A Woman Half in Shadow

The story of African-American novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston

• 26 mins

Chaplains of the Sea

Port chaplains provide support to the world's 1.5 million merchant seafarers

• 49 mins

The Robots' Story

How might robots help us live, work and even love in the future?

• 26 mins

The Khan Mutiny

The Muslim male actors taking over Bollywood amidst growing Hindu fundamentalism in India

• 49 mins

Inside the Israeli Hospital

The Israeli doctors treating Syrians who have been smuggled over the border with injuries

• 26 mins

The Sound of Soweto

The Sound of Soweto - Part One

The role of music as defiance in Soweto, South Africa's oldest township

• 26 mins

The Sound of Soweto

The Sound of Soweto - Part Two

Poet Thabiso Mohare explores the role of music as defiance in Soweto, South Africa

• 26 mins

Remembering Challenger

Four people affected by the Challenger space shuttle disaster reflect on the event

• 49 mins

Watching my Father

The rise in suicide rates among Indian farmers and the impact on their families

• 26 mins

The Origins of the American Dream

Where did the idea in which nothing is impossible as long as you work hard originate?

• 26 mins

A Very British Election

A portrait of the UK Election and the impact of the Manchester attack on the campaigns

• 26 mins

World Book Café: Berlin

Damien McGuinness is in Berlin to ask what excites its book lovers

• 26 mins

The Driver and the Dictator

The 1958 Grand Prix in Havana that ended with the kidnapping of F1's Juan Manuel Fangio

• 49 mins

The Death of the Cockfighters

The highly complex cultural practice of cockfighting and its place in the modern world

• 26 mins

What Went Wrong with Brazil?

How Brazil went from economic boom years to its worst recession on record

• 26 mins

UK Election: Something Happened, but What?

What the UK election results say about Britain, Brexit, and the different generations

• 26 mins

Las Vegas Stripped Bare

Behind the gambling, glitz and glamour of this extraordinary desert oasis

• 49 mins

Germany: Reluctant Giant

Why does Germany fear becoming a military power?

• 26 mins

Hong Kong: Twenty Years On

How have the hopes and fears of Hong Kong's handover from Britain to China played out?

• 49 mins

Young in Hong Kong

The post-1997 generation of Hong Kong, how they see themselves and what makes them tick

• 26 mins

Blind Man Roams the Globe

Blind Man Roams the Globe: Marrakesh

The sounds of Marrakesh explored through the ears of a blind man

• 26 mins

Blind Man Roams the Globe

Blind Man Roams the Globe: London's Square Mile

Peter White explores the sounds and smells of London’s Square Mile

• 26 mins

Europe's Drug Wars

Irish crime journalist Paul Williams asks whether Europe’s drugs wars are out of control

• 49 mins

Macron's Quest

Who is the former banker and civil servant and how did he rise so far so fast?

• 26 mins

Give Back the Land

A white land owner and black farm workers share ownership of their land in South Africa

• 26 mins

Africa's Digital Poets

Africa's Digital Poets - Part One

How digital platforms are serving poets in Africa

• 26 mins

Africa's Digital Poets

Africa's Digital Poets - Part Two

The poets and how the digital space is influencing the way they write and perform

• 26 mins

Looking for Aunt Martha's Quilt

In 1892 Liberian farmer Martha Ann Erskine Ricks took a gift of a quilt to Queen Victoria

• 49 mins

The Jewish Queens of Bollywood

The untold story of how Jewish women became the first female superstars of Indian cinema

• 26 mins

Salam to Queen and Country

Zubeida Malik speaks to Muslim soldiers serving in the British army.

• 26 mins