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