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Black Music in Europe

Black Music in Europe: 1920-1930

The sounds of Zonophone records and African-American jazz in 1920s Paris, Josephine Baker

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Before the war

Jazz in Weimar Berlin, calypso in Cardiff Bay and the sounds of the Beguine in Paris

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Black music in Europe: 1939-45

Nazi propaganda jazz, black American trumpet stars in Paris, and Caribbean swing bands

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Black music in Europe: After 1945

The music of Ambrose Campbell, Sterling Betancourt MBE, and calypso star Lord Kitchener

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Late 1950s-1960s

Congolese rumba recorded in Brussels, Algerian chaabi in Paris and Notting Hill Carnival

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

The 1960s

Guitar legend Francis Bebey, Fela Kuti, Don Cherry, and the story of The Blue Notes

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

The 1970s

Surinamese music in the Netherlands, black flamenco in Spain and lover鈥檚 rock in London

• 26 mins

Rulebreakers

How I disappear

The phenomenon of disappearance is rooted in Japanese culture. Meet those who disappear

• 26 mins

Rulebreakers

Veteran on the tracks

The handbook for train hopping American hobo culture and the man behind the guide

• 26 mins

Rulebreakers

A beautiful prison

Why Greenland is opening up its first prison, after years as a modern prison-less society

• 26 mins

Rulebreakers

Accused of hacking the Pentagon

This is what happened to my life when I was accused of hacking the Pentagon

• 26 mins

Rulebreakers

The shepherd and the settler

A Palestinian shepherd fights for his livelihood under pressure from Israeli settlers

• 26 mins

What has Nobel done for the world?

What it takes to win a Nobel prize and what it means for the lives and careers of winners

• 49 mins

Songs of the Humpback Whale

The story of Roger Payne鈥檚 best-selling environmental album, released 50 years ago

• 26 mins

Dyslexia: Language and childhood

Toby Withers explores how you can be dyslexic in one language, but not in another

• 26 mins

Spitfire stories

How a WW2 icon was made, piece by piece, against all odds. With historian Victoria Taylor

• 49 mins

Dyslexia: Into adulthood

Stella Sabin looks at the continuing impact of dyslexia in adult life.

• 26 mins

Soul Music

Mozart's Requiem

How Mozart's Requiem, written when he was dying, has touched and changed people's lives

• 26 mins

Soul Music

The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

People who connect directly with Simon & Garfunkel's song discuss what it means to them

• 26 mins

Soul Music

Peggy Lee's Is That All There Is?

How the song Is That All There Is? by Leiber and Stoller inspired and connected people

• 26 mins

Soul Music

The Star-Spangled Banner

Why America's national anthem, by Francis Scott Key, inspires emotion and controversy

• 26 mins

The TikTok election

Sophia Smith Galer finds out how TikTok could influence the outcome of the US election

• 49 mins

A perfect match

The inequalities in US healthcare exposed through a deeply personal story

• 26 mins

Fighting together in Korea

How the Korean War forced the US military to desegregate

• 49 mins

China's rocket man

What does a pioneering scientist's story reveal about China and America?

• 26 mins

Missing and murdered: America鈥檚 forgotten native girls

The shocking violence against Native American women

• 26 mins

America decides: How it happened

Philippa Thomas introduces a rapid-fire round-up of the US presidential election

• 26 mins

India's missing children

Rajini Vaidyanathan searches for one of the many Indian children trafficked into slavery.

• 26 mins

Blood lands

The frenzied attack in a farmhouse that left two dead and a South African town divided

• 49 mins

Obesity crisis in Thai temples

Why are Buddhist monks in Thailand more obese than the population at large?

• 26 mins