Anna-Karin Karlsson: Sunglasses made for icons
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From a quiet forest outside Stockholm to the world’s most glamorous runways, Swedish designer Anna...
Steel from shipwrecks
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years component parts of historic shipwrecks have started to disappear, with reports of my...
Reporting the Nigerian School Kidnappings
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than 300 children were kidnapped from a school in the Western Nigerian village of Papiri in Nov...
Australia’s under-16 social media ban
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From 10 December, Australian children under 16 will be banned from most social media platforms inclu...
The mosque for Bangladesh’s transgender women
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the banks of the Brahmaputra River, a remote village in northern Bangladesh serves as a sanctuary...
Made in Russia: The Kremlin’s economic rebrand
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How Moscow is working around international sanctions: promoting self-sustainability, elevating Russi...
From rocks to riches
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meteorites are pieces of space rocks, which having survived a fiery journey through the atmosphere, ...
Joana Vasconcelos: Mask of mirrors
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is renowned for her large-scale sculptural pieces which have...
Young and stateless
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to belong nowhere? Across the world, millions of people are denied citizenship and...
Ireland's new alcohol warning
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland has become the first country in the world to introduce labels linking alcohol with cancer an...
What is the 'Shadow Fleet'?
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Around one fifth of the world's oil tankers now belong to the 'shadow fleet', more than a thousand s...
Brain fog and perimenopause
29 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BBC Tech Editor Zoe Kleinman was about to go live on TV to explain a global outage affecting dozens ...
Twin spirits: A lost bond that lives in dreams
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Claire grew up in a multi-faith household that often looked beyond traditional beliefs for solutions...
What is the 'Russian cultural code'?
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why the traditional kokoshnik headdress is en vogue in Russia, and how it has become a poster image ...
Stemming the tide in Normandy
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coastal erosion has become a serious problem for many seaside communities, no more so than in Norman...
Inside India's war on Maoists
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly 60 years, the Indian government has been fighting a violent group of Maoists in the count...
Raising children on a warming planet
22 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another round of global climate talks is taking place at the COP30 summit, but some are questioning ...
Navigating faith on the road
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada is home to thousands of Sikh truck drivers, crossing North America in cabs that double as kit...
China’s global spending spree
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
China has been on a giant global shopping spree. Since 2000, Chinese state banks have fuelled invest...
Fifty years since Franco: Spain, the valley and a troubled legacy
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fifty years after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, Spain continues to feel its way toward...
The Shiralee: D'Arcy Niland's 1955 Australian western
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Shiralee is a 1955 novel by D'Arcy Niland, telling the story of a wandering swagman on a journey...
'No justice, just kills’
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 19 November 2005, US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, many of them women and childre...
Film director Gurinder Chadha
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is the inspiration behind Gurinder Chadha's new film Christmas Ka...
The COP 30 summit and the climate change frontline
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 30th COP climate summit is under way in the Brazilian city of Belém. BBC World Service Environm...
Changing religion for love
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How difficult is it to stay together when you have different religious faiths? US Vice President JD ...
Finding my true self through Druidry
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a teenager, Mhara was struggling with her gender identity and sexuality. She felt completely alon...
Ukraine's Colombian soldiers
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From jungle guerrilla warfare to frozen trenches: why did they leave and will they ever return? The ...
The Chinese Cryptoqueen
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Between 2014 and 2017 thousands of ordinary Chinese people handed their money over to a company that...
Chef Yoshifumi Yamaguchi
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the culinary artistry of chef Yoshifumi Yamaguchi , a visionary bridging Kyoto and Kampala...
The great hunger: Stalin's famine in Kazakhstan
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few people outside Kazakhstan know of the famine that destroyed nomadic life in the 1930s, and left ...
Does Kruger deserve a park?
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kruger national park in South Africa is one of the most well known nature reserves in the world. But...
Mamdani’s New Yorkers
08 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Immigrant, Muslim and self-proclaimed democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani is also, at 34, the city’...
Kai Höss: My grandfather, the Commandant of Auschwitz
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a cinema in south-west Germany an audience is gathered to watch an Oscar winning film, Zone of In...
