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An animal exodus

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

A 93 year old president gets a deputy

Sir David Attenborough

Befriending the man who killed my family

Mapping Epstein's global connections

My social life as a wheelchair user

A church without walls

Atomic crossroads: Poland's nuclear future

Introducing: In Our Time: The Mariana Trench

Driving Against Net Zero

Neha Vyaso: Crafting consent in Bollywood

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

Inside the Mugabe dynasty

Meet the preppers

Faith and revolution in the Philippines

Under the influence of AI

Introducing Searching for Soldier Dad

In Iceland's defence

The last dance floor in Chernobyl

Patti LuPone: Taking the stage at Carnegie Hall

Counting the soldiers dying for Russia

Experiences of miscarriage

Jamaica: Shaken, not broken

Back to books: Sweden’s digital backlash

Surviving my daughter's killing

Pakistan: Hospitals putting children at risk of HIV

Helping prisoners become better parents

British Queen Elizabeth II's century of fashion

Bringing India's daughters back home

Hopes for a 'fragile' Middle East ceasefire

Your questions answered about Artemis II and space travel

Freddie’s second verse

The battle for Hungary

The Extractor

Albania: Land, money and the sea

Chef Rodolfo Guzman: Chilean summer menu

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

The woman fighting IS in Somalia

Surviving a shark attack

God, grief and the chatbot

The Saltmakers

Inheritance: Samsung: 1. My kingdom for a horse

India’s Shadow Children

Kubra Khademi: Art of strength and survival

Elana Meyers Taylor: A 20-year journey to gold

Eighty years of the BBC Russian Service

Bombings in Lebanon

Deaf Umrah

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest~serving PM

Madagascar: From famine to hope

Billion dollar babies

The Romeros: Developing digital games

Is the revolution in Cuba over?

Nepal - “Shot like enemies”

Bangladeshi newspapers attacked by mob

Navigating the Strait of Hormuz

Can yoga be Christian?

Iran's media at war

Hope and fear: India's space revolution

Mariam Issoufou: Designing a museum

How the Oscars went international

Europe's night train renaissance: Still on track?

Iran war: What's life like inside Iran?

Women and the future of Formula 1

The naked monks

The women of IS: Part three

The women of IS: Part two

The women of IS: Part one

Ukraine: The war behind the war

Graffiti across continents

Inside Russia’s ‘Youth Armies’

Iranians in London

Leaving Isis: Is redemption possible?

Forty-eight hours in Isfahan

Namibia’s hydrogen superpower dream

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

Kwan Pun Leung: The image creator of nature

Rewriting a revolution

Will Venezuela ditch Chavismo?

Living with Tourette syndrome

When music became a prayer

Ukraine’s defiance, four years on

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

Russia's Church in Texas

The Dream Makers

Jason Gilkison: Choreographer for Strictly Come Dancing

Ukraine after four years of war

Remembering Ukrainians who have lost their lives in the war

‘Oasis of peace’ in wartime

Give me my child back

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

Fixing Chile’s fashion graveyard

Bridgerton: Behind the scenes

Body image and weight loss drugs

The spy who loved to dance

Kirsty Coventry: Becoming president of the IOC

The Gaudí code

Kentucky’s Real People Radio

Trump and Greenland: How MAGA went Arctic

Loving, living and dying together in the Netherlands

New climbing video game

Super Bowl LX

China's Population 'Rhinoceros'

Returning to Gaza

Caught on camera: Exposing China’s spycam porn

Game of clones

From American Pastor to Whirling Dervish

India's sportswomen playing to be seen

Liberation Radio

Ukraine: Whose peace?

Archaeology and war

ICE in Minnesota

Jesus in a shop doorway

Hungary: The alternative to Orban

Shepherd's Eye In The Sky

Nigeria: Killings, land and cattle

Mrinalini Mukherjee: Hemp sculptures

US foreign policy in five doctrines

Protest in the age of the 'Kill Switch'

Living in Greenland

Daughters of thunder

Bonus: Introducing: The History Bureau

Greece: Rescuers on trial

Black girlhood in photos and writing

New elements

Kenyans lured to Russia's frontline

Surviving an avalanche

Eternal horizons

Stories from the New Silk Road: The Bering Sea

Putin's foreign fighters

The Netherlands: 10 new cities?

