HARDtalk: 2023 in review

Stephen Sackur looks back at thought-provoking interviews from the past year

• 23 mins

Assignment: Bolivia’s giant fish intruder

The giant freshwater fish that's invading Bolivia's Amazonian rivers

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversation: Adventurers

Three adventurers share their experiences of 2023

• 24 mins

HARDtalk: Past notes

A special programme remembering past HARDtalk guests who died in 2023

• 23 mins

In the Studio: Manal AlDowayan

How one of Saudi Arabia's most established artists navigates its changing society

• 27 mins

The Approach

Can mountaineering survive in an age of rapidly warming mountains?

• 27 mins

An octopus's garden

A pioneering closure system is enabling octopus to flourish in Madagascar

• 23 mins

Assignment: Bones that speak

Thousands of people were killed in the 'war on drugs' in the Philippines

• 28 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Covid-19 four years later

Burnt-out doctors, long Covid sufferers and positive stories from the pandemic

• 24 mins

In the Studio: Poet Fred D’Aguiar

Fred D’Aguiar on his collection For the Unnamed, inspired by a black jockey from 1852.

• 27 mins

The Return

Promoted by the Ghanaian government, African-Americans are investing and settling in Ghana

• 45 mins

Building a future for cyclone-hit Mozambique

Meet the people on the frontline of climate change

• 27 mins

Assignment: The struggle for Barbuda's future

How a resort for millionaires sparked a battle for a Caribbean island paradise

• 29 mins

Heart and Soul: Facing death in Kenya

Defying taboos to ease the passing of those with terminal illness in Kenya.

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations on graduate unemployment

Shared experiences of rejection, resilience and unexpected success.

• 24 mins

In the Studio: Thelma Schoonmaker

Thelma Schoonmaker reveals the secrets of the cutting room

• 27 mins

Our House: Stories of the Holocaust

Meet the Berliners tracing the plight of Jewish families who once lived in their flats

• 27 mins

Assignment: Bulgaria - the people smugglers

The men who risk jail to help migrants across Europe

• 27 mins

Heart and Soul: Russia’s Africa crusade

How Moscow is using divisions within Orthodox Christianity to extend its power in Africa

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Surviving sepsis

Inspiring stories on adapting to a new life.

• 23 mins

Paris: Football’s greatest talent factory

What is it about Paris's banlieues that helps create such amazing football talent?

• 50 mins

In the Studio: Maria Djurkovic

Maria Djurkovic on My Policeman.

• 26 mins

Solutions Journalism: Ending homelessness the Finnish way

What happens if you give a homeless person a house, with no strings attached?

• 23 mins

Solutions Journalism: Reducing risks in a risky world

In Japan, drones are being developed to mitigate the risks from tsunamis and earthquakes

• 33 mins

Assignment: American mercenaries - killing in Yemen

Why former soldiers were hired to carry out assassinations in Yemen in 2015

• 28 mins

Heart and Soul: Religion in the 21st Century: Islam

What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the world today?

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Life in Yemen

A picture of Yemen through the words of its people.

• 23 mins

Understand: The US election

Justin Webb unpicks some of the terminology associated with the US election

• 54 mins

In the Studio: Shoeshine Caddie

A new documentary about homelessness by filmmaker, Leonard Manzella.

• 27 mins

The Israeli hostages

People who survived the 7 October attacks in Israel by Hamas describe how events unfolded

• 27 mins