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The Essential Episodes

  1. The Why Factor: Encryption

    What is encryption and why do we do it?

  2. The Inquiry: How Will A Population Boom Change Africa?

    Hans Rosling says the doubling of Africa’s population could be a good news story.

  3. Â鶹Éç Trending: The Star Pupil Who Scored Zero In Every Exam

    Maryam Malak, considered one of Egypt’s top students, scored zero in her exams. Why?

  4. From Our Own Correspondent: The Count and the Corncrake

    The Romanian nobleman saving rural species and traditions

  5. More or Less: China Stock Market Crash

    The Chinese stock market crash in context.

  6. The Inquiry - Can We Learn To Live With Nuclear Power?

    After the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the country is turning its reactors back on.

  7. Â鶹Éç Trending: The Dutch Teenager Mapping The Syrian War From His Bedroom

    Meet Thomas van Linge, who draws up maps of the conflict in Syria using social media.

  8. Testour: a Tunisian town where history runs backwards

    Edward Lewis explores the history of a town settled by people expelled from Andalucia

  9. Talking about Death

    It’s something that will come to all of us. So why is it so hard to talk about death?

  10. The Inquiry: Migrant Crisis – What Else Could Europe Try?

    Alexander Betts says refugees could support the economies of neighbouring countries.

  11. Â鶹Éç Trending: Don’t Punch Me! It’s A Prank

    Â鶹Éç Trending explores viral comedy pranks at the Edinburgh Festival.

  12. Beethoven and Brown Coal

    Could opencast mining flatten a whole small town in the Czech Republic?

  13. More or Less: Worm Wars

    Are mass deworming projects a good idea?

  14. The Inquiry: What Will Happen When Robots Take Our Jobs?

    Tech journalist and life coach David Baker says we should embrace a world without work.

  15. Â鶹Éç Trending: This Comment Has Been Removed…

    Is this the end of online comments?

  16. From Our Own Correspondent: Hungary's Migrant Trail

    Nick Thorpe sees how Hungary and Serbia are dealing with people trying to enter the EU.

  17. The Why Factor: Why do we travel?

    Mike Williams asks why do we leave the comfort of our homes to go travel?

  18. The Inquiry: Should Anyone Ever Talk To IS?

    Jonathan Powell makes the case that talks with so-called Islamic State are inevitable.

  19. Â鶹Éç Trending: A Proposal To Cull Stray Dogs in Kerala Leads to Online Campaign

    How stray dogs are leading to a boycott Kerala campaign

  20. From Our Own Correspondent: California's Thirsty Peaches

    How drought is affecting California's Central Valley and its famous fruit

  21. More or Less: Counting Foreign Fighters

    How many foreigners have joined militants in Iraq and Syria, and where do they come from?

  22. The Inquiry: What’s Behind The Anti-Vax Movement?

    Juniper Russo on why she didn’t vaccinate her children – but then changed her mind.

  23. Â鶹Éç Trending: Bangladesh’s Murdered Bloggers

    Why were three bloggers murdered in Bangladesh?

  24. From Our Own Correspondent: Paris Bandstands

    The social and musical riches to be found around the bandstands of the French capital

  25. The Why Factor: Encryption

    What is encryption and why do we do it?

  26. The Inquiry: Why do Tax Havens Still Exist?

    Jamie Whyte says tax havens are actually a good thing.

  27. Â鶹Éç Trending: Nostalgia Drives ‘Growing Up’ Hashtags

    We explore themes of nostalgia which was at the root of the ‘growing up’ hashtags.

  28. From Our Own Correspondent: A New Age of Empires?

    What is Iran's role in the historical tides shaping the Middle East?

  29. More or Less: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History

    What has been achieved in the ten years since Live 8 sought to Make Poverty History?

  30. The Inquiry: What Does China's Stock Market Crash Tell Us?

    In a country where everything is big, numbers can be deceptive.

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