Bianca Raffaella: A world of blurred vision

Looking for No Man's Land

Taraneh: Iran's defiant actress

Life in Venezuela

Living side by side: Morocco’s Jews and Muslims

Returned to sender

World Questions - Greenland

Persian poetry and politics

South Africa and the fight against TB

Ismo Leikola

The power of nostalgia and a first kiss

Afghanistan's love poetry princess

Astronauts and the future of space exploration

Two families from Sarajevo

Kibera Ballerinas

Four Months in Gaza

When Christian nationalists come to town

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

BBC correspondents' look ahead to 2026

Not-so-golden weddings

Why I chose to adopt

The lord and dance: Michael Flatley

The gift of science

Bonus: 2025 in conversations from The Interview

Argentina's elusive big cats

Michael Symmons Roberts' Christmas card poem

United in space: How we built the ISS

Living in fear on South Africa's farms

Jewish Australians on the Bondi Beach attacks

Prayers through the checkpoints

Elephant conservation in Botswana

Introducing The Bomb: Kennedy and Khrushchev

Stolen brides of Kazakhstan: The fightback

Jim Henson's Creature Shop: Back to Fraggle Rock

A makeover for Syria's interim leader?

Somalis in America

The divine gift of sex

Surgery in a backpack

The struggle of Israel's peace movement

Anna-Karin Karlsson: Sunglasses made for icons

Steel from shipwrecks

Reporting the Nigerian school kidnappings

Australia’s under-16 social media ban

The mosque for Bangladesh’s transgender women

Made in Russia: The Kremlin’s economic rebrand

From rocks to riches

Joana Vasconcelos: Mask of mirrors

Young and stateless

Ireland's new alcohol warning

What is the 'Shadow Fleet'?

Brain fog and perimenopause

Twin spirits: A lost bond that lives in dreams

What is the 'Russian cultural code'?

Stemming the tide in Normandy

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

Inside India's war on Maoists

Raising children on a warming planet

Navigating faith on the road

China’s global spending spree

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

'No justice, just kills’

Film director Gurinder Chadha

The COP 30 summit and the climate change frontline

Changing religion for love

Finding my true self through Druidry

Ukraine's Colombian soldiers

The Chinese Cryptoqueen

Chef Yoshifumi Yamaguchi

The great hunger: Stalin's famine in Kazakhstan

Does Kruger deserve a park?

Mamdani’s New Yorkers

Kai Höss: My grandfather, the Commandant of Auschwitz

In the shadow of the railway

Striking gas in Bolivia

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

Lara Dizeyee's Kurdish couture

What’s behind the war in Sudan?

How Russian AI targets news organisations

Women share stories of losing their hair

The right thing: Confronting my abuser

Jihadists and AI

Bonus: Cyber Hack - Evil Corp

David Harewood: Return to Othello

'Looking American' to avoid deportation

Living with motor neurone disease

The right thing: A deal with God

G-Land: Surf and spirits

The last cowboys

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

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

A people’s history of Gaza

Reporting the impact of  the Gaza ceasefire

Families in Israel and Gaza share their stories

Mamdani New York

Fighting on two fronts

Sabotage by smartphone

Drugs, Overdose, Hope - North Carolina and Nevada

Alexey Seliverstov: Bionic birdsong

Brazil's Miracle: an Indigenous disaster

Tackling loneliness in India

Trump and autism: People affected speak out

Searching for hope as a hostage in Gaza

Global dancefloor: Saigon

The biker gang ‘securing’ deadly Gaza aid sites

Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to Icons

Stephen Jones’ hats: A party on your head

Nuclear tensions in the Middle East

The Kremlin’s reporter

Conversations from a year in Gaza and Israel

Orthodoxy or death: The fight for Mount Athos

Powering Nigeria

Deepfaking disability

Haitians living in fear in the Dominican Republic

Emilia Wickstead: London Fashion Week

Bonus: The Global Story

Social media influencers and politics

Living with the threat of drone attacks

Finding my Sikh faith against the odds

Bonus. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

Goodreads’ ‘unfair’ rating problem

‘A new foe’: Conscripting women in Denmark

Lesia Khomenko: Art and war

Will a fugitive oligarch sway Moldova’s election?

A radio lifeline for Afghan women

Charlie Kirk and free speech

Digital Dolittles: Talking to the animals?

The social lives of bacteria

Faith on the Russia-Ukraine frontline

Kenya: A Battle For Gen Z

Jon Foreman: Art that goes out with the tide

Decoding China’s doublespeak

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

Would you want to live until 150?

Selling misleading fertility hope

Tequila with the bat man

My blessed boy: The millennial saint

Saving Gaza's past

Kharkiv: Love in a warzone

MAST: Architecture on water

Colombia's cocaine submarines

Grey divorce

Blessed with bread

Germany's timber detectives

Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk

Galicia’s wild horses in peril

The Delacorte Theater

Paul McCartney: Beatles and beyond

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

Surviving the floods in Pakistan

Digitally preserving Armenia’s Christian heritage

Student Predator: Surviving Zhenhao Zou

The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims

Suing 'Alligator Alcatraz': Immigration in the US

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

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary presents, Hold Fast!

