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The Robots' Story
How might robots help us live, work and even love in the future?
The Khan Mutiny
The Muslim male actors taking over Bollywood amidst growing Hindu fundamentalism in India
Inside the Israeli Hospital
The Israeli doctors treating Syrians who have been smuggled over the border with injuries
The Sound of Soweto
The Sound of Soweto - Part One
The role of music as defiance in Soweto, South Africa's oldest township
The Sound of Soweto - Part Two
Poet Thabiso Mohare explores the role of music as defiance in Soweto, South Africa
Remembering Challenger
Four people affected by the Challenger space shuttle disaster reflect on the event
Watching my Father
The rise in suicide rates among Indian farmers and the impact on their families
The Origins of the American Dream
Where did the idea in which nothing is impossible as long as you work hard originate?
A Very British Election
A portrait of the UK Election and the impact of the Manchester attack on the campaigns
World Book Caf茅: Berlin
Damien McGuinness is in Berlin to ask what excites its book lovers
The Driver and the Dictator
The 1958 Grand Prix in Havana that ended with the kidnapping of F1's Juan Manuel Fangio
The Death of the Cockfighters
The highly complex cultural practice of cockfighting and its place in the modern world
What Went Wrong with Brazil?
How Brazil went from economic boom years to its worst recession on record
UK Election: Something Happened, but What?
What the UK election results say about Britain, Brexit, and the different generations
Las Vegas Stripped Bare
Behind the gambling, glitz and glamour of this extraordinary desert oasis
Germany: Reluctant Giant
Why does Germany fear becoming a military power?
Hong Kong: Twenty Years On
How have the hopes and fears of Hong Kong's handover from Britain to China played out?
Young in Hong Kong
The post-1997 generation of Hong Kong, how they see themselves and what makes them tick
Blind Man Roams the Globe
Blind Man Roams the Globe: Marrakesh
The sounds of Marrakesh explored through the ears of a blind man
Blind Man Roams the Globe: London's Square Mile
Peter White explores the sounds and smells of London鈥檚 Square Mile
Europe's Drug Wars
Irish crime journalist Paul Williams asks whether Europe鈥檚 drugs wars are out of control
Macron's Quest
Who is the former banker and civil servant and how did he rise so far so fast?
Give Back the Land
A white land owner and black farm workers share ownership of their land in South Africa
Africa's Digital Poets
Africa's Digital Poets - Part One
How digital platforms are serving poets in Africa
Africa's Digital Poets - Part Two
The poets and how the digital space is influencing the way they write and perform
Looking for Aunt Martha's Quilt
In 1892 Liberian farmer Martha Ann Erskine Ricks took a gift of a quilt to Queen Victoria
The Jewish Queens of Bollywood
The untold story of how Jewish women became the first female superstars of Indian cinema
Salam to Queen and Country
Zubeida Malik speaks to Muslim soldiers serving in the British army.
Galapagos Islands: A Little World Within Itself
Sarah Darwin follows Charles Darwin鈥檚 footsteps to see the Galapagos Islands
Reclaiming Karachi
Inspiring stories of change from the streets of Karachi
The End of Sand
Our planet's sand reserves may be running out, with serious consequences for society