Reggaeton: The pride of Puerto Rico?
Reggaeton’s the soundtrack to Puerto Rico, reflecting the cultural and political scene.
- 29 mins
- 16 Apr 2024
BBC Sounds - Crossing Continents - Available Episodes
Crossing Continents
Series focusing on foreign affairs issues
Episodes (407 Available)
- Mexico - Coyotes and Kidnap
Tales of kidnap and extortion from those who risk everything to enter the US from Mexico.
- 28 mins
- 09 Apr 2024
- Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus
Belarus has huge numbers of political prisoners - many of them are women.
- 28 mins
- 02 Apr 2024
- American Mercenaries: Killing in Yemen
Why former soldiers were hired to carry out assassinations in Yemen in 2015.
- 28 mins
- 25 Jan 2024
- Bulgaria: the people smugglers
The men who risk jail to help migrants across Europe – meeting the people smugglers.
- 28 mins
- 18 Jan 2024
- The Struggle for Barbuda's Future
How a resort for millionaires sparked a battle for a Caribbean island paradise.
- 29 mins
- 11 Jan 2024
- Bones that speak
Thousands of people were killed in the 'war on drugs' in the Philippines.
- 29 mins
- 04 Jan 2024
- Bolivia’s giant fish intruder
The giant freshwater fish that's invading Bolivia's Amazonian rivers.
- 28 mins
- 28 Dec 2023
- Ukraine: Building back better
How will Ukraine ensure the billions needed to rebuild the country are properly spent?
- 28 mins
- 21 Dec 2023
- Ukraine: Fighting for Openness
Meet the citizens battling for better government on Ukraine's home front.
- 28 mins
- 14 Dec 2023
- Cyprus: The battle over songbird slaughter
How killing migrating birds became a multi-million dollar criminal business.
- 28 mins
- 07 Dec 2023
- Poland's Forest Frontier
Poland builds a wall through one of Europe’s most precious forests. What’s the impact?
- 28 mins
- 30 Nov 2023
- Florida's political refugees
From Miami to Chicago, Lucy Proctor meets the conservatives and liberals swapping states.
- 28 mins
- 23 Nov 2023
- How a war has changed a Norwegian town
How once friendly relations between Norway and Russia have frozen in the far north.
- 29 mins
- 21 Sep 2023
- Missing in Syria
The desperate search by thousands of Syrian families for their missing relatives.
- 29 mins
- 14 Sep 2023
- Surviving Greece's migrant boat disaster
Three men describe surviving one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in decades.
- 28 mins
- 07 Sep 2023
- Singing Morocco's New Identity
The young female stars of Gnawa music now challenging the boundaries of Moroccan identity
- 28 mins
- 31 Aug 2023
- Belize's Blue Bond
Can a financial deal with a conservation charity save Belize's economy?
- 29 mins
- 24 Aug 2023
- Zimbabwe's worker exodus
Why tens of thousands of Zimbabweans are fleeing their country to work in the West.
- 29 mins
- 17 Aug 2023
- When Wagner came home
The fear stalking Russia as ex-convicts from the Wagner mercenary group return home.
- 29 mins
- 10 Aug 2023