Shifting Cultures

South Korea’s hope in hell

The personal stories of students and young people struggling with the pressure to succeed

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

Survival and revival in the Torres Strait

The islanders fighting to save their home and their language

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

Polygamous marriage in modern Malaysia

All sorts of Muslims, some very dynamic and modern, are embracing polygamy in Malaysia.

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

Vanuatu’s stolen generation

Thousands of boys and young men were kidnapped and taken to work on sugar plantations

• 26 mins

Houston, we have a new criminal justice system

Can new judges transform Houston’s criminal justice system?

• 26 mins

Don't Log Off

Don't log off: Part one

Using social media, Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world seeking fulfilment

• 26 mins

Don't Log Off

Don't log off - part two

People in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and beyond explore what unites them

• 26 mins

Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island - part two

MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learnin to rap on Rikers Island jail

• 49 mins

Coronavirus: Questions and answers

A panel of experts answers questions from listeners around the world

• 26 mins

The Detransitioners

He2She2He

Transgender journeys of people who transitioned and then returned to their birth gender

• 26 mins

The Detransitioners

She2He2She

Nele and Ellie identified as transmen in their teens. Both are now reidentifying as female

• 26 mins

Behind the Hong Kong protests

What’s motivating the demonstrators on the city’s streets – and their opponents?

• 49 mins

Funeral punks

A new wave of end of life rituals is emerging across northern England

• 26 mins

The importance of Jurgen Klopp

Becky Milligan presents a profile of Jurgen Klopp, manager of Liverpool Football Club

• 26 mins

Sounds of the City

Miami

Peter White, blind since birth, explores Miami through the sounds he hears.

• 26 mins

Sounds of the City

Melbourne

Peter White, blind since birth, explores Melbourne through the sounds he hears.

• 26 mins

Part one

This is the account of one hospital’s race to help those made ill by the Coronavirus

• 23 mins

Women of the World

Kim Chakanetsa talks to the acclaimed authors Isabel Allende and Edna O’Brien.

• 49 mins

Bradford Royal Infirmary: Behind the scenes in the fight against Covid-19

Professor John Wright follows frontline NHS staff as they race to help covid-19 patients

• 23 mins

Bradford Royal Infirmary: Another week in the ward fighting against Covid-19

This is the account of one hospital’s race to help those made ill by the Coronavirus

• 23 mins

China and the virus

Has the epidemic weakened or strengthened the grip of China’s Communist Party?

• 26 mins

Who cares?

The foreign care workers who look after Britain’s elderly and disabled people

• 23 mins

Bradford Royal Infirmary: Behind the scenes in the fight against Covid-19

This is the account of one hospital’s race to help those made ill by the Coronavirus

• 23 mins

Universal Basic Income: Alaska style

Every citizen gets an annual dividend from the state’s oil fund. Mark Whitaker reports

• 26 mins

The virus hunters

Tracking the virus hunters who race to understand and extinguish new pathogens.

• 49 mins

Bradford Royal Infirmary: Week five inside the wards fighting against Covid-19

This is the account of one hospital’s race to help those made ill by the Coronavirus.

• 23 mins

One hundred days of Brexit

One hundred days with new MPs in the North of England from Brexit, Day to lockdown

• 49 mins

Chinese Dreams

Chinese Dreams: Australia

How countries across the world are responding to the rise of China

• 26 mins

Chinese Dreams

Chinese Dreams: Indonesia

Will the growing prominence of ethnic Chinese create further resentment in Indonesia?

• 26 mins

Chinese Dreams

Chinese Dreams: Canada

The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Canada sparks a geopolitical crisis

• 26 mins