The Global Jigsaw

Looking at the world through the lens of its media. Think of us as your media detectives, helping you get past the propaganda and misinformation.

World Service,51 episodes

Episodes

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The Trump effect on global media
Exploring the changes to media around the world caused by cuts to USAGM and USAID
08 May 2025,34 mins
The Kurdish issue: Part three
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
01 May 2025,30 mins
The Kurdish issue: Part two
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
24 Apr 2025,29 mins
The Kurdish issue: Part one
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
17 Apr 2025,32 mins
Life in occupied Ukraine: Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
The uncertainty over what Ukraine calls “temporarily occupied territories” grows bigger
06 Mar 2025,32 mins
Life in occupied Ukraine: Donbas
Moscow’s efforts to assert itself in the east of Ukraine
27 Feb 2025,26 mins
Life in occupied Ukraine: Crimea
Looking at the world through the lens of its media
20 Feb 2025,26 mins
The language of war: Ukraine
Kyiv’s answer to the Kremlin’s warspeak
28 Dec 2024,36 mins
The language of war: Russia
Decoding the Kremlin’s warspeak
21 Dec 2024,28 mins
Russia’s gateway to Africa in jeopardy
What would the potential loss of Syrian bases mean for Russia?
20 Dec 2024,42 mins
The rebels who retook Aleppo
A shock offensive turned Syria’s forgotten conflict into hot war
06 Dec 2024,26 mins
Culture wars: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive
What’s behind the evolution of the Turkish president's anti-LGBT narrative?
23 Nov 2024,29 mins
Russia’s “special demographic operation”
Why is the Kremlin worried about population decline?
16 Nov 2024,39 mins
Yemen: A frozen conflict
Ten years on, where do the warring parties in Yemen stand?
16 Nov 2024,39 mins
Yemen: A tale of three cities
Sanaa, Aden and Taiz - stuck in a “no war, no peace” limbo
26 Sep 2024,30 mins
The Taliban’s war on women
The group’s return to power in Afghanistan has seen the erasure of women from public life
08 Aug 2024,36 mins
The Sahel’s coup contagion
The geopolitical tectonic shifts in Africa that could be felt in Europe too.
27 Jul 2024,36 mins
The evolution of the Islamic State Group
After a lull in activities, in 2024 IS claimed to be behind several major attacks
15 Jun 2024,37 mins
Monitoring Africa
What does it take to track media on a continent where radio is king?
25 May 2024,33 mins
How China sees itself in Africa
Beijing says it is building, not buying, Africa. Do people in Nairobi agree?
19 May 2024,26 mins
How China sees itself in Africa
Beijing says it is building, not buying, Africa. Do people in Nairobi agree?
11 May 2024,41 mins
Turkey's foothold in Africa
Ankara is touting itself as a “non-colonising” alternative to Western powers
04 May 2024,39 mins
Deconstructing Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’: Part two
The loose coalition of allies and proxies, sworn against Israeli and US influence
27 Apr 2024,51 mins
How drones have changed war
Drones have reshaped the battlefield in Ukraine - and created new challenges
13 Apr 2024,31 mins
Sudan: A year of war
Sudan faces the largest humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world
13 Apr 2024,39 mins
Deconstructing Iran’s 'Axis of Resistance': Part one
The origins of the Iran-cultivated alliance of like-minded states and groups
06 Apr 2024,29 mins
Moscow attack: Disinfo wars
Who is behind the Crocus City Hall attack? We track the blame game.
30 Mar 2024,32 mins
Contested waters: Helmand
How the waters of the Helmand river have driven tensions between Afghanistan and Iran
23 Mar 2024,26 mins
Contested waters: Crimea
How water is used as a weapon of war following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
16 Mar 2024,28 mins
What hope for Haiti?
Gang violence has turned the small Caribbean nation into a “living nightmare”
09 Mar 2024,28 mins