Mud wrestling and tent pegging: Africa’s unusual sports

Ukrainians at war and their hopes for peace

Gaudí: God’s architect

White Coats v the White House

Dan Meis: Designing Everton Football Club's new stadium

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

The Herds: Life-sized puppets flee climate change

Ghost cities FC

Comedians and Afghan weddings

Messages from Sudan's war

The president’s path: Trump’s Latino base

Birding the gender gap

Mo Salah: Egyptian king

Tajikistan’s last, lonely hyenas

Yoko Nishina: Japanese calligraphy

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

Why are Chinese micro-dramas so popular?

Israelis and the war in Gaza

Freddie’s second verse

The Engineers: Exploring the human

New Zealand: Heading across the ditch

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

Luke Jerram: A good yarn

Why a South Korean church bought a village in Paraguay

Hunger in Gaza

Bergen-Belsen: Among graves, we were born

Controlling nature's data

The JNIM branch of al-Qaeda

Can Greenland go it alone?

Marina Tabassum: Designing London's Serpentine Pavilion

The shooting of India’s biggest hip hop star

The hidden pain of fibroids

Rāgas and Redemption: Alam Khan’s Spiritual Legacy

The battle for Bangladesh: Eye Investigations

Vancouver's mental health crisis

Wynton Marsalis: The sound of democracy

The mystery of the ‘tula boy’

Landmines

Escaping North Korea

Returning Germany’s stolen skulls

Myanmar’s Scam Centres

Anatomy of a scene

Dying for a transplant

The Romanians choosing life in the hills

Why it's good for men to talk

France’s new Christians

Ark of the dry lands

Bonus. World of Secrets: The Killing Call

Re-homing France’s immigrant workers

Max Kidruk: Imagining the future in a science fiction trilogy

Is the Taliban’s war on drugs working?

Undocumented migrants in the USA

Verses for women: Egypt’s Quran reciters

Diabetes in Pakistan: A nation's struggle

Arthur Ashe: More than a champion

Sri Lanka: The X-Press Pearl disaster

What next for Poland?

Who's Poland's new president?

Iranians living in the USA

Praise You: A forgotten love letter to black men

Inside the US trans military ban

Pride month special

One week in Gaza

Joachim Trier: The making of Sentimental Value

Ukrainian life under Russian occupation

Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2025

Iranians and Israelis

Reworking a future: Buddhist revival in Mongolia

The copper kingdom

What’s Iran’s IRGC?

Could your colleague be a North Korean in disguise?

The Ketamine trail

Amoako Boafo: Creating space to celebrate Blackness

Australia's extinction crisis

The TV drama that shocked the Arab world

Female influencers

Pulpit to palace

The tyre scandal

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

Balochistan - the women of the vanished

Auntie Flo: Making plants dance

Why does Moldova matter to Putin?

How life is changing in Syria

The future of the Alawites

The Global Jigsaw: Netanyahu’s media squeeze

Russian informers: Hunting the enemy within

Assignment: What future for Assad’s army?

In the Studio: Designing Conclave

The three babies mystery

Russia's 'grey zone' war

BBC OS Conversations: Israelis discuss the war in Gaza

Heart and Soul: Portugal's Surf Church

The riddle of Iranian cinema

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

Assignment: Spain - can an algorithm predict murder?

In the Studio: Mika Obanda

America: The human plasma factory

The Fifth Floor: The reality of reporting in Syria

BBC OS Conversations: Living with prostate cancer

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

People Fixing the World: Helping Chile's stolen children

BBC Trending: Brazilian farmers are (very) online

Assignment: Colombia's webcam women

In the Studio: Esben Holmboe Bang

The Global Jigsaw: The Trump effect on global media

The Fifth Floor: Ukraine, the war and TikTok

BBC OS Conversations: Living in Kashmir

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

Autism, empathy and psychopaths

BBC Trending: Are we dating the same person?

Assignment: Syria - return to ruins

In the Studio: Luke Black

Women warriors

The Fifth Floor: The Russian grandma who went to jail

BBC OS Conversations: Inside Gaza

Heart and Soul: Praying for healing?

Educating Nigeria

BBC Trending: The TikTokers inside an election fire-storm

Conclave: How will the next Pope be chosen?

