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Raiders of the lost art

2

Behind the scenes of Bookish

3

The sound of soft power

4

Ukraine and Russia’s recruitment war

5

Experiences of drought

6

The creator of France's 'Untouchables' houses

7

Tree of diplomacy

8

The world's largest wildlife crossing

9

Victoria Falls: An environment on the edge

10

Special forces on trial

11

Africa's first film city

12

Rapping behind bars in Cameroon

13

Ariana Grande and the public scrutiny of women

14

A singer’s search for peace

15

The teenagers who wired Romania

16

The engineers: Flying at the edge

17

Getting Gaza back online

18

Skatepark designers Nine Yards

19

What is so-called 'Jihadi cool'?

20

A Chinese dissident's journey

21

Wildfires in Europe

22

Rastafari and I

23

A battle that changed Ireland

24

Sierra Leone: The cocaine trail

25

The Kenyans taking on multinational chemical companies

26

James Turrell: Master Of Light

27

Driving across the divide

28

Saving Nigeria's vultures

29

The lifelong toll of surviving disaster

30

Searching for my samurai mother

31

The spirit of Tala: The rapid rise of Tonga's netball team

32

Bonus: Forgiving a killer - from Lives Less Ordinary

33

Italy’s child obesity time-bomb

34

Tom Bailey: Can a walk across the Arctic be art?

35

Love on trial: India's age of consent controversy

36

Belarus's university in exile

37

Older women and the challenge of IVF

38

Harry Haft's unspeakable fight

39

Follow the money: The beef with US beef

40

Moscow’s enemy number one

41

Euthanasia in Spain: Whose life is it anyway?

42

The Chinese fentanyl king

43

Jordanian director Zain Duraie

44

Fruit Wars!

45

Chasing the Wimbledon dream

46

Diving for Yuko

47

Secrets of the ant trade

48

Was ‘Made in China’ made in America?

49

China’s collapsing population

50

Karin Slaughter: thriller penned in mountain cabin

51

A history of the United States in 100 objects: 1: The Century Safe

52

Balochistan's disappeared

53

The Venezuelan earthquakes

54

Cast out: Faith of a gay Nigerian priest

55

The social lives of bacteria

56

The Food Chain: Can I save the family restaurant?

57

Switzerland's population cap referendum

58

The poetry of Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh

59

How did we get here? 1. Israel and the Palestinians

60

Witnessing the 'Hand of God'

61

What is it like to have a lung transplant?

62

Musician on a mission to keep bhajans alive

63

Agony and ecstasy: A history of penalty shootouts

64

Brexit Ten Years On (part 2)

65

Brexit Ten Years On (part 1)

66

The Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast

67

How Germany fails disabled people

68

Everest tourism's toll on Sherpas

69

South Africa's migrant deadline

70

War, God and the Islamic Republic

71

The Russian Dream

72

Lebanon's Abandoned Lives

73

World Cup poetry: Lines for the beautiful game

74

Introducing: Business Daily: Who’s behind Sierra Leone’s illegal fishing problem?

75

Ground zero: reporting an epidemic

76

World Cup superfans

77

Following the path of the rose

78

Introducing: The Interface - What goes on in TikTok's Farlands?

79

Khartoum: Lessons in war

80

Trine Hahnemann: mixing cookery and hygge

81

Introducing: The Food Chain - Rethinking the potato

82

Finding soldier Tom

83

Injured during childbirth

84

The missionary soldier

85

The Black Power Station: I rap what I like

86

Good Bad Billionaire: Beyonce

87

Italy’s migrant fruit pickers

88

Africa's football dreamers

89

Embargo and the Cuban spirit

90

Responding to Ebola

91

Jamaica’s sacred heartbeat

92

Manosphere messiahs: Kenya

93

Manosphere messiahs: Mexico

94

São Paulo's carnival competition

95

Sierra Leone: The diamond that saved a thousand lives

96

Sydney fireworks, the return

97

The Sarkozy affair

98

AI farewells for Russia’s dead soldiers

99

Life in a volcano danger zone

100

Fighting for the children of Chernobyl

101

When Shiraz calls

102

Introducing: Focus on Africa - Electric vehicles: fixing Africa's fuel crisis?

103

Victim or Accomplice? The Story of Jeffrey Epstein’s Pilot Girlfriend

104

Thomas Keneally: What’s next for the Schindler’s List author?

105

Introducing: CrowdScience - What keeps the universe in balance?

