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What does life sound like for someone whose hearing has suddenly changed?
Colombia’s kamikaze cyclists
Precipitous mountain roads, specially-modified bikes, and deadly consequences.
Living with leprosy
Aleks Krotoski on the history of leprosy and its stigma.
The bitter song of the hazelnut
Long hours, little pay, for the workers who pick Turkey's hazelnuts.
World War Two: The economic battle
How the countries involved in WW2 fought to feed their people and fund their armies
The imam and the artist
Searching for justice for South Africa’s Imam Abdullah Haron who spoke against apartheid
Chile’s Stolen Babies
A Chilean man - adopted at birth - searches for the mother forced to give him up
America's child brides
In America children can get married legally in most states. Jane O'Brien investigates
How to buy your own country
The winners and losers from the booming global citizenship trade
Undercover with the clerics: Iraq’s secret sex trade
The clerics facilitating so-called ‘pleasure marriages’ in return for payment
port to paradise
In Vanuatu, a tiny Pacific Island Nation, a controversial port scheme is a concern
Translating for mum and dad
Meet the children who help their immigrant parents navigate life in the UK by translating
Nigeria: sex for grades
University professors sexually harassing and blackmailing female students in Nigeria
Cuba's digital revolution
Cubans are getting online – so how is the internet transforming this communist country?
Super Sisters
Meet the inspirational supersisters on whose shoulders today's female sport stars stand
My personal history of sormeh
Black eyeliner is more than just make-up. It's a symbol of the power of Persian women
The Gospel of Wealth
Gordon Brown meets billionaires inspired by the great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie
Argentina’s ‘white gold’ rush
Are lithium-powered electric vehicles as ‘green’ as we think they are?
Looking for love: The Zoroastrian way
Nalini Sivathasan meets young Zoroastrians trying to save their religion from extinction
Northern Ireland 1969: Battle lines
How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began in August 1969
Being black in Italy
Meet the black Italians fighting to claim their place in a nation that’s still very white
Uganda's war in the bush
How the guerrilla war in Uganda led to the current leadership
Northern Ireland 1969: The violence spreads
Ruth Sanderson looks back at the Scarman testimonies and the violence in Belfast in 1969
The Zogos of Liberia
Inside the lives of Liberia’s forgotten child soldiers
Cameroon's MMA champion
Francis Ngannou's odyssey from child labour in a sand quarry to superstardom in the UFC
Moondog: Sound of New York
Huey Morgan celebrates the life and work of blind musician Moondog
Albania’s Iranian guests
Who are Albania’s Iranian guests?
Comrade Africa
How Communist East tried to influence Africa via radio during the Cold War
Hong Kong: Love in a divided city
How have the protests affected the married lives between Hong Kong and mainland Chinese?
Sierra Leone: The price of going home
What happens to migrants who give up trying to reach Europe – and go home as failures?
Russian women fight back
Domestic violence is endemic and often deadly in Russia but some women are fighting back
