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The Compass - exploring our world.
Misha Glenny's final programme on Russia - what it is and where it came from - looks at the country's attitude to war. What has been the lon...
It was Peter the Great who created a new capital on the Baltic, and Catherine the Great who extended Russian influence south and west. Swede...
Russia's massive empire was not like that of Britain or France. It expanded across the land, making it more like the United States of Americ...
Countries look so cohesive on the map - sturdy borders, familiar shapes. Don't be misled. They didn't always look like this. This is the sto...
Tel Aviv is a bustling place and for a blind person it can be a little daunting, as BBC journalist, Peter White, discovers. The narrow stree...
In a new series of Sounds of the City Peter White, who has been blind since birth, uses the sounds to guide him as he explores new parts of...
When one of journalist Rajkumar Keswani's friends dies at the Union Carbide plant after exposure to toxic gas, he decides to investigate. Lo...
Giles Edwards looks inside the private clubs of former world leaders to see how they are still trying to influence global politics. (Photo:...
Giles Edwards investigates the many opportunities offered by globalisation, and speaks to some of the former presidents and prime ministers...
What happens to presidents and prime ministers when they stop running their countries, and leave politics behind? Giles Edwards has spent 10...
The town of El Triunfo in Tabasco state is not far from the Mexican border with Guatemala. Translated from Spanish, ‘El Triunfo’ means ‘The...
From highways to hospitals, Chinese construction firms continue to work on a number of high-profile projects across Jamaica. In the face of...
The Panama Canal is a great feat of engineering and a place of huge global significance for trade and shipping. An artificial waterway that...
The Cordillera del Condor mountain range in the east of Ecuador is where the mountains meets the jungles and the Andes meets the Amazon. In...
Tim Marshall on Narva where The EU, Europe and Nato meet the Russian Federation. It's a city in Estonia where 95% of the population are ethn...
Tim Marshall delves into the strange story of Kinshasa and Brazzaville the only capitals straddling a border. Their peoples share a common c...
Tim Marshall considers Niagara Falls, the busiest crossing point on the world’s longest border. The fortunes of the two cities either side o...
Tim Marshall profiles Maastricht, the city where 30 years ago the European Union was born. Have these economic measures dented relations bet...
Writer and environmentalist Isabelle Legeron is in France to see how cultivating a healthy soil, teeming with fungi and microbes, can enhanc...
Isabelle Legeron travels to Giessen in Germany, to the original laboratory of Justus Von Liebig the brilliant 19th century chemist whose wor...
Isabelle Legeron travels to California, a part of the world whose soil holds a complex history. She meets the indigenous Californians revivi...
How is the world going to get to net zero by 2050 and who is paying the bill? Former governor of the Bank of England, and UN Special Envoy o...
For over 100 years, Iceland has produced renewable energy from geo-thermal and hydro power to heat its homes and power industry. Iceland har...
Allan Little investigates the best way to capture, store and redistribute the renewable sources of energy freely available all over the worl...
Allan Little looks at the challenges we face as we wean ourselves off gas and oil to renewable sources powering our cars, trucks, ships and...
As the former ‘British Empire Games’ draws nearer, actor and musician Kema Sikazwe finds out what the world of museums can learn from the co...
Travelling from Lusaka to the Gwembe Valley and then on to Kabwe, Kema Sikazwe hears from people living in communities where artefacts were...
Returning to Zambia for the first time since he was three years old, Kema Sikazwe continues his journey exploring the impact of colonial leg...
Actor and musician Kema Sikazwe is on a mission to uncover his own personal history as he leaves the UK to return to his homeland of Zambia...
The borders of the Balkans have been splintered, cracked and remade countless times over centuries. Suspicions and hatreds, ancient and mode...
In May 1952 East Germany sealed its entire border with the capitalist west. Over the next 37 years 75,000 people would be arrested trying to...
Ladakh is a region at the centre of the 50-year-long border dispute between India and China, which flared up again in June 2020. Journalist...
If the Himalayan glaciers melt, a billion lives and whole ecosystems will be at risk. Journalist and broadcaster Ed Douglas joins innovative...
Spanning five countries, the Himalaya is home to peoples who have adapted to living in the harshest of conditions. Journalist and broadcaste...
Do we still have faith in money? Trust expert and fellow at the Said Business School at Oxford University, Rachel Botsman, investigates the...
Rachel Botsman, a Trust expert and fellow at the Said Business School at Oxford University, looks into the psychology and the morality of mo...
In the second episode Rachel explores the subject of value. Beginning with the volatility of Bitcoin, she goes on to find out about growing...
Do we still have faith in money? Trust expert and Fellow at the Said Business School at Oxford University, Rachel Botsman, talks to people f...
The newest player in the Niger Delta is not a multinational company, it is Nigeria’s enormous illegal oil industry. Oil thieves cut the pipe...
BBC West Africa correspondent Mayeni Jones travels to the creeks of the Niger Delta to investigate the impact that oil pollution continues t...
In the 1990s, as oil spills devastate the environment, Shell becomes persona non grata in Ogoniland. Then, when Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ledum Mittee...
When oil company, Shell D’Arcy first struck black gold in Nigeria, there were celebrations on the creeks of the Niger Delta. Many of the loc...
Psychiatrist Henrietta Bowden Jones talks to June Angelides about how she set up Mums In Tech on maternity leave, and how she was inspired b...
Halima Begum is the CEO of the race equality think tank The Runnymede Trust. Her career as a civil rights campaigner began when she formed W...
Musician Maya Youssef talks about her painful decision not to return to her parents' house in Damascus when the civil war in Syria began. Sh...
Psychiatrist Henrietta Bowden-Jones talks to novelist Dina Nayeri about her experience of escaping Iran and seeking asylum. The author of Th...
When noise levels rise, birds react. Noise is one of the top environmental hazards to which humans are exposed. It has also been linked to r...
Just like us, birds can become infected with viruses – and some of these can be transferred to us. As we’ve seen with the coronavirus pandem...
How the deaths of vultures and sparrowhawks have alerted the world to serious environmental problems. Like the canaries which were used to d...
Many of today’s old people grew up in an era when life was hard, retirement short, and opportunities for play limited. But as we live longer...