106

How Belarus silenced its free press

107

Hantavirus nearly killed me

108

Speaking from the Heart

109

An animal exodus

110

Introducing: Not By The Playbook - Why it is never too late

111

A 93 year old president gets a deputy

112

Sir David Attenborough

113

Befriending the man who killed my family

114

Mapping Epstein's global connections

115

My social life as a wheelchair user

116

A church without walls

117

Atomic crossroads: Poland's nuclear future

118

Introducing: In Our Time: The Mariana Trench

119

Driving Against Net Zero

120

Neha Vyaso: Crafting consent in Bollywood

121

Introducing: The Climate Question: China's green energy revolution

122

Inside the Mugabe dynasty

123

Meet the preppers

124

Faith and revolution in the Philippines

125

Under the influence of AI

126

Introducing Searching for Soldier Dad

127

In Iceland's defence

128

The last dance floor in Chernobyl

129

Patti LuPone: Taking the stage at Carnegie Hall

130

Counting the soldiers dying for Russia

131

Experiences of miscarriage

132

Jamaica: Shaken, not broken

133

Back to books: Sweden’s digital backlash

134

Surviving my daughter's killing

135

Pakistan: Hospitals putting children at risk of HIV

136

Helping prisoners become better parents

137

British Queen Elizabeth II's century of fashion

138

Bringing India's daughters back home

139

Hopes for a 'fragile' Middle East ceasefire

140

Your questions answered about Artemis II and space travel

141

Freddie’s second verse

142

The battle for Hungary

143

The Extractor

144

Albania: Land, money and the sea

145

Chef Rodolfo Guzman: Chilean summer menu

146

Growing up black in a white family – the truth behind my birth

147

The woman fighting IS in Somalia

148

Surviving a shark attack

149

God, grief and the chatbot

150

The Saltmakers

151

Inheritance: Samsung: 1. My kingdom for a horse

152

India’s Shadow Children

153

Kubra Khademi: Art of strength and survival

154

Elana Meyers Taylor: A 20-year journey to gold

155

Eighty years of the BBC Russian Service

156

Bombings in Lebanon

157

Deaf Umrah

158

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest~serving PM

159

Madagascar: From famine to hope

160

Billion dollar babies

161

The Romeros: Developing digital games

162

Is the revolution in Cuba over?

163

Nepal - “Shot like enemies”

164

Bangladeshi newspapers attacked by mob

165

Navigating the Strait of Hormuz

166

Can yoga be Christian?

167

Iran's media at war

168

Hope and fear: India's space revolution

169

Mariam Issoufou: Designing a museum

170

How the Oscars went international

171

Europe's night train renaissance: Still on track?

172

Iran war: What's life like inside Iran?

173

Women and the future of Formula 1

174

The naked monks

175

The women of IS: Part three

176

The women of IS: Part two

177

The women of IS: Part one

178

Ukraine: The war behind the war

179

Graffiti across continents

180

Inside Russia’s ‘Youth Armies’

181

Iranians in London

182

Leaving Isis: Is redemption possible?

183

Forty-eight hours in Isfahan

184

Namibia’s hydrogen superpower dream

185

Can Syria’s Kurds save their women’s revolution?

186

Kwan Pun Leung: The image creator of nature

187

Rewriting a revolution

188

Will Venezuela ditch Chavismo?

189

Living with Tourette syndrome

190

When music became a prayer

191

Ukraine’s defiance, four years on

192

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

193

Russia's Church in Texas

194

The Dream Makers

195

Jason Gilkison: Choreographer for Strictly Come Dancing

196

Ukraine after four years of war

197

Remembering Ukrainians who have lost their lives in the war

198

‘Oasis of peace’ in wartime

199

Give me my child back

200

Alex Eala: The tennis star who could be a game-changer for the Philippines

201

Fixing Chile’s fashion graveyard

202

Bridgerton: Behind the scenes

203

Body image and weight loss drugs

204

The spy who loved to dance

205

Kirsty Coventry: Becoming president of the IOC

206

The Gaudí code

207

Kentucky’s Real People Radio

208

Trump and Greenland: How MAGA went Arctic

209

Loving, living and dying together in the Netherlands

210

New climbing video game

211

Super Bowl LX

212

China's Population 'Rhinoceros'

213

Returning to Gaza

214

Caught on camera: Exposing China’s spycam porn

215

Game of clones

216

From American Pastor to Whirling Dervish

217

India's sportswomen playing to be seen

218

Liberation Radio

219

Ukraine: Whose peace?

220

Archaeology and war

221

ICE in Minnesota

222

Jesus in a shop doorway

223

Hungary: The alternative to Orban

224

Shepherd's Eye In The Sky

225

Nigeria: Killings, land and cattle

226

Mrinalini Mukherjee: Hemp sculptures

227

US foreign policy in five doctrines

228

Protest in the age of the 'Kill Switch'

229

Living in Greenland

230

Daughters of thunder

231

Bonus: Introducing: The History Bureau

232

Greece: Rescuers on trial

233

Black girlhood in photos and writing

234

New elements

235

Kenyans lured to Russia's frontline

236

Surviving an avalanche

237

Eternal horizons

238

Stories from the New Silk Road: The Bering Sea

239

Putin's foreign fighters

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240

The Netherlands: 10 new cities?

241

Bianca Raffaella: A world of blurred vision

242

Looking for No Man's Land

243

Taraneh: Iran's defiant actress

244

Life in Venezuela

245

Living side by side: Morocco’s Jews and Muslims

246

Returned to sender

247

World Questions - Greenland

248

Persian poetry and politics

249

South Africa and the fight against TB

250

Ismo Leikola

251

The power of nostalgia and a first kiss

252

Afghanistan's love poetry princess

253

Astronauts and the future of space exploration

254

Two families from Sarajevo

255

Kibera Ballerinas

256

Four Months in Gaza

257

When Christian nationalists come to town

258

Haroon Mirza: Creating a sculpture with light, sound and video

259

BBC correspondents' look ahead to 2026

260

Not-so-golden weddings

261

Why I chose to adopt

262

The lord and dance: Michael Flatley

263

The gift of science

264

Bonus: 2025 in conversations from The Interview

265

Argentina's elusive big cats

266

Michael Symmons Roberts' Christmas card poem

267

United in space: How we built the ISS

268

Living in fear on South Africa's farms

269

Jewish Australians on the Bondi Beach attacks

270

Prayers through the checkpoints

271

Elephant conservation in Botswana

272

Introducing The Bomb: Kennedy and Khrushchev

273

Stolen brides of Kazakhstan: The fightback

274

Jim Henson's Creature Shop: Back to Fraggle Rock

275

A makeover for Syria's interim leader?

