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The Bomb
An explosion that changed history. Could one man have stopped it?
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
Black music in Europe: After 1945
The music of Ambrose Campbell, Sterling Betancourt MBE, and calypso star Lord Kitchener
Late 1950s-1960s
Congolese rumba recorded in Brussels, Algerian chaabi in Paris and Notting Hill Carnival
The 1960s
Guitar legend Francis Bebey, Fela Kuti, Don Cherry, and the story of The Blue Notes
The 1970s
Surinamese music in the Netherlands, black flamenco in Spain and lover’s rock in London
Rulebreakers
How I disappear
The phenomenon of disappearance is rooted in Japanese culture. Meet those who disappear
Veteran on the tracks
The handbook for train hopping American hobo culture and the man behind the guide
A beautiful prison
Why Greenland is opening up its first prison, after years as a modern prison-less society
Accused of hacking the Pentagon
This is what happened to my life when I was accused of hacking the Pentagon
The shepherd and the settler
A Palestinian shepherd fights for his livelihood under pressure from Israeli settlers
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
Songs of the Humpback Whale
The story of Roger Payne’s best-selling environmental album, released 50 years ago
Dyslexia: Language and childhood
Toby Withers explores how you can be dyslexic in one language, but not in another
Spitfire stories
How a WW2 icon was made, piece by piece, against all odds. With historian Victoria Taylor
Dyslexia: Into adulthood
Stella Sabin looks at the continuing impact of dyslexia in adult life.
Soul Music
Mozart's Requiem
How Mozart's Requiem, written when he was dying, has touched and changed people's lives