Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
World Service,路1881 episodes
Frances Fyfield looks at the writ of habeas corpus, which safeguards individuals from a...
In Australia the shed is used to combat loneliness and depression in the older male gen...
Sorious Samura follows a Hutu refugee as she returns home to Rwanda after the genocide.
An investigation into the censored world of the Chinese internet
Discover the world online in Afghanistan and meet the country's community of bloggers.
Episode 1
The Great Levelling: has the internet lived up to the ideals of its founders?
Episode 3
The Cost of Free - how business has colonised the web.
Episode 4
Homo Interneticus - are our brains being rewired by the net?
The story of how an internet cafe changed a young Sydneysider's career steers Nick Bake...
Is the internet changing the way Indians make matches and find life partners?
Iranian Kazem Ariaiwand runs the most northerly kebab shop on the planet. This is his e...
Maurice Walsh reports on the changing face of religion in New York, as Hispanics are ta...
The stories and history of the bizarre phenomenon of sending messages in bottles across...
Gary Younge meets people who think Barack Obama's presidency is nothing but bad news.
Episode 2
Nick Baker goes in search of China's seafaring legend Zheng He.
Africa Kicks - Part four
South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup but can football unite the nation?
Prof Jim Al-Khalili, brings alive the stories of the great forgotten Arabic thinkers an...