276

Somalis in America

277

The divine gift of sex

278

Surgery in a backpack

279

The struggle of Israel's peace movement

280

Anna-Karin Karlsson: Sunglasses made for icons

281

Steel from shipwrecks

282

Reporting the Nigerian school kidnappings

283

Australia’s under-16 social media ban

284

The mosque for Bangladesh’s transgender women

285

Made in Russia: The Kremlin’s economic rebrand

286

From rocks to riches

287

Joana Vasconcelos: Mask of mirrors

288

Young and stateless

289

Ireland's new alcohol warning

290

What is the 'Shadow Fleet'?

291

Brain fog and perimenopause

292

Twin spirits: A lost bond that lives in dreams

293

What is the 'Russian cultural code'?

294

Stemming the tide in Normandy

295

The Shiralee: D'Arcy Niland's 1955 Australian western

296

Inside India's war on Maoists

297

Raising children on a warming planet

298

Navigating faith on the road

299

China’s global spending spree

300

Fifty years since Franco: Spain, the valley and a troubled legacy

301

'No justice, just kills’

302

Film director Gurinder Chadha

303

The COP 30 summit and the climate change frontline

304

Changing religion for love

305

Finding my true self through Druidry

306

Ukraine's Colombian soldiers

307

The Chinese Cryptoqueen

308

Chef Yoshifumi Yamaguchi

309

The great hunger: Stalin's famine in Kazakhstan

310

Does Kruger deserve a park?

311

Mamdani’s New Yorkers

312

Kai Höss: My grandfather, the Commandant of Auschwitz

313

In the shadow of the railway

314

Striking gas in Bolivia

315

The real ‘Yellowstone’: A battle for the cowboy way of life

316

Lara Dizeyee's Kurdish couture

317

What’s behind the war in Sudan?

318

How Russian AI targets news organisations

319

Women share stories of losing their hair

320

The right thing: Confronting my abuser

321

Jihadists and AI

322

Bonus: Cyber Hack - Evil Corp

323

David Harewood: Return to Othello

324

'Looking American' to avoid deportation

325

Living with motor neurone disease

326

The right thing: A deal with God

327

G-Land: Surf and spirits

328

The last cowboys

329

Bonus: The Global Story - A Gazan journalist's diary

330

Carl Brandon Strehlke: My search for the 15th Century artist Beato Angelico

331

A people’s history of Gaza

332

Reporting the impact of  the Gaza ceasefire

333

Families in Israel and Gaza share their stories

334

Mamdani New York

335

Fighting on two fronts

336

Sabotage by smartphone

337

Drugs, Overdose, Hope - North Carolina and Nevada

338

Alexey Seliverstov: Bionic birdsong

339

Brazil's Miracle: an Indigenous disaster

340

Tackling loneliness in India

341

Trump and autism: People affected speak out

342

Searching for hope as a hostage in Gaza

343

Global dancefloor: Saigon

344

The biker gang ‘securing’ deadly Gaza aid sites

345

Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to Icons

346

Stephen Jones’ hats: A party on your head

347

Nuclear tensions in the Middle East

348

The Kremlin’s reporter

349

Conversations from a year in Gaza and Israel

350

Orthodoxy or death: The fight for Mount Athos

351

Powering Nigeria

352

Deepfaking disability

353

Haitians living in fear in the Dominican Republic

354

Emilia Wickstead: London Fashion Week

355

Bonus: The Global Story

356

Social media influencers and politics

357

Living with the threat of drone attacks

358

Finding my Sikh faith against the odds

359

Bonus. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

360

Goodreads’ ‘unfair’ rating problem

361

‘A new foe’: Conscripting women in Denmark

362

Lesia Khomenko: Art and war

363

Will a fugitive oligarch sway Moldova’s election?

364

A radio lifeline for Afghan women

365

Charlie Kirk and free speech

366

Digital Dolittles: Talking to the animals?

367

The social lives of bacteria

368

Faith on the Russia-Ukraine frontline

369

Kenya: A Battle For Gen Z

370

Jon Foreman: Art that goes out with the tide

371

Decoding China’s doublespeak

372

Who's behind Europe's largest rare book heist?

373

Would you want to live until 150?

374

Selling misleading fertility hope

375

Tequila with the bat man

376

My blessed boy: The millennial saint

377

Saving Gaza's past

378

Kharkiv: Love in a warzone

379

MAST: Architecture on water

380

Colombia's cocaine submarines

381

Grey divorce

382

Blessed with bread

383

Germany's timber detectives

384

Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk

385

Galicia’s wild horses in peril

386

The Delacorte Theater

387

Paul McCartney: Beatles and beyond

388

Scammed, robbed, traumatised – life after war for Russian soldiers

389

Surviving the floods in Pakistan

390

Digitally preserving Armenia’s Christian heritage

391

Student Predator: Surviving Zhenhao Zou

392

The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims

393

Suing 'Alligator Alcatraz': Immigration in the US

394

Adeju Thompson: Taking fashion label Lagos Space Programme to the world

395

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary presents, Hold Fast!

396

Mud wrestling and tent pegging: Africa’s unusual sports

397

Ukrainians at war and their hopes for peace

398

Gaudí: God’s architect

399

White Coats v the White House

400

Dan Meis: Designing Everton Football Club's new stadium

401

Europe’s migrant crisis: the truck that shocked the world

402

The Herds: Life-sized puppets flee climate change

403

Ghost cities FC

404

Comedians and Afghan weddings

405

Messages from Sudan's war

406

The president’s path: Trump’s Latino base

407

Birding the gender gap

408

Mo Salah: Egyptian king

409

Tajikistan’s last, lonely hyenas

410

Yoko Nishina: Japanese calligraphy

411

Has Ghana's ‘Year of Return’ been a success?

412

Why are Chinese micro-dramas so popular?

