Hear the voices at the heart of global stories. Where curious minds can uncover hidden truths and make sense of the world. The best of documentary storytelling from the BBC World Service.
From China’s state-backed overseas spending, to on the road with Canada’s Sikh truckers, to the front line of the climate emergency, we go beyond the headlines.
Each week we dive into the minds of the world’s most creative people, take personal journeys into spirituality and connect people from across the globe to share how news stories are shaping their lives.
Iran's media at war
👤 Episode 1Hope and fear: India's space revolution
👤 Episode 2How to spend billions – fast: Carney’s Defence Deadline
👤 Episode 3Mariam Issoufou: Designing a museum
👤 Episode 4
How the Oscars went international
👤 Episode 5Europe's night train renaissance: Still on track?
👤 Episode 6Iran war: What's life like inside Iran?
👤 Episode 7Iranians in London
👤 Episode 8The naked monks
👤 Episode 9
The women of IS: Part three
👤 Episode 10The women of IS: Part two
👤 Episode 11The women of IS: Part one
👤 Episode 12Ukraine: The war behind the war
👤 Episode 13Graffiti across continents
👤 Episode 14Inside Russia’s ‘Youth Armies’
👤 Episode 15Iranians in London
👤 Episode 16Leaving Isis: Is redemption possible?
👤 Episode 17Forty-eight hours in Isfahan
👤 Episode 18Namibia’s hydrogen superpower dream
👤 Episode 19Can Syria’s Kurds save their women’s revolution?
👤 Episode 20Kwan Pun Leung: The image creator of nature
👤 Episode 21Rewriting a revolution
👤 Episode 22Will Venezuela ditch Chavismo?
👤 Episode 23Living with Tourette syndrome
👤 Episode 24When music became a prayer
👤 Episode 25Ukraine’s defiance, four years on
👤 Episode 26Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary
👤 Episode 27Russia's Church in Texas
👤 Episode 28The Dream Makers
👤 Episode 29Jason Gilkison: Choreographer for Strictly Come Dancing
👤 Episode 30Ukraine after four years of war
👤 Episode 31Remembering Ukrainians who have lost their lives in the war
👤 Episode 32‘Oasis of peace’ in wartime
👤 Episode 33Give me my child back
👤 Episode 34Alex Eala: The tennis star who could be a game-changer for the Philippines
👤 Episode 35Fixing Chile’s fashion graveyard
👤 Episode 36Bridgerton: Behind the scenes
👤 Episode 37Body image and weight loss drugs
👤 Episode 38The spy who loved to dance
👤 Episode 39Kirsty Coventry: Becoming president of the IOC
👤 Episode 40The Gaudí code
👤 Episode 41Kentucky’s Real People Radio
👤 Episode 42Trump and Greenland: How MAGA went Arctic
👤 Episode 43Loving, living and dying together in the Netherlands
👤 Episode 44New climbing video game
👤 Episode 45Super Bowl LX
👤 Episode 46China's Population 'Rhinoceros'
👤 Episode 47Returning to Gaza
👤 Episode 48Caught on camera: Exposing China’s spycam porn
👤 Episode 49