The trouble with Dutch cows

Must the Netherlands' world-beating cows be sacrificed to save the country's environment?

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Friendships during lockdown

A conversation about friendships during the pandemic

• 23 mins

Poland's gay pride and prejudice

The row over sexuality that threatens to unleash a culture war in Poland

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Back to normal in Wuhan?

What life is like now in the Chinese city where Covid-19 was first detected

• 23 mins

What has Nobel done for the World?

What it takes to win a Nobel prize and what it means for the lives and careers of winners

• 49 mins

Songs of the Humpback Whale

The story of Roger Payne’s best-selling environmental album, released 50 years ago

• 27 mins

Portland, prisons and white supremacy - part one

How the death of a black teenager highlighted America’s struggle with white gang violence

• 26 mins

US Election 2020: Trump and coronavirus

What have Americans made of President Trump's response to the pandemic?

• 23 mins

Dyslexia: Language and childhood

Toby Withers explores how you can be dyslexic in one language, but not in another

• 27 mins

Portland, prisons and white supremacy - part two

How the death of a black teenager highlighted America’s struggle with white gang violence

• 26 mins

US election: Testing positive for Covid-19

Americans discuss President Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis

• 24 mins

Spitfire stories

How a WW2 icon was made, piece by piece, against all odds. With historian Victoria Taylor

• 50 mins

Dyslexia: Into adulthood

Stella Sabin looks at the continuing impact of dyslexia in adult life

• 28 mins

Reza's story

A death-defying migrant's story...

• 27 mins

The Response USA: The return

Americans consider how their lives have changed since the election of Donald Trump

• 51 mins

US election: Losing your job

People across America talk about losing their jobs during the pandemic

• 25 mins

The TikTok election

Sophia Smith Galer finds out how TikTok could influence the outcome of the US election

• 52 mins

A perfect match

The inequalities in US healthcare exposed through a deeply personal story

• 28 mins

The British and their fish

Grimsby, the once-mighty UK fishing port that hopes Brexit will bring a renaissance

• 26 mins

US election: Trucking and farming

Truck drivers and farmers talk about the past four years of Trump presidency

• 24 mins

Fighting together in Korea

How the Korean War forced the US military to desegregate

• 51 mins

China's rocket man

What does a pioneering scientist's story reveal about China and America?

• 28 mins

US election: Socially distant

Two socially distanced views of the pre-election political landscape of America

• 28 mins

US election: Race and policing

Conversations with serving officers, Black Lives Matter protesters and former Neo-Nazis

• 25 mins

Missing and murdered: America’s forgotten native girls

The shocking violence against Native American women

• 27 mins

Sicily’s prisoner fishermen

Eighteen Sicilian fishermen are in jail in Benghazi, accused of fishing in Libya’s waters

• 26 mins

US election: Divided nation

Voters from across the country share their thoughts and feelings about the election

• 24 mins

India's missing children

Rajini Vaidyanathan searches for one of the many Indian children trafficked into slavery

• 27 mins

The burning scar

Investigating a palm oil giant buying vast areas of Asia’s largest remaining rainforest

• 26 mins

US election: A test of democracy

US voters discuss the election

• 24 mins

Blood lands

The frenzied attack in a farmhouse that left two dead and a South African town divided

• 50 mins

Obesity crisis In Thai temples

Why are Buddhist monks in Thailand more obese than the population at large?

• 28 mins

The five-day election

Voters talk about waiting for results of the unusually protracted US presidential election

• 28 mins

Martinique: The poisoning of paradise

The historic link between slavery and the toxic contamination of a Caribbean island

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Mental and physical toll

Three women in Latin America talk about how coronavirus has affected their societies

• 24 mins

100 Women: The mushroom woman

How Chido Govera's curiosity with mushrooms helped feed her family and other growers

• 27 mins

Don't Log Off: Resilience

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

• 27 mins

The Mapuche – fighting for their right to heal

The Mapuche battle to get respect for their approach to healthcare in southern Chile

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Festive celebrations

Conversations about the impact of coronavirus in the US, Japan and Gaza

• 23 mins

100 Women: Women in power

Mary Ann Sieghart hears the inspiring stories of women in power

• 49 mins

Belarus across the barricades - part one

Day 115 of the astonishing protests in Belarus

• 27 mins

BBC correspondents' look ahead

As the year draws to a close, correspondents muse on the upcoming global events of 2021

• 50 mins

Don't Log Off: Searching for hope

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

• 27 mins

The state of the planet

The UN Secretary General joins Lucy Hockings and activists from around the world

• 53 mins

Me and my trolls

One victim’s quest to discover why complete strangers tormented her on social media

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Vaccine approved

Is imminent large-scale vaccination a path back to normality?

• 24 mins

Back down to Earth

Is it time to abandon dreams of human space travel?

• 50 mins

Belarus across the barricades - part two

Dazzling poet Valzhyna Mort explores a hundred days of protest in Belarus

• 27 mins

Don't log off: Grounded

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

• 27 mins

Syria's soldiers of fortune

The young Syrians who find themselves fighting in the war in Nagorno Karabakh

• 27 mins

Coronavirus: Vaccines, frustrations and hope

Two Kenyan doctors explain why they’re prepared to strike over their working conditions

• 24 mins

Don't Log Off: Opportunity

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

• 27 mins

Darfur: A precarious peace

As UN peacekeepers leave Sudan’s troubled Darfur region, who will now protect civilians?