413

Israelis and the war in Gaza

414

Freddie’s second verse

415

The Engineers: Exploring the human

416

New Zealand: Heading across the ditch

417

Waiting for my Dad - Ukraine's children of the missing

418

Luke Jerram: A good yarn

419

Why a South Korean church bought a village in Paraguay

420

Hunger in Gaza

421

Bergen-Belsen: Among graves, we were born

422

Controlling nature's data

423

The JNIM branch of al-Qaeda

424

Can Greenland go it alone?

425

Marina Tabassum: Designing London's Serpentine Pavilion

426

The shooting of India’s biggest hip hop star

427

The hidden pain of fibroids

428

Rāgas and Redemption: Alam Khan’s Spiritual Legacy

429

The battle for Bangladesh: Eye Investigations

430

Vancouver's mental health crisis

431

Wynton Marsalis: The sound of democracy

432

The mystery of the ‘tula boy’

433

Landmines

434

Escaping North Korea

435

Returning Germany’s stolen skulls

436

Myanmar’s Scam Centres

437

Anatomy of a scene

438

Dying for a transplant

439

The Romanians choosing life in the hills

440

Why it's good for men to talk

441

France’s new Christians

442

Ark of the dry lands

443

Bonus. World of Secrets: The Killing Call

444

Re-homing France’s immigrant workers

445

Max Kidruk: Imagining the future in a science fiction trilogy

446

Is the Taliban’s war on drugs working?

447

Undocumented migrants in the USA

448

Verses for women: Egypt’s Quran reciters

449

Diabetes in Pakistan: A nation's struggle

450

Arthur Ashe: More than a champion

451

Sri Lanka: The X-Press Pearl disaster

452

What next for Poland?

453

Who's Poland's new president?

454

Iranians living in the USA

455

Praise You: A forgotten love letter to black men

456

Inside the US trans military ban

457

Pride month special

458

One week in Gaza

459

Joachim Trier: The making of Sentimental Value

460

Ukrainian life under Russian occupation

461

Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2025

462

Iranians and Israelis

463

Reworking a future: Buddhist revival in Mongolia

464

The copper kingdom

465

What’s Iran’s IRGC?

466

Could your colleague be a North Korean in disguise?

467

The Ketamine trail

468

Amoako Boafo: Creating space to celebrate Blackness

469

Australia's extinction crisis

470

The TV drama that shocked the Arab world

471

Female influencers

472

Pulpit to palace

473

The tyre scandal

474

No, there isn’t a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

475

Balochistan - the women of the vanished

476

Auntie Flo: Making plants dance

477

Why does Moldova matter to Putin?

478

How life is changing in Syria

479

The future of the Alawites

480

The Global Jigsaw: Netanyahu’s media squeeze

481

Russian informers: Hunting the enemy within

482

Assignment: What future for Assad’s army?

483

In the Studio: Designing Conclave

484

The three babies mystery

485

Russia's 'grey zone' war

486

BBC OS Conversations: Israelis discuss the war in Gaza

487

Heart and Soul: Portugal's Surf Church

488

The riddle of Iranian cinema

489

BBC Trending: Print and shoot - The spread of 3D-printed guns

490

Assignment: Spain - can an algorithm predict murder?

491

In the Studio: Mika Obanda

492

America: The human plasma factory

493

The Fifth Floor: The reality of reporting in Syria

494

BBC OS Conversations: Living with prostate cancer

495

Heart and Soul: Musambwa - Lake Victoria's sacred island

496

People Fixing the World: Helping Chile's stolen children

497

BBC Trending: Brazilian farmers are (very) online

498

Assignment: Colombia's webcam women

499

In the Studio: Esben Holmboe Bang

500

The Global Jigsaw: The Trump effect on global media

501

The Fifth Floor: Ukraine, the war and TikTok

502

BBC OS Conversations: Living in Kashmir

503

Heart and Soul: Malcolm X and his Letter from the Hajj

504

Autism, empathy and psychopaths

505

BBC Trending: Are we dating the same person?

506

Assignment: Syria - return to ruins

507

In the Studio: Luke Black

508

Women warriors

509

The Fifth Floor: The Russian grandma who went to jail

510

BBC OS Conversations: Inside Gaza

511

Heart and Soul: Praying for healing?

512

Educating Nigeria

513

BBC Trending: The TikTokers inside an election fire-storm

514

Conclave: How will the next Pope be chosen?

515

Assignment: Russia's Church in Texas

516

In the Studio: Bishwajit Goswami

517

The Cultural Frontline: Taiwan

518

The Fifth Floor: Education against the odds

519

BBC OS Conversations: Protecting children from online harm

520

Heart and Soul: After Francis, what do Catholics want next?

521

BBC Trending: From a suspected smuggler’s TikTok to tragedy

522

Assignment: Leaving Israel for Cyprus

523

In the Studio: Madeleine Thien

524

Bonus: Good Bad Billionaire: Minecraft’s maker

525

The Fifth Floor: Tackling Nigeria's skin bleaching problem

526

BBC OS Conversations: Remembering the life of Pope Francis

527

Bonus: Bridgerton actor’s interview on Dear Daughter

528

The call of Anastasia

529

Witness History: The Environment Movement

530

Francis, the rebel Pope

531

Assignment: Dicing with democracy? Romania’s cancelled election

532

In the Studio: Amin Gulgee - Heavy metal

533

Make me perfect: Manufacturing beauty in China

534

The Fifth Floor: Inside the Taliban's surveillance network

535

BBC OS Conversations: Colourism

536

Heart and Soul: Our Sacred Harp

537

Braille and me

538

Olympique Lyonnais: The Champions League trailblazers

539

Assignment: New Zealand - what counts as Māori equality

540

In the Studio: Steve Reich

541

Defeated: How ordinary Germans experienced the end of World War Two

542

The Fifth Floor: Stranded in Panama

543

BBC OS Conversations: The impact of Trump's tariffs

544

Heart and Soul: Guns, grief and god

545

Heart and Soul: Violence, children and Cambodia’s monks

546

The Cultural Frontline: South East Asian cinema - a love story

547

Assignment: Unidentified flying drones in Denmark

548

In the Studio: Anna Clyne and Jody Elff

549

Donald Trump’s new world order

550

The Fifth Floor: India's 'godwoman'

