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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
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Beats, rhymes and justice: Hip Hop on Rikers Island - part one
MC and producer Ryan Burvick and the inmates learning to rap in Rikers Island jail
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26/02/2026 GMT
Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
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The Dream Makers
Can the emerging field of dream engineering influence our thoughts as we sleep?
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Give me my child back
The Greenlandic parents fighting for the return of their children.
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World Wide Waves '26: Possum Radio
The radio station in Kentucky reaching some of the least heard communities in America
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Game Of Clones
In Argentina, cloning polo horses is transforming the sport.
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The Documentary
Justin Webb looks at how America's approach to the world has constantly changed over time
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Shepherd's eye in the sky
Bola Mosuro meets the nomadic herders feeding Africa and fighting climate change
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Hungary: The alternative to Orban
Can opposition leader Peter Magyar challenge Viktor Orban?
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Putin's foreign fighters
Why are young men from around the world risking their lives fighting for Russia?(R)
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Stories from the New Silk Road: The Bering Sea
Anna Holligan reports from Alaska on China’s expanding role in the Bering Sea
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Looking for No Man's Land
Is there anywhere left on Earth that is unaffected by humans?
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Looking for No Man's Land
Is there anywhere left on Earth that is unaffected by humans?
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Returned to sender
The man who hunts for messages in bottles and the people who sent them
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An armada for asteroid Apophis?
Friday, April 13th 2029 – mark it in your calendar...an asteroid is coming
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Kibera ballerinas
Aspiring dancers in Kibera, Kenya, prepare for their biggest show yet
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New Elements
What does it take to make something which has never existed on Earth before?
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United in space: How we built the ISS
How nations collaborated to create the International Space Station
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Elephant conservation in Botswana
Botswana has more elephants than any other country but conservation is complex
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Steel from shipwrecks
Materials scientist Anna Ploszajski investigates the scavenging of pre-atomic steel
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Rocks To Riches
We explore the global trade in meteorites
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Young and stateless
The stories of young stateless individuals around the world
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Why there is hope for Haiti
Nick Miles asks a simple question - why is there still hope for Haiti?
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The Chinese Cryptoqueen
How Qian Zhimin ended up at the heart of the UK’s biggest cryptocurrency seizure
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‘No justice, just kills’
Families of Iraqis killed by US marines in Haditha learn why the killers walked free
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China’s global spending spree
Celia Hatton reveals the breathtaking scale of China’s state-backed overseas spending
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The great hunger: Stalin's famine in Kazakhstan
The Kazakhs who came through one of the worst man-made famines the world has seen
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Striking gas in Bolivia
A huge gas find reignites old debates over Bolivia’s energy and environmental future
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In the shadow of the railway
Will the US-led Lobito Corridor project deliver a brighter future for Angola?