In the shadow of the railway
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After years of Chinese investment in Africa, the West is fighting back. Through the Lobito Corridor ...
Striking gas in Bolivia
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2024, Bolivia discovered the Mayaya Centro-X1 gas field, its largest find in nearly 20 years...
The real ‘Yellowstone’: A battle for the cowboy way of life
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ranches, rodeos and public land. This is the story of a surprising battle raging in the American Wes...
Lara Dizeyee's Kurdish couture
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kurdish designer Lara Dizeyee is preparing a couture collection for Milan Fashion Week. Dizeyee fled...
What’s behind the war in Sudan?
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Blood spilled in Sudan's el-Fasher massacre is visible from space. What led to the latest dark turn ...
How Russian AI targets news organisations
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Networks of bots - automated social media accounts - have been found to be targeting European electi...
Women share stories of losing their hair
01 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Something unusual happened recently at the Miss USA beauty contest: Miss Nevada, 22-year-old Mary Si...
The right thing: Confronting my abuser
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
***This programme contains references to sexual abuse which some listeners may find upsetting*** For...
Jihadists and AI
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How Jihadists wrestle with the question: to use or not to use. The allure of this powerful tool and ...
Bonus: Cyber Hack - Evil Corp
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
They steal billions: Cyber Hack investigates the alleged cyber gangs and the heists and hacks they’...
David Harewood: Return to Othello
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The espionage TV series, Homeland, brought David Harewood international fame but he is also known as...
'Looking American' to avoid deportation
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drone surveillance, sign language and 'looking American' are all suggestions that Brazilian immigran...
Living with motor neurone disease
25 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former England ruby captain Lewis Moody recently revealed he had been diagnosed with Motor Neurone D...
The right thing: A deal with God
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
***This programme contains references to imprisonment, child abandonment and references to suicide w...
G-Land: Surf and spirits
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Off the coast of Java, Indonesia, lies G-Land, one of the world’s most legendary surf breaks, fram...
The last cowboys
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Truck drivers are often seen as symbols of freedom and independence. But how free is life on the roa...
Bonus: The Global Story - A Gazan journalist's diary
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reporting on the war in Gaza has only been possible because of the work of Palestinian journalists, ...
Carl Brandon Strehlke: My search for the 15th Century artist Beato Angelico
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Art historian Carl Brandon Stehlke is a world expert on the great 15th Century Florentine painter Fr...
A people’s history of Gaza
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The back-story of Gaza, from the 1940s to the 2010s, told through the personal experiences of a wide...
Reporting the impact of the Gaza ceasefire
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the ceasefire in Gaza, this week has seen the release of hostages and prisoners on both si...
Families in Israel and Gaza share their stories
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After two years and two days of war in Gaza, Israel and Hamas have agreed the first phase of a US-br...
Mamdani New York
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zohran Mamdani catapulted on to New York’s political scene this summer when he captured the Democr...
Fighting on two fronts
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than a third of Ukraine’s scientific institutions have been damaged or destroyed by Russian b...
Sabotage by smartphone
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ukrainian teenagers are being recruited online to carry out sabotage against their own country in re...
Drugs, Overdose, Hope - North Carolina and Nevada
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drug overdose has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Fentanyl – a synthetic opioid mass pr...
Alexey Seliverstov: Bionic birdsong
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How fixed is the borderline between human music and the sounds of nature? That is a question that gu...
Brazil's Miracle: an Indigenous disaster
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Brazilian military dictatorship, the Krenak indigenous people were banned from speaking t...
Tackling loneliness in India
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
India is known for its close knit families and communities, but modern work practices mean more and ...
Trump and autism: People affected speak out
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump recently addressed what he described as the “horrible crisis” in autism, ...
Searching for hope as a hostage in Gaza
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After two long years President Trump has announced a ceasefire agreement which should see the remain...
Global dancefloor: Saigon
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Frank McWeeny heads to the dancefloors of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) to uncover what Vietnamese alter...
The biker gang ‘securing’ deadly Gaza aid sites
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have identified seven members of an anti-Islamic biker gang who oversaw security teams at aid sit...
Bolivia’s Cholitas – From Outcasts to Icons
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With their pleated skirts and bowler hats the “cholita” women are a common sight in Bolivia’s ...
