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Omnibus Episodes

  1.

    A Refugee Returns

    The story of a refugee's return to Vietnam

  2. Two Hundred Years of Moonlighting

    Why is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata so famous and so popular to play?

  3. Hana's Suitcase

    The role played by an empty suitcase in explaining the Holocaust to Japanese children

  4. Behind the Wire

    The story of the internment of 27000 people in Britain in 1940

  5. Lord Kelvin's Bedspring

    The scientific story of foam

  6. Avega Widows

    A visit to 'The land of widows' and the self help group Avega Agahozo

  7. Fire Fighting in Banja Luka

    Crossing ethnic divides by building a national fire service in Bosnia-Herzegovina

  8. Zero Gravity

    Experiencing weightlessness with parabolic flying for non-astronauts

  9. Images of Belsen - Part Two

    What happened to the inmates in the months - and years - after the liberation of Belsen

  10. Images of Belsen - Part One

    The horrific conditions discovered when the Nazi concentration camp was liberated in 1945

  11. Runaway Brides

    The perils of arranged marriages for Bangladeshi girls

  12. Solitude

    Accounts of different experiences of loneliness and isolation

  13. Our World Lives on

    The race against time to preserve Yiddish as a language in Eastern Europe

  14. The Whisky Route

    Learning how to make Scottish whisky

  15. The Iranians

    A look at life in Iran 22 years after the Islamic Revolution

  16. No Word for 'Robin'

    A look at the effects of climate change in Banks Island

  17. Stealing the Glory

    The story of the black explorer who was the first person to reach the North Pole

  18. Cementing the Ties

    Travelling from Oldham to Bangladesh on an educational mission

  19. Sanctuary

    'The blind arrogance of Australia's early aclimatisers'

  20. The Image of Rosita

    Giving birth in a tree. Recalling the powerful image of the rescue of Carolina Pedro

  21. First Words

    A look at how children acquire language

  22. Global Perspective - Kiribati in Crisis

    The consequences of rising sea levels for Kiribati

  23. Global Perspective - Fire and Ice

    Experiencing the harsh weather of Teller in Alaska

  24. Global Perspective - The Island on Dry Land

    A visit to Schokland and a look at Netherlands relationship with the sea

  25. Wild at Heart - African Childhood

    Contributors describe their earliest memories of growing up in the bush in Africa

  26. The Amber Room

    What happened to an amber-filled chamber described as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World'?

  27. Global Perspective - Seawalls

    Sea walls or sea birds?A look at the controversy over maintaining sea walls on Blackwater

  28. Breaking the Silence

    Filipino women break their silence on domestic abuse

  29. Fire -Tool or Weapon?

    Forest fires and their effects on various countries

  30. Charing Cross Road

    A look at the vibrant and varied life on Charing Cross Rd

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