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

Wuhan: The beginning of coronavirus Covid-19

In December 2019, Chinese doctors and officials grapple with a mysterious new virus

• 26 mins

The Coronavirus Front Line

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

• 23 mins

The Sound Odyssey

Loyle Carner in Guyana

UK rapper Loyle Carner joins flautist Keith Waithe in Guyana for a musical collaboration

• 26 mins

The Sound Odyssey

Nubya Garcia in Ethiopia

Rising British jazz star Nubya Garcia travels to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa

• 26 mins

Postcards from isolation

BBC World Service listeners talk about lockdown life during the coronavirus pandemic

• 23 mins

Seven dead, 46 injured: One Chicago weekend

As violence rockets across the USA we look back at a weekend of shootings in Chicago

• 49 mins

Soul Music

Soul Music: Crazy

People reflect on the pop country classic Crazy, made famous by Patsy Cline

• 26 mins

Recovering at home

The Coronavirus Frontline follows covid positive patients discharged to recover at home

• 23 mins

Migrant Medics

Zeinab Badawi looks at doctors from developing countries working in the developed world

• 26 mins

Recycling Chile, recycling Spain

Why is Spain rubbish at recycling and Chile so much better? Leena Vuotovesi finds out.

• 49 mins

New York Stories with Joe Pascal

New York stories with Joe Pascal

Joe Pascal meets Darryl McDaniels of the legendary rap group Run-DMC

• 49 mins

New York Stories with Joe Pascal

New York stories with Joe Pascal

Homage to Harlem with poetry, music and the story of chef Marcus Samuelsson

• 49 mins

The Death Row book club

An inmate’s first-hand account of creating a book club on Death Row.

• 26 mins

Testing treatments

Potential treatments for Covid-19 are trialled on patients

• 23 mins

Iran's long game

How top military commander Qasem Soleimani helped advance Iranian national interests

• 26 mins

The Covid Generation

The effect of coronavirus on the employment prospects and lives of the class of 2020.

• 49 mins

Life Changes

North Korea's celebrity defectors

How North Korean defectors have become a hugely valuable commodity in South Korea

• 49 mins