen us

The Soviet War in Afghanistan told through its teenage soldiers and their music.

• 49 mins

Hey Sisters, Sew Sisters

The seamstresses who sewed soft goods components for space craft and space suits

• 26 mins

The world turned upside down

What will the end of the world’s dependence on oil mean for geopolitics?

• 49 mins

Trans in Japan

The controversial laws over how people can change gender in Japan

• 26 mins

Germany: Justice and memory

How has Germany tried to come to terms with the legacy of its Nazi past?

• 49 mins

The Coffin Club

Meet the New Zealanders making an art-form out of coffin creation

• 26 mins

Greenland: Why music matters

Kate Molleson explores music’s place on the world’s largest island

• 49 mins

My father the killer

How would you feel if your father was a convicted torturer?

• 26 mins

Disagreeing better

Why do we hold our opponents in contempt?

• 26 mins

The remarkable resistance of Lilo

Lilo and Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin.

• 49 mins

Tony's Freehold Grill: Politics on the side

The 2020 US Presidential campaign as it unfolds over the countertop of a New Jersey diner

• 26 mins

Life on the line

What is life like for the billions of people who live along earthquake fault lines?

• 49 mins

Blasian love

Relationships between black and Asian origin South Africans

• 26 mins

Reinventing Miss America

How can beauty pageants adapt in the wake of the #MeToo movement?

• 49 mins

Gospel meets hip-hop

Award winning UK rapper Guvna B explores the ‘gospel hip-hop’ music genre

• 49 mins

Crossing Divides: The exchange

Cattle farmers from the USA and South Africa share perspectives

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

South Korea’s hope in hell

The personal stories of students and young people struggling with the pressure to succeed

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

Survival and revival in the Torres Strait

The islanders fighting to save their home and their language

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

Polygamous marriage in modern Malaysia

All sorts of Muslims, some very dynamic and modern, are embracing polygamy in Malaysia.

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

Vanuatu’s stolen generation

Thousands of boys and young men were kidnapped and taken to work on sugar plantations

• 26 mins

Houston, we have a new criminal justice system

Can new judges transform Houston’s criminal justice system?

• 26 mins

Don't Log Off

Don't log off: Part one

Using social media, Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world seeking fulfilment

• 26 mins

Don't Log Off

Don't log off - part two

People in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and beyond explore what unites them

• 26 mins

Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island - part two

MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learnin to rap on Rikers Island jail

• 49 mins

Coronavirus: Questions and answers

A panel of experts answers questions from listeners around the world

• 26 mins

The Detransitioners

He2She2He

Transgender journeys of people who transitioned and then returned to their birth gender

• 26 mins

The Detransitioners

She2He2She

Nele and Ellie identified as transmen in their teens. Both are now reidentifying as female

• 26 mins

Behind the Hong Kong protests

What’s motivating the demonstrators on the city’s streets – and their opponents?

• 49 mins

Funeral punks

A new wave of end of life rituals is emerging across northern England

• 26 mins

The importance of Jurgen Klopp

Becky Milligan presents a profile of Jurgen Klopp, manager of Liverpool Football Club

• 26 mins

Sounds of the City

Miami

Peter White, blind since birth, explores Miami through the sounds he hears.

• 26 mins

Sounds of the City

Melbourne

Peter White, blind since birth, explores Melbourne through the sounds he hears.

• 26 mins

Part one

This is the account of one hospital’s race to help those made ill by the Coronavirus

• 23 mins

Women of the World

Kim Chakanetsa talks to the acclaimed authors Isabel Allende and Edna O’Brien.

• 49 mins

Bradford Royal Infirmary: Behind the scenes in the fight against Covid-19

Professor John Wright follows frontline NHS staff as they race to help covid-19 patients

• 23 mins

Bradford Royal Infirmary: Another week in the ward fighting against Covid-19

This is the account of one hospital’s race to help those made ill by the Coronavirus

• 23 mins

China and the virus

Has the epidemic weakened or strengthened the grip of China’s Communist Party?

• 26 mins

Who cares?

The foreign care workers who look after Britain’s elderly and disabled people

• 23 mins