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...
Colombia's cocaine submarines
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Deep inside the Colombian Amazon hi-tech submarines are being built. When it comes to making the coc...
Grey divorce
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s plenty of chat on social media about so-called ‘grey divorce’. But are older people ar...
Blessed with bread
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To Italians, bread is life. With 250 varieties across the country, it’s eaten with almost every me...
Germany's timber detectives
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the outskirts of Hamburg, Dr Gerald Koch is surrounded by wooden objects - chairs, board games, p...
Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BBC Trending: Why are some Americans yelling at clouds?On 4 July, just hours after flash floods hit ...
Galicia’s wild horses in peril
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Europe’s largest herd of wild horses, in north-west Spain, is under threat. Numbers have halved in...
The Delacorte Theater
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Delacorte Theater, home to New York's beloved free outdoor Shakespeare performances in Central P...
Paul McCartney: Beatles and beyond
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs celebrates the life and legacy of Sir Paul McCartney, from his Liverpoo...
Scammed, robbed, traumatised – life after war for Russian soldiers
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Russian soldiers were told that they would be the country's 'new elite' by President Putin. But many...
Surviving the floods in Pakistan
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many parts of Pakistan have been experiencing intense rainfall in recent weeks. Since June, at least...
Digitally preserving Armenia’s Christian heritage
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the ancient Yererouk Basilica in Armenia, near the border with Turkey, young engineers are using ...
Student Predator: Surviving Zhenhao Zou
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, Chinese student Zhenhao Zou was jailed for 24 years for drugging and raping ten w...
The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Early June, the Auschwitz Memorial posted a warning about AI-generated Holocaust victims flooding...
Suing 'Alligator Alcatraz': Immigration in the US
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has called illegal immigration an “invasion” and what has followed is a huge ris...
Adeju Thompson: Taking fashion label Lagos Space Programme to the world
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adeju Thompson, the founder and creative director behind the Nigerian fashion label Lagos Space Prog...
Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary presents, Hold Fast!
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The incredible true story of how The Avontuur was locked down at sea for 188 days during the Covid-1...
Mud wrestling and tent pegging: Africa’s unusual sports
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We take a look at some of the more unusual sports practiced on the African continent. Kelvin Kimathi...
Ukrainians at war and their hopes for peace
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While US President Donald Trump spearheads efforts to halt the conflict in Ukraine, Russian drones a...
Gaudí: God’s architect
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In one of his final official acts before he died, Pope Francis put Antoni Gaudí, Spain’s most fam...
White Coats v the White House
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Science journalist Roland Pease asks whether the rounds of cuts, reorganisations and political stron...
Dan Meis: Designing Everton Football Club's new stadium
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The inaugural premier league football match at Everton’s much anticipated new stadium will kick-of...
Europe’s migrant crisis: the truck that shocked the world
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 2015 tens of thousands of people left their homes in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq in...
The Herds: Life-sized puppets flee climate change
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A vast herd of life-size puppet animals travel from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle, to flee th...
Ghost cities FC
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Qarabag FK is not only a refugee football club but also the most successful team in Azerbaijan. Loca...
Comedians and Afghan weddings
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, they introduced many controversial measures, i...
Messages from Sudan's war
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Few people in Sudan have been left untouched by the civil war. More than 150,000 people have died, 1...
The president’s path: Trump’s Latino base
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump will not be on the ballot in next year’s midterm elections, but his policies will be ...
Birding the gender gap
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the annual World Series of Birding in New Jersey, US, teams compete to see who can identify t...
Mo Salah: Egyptian king
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mo Salah is one of Egypt's biggest and highly influential footballing icons. John Bennett visit his ...
Tajikistan’s last, lonely hyenas
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, conservationists in Tajikistan assumed that the striped hyena – a shy, less vocal cou...
Yoko Nishina: Japanese calligraphy
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yoko Nishina likes to use black Japanese Sumi ink in her calligraphy work because of the variety of ...
Has Ghana's ‘Year of Return’ been a success?
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in 2019, Ghana’s then president sent out an invitation to people with African heritage to com...