Assignment: Russia's Church in Texas

In the Studio: Bishwajit Goswami

The Cultural Frontline: Taiwan

The Fifth Floor: Education against the odds

BBC OS Conversations: Protecting children from online harm

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

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

Assignment: Leaving Israel for Cyprus

In the Studio: Madeleine Thien

Bonus: Good Bad Billionaire: Minecraft’s maker

The Fifth Floor: Tackling Nigeria's skin bleaching problem

BBC OS Conversations: Remembering the life of Pope Francis

Bonus: Bridgerton actor’s interview on Dear Daughter

The call of Anastasia

Witness History: The Environment Movement

Francis, the rebel Pope

Assignment: Dicing with democracy? Romania’s cancelled election

In the Studio: Amin Gulgee - Heavy metal

Make me perfect: Manufacturing beauty in China

The Fifth Floor: Inside the Taliban's surveillance network

BBC OS Conversations: Colourism

Heart and Soul: Our Sacred Harp

Braille and me

Olympique Lyonnais: The Champions League trailblazers

Assignment: New Zealand - what counts as Māori equality

In the Studio: Steve Reich

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

The Fifth Floor: Stranded in Panama

BBC OS Conversations: The impact of Trump's tariffs

Heart and Soul: Guns, grief and god

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

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

Assignment: Unidentified flying drones in Denmark

In the Studio: Anna Clyne and Jody Elff

Donald Trump’s new world order

The Fifth Floor: India's 'godwoman'

BBC OS Conversations: Adolescence

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

The subsea war

Living in a bubble: The headphone revolution

Assignment: Lebanon - Hezbollah in trouble

In the Studio: Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros

The Covid generation revisited

The Fifth Floor: Tales from Tbilisi

BBC OS Conversations: Protests in Turkey

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

The Cultural Frontline: The Los Angeles fires

Malawi: Life in your years

Assignment: Who is Alice Guo?

Encore: Rejecting public education in Arizona

In the Studio: The Line

Do we need a new Nato?

The Fifth Floor: Behind Georgia's political turmoil

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

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

What’s your poison: The methanol crisis

Assignment: Georgia - keeping the protest alive

In the Studio: Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser

LOUD: Is noise an invisible killer?

The Fifth Floor: The Kenyan women saying no to motherhood

BBC OS Conversations: Cuts to US foreign aid funding

Heart and Soul: Ayahuasca and the new spiritual tourism

The village of sex offenders

Assignment: Guatemala’s ‘Indigenous Spring’

In the Studio: Kwaku Bediako

Witness History: Women's History Month special

The Fifth Floor: Russia’s gymnastic drama

BBC OS Conversations: Three months after the fall of Assad

Heart and Soul: The race to break the glass

Boxing Sisters: Yazidi women boxing back to health

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

Assignment: Russia’s new war elite

TikTok and the digital pimps: Eye Investigates

In the Studio: Marcin Dudek

The Fifth Floor: Are Korean beauty products too light?

BBC OS Conversations: Polyamorous relationships

Heart and Soul: Becoming a Buddhist Bhikshuni in Bhutan

Flight of the vulture

BBC Trending: Can Community Notes clean up your feed?

