Stargazing

Stargazing: Faith versus Science in Hawaii

The proposed Thirty Metre Telescope on sacred mount Mauna Kea that's causing a rift: 4/5

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Stargazing

Stargazing: South Africa's New Generation Astronomers

The scientist running the Square Kilometre Array, the world's biggest telescope: 5/5

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Making it Work

Making it Work: Affordable Medical Equipment in India

1/4 New mini-series. The reality of being an entrepreneur serving “the bottom billion”

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Making it Work

Making it Work: Rugged Tablets for African Schools

2/4 Start-ups who are innovating products in Kenya and India

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Making it Work

Making it Work: Navigating Kenya's Streets with Technology

3/4 OkHi is a navigation device which allows you to find an address, however remote

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Making it Work

Making it Work: Agriculture in India and Kenya

4/4 Entrepreneurs coming up with innovative solutions for agriculture in India and Kenya

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America, Laboratory of Democracy

America, Laboratory of Democracy: Drowning Government in a Bathtub

1/4 How America became the world’s first big democracy and the limits of its constitution

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America, Laboratory of Democracy

America, Laboratory of Democracy: Money -the Lifeblood of American Democracy

2/4 How money became an important feature in American politics

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America, Laboratory of Democracy

America, Laboratory of Democracy: Little Leviathans

The 1924 Scopes Trial that banned the teaching of Charles Darwins' evolution in Tennessee

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America, Laboratory of Democracy

America Laboratory of Democracy: Insurgent Nation

The insurgent popular movements that changed America's democracy

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Ocean Stories

Ocean Stories: The Atlantic

The fishing communities living and working along the shores of the Atlantic

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Ocean Stories

Ocean Stories: The Indian Ocean

Deep sea exploration of the Indian Ocean and the people making a living from the sea

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Ocean Stories

Ocean Stories: The Arctic and Southern Oceans

The melting ice is changing the sea's composition completely

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Ocean Stories

Ocean Stories: The Pacific Ocean

Tourism brings opportunity to the Solomon Islands and the Philippines but at what cost?

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What Happened Next

What Happened Next: The Japanese Tsunami, 2011

How did people rebuild their lives after the devastating Japanese tsunami of 2011?

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What Happened Next

What Happened Next: Rana Plaza

Four years on since the collapse of the Rana Plaza has anything changed in Bangladesh?

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What Happened Next

What Happened Next: Ebola

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the challenges of bringing the disease in control

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Living on the Edge

Sea Levels Rise

Moving on from uninhabitable land and building state-of-the-art sea defences

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Living on the Edge

Encroaching Deserts

Yin Yuzhen has planted a million trees in 70,000 hectares of desert

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Living on the Edge

Glaciers

Fresh ideas to stop the damage caused by melting glaciers

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Living on the Edge

Dams

Meet the communities living in the shadow of hydro-electric dams

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Abortion in America

Abortion in America: Texas

Could abortion be banned in the USA?

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Abortion in America

Abortion in America: Kentucky

In Kentucky a legal case is under way aimed at closing the last clinic for abortions

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Abortion in America

Abortion in America: Washington

In the US Supreme Court nine judges hear the latest major abortion case

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The Future of English

From Language to Algorithm

How is the 21st Century transforming English - the world’s most widely used language?

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The Future of English

Dialects and Evolution

How is the 21st Century transforming English - the world’s most widely used language

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The Future of English

Changing British English

Have you used the words antwacky, jarg and squinny recently?

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The Future of English

Too Much English?

Will English continue to dominate or decline, diminish cultures or enrich them?

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Futureproof Yourself

Robots

Practical advice on how to stop yourself going out of date

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Futureproof Yourself

Antibiotics

How can we prepare against antibiotic resistant diseases in the future?

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