China's Global Popstars

Meet Ruhan Jia, one of the young hopefuls in the world of state-manufactured pop

• 28 mins

Turkey’s Hidden Truths

Turkey’s anti-terror laws have been used to jail dozens of journalists

• 24 mins

The Road to Sochi

With accusations of corruption and criminality, are the concerns about Sochi justified?

• 23 mins

My War, My Playlist

What role does music play for today’s soldiers?

• 49 mins

Freedom Songs

Discovering the meaning behind the song I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free

• 28 mins

Missing Histories: China and Japan

Asia’s economic giants: Japan and China's shared and troubled history

• 55 mins

Argentina’s Playlist for Freedom

The music that helped forge a new Argentine identity after the violence of military rule

• 28 mins

Hip Hop: Back to its Roots

How Hip Hop is making an impact on a new generation of African artists

• 26 mins

Missing Histories: China and Japan - Part Two

They are Asia’s economic giants – yet Japan and China's past continues to cause tensions

• 55 mins

Guantanamo Voices

Ex-Guantanamo detainees talk about freedom and how jail changed their lives and thinking

• 28 mins

The Persian Underground

How Iranian musicians are finding ways to break the restrictions on public performance

• 28 mins

Freedom of the Mind

Ingrid Betancourt explores how people’s minds can be free while they are in captivity

• 28 mins

The Human Voice

What’s happening to us physiologically, chemically and psychologically when we sing?

• 28 mins

Designing a Dream

Two women - one rich, one poor - navigating their way through the global fashion industry

• 24 mins

Freedom to be Single

Widowed, divorced or single by choice - the discrimination faced by single women in India

• 28 mins

Will Carlos Acosta get to The Pointe

Will Carlos Acosta Get to the Pointe

Ballet star Carlos Acosta takes on saving an abandoned ballet school in Cuba

• 49 mins

China in Vogue

Fashion magazines, consumerism, and the changing face of Chinese fashion

• 28 mins

Is the UK Press Free?

How safe are the traditional freedoms of the UK’s newspapers?

• 28 mins

Freedom to Broadcast Hate

The television channels accused of spreading religious intolerance in the Middle East

• 28 mins

'Blacks Only'

Is comedy in South Africa challenging the continuing legacy of inequality?

• 28 mins

All that Stands in the Way

What is standing in the way of girls achieving equality?

• 55 mins

Brazil - Confronting the Past

Brazil: Confronting the Past

Fifty years after the coup, Brazil is dealing with the legacy of its long dictatorship

• 23 mins

Guns in America

Three unexpected stories on how guns feature in American culture

• 55 mins

The Missing Migrants

Tracing the families of undocumented migrants who died on their journey into the USA.

• 55 mins

The Man Who Went Looking for Freedom

The Man Who Went Looking For Freedom

The story of Ion Bugan, who was arrested and jailed after a protest in communist Romania.

• 49 mins

Nigeria's Working Children

The Nigerian boys who have to work to support their families, at high cost to themselves

• 23 mins

A Taste Of Freedom

Highlights of the Freedom 2014 season on the BBC World Service, with moving stories and...

• 55 mins

Crypto Wars

The history of the war between government and geeks to control computer cryptography

• 26 mins

The Mystery of Flight 370

How can an aeroplane go missing in the 21st Century?

• 26 mins

A Good Man in Rwanda

How Senegalese captain Mbaye Diagne saved hundreds of lives during the Rwandan genocide

• 23 mins