Assignment: Road wars - cycling in Paris

In the Studio: Mohammad Barrangi

Life in occupied Ukraine

The Fifth Floor: Syria after Assad

BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine and three years of war

Heart and Soul: The only thing certain in life

Witness History: US Black History Month special

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

Assignment: The village that came back from the dead

In the Studio: Jennifer Walshe

Ukraine: The architects' plan

The Fifth Floor: What the US left behind in Afghanistan

BBC OS Conversations: How AI is changing our lives

Heart and Soul: The caretaker of Bukhara

World Wide Waves '25: Whispers in the air

BBC Trending: Inside Nigeria’s hustle kingdoms

Saudi and trans: Eden’s final message

In the Studio: Bárbara Sánchez-Kane

Assignment: Ghana militants in the Sahel

Sportshour at Super Bowl LIX: New Orleans edition

The Fifth Floor: An Afghan love story

BBC OS Conversations: Donald Trump and the future of Gaza

Heart and Soul: Feminism is my jihad

Germany: Rebellion on the Rhine

BBC Trending: The dark side of music streaming

Assignment: Spain - ‘liquid gold’ under pressure

Encore: Border stories

Troublemakers: Drugged, framed and detained

The Fifth Floor: Inside an Iranian prison

BBC OS Conversations: Immigrants in America

Heart and Soul: Spirituality in Sin City

Flamboyant funerals

BBC Trending: Ukraine war - the cost of bearing witness

Assignment: Reel revolution? The dramatic rise of Saudiwood

Songs from Auschwitz

In the Studio: Behind the scenes with Ken Loach

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

The Fifth Floor: Russia's crackdown on gay clubs

BBC OS Conversations: The first days of the Gaza ceasefire

Heart and Soul: Glorifying God through wine

Israel’s Unrwa ban

BBC Trending: Passport bros

Assignment: Death marches - uncovering the truth beneath the soil

In the Studio: Michael Visocchi

The Coming Storm: Inauguration

The Fifth Floor: IVF and me

BBC OS Conversations: Living through the Los Angeles fires

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

Solutions Journalism: Prison of the mind

BBC Trending: The chatbot bridging an aid gap

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

In the Studio: Madame Gandhi

Paths of return: A special homecoming to Sierra Leone

The Fifth Floor: China's empty maternity wards

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

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

Licence to operate a space object

Child soldiers and capoeira

BBC Trending: Were Valencia's floods engineered weather?

Assignment: South Korea - the feminist hunters

In the Studio: Dan Perri

The Fifth Floor: Fighting crime with kitchen spoons

BBC OS Conversations: How going viral changed my life

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

The dogs of Palermo

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

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

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

In the Studio: Tomás Saraceno

Bonus: HARDTalk - Past Notes

The Fifth Floor: Bollywood binge

BBC OS Conversations: Becoming an Olympic and Paralympic trailblazer

Heart and Soul: From the ashes of Notre Dame

The street that tech built

Bonus: HARDTalk - 2024 Review

Assignment: Poland's ghosts, Ukraine's heroes

In the Studio: International film school

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

The Fifth Floor: K-drama craze

BBC OS Conversations: Syrian prisoners and their families

Heart and Soul: Antisemitism in Turkey

The Watermelons: Myanmar's military moles

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

Assignment: Argentina - Milei's Chainsaw

In the Studio: Creating Selfridges’ Christmas windows

The Fifth Floor: Fleeing Chechnya

BBC OS Conversations: Syrians after the fall of Assad

Heart and Soul: Black Madonnas

Srebrenica’s forgotten refugees

Introducing World of Secrets S6: The bad guru

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

Bonus: The Food Chain is 10!

Morse code: Ready to transmit

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

BBC OS Conversations: The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

Heart and Soul: Should I change my name?

Over the fence: From Turkey into the EU

100 Women: Byline Afghanistan

The Global Jigsaw: The rebels who retook Aleppo

Assignment: France - trouble on the vine

Blood on the shelves

In the Studio: The rebuilding of Notre Dame

The Fifth Floor: Russia's runaway soldiers

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

Heart and Soul: At the end of the wall

The Cultural Frontline: James Baldwin centenary

Bonus: The Conflict

Assignment: Afghanistan - our whole life is a secret

In the Studio: Brian Eno

Me and my digital twin

The Fifth Floor: How to apologise to a king

BBC OS Conversations: Smog in Delhi and Lahore

Heart and Soul: An African missionary in France

Amapiano: The sound of South Africa

In the Studio: David Chipperfield

Life at 50°C: Syria's water wars

Assignment: Plastic recycling’s dirty secrets

The 10 years that changed women's football

The Fifth Floor: Leaving for an African dream

BBC OS Conversations: The aftermath of the Valencia floods

Heart and Soul: The human shield

Faith on the fly: The airport chaplains

Poisoned flood: South Sudan life at 50°C

In the Studio: Opera Australia

The Fifth Floor: What do Georgians want?

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

Heart and Soul: The Arab Holocaust museum

Tuvalu: The first digital nation?

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

Tongue and talk: Keeping language alive in Africa

In the Studio: TRIVAX

Assignment: Denmark’s weight loss boom town

The Fifth Floor: Ikat fashion and other Uzbek wonders

BBC OS Conversations: US voters and the cost of living

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

The jaguar's last stand

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

Assignment: Choosing race

In the Studio: Ishmael Reed

Bonus: The Climate Question

The Fifth Floor: Where do vampires come from?

BBC OS Conversations: US black and Latino male voters

Heart and Soul: Seeking justice from Opus Dei

Iraq's secret women's shelters

BBC Trending: Meet the anti-witch hunter

Assignment: Singing in Gaza

In the Studio: Jonny Banger

Caught at the helm

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

BBC OS Conversations: Living alongside Mexico's drug gangs

Bonus: What in the World - Liam Payne

Heart and Soul: The dead are not dead

The children's hospital of Entebbe

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

Assignment: Singapore – drugs, rehab, execution

In the Studio: Mia Lehrer and the LA River

An end to Aids?

