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Universal Basic Income: Alaska style

Every citizen gets an annual dividend from the state’s oil fund. Mark Whitaker reports

• 37 mins

Spain’s care home nightmare

Why did so many people die in just one elderly care home in Madrid?

• 27 mins

Coronavirus Global Conversations: Remembering medics who have died from Covid-19

Losing loved ones on the frontline, coping during 40-day lockdown and hospital chaplains

• 27 mins

The Response: Coronavirus - Lockdown tales from Brazil, Germany and Australia

Listeners from different countries offer their unique perspectives on a global crisis

• 27 mins

Hanging by a thread: Bangladesh’s garment workers

The devastating effect of the coronavirus pandemic on Bangladesh’s garment industry

• 27 mins

Don't log off - part five

Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic

• 24 mins

Coronavirus and Asia

World Questions explores the impact of Covid-19 with experts from around the world.

• 50 mins

One hundred days of Brexit

One hundred days with new MPs in the North of England from Brexit, Day to lockdown

• 50 mins

Coronavirus Global Conversations: Haircuts after lockdown

Hairdressers, funeral directors and sex workers

• 27 mins

Wuhan: The beginning of coronavirus Covid-19

In December 2019, Chinese doctors and officials grapple with a mysterious new virus

• 27 mins

Boris Johnson and Britain’s Covid-19 crisis

What catching Covid-19 reveals about the politics and leadership style of Boris Johnson

• 26 mins

Don't log off - part six

Alan Dein connects with people who are anxious about their family businesses

• 23 mins

Stimulus cheques and sending money home

How does the financial help on offer where you are compare to other parts of the world?

• 50 mins

Coronavirus Global Conversations: Making people laugh

Comedians, loneliness and going back to school

• 27 mins

Seven dead, 46 injured: One Chicago weekend

Stories from an August weekend of gun violence in Chicago, narrated by Clarke Peters

• 49 mins

Lockdown: Tales from Lebanon, Australia, Atlanta and India

Listeners offer their perspectives on a global crisis and their lives in lockdown

• 27 mins

Migrant medics

Zeinab Badawi looks at doctors from developing countries working in the developed world

• 27 mins

SOS from the Mediterranean

The desperate race to save migrants at sea over one weekend

• 27 mins

New York stories with Joe Pascal

Homage to Harlem with poetry, music and the story of chef and resident Marcus Samuelsson

• 48 mins

Don't log off - part seven

Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic.

• 24 mins

Recycling Chile, recycling Spain

Why is Spain rubbish at recycling and Chile so much better? Leena Vuotovesi finds out

• 50 mins

Coronavirus Global Conversations: Giving birth during a pandemic

New mums, being pregnant in prison and Covid-19 survivors

• 27 mins

The Death Row book club

An inmate’s first-hand account of creating a book club on Death Row

• 27 mins

Belarus: Masking the virus

Carry on regardless says Belarus’s president in the face of the coronavirus pandemic

• 27 mins

Don't log off - part eight

Alan Dein connects with people experiencing sleepless nights during the pandemic

• 24 mins

The Miracle of Istanbul

Jerzy Dudek relives his star role in Liverpool's extraordinary 2005 Champions League win

• 51 mins

The orgasm gap

What should we be taught about sexual pleasure?

• 50 mins

Coronavirus Global Conversations: Life in lockdown with autism

Parents of children with autism, Brazilian doctors and US obituary editors

• 27 mins

The Covid generation

How the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the job prospects of the class of 2020

• 50 mins

Abortion under lockdown

What happened in Texas when coronavirus closed the abortion clinics?

• 27 mins