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Spikes and Santas

Conversations about Christmas during a pandemic

• 24 mins

Warrior elephant guardians

Former Samburu warriors turn their skills to caring for baby elephants in Kenya

• 27 mins

The Digital Human: Messiah

Why do so many of us treat Silicon Valley billionaires like our new messiahs?

• 27 mins

Shipwreck

Searching for the identities of those who died in a Mediterranean shipwreck

• 27 mins

Coronavirus: Surviving the pandemic

We return to some of the people we've featured to hear how their lives have changed

• 24 mins

Revolution of the senses

Has Covid-19 changed the way we hear, see, smell, taste and touch?

• 50 mins

The Hindu bard

In 1914 an Indian student caused a sensation when she won a top Welsh cultural prize

• 35 mins

The Digital Human: Subservience

Does how we treat our subservient robots affect how we treat one another?

• 27 mins

Searching for Wisdom in Lagos

How one young man went missing after Nigerian troops opened fire at a protest

• 26 mins

Breakthrough: The race for the Covid vaccine

Dr Kevin Fong talks to the people who have created a coronavirus vaccine in record time

• 50 mins

Coronavirus: Forgotten voices

Nuala McGovern catches up with people she spoke to earlier in the year

• 24 mins

Donald Trump: The man

The businessman and TV show host who became the 45th President of the United States

• 26 mins

Donald Trump: The political record

The impact of the Trump presidency on US policy convention and political discourse

• 26 mins

The Digital Human: Ghoul

Aleks Krotoski explores how violent content is viewed and why

• 27 mins

Libya's Brothers from Hell

How seven ruthless brothers held a small Libyan town in their murderous grip.

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Intensive care

We hear from ICU doctors in the US, Brazil and South Africa

• 23 mins

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris

Mark Coles presents a profile of Kamala Harris, vice president-elect

• 27 mins

The digital human: Sacred

Aleks Krotoski explores how the digital world influences the way we live

• 26 mins

Social influencers and the perfect body

How online influencers get paid to promote cosmetic surgery

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Young widows

Women who have founded a support group after losing their husbands to Covid-19

• 23 mins

My viral video and me

Colm Flynn tracks down the internet’s original viral video superstars

• 50 mins

President-elect Joe Biden

James Naughtie charts the life of the soon-to-be 46th president of the USA, Joe Biden

• 27 mins

Lisa Montgomery: The road to execution

The story behind one of America’s most shocking murders – and the woman who did it

• 26 mins

President Biden: Call for unity

Nuala McGovern hosts conversations on the challenges ahead for the Biden presidency

• 24 mins

Voices from the Ghetto

The contemporaneous attempt to preserve the memory of life in the Warsaw Ghetto

• 54 mins

Donald Trump and me

Republican voters in Idaho reflect on President Trump’s legacy and their country’s future

• 27 mins

The exiles: Hong Kong at a crossroads

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters facing a tough decision. Do they stay or do they flee?

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minorities

We hear why some people from ethnic minorities are worried about the vaccine

• 23 mins

Compassion fatigue

Are people in the medical and humanitarian professions suffering from emotional burnout?

• 50 mins

Coronavirus Front Line: The search for a vaccine

Winifred Robinson reports on the global race to create a vaccine for Covid-19

• 27 mins

Europe’s most dangerous capital

Bucharest’s crumbling buildings are full of life despite the frequent earth tremors

• 26 mins

Trump impeachment: The Republicans' dilemma

Ros Atkins looks at the future of the GOP after Donald Trump and the Capitol storming

• 10 mins

Coronavirus: Guilty mums

Challenges of parenting and home schooling during lockdown

• 24 mins

Coronavirus Front Line: The search for a vaccine - part two

The medical teams at Bradford investigate the hesitancy over the Covid-19 vaccine

• 26 mins

Unmasked: Stories from the PPE frontline

How protected are the factory workers who make gloves used by doctors fighting Covid?

• 26 mins

The slow search for the origin of Covid-19

Why does so much remain unknown about the start of the pandemic?

• 9 mins

Coronavirus: The vaccinated

A hospital porter and a hospital cleaner talk about their work during the pandemic

• 23 mins

World Wide Waves: The sounds of community radio

For World Radio Day, we visit community radio stations around the globe.

• 51 mins

Inside the brain of Jeff Bezos

The ideas that made Jeff Bezos the richest man on Earth

• 27 mins

Drug-free in Norway?

Can Norwegians with psychosis benefit from radical, drug-free treatment?

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Living in a refugee camp

A Syrian father and his daughter talk about life in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan

• 23 mins

Covid-19: The cost of keeping schools closed during a pandemic

With millions of schools shut worldwide, how do we get children back in the classroom?

• 9 mins

How the Irish shaped Britain

Fergal Keane explores the profound influence the Irish have had on Britain

• 50 mins

I am Robert Chelsea

The story of the first African-American to have a full face transplant

• 27 mins

Kenya’s unhappy doctors and nurses

How one young doctor’s death has exposed problems in Kenya’s health sector

• 26 mins

Coronavirus: Venezuela's hospitals

Two doctors in Venezuela talk about the healthcare crisis in their country

• 24 mins

Facebook's global power and influence

Ros Atkins considers whether the company is now too powerful and its impact on democracy

• 10 mins