551

BBC OS Conversations: Adolescence

552

Heart and Soul: I was shot at school and wouldn’t change a thing

553

The subsea war

554

Living in a bubble: The headphone revolution

555

Assignment: Lebanon - Hezbollah in trouble

556

In the Studio: Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros

557

The Covid generation revisited

558

The Fifth Floor: Tales from Tbilisi

559

BBC OS Conversations: Protests in Turkey

560

Heart and Soul: Kai Höss - My grandfather the Commandant of Auschwitz

561

The Cultural Frontline: The Los Angeles fires

562

Malawi: Life in your years

563

Assignment: Who is Alice Guo?

564

Encore: Rejecting public education in Arizona

565

In the Studio: The Line

566

Do we need a new Nato?

567

The Fifth Floor: Behind Georgia's political turmoil

568

BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine: What do Russians think about the war?

569

Heart and Soul: The mosque for Bangladesh’s transgender women

570

What’s your poison: The methanol crisis

571

Assignment: Georgia - keeping the protest alive

572

In the Studio: Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser

573

LOUD: Is noise an invisible killer?

574

The Fifth Floor: The Kenyan women saying no to motherhood

575

BBC OS Conversations: Cuts to US foreign aid funding

576

Heart and Soul: Ayahuasca and the new spiritual tourism

577

The village of sex offenders

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578

Assignment: Guatemala’s ‘Indigenous Spring’

579

In the Studio: Kwaku Bediako

580

Witness History: Women's History Month special

581

The Fifth Floor: Russia’s gymnastic drama

582

BBC OS Conversations: Three months after the fall of Assad

583

Heart and Soul: The race to break the glass

584

Boxing Sisters: Yazidi women boxing back to health

585

What in the World: How have older reality tv shows aged?

586

Assignment: Russia’s new war elite

587

TikTok and the digital pimps: Eye Investigates

588

In the Studio: Marcin Dudek

589

The Fifth Floor: Are Korean beauty products too light?

590

BBC OS Conversations: Polyamorous relationships

591

Heart and Soul: Becoming a Buddhist Bhikshuni in Bhutan

592

Flight of the vulture

593

BBC Trending: Can Community Notes clean up your feed?

594

Assignment: Road wars - cycling in Paris

595

In the Studio: Mohammad Barrangi

596

Life in occupied Ukraine

597

The Fifth Floor: Syria after Assad

598

BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine and three years of war

599

Heart and Soul: The only thing certain in life

600

Witness History: US Black History Month special

601

BBC Trending: Quadrobic panic in Russia over craze to dress and walk on all fours like animals

602

Assignment: The village that came back from the dead

603

In the Studio: Jennifer Walshe

604

Ukraine: The architects' plan

605

The Fifth Floor: What the US left behind in Afghanistan

606

BBC OS Conversations: How AI is changing our lives

607

Heart and Soul: The caretaker of Bukhara

608

World Wide Waves '25: Whispers in the air

609

BBC Trending: Inside Nigeria’s hustle kingdoms

610

Saudi and trans: Eden’s final message

611

In the Studio: Bárbara Sánchez-Kane

612

Assignment: Ghana militants in the Sahel

613

Sportshour at Super Bowl LIX: New Orleans edition

614

The Fifth Floor: An Afghan love story

615

BBC OS Conversations: Donald Trump and the future of Gaza

616

Heart and Soul: Feminism is my jihad

617

Germany: Rebellion on the Rhine

618

BBC Trending: The dark side of music streaming

619

Assignment: Spain - ‘liquid gold’ under pressure

620

Encore: Border stories

621

Troublemakers: Drugged, framed and detained

622

The Fifth Floor: Inside an Iranian prison

623

BBC OS Conversations: Immigrants in America

624

Heart and Soul: Spirituality in Sin City

625

Flamboyant funerals

626

BBC Trending: Ukraine war - the cost of bearing witness

627

Assignment: Reel revolution? The dramatic rise of Saudiwood

628

Songs from Auschwitz

629

In the Studio: Behind the scenes with Ken Loach

630

Bonus: Sportsworld: Julien Alfred - The Race of My Life

631

The Fifth Floor: Russia's crackdown on gay clubs

632

BBC OS Conversations: The first days of the Gaza ceasefire

633

Heart and Soul: Glorifying God through wine

634

Israel’s Unrwa ban

635

BBC Trending: Passport bros

636

Assignment: Death marches - uncovering the truth beneath the soil

637

In the Studio: Michael Visocchi

638

The Coming Storm: Inauguration

639

The Fifth Floor: IVF and me

640

BBC OS Conversations: Living through the Los Angeles fires

641

Heart and Soul: Kaddish - why we pray for the dead

642

Solutions Journalism: Prison of the mind

643

BBC Trending: The chatbot bridging an aid gap

644

Assignment: The Gambia - when migrants are forced to go home

645

In the Studio: Madame Gandhi

646

Paths of return: A special homecoming to Sierra Leone

647

The Fifth Floor: China's empty maternity wards

648

BBC OS Conversations: Dealing with trauma after vehicle-ramming attacks

649

Heart and Soul: The plight of Hindus in Bangladesh, part two

650

Licence to operate a space object

651

Child soldiers and capoeira

652

BBC Trending: Were Valencia's floods engineered weather?