The Fifth Floor: The wolf salute

BBC OS Conversations: Israelis remember the hostages

Heart and Soul: Reclaiming yoga

BBC Trending: The curse of the blessing scam

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

Bonus: People Fixing the World

Bonus: The Conflict: Israel and Gaza one year on

US local news 2024: On the front page frontline

The Fifth Floor: Mollywood's MeToo

BBC OS Conversations: My year in Gaza

Heart and Soul: Father Adamski

BBC Trending: The Baku initiative?

Saving a sinking city: Jakarta

Assignment: Panama’s water fights

In the Studio: Ian Rankin, part two

In the Studio: Ian Rankin, part one

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

BBC OS Conversations: People in Lebanon and northern Israel

Heart and Soul: Istanbul’s church of wishes

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

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

Bonus: The Climate Question

Assignment: Reproductive rights: A divided flock

In the Studio: Erdem Moralıoğlu

The new Germans

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

BBC OS Conversations: Talking to someone with suicidal thoughts

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

Stories from the New Silk Road: Space

BBC Trending: Woman, life, surveillance

The great dolphin release

Assignment: Ageing without a safety net in Malaysia

In the Studio: Lenin Tamayo and Q-pop

Solutions Journalism: The African 'Babelfish'

The Fifth Floor: Exam nightmares

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

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

Trending: Can we live without our phones?

Flying high: The return of the peregrine falcon

The Midwife’s Confession: Eye Investigates

Assignment: Ivory Coast's cocoa crisis

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

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

The Fifth Floor: Pakistan's internet mystery

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

Heart and Soul: Synagogue for sale

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

West Bank: Settlers, guns and sanctions

Assignment: The 'ghost city' of Cyprus

Global Dancefloor: Tbilisi

In the Studio: Laurie Anderson

Three Million: 8. Road to the past

The Fifth Floor: Ukraine's 'Memory Cafés'

BBC OS Conversations: Three years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan

Heart and Soul: Afghanistan 20 years on

Courting success: A journey to Paris 2024

Bonus: The Inquiry - What does Hezbollah want?

Assignment: The struggle for Jerusalem’s Old City

In the Studio: Architect Daniel Libeskind

The next Paralympians

The Fifth Floor: What really happened in Bakhmut?

BBC OS Conversations: Women's safety in India

Heart and Soul: Corruption in the Curia

Solutions Journalism: A better start

Invisible souls

Assignment: Ukraine - on the front line

In the Studio: Ad Minoliti

Under ash: Uncovering Maui’s past

The Fifth Floor: The rise of caste influencers in India

BBC OS Conversations: Life in Venezuela

Heart and Soul: Muslim sex education

India's fight against TB

Solutions Journalism: The art of air pollution

Assignment: Rejecting Public Education in Arizona

In the Studio: Munch on the move

'Indocumentados’: America’s undocumented migrants

The Fifth Floor: Vietnam's matchmakers

BBC OS Conversations: Gen Z and power change in Bangladesh

Heart and Soul: Digital grief

The Global Jigsaw: The Taliban’s war on women

Bonus: The Engineers - Intelligent Machines

Solutions Journalism: Going bananas

Assignment: The Italian town where praying is a political issue

In the Studio: B-girl Ray Gun

Erasing Hong Kong

The Fifth Floor: Three years of Taliban rule

BBC OS Conversations: Protests in Bangladesh

Heart and Soul: Wrestling for redemption in Jordan

Bonus: World Book Club - Edna O'Brien

Bonus: The Global Story - Divorce

Bonus: HARDtalk - The Whistleblowers

In the Studio: Willard Wigan

Las Patronas

The Fifth Floor: Make-up and rebellion

BBC OS Conversations: Supporters of Kamala Harris

Heart and Soul: America’s Atheist Street Pirates

India's wrestling school for girls

The gay activists who won an Olympic-sized battle

Introducing: World of Secrets S3

In the Studio: Massimo Bottura

The Romani holocaust: An unfinished history

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

BBC OS Conversations: After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump

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

Instagram's fake guru

Assignment: A slogan and a land, part two

Assignment: A slogan and a land, part one

Assignment: The child rescue con

In the Studio: Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)

The Fifth Floor: The reality of conscription

BBC OS Conversations: Voters in Britain and France

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

Shaken goalposts

Trending: The scammers who make you kidnap yourself

In the Studio: Wendy Sharpe

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

Three Million: 7. Live show

The Fifth Floor: Can climate change stories be cool?

