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Forever Young
Meet the self-experimenters and scientists trying to add years to our lives
Life After Life
How thousands of Americans given life sentences as children now have a chance of freedom.
The Avocado Wall
The amazing success story of the avocado in the US as a case study for the future trade
Making the Grade
The global expansion of British music exams, and its very modern challenges
The Fish that Ate Florida
Why some people want to eradicate the lionfish from Florida's waters
The Silent Forest
The Silent Forest - Part One
The local people of rainforests of Southe-ast Asia resisting destruction of their forests
The Silent Forest - Part Two
How the locals of Thailand and Myanmar are resisting the destruction of their forests
Che Today
Fifty years after his death, what would Che Guevara have thought of today’s Cuba?
Aymara and the Ants
How Aymara Val and her neighbours are fighting for better jobs, sewage and water systems
Behind Closed Doors
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Kenya
Unity is a village without men set up by Samburu women in response to domestic abuse
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Violence in Peru
Rates of domestic violence in the Peruvian Andes are particularly high
Behind Closed Doors: Solutions to Domestic Abuse in Indonesia
Indonesia has just conducted its first ever national survey on domestic violence
I Speak Navajo
"Growing up and not speaking the language, I felt this loss or this void"
C-Section Brazil
Brazil is the caesarean capital of the world. What is behind this C-section “epidemic”?
A New Church for the Red State
How a reforming priest brought revolution to Russia’s Orthodox Church
Nigeria: Shooting it Like a Woman
Nigerian director Tope Oshin celebrates women film-makers currently reinventing Nollywood
AKA Mystery Island
A tiny South Pacific island hosts 25,000 cruise ship tourists a month but at what cost?
The Red and the White
The Red and the White: Intervention
The story of a forgotten war fought by Western troops in Arctic Russia at the end of WW1
The Red and the White: Britain’s Arctic Prison
How foreign troops incarcerated Russians on 'Death Island' in the White Sea.
The Red and the White: Retribution
The story of the Red Terror in the North of Russia nearly 100 years ago.
Before I Go
Four people share their life-affirming experience of living with a terminal illness
Trump Re-Elected
Donald Trump’s election win 8th November 2016 revisited - could he do it again in 2020?
The Last Kamikazes
The indoctrination of Japan’s World War Two suicide pilots told by the last survivors
The Invisible Hand of Donald Trump
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times examines the economic impact of President Donald Trump
Remembering Solidarity
Five Solidarity members reflect on the movement that ended communist rule in Poland
The First Woman on the Moon
Wally Funk looks at mankind's return to the Moon and if a woman might actually get there
Europe's Illiberal Democrats
Europe's Illiberal Democrats: Hungary
Hungary is becoming an "illiberal democracy". Is that its right, or a slide to autocracy?
Europe's Illiberal Democrats: Poland
Is Poland sliding towards autocracy or just on a different, democratic path?
Blind Man Roams the Globe
Blind Man Roams the Globe: Berlin
The sounds and smells of Berlin experienced through the senses of a blind man
Blind Man Roams the Globe: Christchurch
Life in Christchurch, New Zealand, as it recovers from two earthquakes
Stockfish
How did stockfish - cod that is dried in Norway’s cold air - become a Nigerian staple?