653

Assignment: South Korea - the feminist hunters

654

In the Studio: Dan Perri

655

The Fifth Floor: Fighting crime with kitchen spoons

656

BBC OS Conversations: How going viral changed my life

657

Heart and Soul: The plight of Hindus in Bangladesh: Part one

658

The dogs of Palermo

659

Built different: Why women athletes suffer ACL injuries more than males

660

Assignment: The human cost of developing Cambodia's Angkor wonder

661

Bonus: Americast - Former US President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100

662

In the Studio: Tomás Saraceno

663

Bonus: HARDTalk - Past Notes

664

The Fifth Floor: Bollywood binge

665

BBC OS Conversations: Becoming an Olympic and Paralympic trailblazer

666

Heart and Soul: From the ashes of Notre Dame

667

The street that tech built

668

Bonus: HARDTalk - 2024 Review

669

Assignment: Poland's ghosts, Ukraine's heroes

670

In the Studio: International film school

671

The Global Jigsaw: Russia’s gateway to Africa in jeopardy

672

The Fifth Floor: K-drama craze

673

BBC OS Conversations: Syrian prisoners and their families

674

Heart and Soul: Antisemitism in Turkey

675

The Watermelons: Myanmar's military moles

676

Footprints: How did human feet get washed up on the west coast of Canada and the US?

677

Assignment: Argentina - Milei's Chainsaw

678

In the Studio: Creating Selfridges’ Christmas windows

679

The Fifth Floor: Fleeing Chechnya

680

BBC OS Conversations: Syrians after the fall of Assad

681

Heart and Soul: Black Madonnas

682

Srebrenica’s forgotten refugees

683

Introducing World of Secrets S6: The bad guru

684

Assignment: Mining the Pacific – future proofing or fool’s gold?

685

Bonus: The Food Chain is 10!

686

Morse code: Ready to transmit

687

The Fifth Floor: Javier Milei's first year in power

688

BBC OS Conversations: The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

689

Heart and Soul: Should I change my name?

690

Over the fence: From Turkey into the EU

691

100 Women: Byline Afghanistan

692

The Global Jigsaw: The rebels who retook Aleppo

693

Assignment: France - trouble on the vine

694

Blood on the shelves

695

In the Studio: The rebuilding of Notre Dame

696

The Fifth Floor: Russia's runaway soldiers

697

BBC OS Conversations: Life in Ukraine after 1000 days of war

698

Heart and Soul: At the end of the wall

699

The Cultural Frontline: James Baldwin centenary

700

Bonus: The Conflict

701

Assignment: Afghanistan - our whole life is a secret

702

In the Studio: Brian Eno

703

Me and my digital twin

704

The Fifth Floor: How to apologise to a king

705

BBC OS Conversations: Smog in Delhi and Lahore

706

Heart and Soul: An African missionary in France

707

Amapiano: The sound of South Africa

708

In the Studio: David Chipperfield

709

Life at 50°C: Syria's water wars

710

Assignment: Plastic recycling’s dirty secrets

711

The 10 years that changed women's football

712

The Fifth Floor: Leaving for an African dream

713

BBC OS Conversations: The aftermath of the Valencia floods

714

Heart and Soul: The human shield

715

Faith on the fly: The airport chaplains

716

Poisoned flood: South Sudan life at 50°C

717

In the Studio: Opera Australia

718

The Fifth Floor: What do Georgians want?

719

BBC OS Conversations: Americans react to Donald Trump's re-election

720

Heart and Soul: The Arab Holocaust museum

721

Tuvalu: The first digital nation?

722

Bonus: People Fixing the World: Fixing elections - for the better

723

Tongue and talk: Keeping language alive in Africa

724

In the Studio: TRIVAX

725

Assignment: Denmark’s weight loss boom town

726

The Fifth Floor: Ikat fashion and other Uzbek wonders

727

BBC OS Conversations: US voters and the cost of living

728

Heart and Soul: How the war in Gaza helped me find God

729

The jaguar's last stand

730

BBC Trending: The cost of an addiction to Somali TikTok battles

731

Assignment: Choosing race

732

In the Studio: Ishmael Reed

733

Bonus: The Climate Question

734

The Fifth Floor: Where do vampires come from?

735

BBC OS Conversations: US black and Latino male voters

736

Heart and Soul: Seeking justice from Opus Dei

737

Iraq's secret women's shelters

738

BBC Trending: Meet the anti-witch hunter

739

Assignment: Singing in Gaza

740

In the Studio: Jonny Banger

741

Caught at the helm

742

The Fifth Floor: Who runs Russia's African Initiative?

743

BBC OS Conversations: Living alongside Mexico's drug gangs

744

Bonus: What in the World - Liam Payne

745

Heart and Soul: The dead are not dead

746

The children's hospital of Entebbe

747

BBC Trending: Yami Baito - Inside Japan’s dark part-time jobs

748

Assignment: Singapore – drugs, rehab, execution

749

In the Studio: Mia Lehrer and the LA River

750

An end to Aids?

751

The Fifth Floor: The wolf salute

752

BBC OS Conversations: Israelis remember the hostages

753

Heart and Soul: Reclaiming yoga

754

BBC Trending: The curse of the blessing scam

755

Bonus: The World Debate: What is the path to peace in the Middle East?

756

Bonus: People Fixing the World

757

Bonus: The Conflict: Israel and Gaza one year on

758

US local news 2024: On the front page frontline

759

The Fifth Floor: Mollywood's MeToo

760

BBC OS Conversations: My year in Gaza

761

Heart and Soul: Father Adamski

762

BBC Trending: The Baku initiative?

763

Saving a sinking city: Jakarta

764

Assignment: Panama’s water fights

765

In the Studio: Ian Rankin, part two

766

In the Studio: Ian Rankin, part one

767

The Fifth Floor: Who is Mexico's first female president?