BBC OS Conversations: Kenya’s Gen Z protesters

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

Heart and Soul: Journey to Sepharad

Suicide's silent survivors

Trending: Scammed by the fake Chinese police

Assignment: Loving, living and dying together in the Netherlands

In the Studio: Baek Mi-kyoung

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

The Fifth Floor: India's deadliest scam

BBC OS Conversations: Hajj pilgrims

Saint Sara: Patron saint of the Romani people

The West Indies’ first black captain: Sir Frank Worrell

Trending: The American pushing Russian disinformation

Assignment: Germany’s AI detectives

In the Studio: Hanna Harris

The Global Jigsaw: The evolution of the Islamic State Group

Alvin Hall's other America

The Fifth Floor: Is Islamic State still a threat?

BBC OS Conversations: National service

The Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2024

Ukraine to Korea

Trending: Colombia’s guerrilla recruitment video problem

Assignment: Decolonising Russia

In the Studio: Nazanin Moradi

Three Million: 6. Silk scarves

The Fifth Floor: My AI boyfriend

BBC OS Conversations: Far-right voters in Europe

Losing Attar

Heart and Soul: Last Christians of Gaza

Trending: The Kenyan influencer championing climate denial

Assignment: Ireland’s phone-free town

In the Studio: Senua's Saga - Hellblade II

Greening the Hajj

The forgotten people of the Ravi River

BBC OS Conversations: Stories from Mexico

Heart and Soul: Losing my religion

The Fifth Floor: For the love of football

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

Whose Truth?: Online women haters

Whose Truth?: Climate change denial

Whose Truth?: Russia v Ukraine

Whose Truth?: The vaccine

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

Assignment: El Salvador – life after the gangs

In the Studio: Andy Riley

The Fifth Floor: Russia's lost troops

BBC OS Conversations: Toxic politics

Heart and Soul: Hijabs and skinny jeans

Gaming Africa

Trending: Love and deception in the age of AI

Assignment: Myanmar - Rise of the resistance

Perfume’s dark secret

Mad Women: Portraying mental health in theatre

Shadow War: China and the West

The Fifth Floor: Life in exile

BBC OS Conversations: Beauty pageants

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

Denmark's esports revolution

Trending: Long Covid: Think yourself well?

Assignment: The Caspian crisis

In the Studio: Zoë Barrett and Patrick Eley

Bonus: The Global Jigsaw

Labelling the world: The power of DSM

The Fifth Floor: Message in a bottle to North Korea

BBC OS Conversations: The floods in Brazil

Heart and Soul: Glorifying God through wine

Bonus: The Global Story

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

Assignment: Return of the Benin Bronzes

Crime and punishment in South Africa

In the Studio: Cressida Cowell

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

OS Conversations: Mass tourism

Heart and Soul: A Colombian Christmas in February

Twin towns

Bonus: World of Secrets: The Disciples investigation live show

Assignment: Italy's mafia whistleblower

In the Studio: Abhishek Singh

The Fifth Floor: Love and politics in Russia

BBC OS Conversations: Student protests in the US

Heart and Soul: Jewish dating

South Africa: The people shall govern

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

Assignment: Kosovo - euro or bust?

In the Studio: Kenyan artist Wangari Mathenge

The Cultural Frontline: Exposing the fake Russian modern art collection

The Fifth Floor: The disinformation wars

BBC OS Conversations: Ukrainian aid from the US

Heart and Soul: The whale worshippers of Vietnam

Super-rich Swedes

Forward Thinking: Can feminism fix the internet?

Assignment: Armenia's lost garden

In the Studio: David Haig and Max Webster

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

The Fifth Floor: My emergency kit list

BBC OS Conversations: Living in Israel

Heart and Soul: Should I change my name?

The poker parent

Forward Thinking: Can going vegan feed the world?

Assignment: Reggaeton - the pride of Puerto Rico?

Bonus: The Global Story on Iran-Israel attacks

In the Studio: Helle Nebelong

His and hers medicine

The Fifth Floor: A journalist's life in Israel

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

Bonus: The Global Story

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

Bonus: What in the World

Forward Thinking: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Assignment: New Caledonia - new agreement needed

In the Studio: Ellie Simmonds

El Salvador's missing children

The Fifth Floor: My Ramadan

BBC OS Conversations: Living with cancer

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

Azovstal: The 80 day siege

Forward Thinking: Is it ethical to live longer?

