Japan's Returnees

Learning to be Japanese again after living abroad

• 27 mins

Women in Space

A look at female astronauts and the future of space flight

• 27 mins

Tales From the Streets of New York

Homelessness in New York

• 28 mins

New Year's Discussion

A panel of World Service journalists discuss New Year traditions in their countries

• 27 mins

The Peacekeepers

Peacekeeping in Bosnia with the Second Light lnfantry battalion of the British Army

• 27 mins

Brilliant Children

Parents of gifted children talk about living with their child prodigies

• 27 mins

Spycraft

A former agent of the KGB reveals some of the mysteries of the spy world.

• 28 mins

Spirit of Invention

Part-time and amateur inventors share their stories and the fight to be taken seriously

• 27 mins

Cape Coast Shara

A visit to the slave castles of Ghana

• 28 mins

Sigmund Freud

A profile of the father of psychoanalysis

• 27 mins

Mr John Maynard Keynes

A profile of John Maynard Keynes, 'the most influential economist of the century'.

• 27 mins

Mum I've Got Something to Tell You

3 family stories from London, Belfast, and Manchester about coming out

• 27 mins

Moscow Bucks

'What is it like to be young, single and in Moscow?'

• 27 mins

Car City

Car lovers in USA share their passion

• 27 mins

Getting the Sack

How to give somebody the sack

• 28 mins

Immigrant Life in France

A look at Northern African immigrant communities in France

• 27 mins

Cornish Migration

A look at the copper and tin mining industry in Cornwall, UK

• 27 mins

Medicine Then

A graphic look at surgical remedies in antiquity

• 27 mins

Clarkson - A Man Lost to History

Thomas Clarkson's role in the drive to end slavery

• 28 mins

All Four Engines

Recalling the time when all four engines failed on a Boeing 747

• 28 mins

Mountain Antics

Exploring the appeal of mountains

• 27 mins

New Flower: Portrait of Addis Ababa

A look at the history of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia

• 28 mins

Zeppelin Rising

Looking at the revival of Zeppelins as a form of transport

• 28 mins

Lotta and the Englishmen

Following a young Swedish writer as she searches for the perfect man in England

• 27 mins

The Last Magician

Controversy over modernisation in Papua New Guinea

• 28 mins

Time Traveller

Analysing H.G. Wells' science fiction story

• 28 mins

Sol Plaatje: South Africa's Renaissance Man

A profile of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje and his role during the Siege of Mafeking

• 27 mins

Life on Mars

The search for life on Mars

• 27 mins

Stalking

A look at the experience of being harassed by obsessive indivduals

• 27 mins

Life's a Beach

A visit to Koto Beach in the Gambia

• 27 mins