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An indepth look at stories and issues from around the world. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive.
Episodes
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- Japan’s next meal? · 29 minWhat will the food of the future taste like? In Japan, we discover a fungus turning waste into a high-protein alternative to meat. Then we visit a bedroom where amateur…
- Inheritance: Fiat · 30 minGianni Agnelli is the head of the family that controls Fiat, and the vast business empire beyond the carmaker that helped shape modern Italy. Charming, charismatic and powerful…
- Can businesses trust AI? · 25 minWhy does artificial intelligence sometimes make things up? From law firms to consultants, businesses are grappling with the risks of AI hallucinations. What's causing them, and…
- Unlikely: A love across the political divide · 55 minCatalina and Jorge were born on the same day - 14 June. They also share a surname and, at one point, attended neighbouring schools. But that is where the similarities end. They…
- Rebranding sleep apnoea · 29 minObstructive sleep apnoea is a condition where a person’s breathing stops and starts repeatedly while they sleep, possibly over 30 times an hour, leaving them exhausted on waking…
- The right thing: Uganda’s fearless nun · 32 minRosemary Nyirumbe became a nun when she was just in her mid-teens – and she felt her true vocation lay in rehabilitating children who had been through some of the worst trauma…
- Good Bad Billionaire: Gautam Adani · 50 minGautam Adani’s businesses span almost every part of life in India. From energy to food, ports to mining, and drinks to weapons, the Adani group has widespread influence over…
- Digging deep to help farmers · 29 minA new farming method is having a dramatic effect on maize crops in Malawi, and assistance is coming from a solar-powered tractor. In the last of her visits to Malawi, Myra goes…
- Loving, living and dying together in the Netherlands · 59 minEls and Jan have fewer than three days left on Earth. Childhood sweethearts who met in kindergarten more than six decades ago, they know precisely when they will die. And how. On…
- If China's exports are booming, why are consumers struggling? · 25 minChina's booming export figures, driven in part by demand for AI-related products, suggest a high-tech economy that's thriving. Yet many consumers at home continue to face…
- Germany's rust belt revival · 55 minOn location in Dortmund, in Germany's Ruhr region, historian and author Katja Hoyer reports on the dramatic transformation that has taken place in the city in the last 20 years…
- Living with dementia · 27 minA major new international study predicts that the number of people diagnosed with dementia will more than double by 2050. Researchers at the University of New South Wales in…
- The right thing: Gaza's parish priest · 32 minAs a young missionary priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli left his native Argentina to work in the Middle East. He went out of a passion for bringing Christ to the people wherever…
- Navi Pillay · 25 minNavanetham 'Navi' Pillay has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026. The 85 year old South African jurist and former UN Human Rights chief initially thought the news was a…
- The silence of the oligarchs · 31 minRussia's super-rich once ruled the country, holding deep influence over the country's politicians in the years immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They then…
- The dolphin whisperer of the Amazon · 28 minDeep in the Amazon jungle, pink river dolphins are under threat from pollution, deforestation, illegal mining and climate change. As a powerful El Niño looms, raising fears of…
- China and the UK: After the golden era · 30 minJournalist and author Paul Kenyon investigates rising suspicions over China’s presence in the UK. From shadow policing operations, to spies and the infiltration of universities…
- What China's solar panel obsession means for the world · 22 minChina's latest trade data show another huge surplus, putting the country on course for what could be a record $1.5 trillion trade surplus this year. In the first of two episodes…
- Shadowmen: Russians working with Ukraine · 28 minA network of Russians say they are secretly fighting their own country. They claim armed resistance to stop Russia winning in Ukraine is the best way to undermine Putin’s regime…
- Afghan refugees: Back to zero · 35 minWhy are millions of Afghans pushed into circular migration and what awaits them in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan? In this series, The Global Jigsaw explores one of the world’s…
