The Global Story Podcast
Global perspectives on one big story. In-depth insights from the BBC, the world's most trusted international news provider.
Global perspectives on one big story. In-depth insights from the BBC, the world's most trusted international news provider.
Make sense of the news with our experts around the world, every Monday to Friday. Episodes will be ready by 10:30 GMT.
Host Katya Adler and our BBC teams guide you through one major global news story each episode.
From Beijing to Boston, Baghdad to Bangalore, our unrivalled reach will take you beyond the headlines to help understand and explore what’s happening.
The Global News Podcast brings you the latest updates and, on The Global Story, we will drill deep into a single story.
From the climate emergency, to the burning questions around Artificial Intelligence, to the movements of money and markets, and the power of the ballot and the bullet.
Katya Adler has been a BBC correspondent and editor for more than 25 years, covering conflicts in the Middle East, political and economic crises in Europe, and drug cartels in Mexico.
The Global Story team would like to hear your stories and experiences on the issues that we’re covering on the podcast. Please get in touch: theglobalstory@bbc.com #TheGlobalStory and tell us your thoughts on what you would like us to talk about.
Episodes to download
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Ethiopia on the brink: Fears of a famine return and why you should pay attention
Wed 14 Feb 2024
After years of hope and promise, warnings of famine in the cradle of humanity
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Tucker Carlson: What next for America’s right-wing showman?
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Access to Putin and Trump puts him in a powerful position
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Global anxiety: You are not alone
Mon 12 Feb 2024
What’s it like to have the world’s most common mental health condition?
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Could Taylor Swift swing the US election?
Fri 9 Feb 2024
Allies of Donald Trump are worried she will push voters to back Joe Biden
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Europe’s furious farmers and the far right
Thu 8 Feb 2024
Why leaders in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and beyond fear protesting farmers
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''People will keep dying": The spread of fentanyl across the US Mexico border
Wed 7 Feb 2024
The Mexican border town battling fentanyl with scarce antidotes and mounting deaths
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Rare earths: the minerals that could save the world?
Tue 6 Feb 2024
The new geopolitical battleground over seventeen critical elements
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Our memories, their data - the Facebook story 20 years on
Mon 5 Feb 2024
How has the social network shaped our lives and our future?
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I survived the Las Vegas shooting, then was convinced it was staged
Fri 2 Feb 2024
BBC disinformation correspondent asks whether any of us are safe from conspiracy theories
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BYD: The Chinese carmaker challenging Tesla’s dominance
Thu 1 Feb 2024
Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could ‘demolish’ competition
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Families of Israeli Hostages: “Whatever it takes to get them back”
Wed 31 Jan 2024
The politics of growing anger from desperate relatives
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What’s the plan, Iran?
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Tehran’s Middle East strategy after a lethal attack on US troops
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Should Germany ban the popular far-right AfD party?
Mon 29 Jan 2024
There is a debate over whether to ban the country's second most popular political party
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Black market baby trafficking in Georgia
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Thousands of children were stolen from their parents at birth and sold
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‘Send back our husbands’ – Russian women taking the fight to Putin
Thu 25 Jan 2024
BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg talks to Katya about the military wives he's spoken to
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Meet Trump’s new inner circle
Wed 24 Jan 2024
How Donald Trump's team has changed from his 2016 presidential campaign to the 2024 bid
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American assassins operating in Yemen
Tue 23 Jan 2024
The inside story of a wave of killings led by former US Special Forces
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A temple at the heart of Modi's India re-election bid
Mon 22 Jan 2024
The politics of prayer at a divine but divisive site that’s shaped modern India
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“I won’t let my children suffer again” – BBC Gaza correspondent
Fri 19 Jan 2024
How Rushdi Abualouf reported the Gaza conflict while getting his family to safety
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Why book bans are spreading across the United States
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Parents divided as books removed from schools
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Feuding, arrests, protests: Poland’s gripping political drama
Wed 17 Jan 2024
The power struggle on Ukraine's border
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Ecuador: From peaceful haven to gangster's paradise
Tue 16 Jan 2024
Ecuador’s president has vowed to take back control from violent drugs gangs
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What do Mumbai’s super-rich tell us about India’s economy?
Mon 15 Jan 2024
Along Mumbai’s ‘streets of gold’ incredible wealth and extreme poverty live side by side
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Why are the US and UK attacking the Houthis in Yemen?
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Who are the Houthis targeting Red Sea ships?
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New King in Denmark: How European royals are future proofing their monarchies
Fri 12 Jan 2024
Who are Europe’s next generation of royals and are they relevant?
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What to know about ketamine after Matthew Perry’s death
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Some people are using this psychedelic to treat depression, but what are the dangers?
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Islamic State group – spent force or present threat?
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Attacks by the jihadist extremist group fell sharply in 2023
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Culture wars spawned in Covid lockdowns, with Jon Ronson
Tue 9 Jan 2024
Jon Ronson on the origins of some of today’s most divisive issues
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Inside TB Joshua's church of horrors - a two year BBC investigation
Mon 8 Jan 2024
Allegations of rape and assault by TB Joshua, uncovered by BBC Africa Eye
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Taiwan elections: Could it ignite a war with China?
Fri 5 Jan 2024
A vote that could increase military pressure from Beijing