BBC Sounds - Assignment - Available Episodes

Ethiopia’s disinformation war

Searching for the truth about the conflict in Tigray

26 mins
30 Jun 2022

Kenya's election hustle

The enterprising young Kenyans making money from a political scramble for power

26 mins
23 Jun 2022

Ukraine’s homegrown harvest

A village to village network to help grown food in Ukraine

26 mins
16 Jun 2022

Evacuated to Russia

Has Russia rescued a million Ukrainian refugees? Or deported them in another war crime?

26 mins
09 Jun 2022

Ukraine: The disinformation war

British academics accused of sharing Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine

26 mins
02 Jun 2022

When rape becomes a crime

Are tougher sentences for rapists in Senegal deterring sexual violence against women?

26 mins
26 May 2022

Love-bombing Estonia’s Russian speakers

Can music and culture help unite Estonia?

26 mins
19 May 2022

Cambodia: Returning the gods

Cambodia wants its gods - stolen statues - returned from western museums and collectors

26 mins
12 May 2022

Mexico: The Yaqui fight back

Resistance and division among Mexico’s indigenous Yaqui people

26 mins
05 May 2022

The accordion wars of Lesotho

Why has accordion music led to the killing of so many in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho?

26 mins
28 Apr 2022

Myanmar: fighting the might of the junta

A mother and a student have sacrificed everything to join a fight for Myanmar's future

26 mins
21 Apr 2022

Russia's unwelcome new exiles

Thousands of Russians fled to Georgia following the invasion of Ukraine

26 mins
14 Apr 2022

Dying to hunt in France

A string of fatal accidents have turned hunting into a hot topic in the French elections

26 mins
07 Apr 2022

Heartbeats, abortion and Texas

The impact of the most restrictive abortion law in the United States

26 mins
24 Mar 2022

The fate of Russia’s soldiers

Tim Whewell follows the story of a Russian prisoner of war in Ukraine

26 mins
17 Mar 2022

‘Tough love’ in San Francisco

A lethal drugs crisis is changing politics in one of America’s most permissive cities

26 mins
10 Mar 2022

Subscription scams

The billion dollar subscription scam industry

26 mins
24 Feb 2022

Italy’s hidden sins

How Italy has failed to confront the scourge of clerical sex abuse

26 mins
17 Feb 2022

Ukraine’s frontline bakery revisited

Lucy Ash catches up with a warzone bakery comforting people in an east Ukrainian town

26 mins
10 Feb 2022

Hunting the darknet dealers

The high stakes cat and mouse game between police and darknet drug dealers

26 mins
27 Jan 2022