Coronavirus: England Unlocking

Reflecting the conversations ahead of the lifting of legal Covid restrictions

• 23 mins

Breaking through

How breaking went from the inner city streets of New York City to the Olympic Games

• 49 mins

China in slogans

How Communist Party slogans reveal a turbulent century of Chinese history

• 58 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode three

How do the Unicode Consortium decide what is included in the official emoji keyboard?

• 23 mins

Lex Gillette: A leap in the dark

Paralympian Lex Gillette and guide coach Wesley go for Gold in 2021

• 27 mins

Dangerous liaisons in Sinaloa

The impact of Mexican 'narco cultura' on the women of Sinaloa...

• 26 mins

The Tokyo Olympics

The Tokyo Olympics are underway, a year late than planned

• 23 mins

The road to rock'n'roll

How a network of black performance venues in a segregated USA shaped music history

• 49 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode four

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication

• 23 mins

A tale of two Tokyos

Ken Nishikawa and Nick Luscombe take inspiration and hope from the Tokyo Olympics of 1964

• 27 mins

Rebuilding Beirut’s village in a city

Can Beirut’s unique Karantina district survive after the blast that rocked the city?

• 26 mins

Extreme weather

We hear from people affected by floods and wildfires

• 23 mins

Beijing: Beyond the masks

Liyang Liu explores her home city Beijing in the wake of the pandemic

• 50 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode five

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication

• 23 mins

Africa’s vaccine ambitions

The effort to make vaccine manufacturing in Africa a home grown industry

• 27 mins

Malta and the El Hiblu 3

The story of how three teenage refugees ended up being accused of terrorism in Malta.

• 26 mins

OS Conversations: Olympic golden moments

We speak to athletes who won gold at the Tokyo Games

• 23 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode six

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication

• 23 mins

Hiroshima successors

As memories of the atomic bomb fade, an unusual practice keeps survivors’ stories alive

• 27 mins

What’s Killing Israel’s Arabs?

The violent crime wave afflicting Arab communities in Israel

• 26 mins

World of Wisdom: Self-help for the spirit

Sister Dang Nghiem, Dr Shefali Tsabary and Eckhart Tolle offer advice on wellbeing

• 18 mins

OS Conversations: Afghanistan

Afghans who fear for the future of their country

• 23 mins

The Fake Paralympians: 1. Gold

Team captain Ray is genuinely disabled - and going to Sydney is beyond his wildest dreams

• 24 mins

India's living dead

Lal Bihari - the farmer who discovered he was dead when he was very much alive

• 26 mins

Trying to flee Afghanistan

We hear from people desperate to leave Afghanistan

• 24 mins

World of Wisdom: Bereavement and acceptance

Dr Shefali Tsabary offers guidance to a man who has lost his mother and his sister

• 18 mins

A bad business

Twenty years after the collapse of Enron, how difficult is it to commit corporate fraud?

• 49 mins

The Fake Paralympians: 2. Caught

Some of the gold-medal-winning team are recognised back home - and they're not disabled

• 24 mins

Archiving Black America

Maya Millett speaks to the archivists amplifying the buried stories of African-Americans

• 27 mins

Catalonia: Squatters, eviction and extortion

How Catalonia’s housing crisis spawns opportunities for organised crime

• 26 mins