Crossing Continents Podcast
Series focusing on foreign affairs issues.
Episodes to download
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Japan's Elderly Crime Wave
Last Thursday
Elderly pensioners in Japan commit petty crimes so that they can be sent to prison.
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Balkan Border Wars - Serbia and Kosovo
Thu 10 Jan 2019
Old enemies Serbia and Kosovo discuss what for some is unthinkable - an ethnic land swap.
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The Brazilian Footballer Who Never Was
Thu 3 Jan 2019
How one boy’s dream was cut short by the beautiful game’s ugly prejudice in Brazil.
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Armenia: Return to a Town That Died
Thu 27 Dec 2018
Two British firefighters revisit the scene of Armenia's devastating earthquake in 1988.
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DNA, Me and the Family Tree
Thu 20 Dec 2018
How home DNA testing kits are revealing more than some people bargained for.
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China's Hidden Camps
Thu 13 Dec 2018
The BBC gains rare access to a region of China where Muslims are being held without trial.
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Inside Burundi’s Killing Machine
Thu 6 Dec 2018
An investigation into repression in Burundi, one of Africa's most secretive countries.
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A Stark Choice for Cambodia's Surrogates
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Locked up for renting out their wombs, mothers in Cambodia must make an agonising choice.
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Nigeria's Patient 'Prisoners'
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Nigerian patients held in hospital because they can’t pay their medical bills.
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Generation Identity
Thu 20 Sep 2018
Simon Cox investigates a new far right youth organisation in Europe, Generation Identity.
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Uganda's Prison Farms
Thu 30 Aug 2018
'He was using prisoners like oxen' - an ex-convict recalls life on a Ugandan prison farm.
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'Gone to Foreign' from Jamaica
Thu 23 Aug 2018
A life in limbo for two Britons. Not wanted in the UK and not wanted in Jamaica.
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Seaweed, Sex and Liberation in Zanzibar
Thu 16 Aug 2018
The crop that has put women on top in Zanzibar.
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Euthanasia - Aurelia's Story
Thu 9 Aug 2018
Aurelia Brouwers had mental illness - when she died from euthanasia in Holland she was 29.
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Norway's Silent Scandal
Thu 2 Aug 2018
Norway's child protection system under scrutiny once again after expert's conviction.
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Not Making Babies in South Korea
Thu 26 Jul 2018
Why does South Korea have the lowest fertility rate in the world?
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China's World Cup Dreams
Thu 10 May 2018
How a small rural school could help China achieve its World Cup dream.
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The Belarus Tractor Factory
Thu 3 May 2018
How a Soviet era business model is still working in Minsk - and exporting worldwide.
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Corruption Incorporated: The Odebrecht Story
Thu 26 Apr 2018
The rise and fall of one of Brazil's top companies - built on a policy of bribery.
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The Mystery of Russia's Lost Jihadi Brides
Thu 19 Apr 2018
How hundreds of Russian jihadi brides and their children vanished in Iraq.
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The Child Saver of Mosul
Thu 12 Apr 2018
One woman's mission to reunite families amid the rubble of Mosul.
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Greece's Haven Hotel
Thu 5 Apr 2018
How is the city of Athens finding homes for the thousands of refugees who live there?
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Digging Up the Past in Catalonia
Thu 29 Mar 2018
Why is troubled Catalonia now opening up civil war mass graves?
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Sweden's Child Migrant Mystery
Thu 18 Jan 2018
An investigation into the mystery illness affecting child migrants in Sweden.
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Ukraine's Frontline Bakery
Thu 11 Jan 2018
How one bakery is bringing a hope of normality to war-torn east Ukraine.
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Black and Proud in Brazil
Thu 4 Jan 2018
How black Brazilians are asserting their rights thanks to a controversial education law.
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Taming the Pilcomayo
Thu 28 Dec 2017
A journey up the 'suicidal' Pilcomayo river that separates Paraguay from Argentina.
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