The Israeli hostages

People who survived the 7 October attacks in Israel by Hamas describe how events unfolded

• 27 mins

Trending: Power

Trending investigates a sprawling network of fake social media accounts in Uganda.

• 19 mins

Assignment: Spain, the kiss and the culture war

Has feminism gone too far? A world cup kiss that set a match to Spanish gender relations

• 28 mins

Heart and Soul: Religion in the 21st Century - Hindus (episode 2 of 3)

What does it mean to be a young Hindu in 2024?

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Leaving Gaza

Life in a Gaza hospital and the guilt of leaving loved-ones behind.

• 24 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could destroy competition - The Global Story

• 25 mins

In the Studio: Awais Khan - Overcoming writer’s block

Discovering Awais’s radical solution to find the right words.

• 27 mins

Cairo in comics

Cairo's young graphic novelists tell the modern story of their city

• 27 mins

Trending: Serbia’s real life ‘bots’

Does Serbia’s ruling SNS party command the online activity of a small army of citizens?

• 18 mins

Bonus: Killer drug: Fentanyl in Mexico and the US

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid made in Mexico is destroying lives in Mexico and the U.S.A.

• 53 mins

Assignment: Is Ireland’s reputation for tolerance under threat?

Tensions are rising in Ireland over the increasing number of refugees

• 27 mins

Heart and Soul: Religion in the 21st century - Buddhism (episode 3)

What does it mean to be a Buddhist today?

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Deepfake attacks

How an AI scam phone call has had a lasting effect on a family.

• 24 mins

Bonus: Sportshour at the Super Bowl Las Vegas edition

The inspirational and personal stories behind the Las Vegas Super Bowl

• 45 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Could Taylor Swift swing the US election? – The Global Story

• 25 mins

In the Studio: Jon Foreman

Land artist Jon Foreman takes us through the creation of a new work in Pembrokeshire

• 28 mins

Reporting Greece

We investigate the increasing threats to journalists’ ability to report freely in Europe.

• 26 mins

Trending: The Mexican mayor and a deepfake scandal

How a mayor in Mexico became embroiled in a deepfake audio scandal

• 19 mins

Assignment: Tempting fate - Istanbul's earthquake dilemma

Emily Wither reports from Istanbul on the threat of an earthquake striking the city

• 28 mins

Heart and Soul: The killer's counsel

Psychiatrist Gwen Adshead reflects on her faith and working with violent offenders

• 27 mins

Bonus: HARDtalk - Alexey Navalny: The interview

Stephen Sackur interviewed Alexey Navalny in 2017.His death has been reported by Russia.

• 25 mins

BBC OS Conversations: The earthquake in Turkey and Syria – one year on

Reuniting with a family trying to rebuild their lives.

• 23 mins

Bonus: The Global Jigsaw - Does Russia’s election matter?

Putin’s re-election is certain, but there is still a lot at stake for the Kremlin

• 36 mins

World Wide Waves '24

For this year's World Radio Day, we celebrate women in community radio

• 50 mins

In the Studio: Vik Muniz

Brazilian artist Vik Muniz likes to trap and fool his audience with trickery and illusion

• 27 mins

Two Years of War: Voices from Russia

Oleg Boldyrev on how ordinary Russians are dealing with life in a country at war.

• 27 mins

Trending: The new fight for land rights

How indigenous Malaysians are using technology and social media to assert land rights

• 18 mins

Assignment: Pakistan - journalists under fire

Journalists in Pakistan speak of coming under threat for criticising the authorities

• 26 mins

Heart and Soul: Ladino - Saving Greece’s ancient Jewish language

How the language of Thessaloniki’s Jews disappeared

• 27 mins

Three Million: 1. War

The story of the Bengal Famine of 1943, where at least three million people died

• 28 mins

Three Million: 2. The cigarette tin

The escalating food crisis forces people to make life and death decisions

• 26 mins

Three Million: 3. The f-word

Famine grips Bengal, but publicly, no-one is calling it a famine

• 29 mins

Three Million: 4. The tapes

The discovery of cassette tapes that throw new light on colonial responsibility

• 31 mins

Three Million: 5. Ghosts

Three million people died in the Bengal Famine. Why are they not better remembered?

• 28 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine war babies and returning home

Giving birth during a war and returning from a safe haven abroad to conflict

• 24 mins

Bonus: Hardtalk - Defying Putin

In 2017, Alexey Navalny spoke about the risks of being a prominent critic of Putin

• 24 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Is #Me Too finally exploding in French cinema? – The Global Story

• 25 mins

In the Studio: Claudia Piñeiro

Argentina's 'Queen of Suspense' on her latest novel

• 27 mins

Storm over a teacup

The farmers and industry leaders working to secure the identity and future of Nepali tea

• 27 mins

Trending - The disinformation war in the Middle East

Disinformation has erupted on social media in the battle between Israel and Hamas.

• 19 mins

Assignment: Botswana - living with elephants

The battle to keep the peace between people and elephants in northern Botswana

• 27 mins

Heart and Soul: The new iconographers

How the ancient tradition of iconography is being translated for the 21st Century

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Beyoncé and the changing face of country music

African-American musicians and fans around the world discuss why they love country music

• 22 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Are you ever too old to have a baby? – The Global Story

• 26 mins

In the Studio: Ghawgha

Singer Ghawgha from Afghanistan explores identity, displacement and her people's struggle

• 27 mins

Tumaini

A unique refugee-led celebration of music and solidarity in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi

• 27 mins

Trending - The anti-vax candidate?

Will Robert F Kennedy Jr’s views on vaccines help or hinder his bid for the White House?