Why are Chinese micro-dramas so popular?
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Secret billionaire husbands, blood-thirsty vampire lovers and being reborn as your great-grandmother...
Israelis and the war in Gaza
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israel faces growing international pressure to end the war in Gaza. But on Thursday night Israel's s...
Freddie’s second verse
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Freddie once signed to a major record label. He appeared in high-production music videos and looked ...
The Engineers: Exploring the human
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Engineering has moved inside the body to innovate like never before. In neuro-science, brain implant...
New Zealand: Heading across the ditch
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New Zealand citizens, particularly young professionals and graduates, are leaving the country in rec...
Waiting for my Dad - Ukraine's children of the missing
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A pioneering summer camp for Ukrainian children with missing parents.According to the Ukrainian gove...
Luke Jerram: A good yarn
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Jerram creates spectacular art installations all over the world. He reached millions of people...
Why a South Korean church bought a village in Paraguay
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Puerto Casado is a remote village in Paraguay, in South America. It’s not dissimilar to many other...
Hunger in Gaza
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Israel faces growing international isolation over the shocking images of starvation in Gaza. Althoug...
Bergen-Belsen: Among graves, we were born
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany was the only camp liberated by the British Forces in Apr...
Controlling nature's data
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Could AI cure cancer using nature's DNA? A London tech firm, Basecamp Research, harvests genetic inf...
The JNIM branch of al-Qaeda
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The JNIM branch of al-Qaeda is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has firmly planted i...
Can Greenland go it alone?
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Until this year Greenland rarely made the international news and probably only the islanders themsel...
Marina Tabassum: Designing London's Serpentine Pavilion
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum won the commission to create the 25th Serpentine Pavilion – ...
The shooting of India’s biggest hip hop star
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sidhu Moose Wala was one of the most famous Punjabi rappers in the world. A devout Sikh, he wore a t...
The hidden pain of fibroids
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Oscar winning film star Lupita Nyong'o revealed on Instagram her decade long struggle with uter...
Rāgas and Redemption: Alam Khan’s Spiritual Legacy
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to inherit a sacred tradition? Alam Khan was born into one of the most revered lin...
The battle for Bangladesh: Eye Investigations
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July 2024 Bangladesh was rocked by protests. They were sparked by anger at widespread corruption,...
Vancouver's mental health crisis
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 26 April 26, this year, 11 people were killed after a car was driven into a crowd at a street fes...
Wynton Marsalis: The sound of democracy
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz trumpeter and bandlea...
The mystery of the ‘tula boy’
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1953, a South Korean child was smuggled into Colombia in a duffle bag, or ‘tula’ in Spanish. ...
Landmines
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hidden landmines and other devices left behind from wars are present in nearly 70 countries and terr...
Escaping North Korea
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
North Korea is considered one of the most secretive countries in the world. It is officially an athe...
Returning Germany’s stolen skulls
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1900, German colonial officers executed 19 Tanzanian leaders, including Akida Kiwelu, and shipped...
Myanmar’s Scam Centres
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Observers are calling this possibly the biggest human trafficking event in modern times. Hundreds of...
Anatomy of a scene
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For over 25 years Antonia Quirke has made programmes and written articles about film. After a chance...
Dying for a transplant
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, British-Nigerian comedian Emmanuel Sonubi suffered from a near-fatal heart failure whilst o...
The Romanians choosing life in the hills
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A growing number of Romanians, including some celebrities and the country’s former prime minister ...
Why it's good for men to talk
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Across the world, there’s often a stigma when it comes to men discussing their emotions. “We’r...
France’s new Christians
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The number of adults getting baptised in France has tripled in the last three years. Why are so many...
Ark of the dry lands
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers in Morocco are developing dry-land agriculture at ICARDA (the International Center for A...
Bonus. World of Secrets: The Killing Call
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sidhu Moose Wala explodes onto the Canadian music scene. His sound is a fusion of two worlds - hip-h...
Re-homing France’s immigrant workers
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
France’s last foyers – housing for immigrant workers – are set for demolition. But some curren...