768

BBC OS Conversations: People in Lebanon and northern Israel

769

Heart and Soul: Istanbul’s church of wishes

770

Bonus: The Inquiry - How are the Taliban governing Afghanistan?

771

BBC Trending: An (online) storm in a Philippine rainforest

772

Bonus: The Climate Question

773

Assignment: Reproductive rights: A divided flock

774

In the Studio: Erdem Moralıoğlu

775

The new Germans

776

The Fifth Floor: The silent death of an anti-Putin pianist

777

BBC OS Conversations: Talking to someone with suicidal thoughts

778

Heart and Soul: I became a Muslim after the Taliban kept me hostage

779

Stories from the New Silk Road: Space

780

BBC Trending: Woman, life, surveillance

781

The great dolphin release

782

Assignment: Ageing without a safety net in Malaysia

783

In the Studio: Lenin Tamayo and Q-pop

784

Solutions Journalism: The African 'Babelfish'

785

The Fifth Floor: Exam nightmares

786

BBC OS Conversations: Are we still in love with dating apps?

787

Heart and Soul: Indigenous healing on the party island of Ibiza

788

Trending: Can we live without our phones?

789

Flying high: The return of the peregrine falcon

790

The Midwife’s Confession: Eye Investigates

791

Assignment: Ivory Coast's cocoa crisis

792

In The Studio: Tuan Andrew Nguyen - The healing power of art

793

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

794

The Fifth Floor: Pakistan's internet mystery

795

BBC OS Conversations: What's it like to have mpox

796

Heart and Soul: Synagogue for sale

797

Bonus: CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?

798

West Bank: Settlers, guns and sanctions

799

Assignment: The 'ghost city' of Cyprus

800

Global Dancefloor: Tbilisi

801

In the Studio: Laurie Anderson

802

Three Million: 8. Road to the past

803

The Fifth Floor: Ukraine's 'Memory Cafés'

804

BBC OS Conversations: Three years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

805

Heart and Soul: Afghanistan 20 years on

806

Courting success: A journey to Paris 2024

807

Bonus: The Inquiry - What does Hezbollah want?

808

Assignment: The struggle for Jerusalem’s Old City

809

In the Studio: Architect Daniel Libeskind

810

The next Paralympians

811

The Fifth Floor: What really happened in Bakhmut?

812

BBC OS Conversations: Women's safety in India

813

Heart and Soul: Corruption in the Curia

814

Solutions Journalism: A better start

815

Invisible souls

816

Assignment: Ukraine - on the front line

817

In the Studio: Ad Minoliti

818

Under ash: Uncovering Maui’s past

819

The Fifth Floor: The rise of caste influencers in India

820

BBC OS Conversations: Life in Venezuela

821

Heart and Soul: Muslim sex education

822

India's fight against TB

823

Solutions Journalism: The art of air pollution

824

Assignment: Rejecting Public Education in Arizona

825

In the Studio: Munch on the move

826

'Indocumentados’: America’s undocumented migrants

827

The Fifth Floor: Vietnam's matchmakers

828

BBC OS Conversations: Gen Z and power change in Bangladesh

829

Heart and Soul: Digital grief

830

The Global Jigsaw: The Taliban’s war on women

831

Bonus: The Engineers - Intelligent Machines

832

Solutions Journalism: Going bananas

833

Assignment: The Italian town where praying is a political issue

834

In the Studio: B-girl Ray Gun

835

Erasing Hong Kong

836

The Fifth Floor: Three years of Taliban rule

837

BBC OS Conversations: Protests in Bangladesh

838

Heart and Soul: Wrestling for redemption in Jordan

839

Bonus: World Book Club - Edna O'Brien

840

Bonus: The Global Story - Divorce

841

Bonus: HARDtalk - The Whistleblowers

842

In the Studio: Willard Wigan

843

Las Patronas

844

The Fifth Floor: Make-up and rebellion

845

BBC OS Conversations: Supporters of Kamala Harris

846

Heart and Soul: America’s Atheist Street Pirates

847

India's wrestling school for girls

848

The gay activists who won an Olympic-sized battle

849

Introducing: World of Secrets S3

850

In the Studio: Massimo Bottura

851

The Romani holocaust: An unfinished history

852

The Fifth Floor: From Paris to the world, Olympics 2024

853

BBC OS Conversations: After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump

854

Heart and Soul: Georgia's maverick Bishop and his peace cathedral

855

Instagram's fake guru

856

Assignment: A slogan and a land, part two

857

Assignment: A slogan and a land, part one

858

Assignment: The child rescue con

859

In the Studio: Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)

860

The Fifth Floor: The reality of conscription

861

BBC OS Conversations: Voters in Britain and France

862

Heart and Soul: How should I remember Mum in Islam?

863

Shaken goalposts

864

Trending: The scammers who make you kidnap yourself

865

In the Studio: Wendy Sharpe

866

Assignment: Cry witch - take my land, take my life

867

Three Million: 7. Live show

868

The Fifth Floor: Can climate change stories be cool?

869

BBC OS Conversations: Kenya’s Gen Z protesters

870

Bonus: The Global Story - Keir Starmer: Who is the UK's new prime minister

871

Heart and Soul: Journey to Sepharad

872

Suicide's silent survivors

873

Trending: Scammed by the fake Chinese police

874

Assignment: Loving, living and dying together in the Netherlands

875

In the Studio: Baek Mi-kyoung

876

Bonus: What in the World - Why are so many young people leaving Nigeria?

