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The best of BBC World Service documentaries and other factual programmes.
At 93, Paul Biya is the oldest head of state in the world. In June he will have been the leader of Cameroon for 44 years and is currently se...
As Sir David Attenborough celebrates his 100th birthday, we bring together conservationists and film-makers to discuss the impact of his lon...
Thirty years after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, some convicted perpetrators are returning to the communities they once devastat...
The Kremlin’s pursuit of a “sovereign internet” has raised fears of a digital Iron Curtain. After months of mobile internet shutdowns, Russi...
Artemis II astronaut, Jeremy Hansen, reflects on the mission, adapting to life back on Earth after journeying to the far side of the Moon, a...
Eighteen months ago, the renovation of the railway station in Serbia’s second biggest city, Novi Sad, led to a tragic accident. A substantia...
In Scotland, from 1940 to 1963, the artist Joan Eardley produced a cache of monumental seascapes, landscapes, and poignant portraits. When s...
Mityana is a bustling regional town in central Uganda, where motorbikes are king. Here an online con operation flourishes in plain sight. Ar...
The personal correspondence, photographs and papers of the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein have been released to t...
Imagine being dressed up for a night out with friends and being thrown out of a bar because your wheelchair is considered a fire hazard. Whe...
Pastor Jane Codrington grew up in a conservative faith environment before leaving the institutional church to found We Are Church - a commun...
Forty years after Chernobyl, Poland aims to open its first nuclear power plant. Shortly after the disaster, only 30% of Poles supported nucl...
Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the wonders of the natural world. In 1875 in the western Pacific, the crew of HMS Challenger discover...
Is defence of the petrol car and liberated motoring becoming the new battleground for Europe’s populist parties? Chris Bowlby visits one of...
*** This programme contains scenes of a sexual nature and discussion of sexual assault, including child sex abuse *** Neha Vyaso is one of t...
China is installing solar panels and wind turbines so fast that its greenhouse gases emissions may now have peaked. If this trend is confirm...
Late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe died in 2019, but in the years before and since his death, his three children with his former wife,...
“Stockpiling peace” preppers share their experiences
Forty years ago, a Filipino soldier serving under Ferdinand Marcos Sr, was ordered to attack civilians opposing the corrupt regime. After wr...
AI is an ever-growing part of our everyday life through apps like Chat GPT, Grok and Claude that are becoming part of everyday life. But wha...
DNA detectives track down the British soldiers who fathered children in Kenya then disappeared, leaving the children and their mothers witho...
Iceland is an island of great beauty and even greater strategic importance. Its position in the Greenland Iceland UK Gap, the gateway betwee...
Serhiy first laid eyes on Iryna under the swirling lights of the best disco in town. She was wearing a cool jumpsuit with a bright red belt,...
Patti LuPone – three-time Tony and two-time Grammy Award winner – has long reigned as one of Broadway’s most formidable leading ladies. In t...
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its fifth year and armies on both sides have faced massive losses. Authorities in Ukraine...
Losing a child during pregnancy is a subject that is not often talked about but can be traumatic and, in some cultures, even lead to feeling...
From historic buildings linked to emancipation to tiny village chapels, Jamaica is home to the world’s highest density of churches. The Cari...
Sweden, once a global poster child for digital education, is changing course. The Nordic nation previously championed a screen-first approac...
When 19-year-old Ann from Florida, US, was shot by her boyfriend in 2010, her family were thrust into a nightmare, one that meant taking the...
Outbreaks of HIV have become regular occurrences in Pakistan. And too frequently it is the children who suffer. In the city of Taunsa, for e...
An innovative scheme in Scotland is helping dads in prison become better parents. Myra Anubi visits Barlinnie jail in Glasgow to meet the pr...
The late Queen Elizabeth II often wore the colours of Commonwealth countries she visited - helping to spread "soft power". Outfits from each...
In India, official figures suggest that one in three women experience domestic violence. In 2023, police registered over 130,000 cases of ma...
The week began with a threat from US President Donald Trump that a ‘whole civilisation would die’, and it ended with peace talks. We bring t...
Four astronauts have travelled further from Earth than anyone ever before. It is part of the Artemis II mission, which saw humans go to the...
Freddie was once signed to a major record label. He appeared in high-production music videos and looked set for fame. But the pressure and p...
Viktor Orban faces a high-stakes showdown as Peter Magyar takes him on in one of Europe’s most consequential elections in years. A former al...
***Contains descriptions of scenes which some may find upsetting*** Hilik Magnus is Israel’s foremost search and rescue specialist. He has p...
Albania has had many different faces over the last hundred years. Once ruled by the Ottomans, it became a kingdom before turning into a tota...
Pink tomato ice cream decorated with edible poppy flowers feature on the summer menu created by chef Rodolfo Guzman for his celebrated Santi...
M People star Andrew Lovell’s home life hid a terrible – yet beautiful – secret. It would take him decades to find out the truth. At the hei...
The global activities of the Islamic State group are now believed to be run from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in the north-east of...
Shark attacks on humans are rare, but they are slowly on the rise in Australia where all our guests are from. In this episode, they share th...
When Megan Garcia travelled to Rome, she carried with her a mother’s grief. At the Vatican she met the Pope and asked him to pray for her so...
In India's Gujarat state lies the Little Rann of Kutch, a sprawling salt marsh desert where temperatures soar to 50 degrees Celsius. This ha...
In 2017, the heir to South Korea’s biggest company is facing jail, leaving it with an uncertain future. After 80 years of business, how did...
Stephanie was brought up in France in a French family, but her birth parents are Indian – she’s an intercountry adoptee. In the 1980s and 19...
On a busy street in Kabul, a young artist steps into traffic wearing a steel sculpture she has shaped around her breasts and buttocks. She c...
Elana Meyers Taylor became the oldest-ever winner of an individual Winter Olympic gold medal when she won the women’s monobob event in Milan...
The BBC's Russian service marks its 80th anniversary this week. In eight decades, it has grown from a short wave radio service to a multimed...