• 19 mins

Diving With a Purpose

Meet the young scuba divers of colour who are searching for sunken slave ships

• 27 mins

Assignment: Educating Tibet

Are Tibetans being forced into Chinese language schools, made to abandon their culture?

• 27 mins

Heart and Soul: I joined the Taliban after they kept me hostage

Why Jibra’il Omar, formerly Timothy Weeks, joined the Taliban after they kept him hostage

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: The cost of living crisis in Nigeria

Daily experiences from the country’s worst economic crisis in a generation

• 23 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Why young people are having less sex – The Global Story

• 22 mins

In the Studio: Peter Beatty

Artist and film-maker Peter Beatty turns his barge into a film studio

• 26 mins

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

Miracle on the ocean floor – Lives Less Ordinary

• 41 mins

Running out of sand

Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?

• 50 mins

Assignment: Border Stories, part one - Zero Tolerance

The ongoing effects of Zero Tolerance, the policy that divided families on the US border

• 27 mins

Heart and Soul: Not even water?

How young Muslims manage Ramadan in their lives and work

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Haiti gangs and stray bullets

People in Haiti trying to survive and the struggle for aid workers trying to help them

• 23 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Panama Canal: It's running dry and it's going to cost us - The Global Story

• 25 mins

In the Studio: Colm Tóibín

Inside the creative world of the acclaimed author of Brooklyn

• 24 mins

Trapped in Oman

The fight to bring home a group of Malawian domestic workers trapped in servitude

• 27 mins

A reckoning with drugs in Oregon

How has Oregon’s radical drug decriminalisation policy changed lives?

• 27 mins

Bonus: What in the World

Energy solutions in the Philippines

• 23 mins

Assignment: Border Stories, part 2 - Coyotes and Kidnap

Tales of kidnap and extortion from those who risk everything to enter the US from Mexico

• 28 mins

Heart and Soul: How the Church’s role in Argentina’s dictatorship shook the nation’s faith

How the Church’s role in Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship changed people’s faith

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Protesting farmers

Why are farmers taking to the streets?

• 24 mins

The Cultural Frontline: Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels and the Manhattan Flood project

• 27 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Rare access inside Sudan's forgotten war - The Global Story

• 28 mins

In the Studio: Helmut Deutsch and Michael Volle - Staging Winterreise

An acclaimed pianist and baritone tackle Franz Schubert's song cycle

• 27 mins

Bonus: The Black 14

The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism

• 33 mins

Rwanda 30 years on

Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide

• 50 mins

Assignment: Choking in Chiang Mai

What it’s like to live and die in a polluted city

• 27 mins

Bonus: HARDtalk

On the road in Guyana - HARDtalk

• 24 mins

Heart and Soul: An ‘Encore’ for Jesus

The older women taking vows and becoming nuns in their 50s and 60s.

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Messages from Gaza

Four women share their experiences of resilience, fear and despair in war-torn Gaza

• 30 mins

Bonus: The Global Jigsaw: Moscow attack: disinfo wars

Who is behind the Crocus City Hall attack? We track the blame game.

• 32 mins

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

Fugees Family: the refugee football team who became my life - Lives Less Ordinary

• 43 mins

In the Studio: Maria Grachvogel

Maria Grachvogel shares her passion for creating outfits and working with Victoria Beckham

• 26 mins

Assignment: Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus

Belarus has huge numbers of political prisoners - many of them are women

• 28 mins

Forward Thinking: Is it ethical to live longer?

The dilemmas caused by treatments that could tackle some of our most serious illnesses

• 49 mins

Azovstal: The 80 day siege

Ukrainian citizens and soldiers who survived the siege of Azovstal recount their ordeal

• 26 mins

Heart and Soul: The caste faultlines in Modi’s India

How the Hindu majority in Modi’s India is still divided by caste

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Living with cancer

How six young women around the world are living with cancer

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: My Ramadan

How are people observing Ramadan around the world, and why is it different this year?

• 26 mins

El Salvador's missing children

Children separated from their parents by civil war now in search of their birth families

• 52 mins

In the Studio: Ellie Simmonds

The Paralympic gold medallist follows the construction of a new public swimming pool

• 26 mins

Assignment: New Caledonia - new agreement needed

Can the French settlers and indigenous Kanak of New Caledonia agree on a constitution?

• 26 mins

Forward Thinking: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Why a celebrated astrophysicist believes space research needs a new approach

• 49 mins

Bonus: What in the World

Is Botswana really going to send Germany 20,000 elephants?

• 16 mins

From the Archive: Heart and Soul - Faith, terrorists and mercy at Guantanamo

Former Guantanamo Bay interrogator Dr Jennifer Bryson on torture, faith and mercy

• 26 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Lina Khan: The woman taking on big tech billionaires - The Global Story

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Sudan's war - One year on

What it’s like to live in Sudan after one year of civil war

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: A journalist's life in Israel

What is it like to live and work as a journalist in Israel right now?

• 26 mins

His and hers medicine

Dr Zoe Williams examines historical inequalities in the diagnosis and treatment of women

• 49 mins

In the Studio: Helle Nebelong

Landscape architect Helle Nebelong designs one of America's largest natural playgrounds

• 26 mins

Bonus: The Global Story on Iran-Israel attacks

A turning point for the Middle East? Analysis from The Global Story

• 24 mins

Assignment: Reggaeton - the pride of Puerto Rico?

Reggaeton’s the soundtrack to Puerto Rico, reflecting the cultural and political scene

• 27 mins

Forward Thinking: Can going vegan feed the world?

Could going vegan help feed the world and save the planet?

• 49 mins

The poker parent

Why teaching a child how to call, raise and bluff can impart important life lessons

• 27 mins

Heart and Soul: Should I change my name?

Robert Beckford explores the significance of slave names and their impact on individuals

• 26 mins