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DNA and me
What do at-home DNA test kits tell us about our identity?
The Californian Century
California: From Hollywood to Silicon Valley
The story of Francis Boggs and William Mulholland, two early pioneers of California
The story of preacher Aimee Semple McPherson who vanished in 1926 and Hattie McDaniel
The story of Leon Lewis who hunted down Nazis in LA and founder William Shockley
The story of Kathleen Cleaver. the Black Panther Party and Dianne Feinstein
The story of Ice-T, the original gangster rapper of 1990s LA and governor Jerry Brown
Embankment baby
Tony May was abandoned as a baby in 1942. Can DNA testing reveal who his parents were?
The confined: A story of hidden children
How Jewish children and French nuns together defied the Nazis
The most important, least important thing
Why is watching sport so important to us as a species? What happens when it disappears?
Ingenious
The ginger gene and breast cancer gene
The origins of the ginger gene and the genes that can increase the risk of breast cancer
The milkshake gene and the cyclops gene
Find out what you’re made of – one gene at a time
The Bomb
An explosion that changed history. Could one man have stopped it?
On The Front Line with Karachi’s Ambulance Drivers
Karachi's ambulance drivers
What can ambulance drivers tell us about political change in Pakistan?
Driver Safdar's experiences reveal a remarkable story of life and death in Pakistan
The new tech Cold War
Is the West losing the technological race for supremacy with China?
Worlds apart
If globalisation is on its last legs - again - what might the impacts be?
Fighting talk: How language can make us better
What impact does the language we use around cancer have on those living with the disease?
Stitching souls
Maria Margaronis sews and hears the stories of Gee’s Bend's historic quilters
Vaccines, Money And Politics
Vaccines, money and politics
What will it really take to vaccinate the world against Covid-19?
What will it really take to vaccinate the world against Covid 19?
Red State refugees
Can refugees save the small, conservative town of Cactus, Texas?
August in Minsk
A summer of protest in Belarus recorded by Minsk journalist Ilya Kuzniatsou
World Book Café: Dublin
Authors Naoise Dolan and Caitriona Lally on living and writing in Dublin
The Soviet Feminist Army
The Soviet women spreading feminist ideas in Afghanistan
Why India is mad for motorbikes
An investigation into the deep-seated and increasing passion for motorcycling in India
Black Music in Europe
Black Music in Europe: 1900-1910
Clarke Peters uncovers the stories of black musicians in Europe up to the Jazz Age
Black Music in Europe: 1910-1920
Clarke Peters uncovers the stories of black musicians in Europe during World War One
Black Music in Europe: 1920-1930
The sounds of Zonophone records and African-American jazz in 1920s Paris, Josephine Baker
Before the war
Jazz in Weimar Berlin, calypso in Cardiff Bay and the sounds of the Beguine in Paris
Black music in Europe: 1939-45
Nazi propaganda jazz, black American trumpet stars in Paris, and Caribbean swing bands