Assignment: Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus

In the Studio: Maria Grachvogel

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

Bonus: The Global Jigsaw: Moscow attack: disinfo wars

BBC OS Conversations: Messages from Gaza

Heart and Soul: An ‘Encore’ for Jesus

Bonus: HARDtalk

Assignment: Choking in Chiang Mai

Rwanda 30 years on

Bonus: The Black 14

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

Bonus: The Global Story

The Cultural Frontline: Bjarke Ingels

BBC OS Conversations: Protesting farmers

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

Assignment: Border Stories, part 2 - Coyotes and Kidnap

Bonus: What in the World

A reckoning with drugs in Oregon

Trapped in Oman

In the Studio: Colm Tóibín

Bonus: The Global Story

BBC OS Conversations: Haiti gangs and stray bullets

Heart and Soul: Not even water?

Assignment: Border Stories, part one - Zero Tolerance

Running out of sand

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

In the Studio: Peter Beatty

Bonus: The Global Story

BBC OS Conversations: The cost of living crisis in Nigeria

Heart and Soul: I joined the Taliban after they kept me hostage

Assignment: Educating Tibet

Diving With a Purpose

Trending - The anti-vax candidate?

Tumaini

In the Studio: Ghawgha

BBC OS Conversations: Beyoncé and the changing face of country music

Heart and Soul: The new iconographers

Assignment: Botswana - living with elephants

Trending - The disinformation war in the Middle East

Storm over a teacup

In the Studio: Claudia Piñeiro

Bonus: The Global Story

Bonus: Hardtalk - Defying Putin

BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine war babies and returning home

Three Million: 5. Ghosts

Three Million: 4. The tapes

Three Million: 3. The f-word

Three Million: 2. The cigarette tin

Three Million: 1. War

Heart and Soul: Ladino - Saving Greece’s ancient Jewish language

Assignment: Pakistan - journalists under fire

Trending: The new fight for land rights

Two Years of War: Voices from Russia

In the Studio: Vik Muniz

World Wide Waves '24

Bonus: The Global Jigsaw - Does Russia’s election matter?

BBC OS Conversations: The earthquake in Turkey and Syria – one year on

Bonus: HARDtalk - Alexey Navalny: The interview

Heart and Soul: The killer's counsel

Assignment: Tempting fate - Istanbul's earthquake dilemma

Trending: The Mexican mayor and a deepfake scandal

Reporting Greece

In the Studio: Jon Foreman

Bonus: The Global Story

Bonus: Sportshour at the Super Bowl Las Vegas edition

BBC OS Conversations: Deepfake attacks

Heart and Soul: Religion in the 21st century - Buddhism (episode 3)

Assignment: Is Ireland’s reputation for tolerance under threat?

Bonus: Killer drug: Fentanyl in Mexico and the US

Trending: Serbia’s real life ‘bots’

Cairo in comics

In the Studio: Awais Khan - Overcoming writer’s block

Bonus: The Global Story

BBC OS Conversations: Leaving Gaza

Heart and Soul: Religion in the 21st Century - Hindus (episode 2 of 3)

Assignment: Spain, the kiss and the culture war

Trending: Power

The Israeli hostages

In the Studio: Shoeshine Caddie

Understand: The US election

BBC OS Conversations: Life in Yemen

Heart and Soul: Religion in the 21st Century: Islam

Assignment: American mercenaries - killing in Yemen

Solutions Journalism: Reducing risks in a risky world

Solutions Journalism: Ending homelessness the Finnish way

In the Studio: Maria Djurkovic

Paris: Football’s greatest talent factory

BBC OS Conversations: Surviving sepsis

Heart and Soul: Russia’s Africa crusade

Assignment: Bulgaria - the people smugglers

Our House: Stories of the Holocaust

In the Studio: Thelma Schoonmaker

BBC OS Conversations on graduate unemployment

Heart and Soul: Facing death in Kenya

Assignment: The struggle for Barbuda's future

Building a future for cyclone-hit Mozambique

The Return

In the Studio: Poet Fred D’Aguiar

BBC OS Conversations: Covid-19 four years later

Assignment: Bones that speak

An octopus's garden

The Approach

In the Studio: Manal AlDowayan

HARDtalk: Past notes

BBC OS Conversation: Adventurers

Assignment: Bolivia’s giant fish intruder

HARDtalk: 2023 in review

In the Studio: Andrea Hernández

Football and faith

BBC OS Conversations: The Taylor Swift phenomenon

Heart and Soul: Irish myths and fairy tales

Assignment: Ukraine - building back better

Rewilding the orphaned elephants

In the Studio: Ivan Hove

BBC OS Conversations: Ukrainians and hope

Heart and Soul: Queer and Christian in Kenya

Assignment: Ukraine - fighting for openness

Stories from the New Silk Road: Iceland

In the Studio: Kengo Kuma

Taiwan's balancing act