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Solutions Journalism: The African 'Babelfish'

Africa is home to around one-third of the world's languages, but only a smattering of them are...

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The Fifth Floor: Exam nightmares

Why are exams so stressful? Chinese journalists Wanqing Zhang and Eric Junzhe share personal...

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BBC OS Conversations: Are we still in love with dating apps?

For millions of us, our phones or computers are the first place we go to look for romance. Dating...

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Heart and Soul: Indigenous healing on the party island of Ibiza

Ibiza is an island of contrasts. A place which triggers thoughts of raucous partying, superstar...

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Trending: Can we live without our phones?

The BBC's Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent, Marianna Spring, speaks to parents,...

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Flying High

The Peregrine Falcon is not only the fastest animal on our planet, but also the most widely...

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The Midwife’s Confession: Eye Investigates

For the last thirty years Indian journalist Amitabh Parashar has been investigating why a group...

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Assignment: Ivory Coast's cocoa crisis

From the journey from cocoa to chocolate in Ivory Coast. The price of cocoa - the essential...

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Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The healing power of art

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam in 1976, was only two years old when his family were...

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Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

A bonus episode from the Lives Less Ordinary podcast. In 1982 Mississippi, two boys, Chris...

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The Fifth Floor: Pakistan's internet mystery

Why are people in Pakistan struggling to use messaging apps and social media? BBC Urdu's editor...

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What's it like to have mpox

Mpox causes a headache, fever and a blistering rash all over the body. There have been more than...

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Synagogue for sale

Dr Aleksandra Janus is a Polish Cultural Anthropologist with a Jewish background from Warsaw,...

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Bonus: CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean?

In a bonus episode from CrowdScience - How do fish survive in the deep ocean? When listener...

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West Bank: settlers, guns and sanctions

For more than six months, a BBC Eye team has been investigating extremist settlers establishing a...

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Assignment: The 'ghost city' of Cyprus

The once glamorous Cypriot beach resort of Varosha has stood empty and frozen in time since war...

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Global Dancefloor: Tbilisi

Frank McWeeny heads to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, to meet the underground music community leading...

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In the Studio: Laurie Anderson

American artist Laurie Anderson is putting the finishing touches to her new album Amelia at...

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Three Million: 8. Road to the past

Kavita Puri goes to India to meet the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine. She looks for...

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The Fifth Floor: Ukraine's 'Memory Cafés'

Could a cup of coffee become an act of love and remembrance? BBC Ukrainian's Ilona Hromliuk...

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