The Covid generation

How the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the job prospects of the class of 2020

• 50 mins

Abortion under lockdown

What happened in Texas when coronavirus closed the abortion clinics?

• 27 mins

The Chechen blogger on the run

Who is behind the wave of assassinations and attacks on Chechen asylum seekers in Europe?

• 26 mins

America beyond black and white

How can America move beyond its history of racial discrimination?

• 48 mins

Conversations about race in America

Powerful conversations about race and racism in America

• 23 mins

In my present isolation

Six authors on different continents convey their thoughts during their present isolation

• 50 mins

Killer Mike - The rapper turned speech maker

Rapper Killer Mike made a plea for calm after George Floyd’s death

• 23 mins

Lockdown: Tales from Panama and Brazil

People across the world broadcast their experience of the coronavirus pandemic

• 27 mins

The seafarers stranded on the high seas

How thousands of seafarers are stuck working on vessels and unable to go home

• 26 mins

Conversations on race and change

The debate surrounding the push for change by protests after the death of George Floyd

• 24 mins

Coronavirus and Latin America

The impact of Coronavirus on Latin America: how has it dealt with the pandemic?

• 50 mins

My fake news whodunnit

Who wrote a fake story that smeared a Senegalese politician in Michelle Madsen’s name?

• 51 mins

The 5G con that could make you sick

Assignment investigates how bad science could be damaging people’s health

• 26 mins

Coronavirus conversations: Another Beijing lockdown

A new spike in China's capital, escaping a violent partner and reopening a business

• 27 mins

Rethink: Class of Covid-19 - Should I go to university?

With job cuts and falling salaries, does going to university still make financial sense?

• 50 mins

Reporting Covid-19

How local newspapers the Mumbai Mirror and the Courier Journal reported the pandemic

• 50 mins

Rethink: The edge of change

How the coronavirus pandemic has created new opportunities to change our world

• 50 mins

New York Covid-19 diary

Public health leader Dr Tom Frieden reflects on the global pandemic.

• 27 mins

Kenya’s locust hunters

As desert locusts swarm across East Africa, can Kenya’s locust hunters prevent a plague?

• 26 mins

World debate: Re-engineering the future

How can engineers re-imagine the everyday and make life safer across the globe?

• 50 mins

Coronavirus conversations: What next?

Health experts and listeners share their views of life in a post-pandemic world

• 24 mins

Coronavirus: The economic shock

Alongside the medical emergency, what will Covid-19 mean for the global economy?

• 50 mins

The 'grandma benches' of Zimbabwe

A scheme which trains up grandmothers in talking therapy has helped over 50,000 people

• 27 mins

Wuhan: City of silence

Where did Covid-19 come from? John Sudworth searches for answers where it first emerged

• 26 mins

Race in America: My enslaved ancestors

Three women share the history of slavery in their families and discuss its impact today

• 27 mins

Unmapped world

Why is so much of Africa still not mapped properly?

• 27 mins

The missing bodies of Guayaquil

Families search for their loved ones, victims of Covid-19, in Ecuador’s largest city

• 27 mins

The Coronavirus Frontline special

From vaccine trials to new treatments, this investigation tracks Covid-19 breakthroughs.

• 50 mins

Black America speaks

Listening to conversations on black-owned radio after the killing of George Floyd

• 50 mins

DNA and me

What do at-home DNA test kits tell us about our identity?

• 27 mins