Why Can't We Stop Looking at our Phones?

The science and psychology of smartphone design

• 23 mins

What Happened to Europe’s Migrant Crisis?

In 2015 huge numbers of migrants were trying to reach Europe. We hear what happened next

• 23 mins

How is Mosul Being Liberated?

The story of the largest battle on Earth today

• 23 mins

Are Famines Always Man-Made?

Humankind long ago figured out how to avoid famine

• 23 mins

What’s Wrong With France?

All the candidates in the French presidential election are calling for radical change

• 23 mins

Do We Need A Plan B For Climate Change?

Scientists have been developing some very ambitious ideas to re-engineer our climate

• 23 mins

Why Is No-one Trying to Stop the War in Yemen?

Thousands have been killed and the country is on the brink of famine

• 23 mins

What Happens When You Legalise Cannabis?

Ruth Alexander looks at what happened next after legalising cannabis

• 23 mins

How Powerful is Facebook's Algorithm?

What does Facebook’s computer code do with the data we give it?

• 23 mins

Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?

A special edition with Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Homo Deus.

• 23 mins

How did North Korea get the bomb?

Exploring how the secretive state has acquired nuclear weapons

• 23 mins

How Did Venezuela Go From So Rich To So Poor?

Once the richest country in South America, Venezuela is now in deep economic crisis

• 23 mins

How Did Immigration Stop Being a Political Taboo in the UK?

How did immigration stop being a political taboo in the UK?

• 23 mins

Does Poverty Change The Way We Think?

Investigating the scientific claims that being poor affects how our brains work

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Is Work Too Easy?

We used to work ourselves to an early death. Do we now sit ourselves to one instead?

• 23 mins

How Do You Report Terrorism?

Should the media devote less coverage to terrorist attacks?

• 23 mins

Is the Greatest Threat to Putin Really Alexei Navalny?

Assessing the strength of the opposition leader who has run mass protests in Russia

• 23 mins

Why Does China Want to Revive the Silk Road?

The biggest infrastructure initiative of all time could change the current world order.

• 23 mins

Have We Always Felt This Tired?

The past, present and possible future story of human sleep

• 23 mins

What's So Special About Qatar?

The tiny state behind a global diplomatic feud.

• 23 mins

Is Gene Editing Out of Control?

The Inquiry looks into the unintended consequences of gene editing

• 23 mins

Is it Time to Ban the Plastic Bottle?

Every single second, 20,000 single-use drinking bottles are sold around the world

• 23 mins

What would war with North Korea look like?

We reveal the conversations inside the war rooms

• 23 mins

Who Gets to Have Their Own Country?

You might think simple rules decide the creation of nation states. You'd be wrong.

• 23 mins

Are South Africa's Police Failing?

A story of crime and often no punishment

• 23 mins

How Do You Fix Someone Else's Election?

Smears, bots and bags of cash - stories of old tricks and new.

• 23 mins

Are Video Games a Waste of Time?

Gaming is replacing work for some young men in the US

• 23 mins

How Has The Ku Klux Klan Lasted So Long?

Why the US racist group the Ku Klux Klan continues to exist

• 23 mins

What Can We Do With Our Dead?

Cemeteries around the world are fast running out of space.

• 23 mins

How Do We Stop People Dying in Floods?

Do we have the power to avoid the natural forces of intense rainfall?

• 22 mins