877

The Fifth Floor: India's deadliest scam

878

BBC OS Conversations: Hajj pilgrims

879

Saint Sara: Patron saint of the Romani people

880

The West Indies’ first black captain: Sir Frank Worrell

881

Trending: The American pushing Russian disinformation

882

Assignment: Germany’s AI detectives

883

In the Studio: Hanna Harris

884

The Global Jigsaw: The evolution of the Islamic State Group

885

Alvin Hall's other America

886

The Fifth Floor: Is Islamic State still a threat?

887

BBC OS Conversations: National service

888

The Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2024

889

Ukraine to Korea

890

Trending: Colombia’s guerrilla recruitment video problem

891

Assignment: Decolonising Russia

892

In the Studio: Nazanin Moradi

893

Three Million: 6. Silk scarves

894

The Fifth Floor: My AI boyfriend

895

BBC OS Conversations: Far-right voters in Europe

896

Losing Attar

897

Heart and Soul: Last Christians of Gaza

898

Trending: The Kenyan influencer championing climate denial

899

Assignment: Ireland’s phone-free town

900

In the Studio: Senua's Saga - Hellblade II

901

Greening the Hajj

902

The forgotten people of the Ravi River

903

BBC OS Conversations: Stories from Mexico

904

Heart and Soul: Losing my religion

905

The Fifth Floor: For the love of football

906

Bonus: What in the world - Africa and FGM: When will it end?

907

Whose Truth?: Online women haters

908

Whose Truth?: Climate change denial

909

Whose Truth?: Russia v Ukraine

910

Whose Truth?: The vaccine

911

Trending: Is Russia targeting Poland's farmers’ protests?

912

Assignment: El Salvador – life after the gangs

913

In the Studio: Andy Riley

914

The Fifth Floor: Russia's lost troops

915

BBC OS Conversations: Toxic politics

916

Heart and Soul: Hijabs and skinny jeans

917

Gaming Africa

918

Trending: Love and deception in the age of AI

919

Assignment: Myanmar - Rise of the resistance

920

Perfume’s dark secret

921

Mad Women: Portraying mental health in theatre

922

Shadow War: China and the West

923

The Fifth Floor: Life in exile

924

BBC OS Conversations: Beauty pageants

925

Heart and Soul: Hervé's Way, the story of a one-legged pilgrim

926

Denmark's esports revolution

927

Trending: Long Covid: Think yourself well?

928

Assignment: The Caspian crisis

929

In the Studio: Zoë Barrett and Patrick Eley

930

Bonus: The Global Jigsaw

931

Labelling the world: The power of DSM

932

The Fifth Floor: Message in a bottle to North Korea

933

BBC OS Conversations: The floods in Brazil

934

Heart and Soul: Glorifying God through wine

935

Bonus: The Global Story

936

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

937

Assignment: Return of the Benin Bronzes

938

Crime and punishment in South Africa

939

In the Studio: Cressida Cowell

940

The Fifth Floor: China’s global mining for green tech

941

OS Conversations: Mass tourism

942

Heart and Soul: A Colombian Christmas in February

943

Twin towns

944

Bonus: World of Secrets: The Disciples investigation live show

945

Assignment: Italy's mafia whistleblower

946

In the Studio: Abhishek Singh

947

The Fifth Floor: Love and politics in Russia

948

BBC OS Conversations: Student protests in the US

949

Heart and Soul: Jewish dating

950

South Africa: The people shall govern

951

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

952

Assignment: Kosovo - euro or bust?

953

In the Studio: Kenyan artist Wangari Mathenge

954

The Cultural Frontline: Exposing the fake Russian modern art collection

955

The Fifth Floor: The disinformation wars

956

BBC OS Conversations: Ukrainian aid from the US

957

Heart and Soul: The whale worshippers of Vietnam

958

Super-rich Swedes

959

Forward Thinking: Can feminism fix the internet?

960

Assignment: Armenia's lost garden

961

In the Studio: David Haig and Max Webster

962

Bonus: What in the World: South Korea’s shamans are now online

963

The Fifth Floor: My emergency kit list

964

BBC OS Conversations: Living in Israel

965

Heart and Soul: Should I change my name?

966

The poker parent

967

Forward Thinking: Can going vegan feed the world?

968

Assignment: Reggaeton - the pride of Puerto Rico?

969

Bonus: The Global Story on Iran-Israel attacks

970

In the Studio: Helle Nebelong

971

His and hers medicine

972

The Fifth Floor: A journalist's life in Israel

973

BBC OS Conversations: Sudan's war - One year on

974

Bonus: The Global Story

975

From the Archive: Heart and Soul - Faith, terrorists and mercy at Guantanamo

976

Bonus: What in the World

977

Forward Thinking: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

978

Assignment: New Caledonia - new agreement needed

979

In the Studio: Ellie Simmonds

980

El Salvador's missing children

981

The Fifth Floor: My Ramadan

982

BBC OS Conversations: Living with cancer

983

Heart and Soul: The caste faultlines in Modi’s India

984

Azovstal: The 80 day siege

985

Forward Thinking: Is it ethical to live longer?

986

Assignment: Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus

987

In the Studio: Maria Grachvogel

988

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

989

Bonus: The Global Jigsaw: Moscow attack: disinfo wars

990

BBC OS Conversations: Messages from Gaza

991

Heart and Soul: An ‘Encore’ for Jesus

992

Bonus: HARDtalk

993

Assignment: Choking in Chiang Mai

994

Rwanda 30 years on

995

Bonus: The Black 14

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996

In the Studio: Helmut Deutsch and Michael Volle - Staging Winterreise

997

Bonus: The Global Story

998

The Cultural Frontline: Bjarke Ingels

999

BBC OS Conversations: Protesting farmers

1000

Heart and Soul: How the Church’s role in Argentina’s dictatorship shook the nation’s faith