The Documentary - Reinventing Miss America - BBC Sounds

Gospel meets hip-hop

Award winning UK rapper Guvna B explores the ‘gospel hip-hop’ music genre

• 53 mins

Crossing Divides: The exchange

Cattle farmers from the USA and South Africa share perspectives

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

South Korea’s hope in hell

The personal stories of students and young people struggling with the pressure to succeed

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

Survival and revival in the Torres Strait

The islanders fighting to save their home and their language

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

Polygamous marriage in modern Malaysia

All sorts of Muslims, some very dynamic and modern, are embracing polygamy in Malaysia.

• 26 mins

Shifting Cultures

Vanuatu’s stolen generation

Thousands of boys and young men were kidnapped and taken to work on sugar plantations

• 26 mins

Houston, we have a new criminal justice system

Can new judges transform Houston’s criminal justice system?

• 26 mins

Don't Log Off

Don't log off: Part one

Using social media, Alan Dein connects with strangers across the world seeking fulfilment

• 26 mins

Don't Log Off

Don't log off - part two

People in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone and beyond explore what unites them

• 26 mins

Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island

Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island - part two

MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learnin to rap on Rikers Island jail

• 53 mins

Coronavirus: Questions and answers

A panel of experts answers questions from listeners around the world

• 26 mins

Soul Music

Schubert’s B-Flat Piano Sonata D960

How Schubert's B-Flat Piano Sonata D960 has shaped the lives of three remarkable pianists

• 26 mins

Soul Music

God Only Knows by The Beach Boys

How The Beach Boys iconic song helped people discover what it means to be in love

• 26 mins

Soul Music

Back to Black by Amy Winehouse

How Amy Winehouse's song to tragic love, addiction and loss, inspired a generation

• 26 mins

Soul Music

River by Joni Mitchell

A song about a broken relationship that has become a melancholy Christmas anthem

• 26 mins

Soul Music

True Colors by Cyndi Lauper

How Cyndi Lauper's 1980s ballad True Colors has inspired people around the world

• 26 mins

Soul Music

Prelude a L’apres Midi d’un faune by Debussy

A classical piece that speaks to artists of different kinds

• 26 mins

Soul Music

Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd

How a song for a former bandmate has resonated with people around the world

• 26 mins

Soul Music

Ich Habe Genug by J.S. Bach

Soul Music hears people share their stories about music that has changed their lives.

• 26 mins

Soul Music

Wind of Change: Scorpions

Released in 1990, the song has become an unofficial anthem for the end of the Cold War

• 26 mins

The Detransitioners

He2She2He

Transgender journeys of people who transitioned and then returned to their birth gender

• 26 mins

The Detransitioners

She2He2She

Nele and Ellie identified as transmen in their teens. Both are now reidentifying as female

• 26 mins

Behind the Hong Kong protests

What’s motivating the demonstrators on the city’s streets – and their opponents?

• 53 mins

Funeral punks

A new wave of end of life rituals is emerging across northern England

• 26 mins

New York Stories with Joe Pascal

Joe Pascal meets Darryl McDaniels of the legendary rap group Run-DMC

• 53 mins

The importance of Jurgen Klopp

Becky Milligan presents a profile of Jurgen Klopp, manager of Liverpool Football Club

• 26 mins

Sounds Of The City

Miami: The sounds of the city

Peter White, blind since birth, explores Miami through the sounds he hears

• 26 mins

Life Changes

North Korea's celebrity defectors

How North Korean defectors have become a hugely valuable commodity in South Korea

• 49 mins

Life Changes

Ethiopia and Eritrea: Rebirth at the border

What does the future hold on either side of the Ethiopia-Eritrea border?

• 49 mins

Don't Log Off

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

• 23 mins