Max Kidruk: Imagining the future in a science fiction trilogy
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you imagine the future if you are a science fiction writer living in the present with your co...
Is the Taliban’s war on drugs working?
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Afghanistan used to produce more than 80% of the world's opium, the key ingredient for the drug hero...
Undocumented migrants in the USA
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump campaigned hard on illegal immigration ahead of the presidential election and promised ...
Verses for women: Egypt’s Quran reciters
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Salma El-Wardany meets young women in Egypt using their voices to amplify their faith – drawing in...
Diabetes in Pakistan: A nation's struggle
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
British-Pakistani pharmacist turned comedian Lubna Kerr hears from doctors, sufferers, and experts a...
Arthur Ashe: More than a champion
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An inspiration, a politician, a pioneer on and off court - these just some of the words used to desc...
Sri Lanka: The X-Press Pearl disaster
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, a huge container ship, the X-Press Pearl caught fire and sank off the coast of Sri Lanka, r...
What next for Poland?
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are Poland's young voters turning to the right? With his veto powers, Poland’s president-elect...
Who's Poland's new president?
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Poland’s president-elect, Karol Nawrocki, is a right-wing historian, an amateur boxer and a fan of...
Iranians living in the USA
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following the recent bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites by the United States, we talk to Iranians liv...
Praise You: A forgotten love letter to black men
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DJ Fatboy Slim’s Praise You is a song you might have heard in a Hollywood movie or danced to in a ...
Inside the US trans military ban
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the first executive orders that President Donald Trump signed in his second term of office st...
Pride month special
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service podcast Witness History, this is a special episode to mark June as Pride ...
One week in Gaza
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The daily realities and private thoughts of a young woman living through war. Every morning, Hanya...
Joachim Trier: The making of Sentimental Value
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We go behind the scenes with director Joachim Trier as he makes the follow-up to his international h...
Ukrainian life under Russian occupation
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Currently about a fifth of Ukraine is under Russian occupation. Olga Malchevska of the BBC News team...
Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2025
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the 70th anniversary of this unique BBC radio programme aimed at just a few dozen listeners: ...
Iranians and Israelis
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since Israel launched its attack on Iran, targeting the country’s nuclear capabilities, air strike...
Reworking a future: Buddhist revival in Mongolia
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cambridge anthropologist David Sneath is in Mongolia to find out how Buddhism continues to make a co...
The copper kingdom
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The world is electrifying, and central to our decarbonisation drive is copper. The red metal is seco...
What’s Iran’s IRGC?
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Quds force and the Basij militias are back in the news du...
Could your colleague be a North Korean in disguise?
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Recently several videos from recruiters on LinkedIn have gone viral. The videos appear to show recru...
The Ketamine trail
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ketamine was designed as an anaesthetic but its use as a recreational drug is growing fast, particul...
Amoako Boafo: Creating space to celebrate Blackness
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo has attracted global fame for his bold and sensual portraits. He pa...
Australia's extinction crisis
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roughly a third of all global mammal extinctions in the last 500 years are thought to have occurred ...
The TV drama that shocked the Arab world
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, the Egyptian TV drama Lam Shamseya aired across the Arab world. It tackled sensit...
Female influencers
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After the fatal shooting in Pakistan of a teenage social media influencer, Sana Yousaf, we bring tog...
Pulpit to palace
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2022, the senior pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God - Jesus House Parish, Ghand...
The tyre scandal
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every year the UK produces around 50 million tyres for disposal. They are supposed to be sent for re...
No, there isn’t a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On 12 May, 59 Afrikaners arrived in Washington to receive “refugee” status. At a press conferenc...
Balochistan - the women of the vanished
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the last two decades thousands of men have disappeared in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest regio...
Auntie Flo: Making plants dance
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brian D’Souza, aka Auntie Flo, is a Scottish musician, DJ and sound recordist who has played at so...
Why does Moldova matter to Putin?
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Moldova is a country torn between pro-Western and pro-Russian factions. In September this year, Mold...
How life is changing in Syria
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For well over a decade, civil war blighted the lives of Syrians, as rebel forces battled against for...