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Sporting heroines of history

Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson explores the role of women in sport through history

• 26 mins

Breaking through

How breaking went from the inner city streets of New York City to the Olympic Games

• 49 mins

China in slogans

How Communist Party slogans reveal a turbulent century of Chinese history

• 49 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode three

How do the Unicode Consortium decide what is included in the official emoji keyboard?

• 23 mins

Lex Gillette: A leap in the dark

Paralympian Lex Gillette and guide coach Wesley go for Gold in 2021

• 26 mins

The road to rock'n'roll

How a network of black performance venues in a segregated USA shaped music history

• 49 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode four

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication

• 23 mins

A tale of two Tokyos

Ken Nishikawa and Nick Luscombe take inspiration and hope from the Tokyo Olympics of 1964

• 26 mins

Beijing: Beyond the masks

Liyang Liu explores her home city Beijing in the wake of the pandemic

• 49 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode five

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication

• 23 mins

Africa鈥檚 vaccine ambitions

What efforts are underway in Africa to build a home grown vaccine manufacturing industry?

• 26 mins

Two smiley faces: Episode six

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication

• 23 mins

Hiroshima successors

As memories of the atomic bomb fade, an unusual practice keeps survivors鈥� stories alive

• 26 mins

Three Pounds In My Pocket

Three pounds in my pocket

British South Asians and the 1990s: a golden decade

• 26 mins

Three Pounds In My Pocket

Three pounds In my pocket

In 2001 everything changed for British South Asians as the progress of the 1990s stalled

• 26 mins

Three Pounds In My Pocket

Three pounds in my pocket

British South Asians and the 1990s: a golden decade

• 26 mins

A bad business

Twenty years after the collapse of Enron, how difficult is it to commit corporate fraud?

• 49 mins

Archiving Black America

Maya Millett speaks to the archivists amplifying the buried stories of African-Americans

• 26 mins

The world according to search

A look at popular and puzzling internet searches from around the world

• 49 mins

Mikis Theodorakis remembered

Beyond Zorba 鈥� the prolific and turbulent life of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis

• 49 mins

9/11: The day that changed our lives forever

New Yorkers and others remember how they coped with the trauma of 9/11

• 49 mins

Afghanistan and me

Thirty years of Afghan鈥檚 tumultuous history, told through one woman鈥檚 experience

• 49 mins

Smart women, male genius

Science writer and broadcaster Angela Saini debunks the myth of male genius

• 26 mins

World Book Caf茅: PEN

An exploration of Freedom of Expression around the world.

• 49 mins

Somalia鈥檚 forgotten hostages

The sailors held captive for years and the retired British Colonel who helped free them

• 26 mins

The lost art of breathing

Each of us takes more than 25,000 breaths a day. But are we even doing it right?

• 26 mins

More yield, less field

Could a farming technique called Pfumvudza be Zimbabwe's answer to food security?

• 26 mins

On the Covid ward

How medical teams look after the emotional well-being of Covid patients and families

• 49 mins

The hack that changed the world

Who was behind the 2009 hack and leak of emails that fuelled climate change sceptics?

• 49 mins

Trading tribulation

Exploring the highs and lows of financial trading on smartphone apps.

• 26 mins