Stephen Jones’ hats: A party on your head
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After growing up in the north of England British milliner Stephen Jones went on to become a pioneeri...
Nuclear tensions in the Middle East
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The narratives and the doctrines built on ever-growing suspicions and fears that are once again stir...
The Kremlin’s reporter
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pavel Zarubin has access to President Putin that other journalists can only dream of. He interviews...
Conversations from a year in Gaza and Israel
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We look back over the past 12 months of the conflict between Israel and Hamas through the conversati...
Orthodoxy or death: The fight for Mount Athos
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
**This programme contains discriminatory language** On Greece’s Mount Athos, the most holy site in...
Powering Nigeria
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to the World Bank, more than 80 million people in Nigeria still lack access to electricity...
Deepfaking disability
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A growing industry of content creators is teaching people how to make money from AI models, promisin...
Haitians living in fear in the Dominican Republic
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Dominican Republic is the Caribbean’s number one tourist destination. Last year 11 million vis...
Emilia Wickstead: London Fashion Week
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inspiration for Emilia Wickstead’s luxury fashion brand comes from her childhood home in New Zeala...
Bonus: The Global Story
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can Apple cut ties with China? Apple is promising to make more products in the US, backed by a $600b...
Social media influencers and politics
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when social media influencers join forces with politicians to promote their messages? ...
Living with the threat of drone attacks
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are now more Russian drone attacks on Ukraine than ever before in the conflict. On some nights...
Finding my Sikh faith against the odds
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harj Gahley is a Sikh who began gambling when he was just 23. What started as a ‘fun’ night out ...
Bonus. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can Nasa build the most complex flying machine in space history? The plan is to create a permanent h...
Goodreads’ ‘unfair’ rating problem
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BBC Trending investigates how negative ‘pre-read’ and pre-publication Goodreads ratings are leav...
‘A new foe’: Conscripting women in Denmark
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Denmark is eyeing up the military threat from Russia – and dramatically increasing the numbers in ...
Lesia Khomenko: Art and war
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artist Lesia Khomenko left Kyiv with her daughter the day after the Russians invaded Ukraine – lea...
Will a fugitive oligarch sway Moldova’s election?
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 28 September, Moldova’s parliamentary election will be closely watched by leaders in both the E...
A radio lifeline for Afghan women
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Women in Afghanistan are unable to access education, and getting medical help is difficult. But a ra...
Charlie Kirk and free speech
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The shooting of conservative US activist Charlie Kirk has intensified what was already a bitter divi...
Digital Dolittles: Talking to the animals?
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Digital technology has transformed the science of bioacoustics - the ways we hear and record animal ...
The social lives of bacteria
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our bodies are filled with bacteria that have rich social lives and, just like people, these microbi...
Faith on the Russia-Ukraine frontline
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian army personnel have been killed since the Russian invasion of their c...
Kenya: A Battle For Gen Z
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, Kenya has been rocked by anti-government protests. What started as a demonstrati...
Jon Foreman: Art that goes out with the tide
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Foreman is a Land Artist. He creates work in natural spaces using natural materials like stones,...
Decoding China’s doublespeak
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How the Chinese Communist Party gets lost in translation and whether it’s accidental or intentiona...
Who's behind Europe's largest rare book heist?
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The University library in Tartu, in Estonia, is a large brutalist complex, surrounded by concrete wa...
Would you want to live until 150?
13 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During an unguarded conversation between President Putin and President Jinping in Beijing, the Chine...
Selling misleading fertility hope
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The global fertility supplements industry has an estimated worth of over 2 billion dollars, and it’...
Tequila with the bat man
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rodrigo Medellin loves bats. The Mexican conservationist has been obsessed with the often maligned c...
My blessed boy: The millennial saint
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does a seemingly ordinary boy prove to be so extraordinary that he’s given a halo by the Catho...
Saving Gaza's past
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The history of Gaza dates back more than 5000 years. In antiquity, it was a key port on the Mediterr...
Kharkiv: Love in a warzone
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, BBC Eye has documented life in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, helping...
MAST: Architecture on water
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rising sea levels and a worldwide shortage of buildable land make the prospect of floating buildings...