The Taboo of Feminism

Why is feminism still regarded by many as a word to avoid?

• 26 mins

Interview with the CIA Director, John Brennan

The BBC’s Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera interviews the CIA Director, John Brennan

• 23 mins

Naija Sexual Desires

Breaking taboos by exploring sex and female sexuality in conservative Nigeria

• 26 mins

Bob Dylan - In So Many Words

The lyrics of the 2016 Nobel Literature Prize winner

• 49 mins

Tito's Tourist Crisis

Tito's career is wrecked now that so many of Egypt’s hotels have closed

• 26 mins

The Polygon People

The story and legacy of the vast Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, The Polygon

• 49 mins

Burn Slush! The Reindeer Grand Prix

Faster Rudolph! Competitive reindeer-racing is a popular sport across the Arctic Circle

• 26 mins

Paralympic Overachievers? The story of Ukraine

With a total of 117 at Rio, why have Ukrainian paralympians been good at winning medals?

• 49 mins

Losing My Sight and Learning to Swim

Monica Vasconcelos learns to negotiate the world as her sense of sight diminishes

• 49 mins

A Song for Syria

How music has become a crucial source of comfort and resilience for refugees in Lebanon

• 49 mins

The Year Everything Changed

How the way the world is shaped and reported on changed fundamentally in 2016

• 26 mins

The Woman who Exposed Russian Doping

Yuliya Stepanova revealed the use of performance enhancing drugs by Russian athletes

• 49 mins

The Story of the Bamboo Club

How the Bamboo Club in Bristol, England, became a lifeline for a victimised community

• 49 mins

City of the Future

Dealing with immigration, an exploding population, and a divide between rich and poor

• 26 mins

Open Ear

Woman Found Dead by the Lake Shore

The Kafkaesque story of the brutal killing of a woman found dead by a lake in Sweden

• 26 mins

Open Ear

Life's Holiday

An intimate portrait of European dementia patients being cared for in Thailand.

• 26 mins

Open Ear

Promise

The story of Trey Thompson, an ordinary man confronting a terrifying choice

• 26 mins

Beyond the Pitch

Dramatic and poignant tales exploring how Africa’s football and politics are bedfellows

• 49 mins

Remote Control War

How drones are fundamentally changing the face of warfare

• 26 mins

The Muhammadan Bean

The relationship between Islam and coffee

• 26 mins

The President and the Press

A history of how the White House and the press corps learned how to live with each other

• 49 mins

Trump Tweet by Tweet

What do Donald Trump’s tweets tell us about America's next president?

• 26 mins

Talking Sport - 90 Years of Commentary

The 90th anniversary of the BBC’s first radio football commentary in 1927

• 49 mins

The Friday Game

Far from family, a group of Indian migrants in Dubai become brothers on the cricket pitch

• 26 mins

A Little Bit Pregnant

The proposed abortion reform that has divided Malawian society

• 26 mins

Atom Man

Former US Secretary of Defence William J Perry on nuclear security in our changing world

• 26 mins

Chimp Smuggling

The illegal trade in baby chimpanzees, exported as pets or to private zoos

• 26 mins

The Colony

America’s lost history of eugenics through the eyes of its last remaining survivors

• 26 mins

Inside Real Madrid

An exclusive behind-the-scenes analysis of the world's most valuable football club.

• 26 mins

No Babies in Japan

As birthrates fall and its population ages, can Japan avert a demographic disaster?

• 49 mins