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

What the sediment revealed in Lebanon

What’s behind the scandal sparked by a delivery of tainted fuel to crisis-ridden Lebanon?

• 26 mins

Coronavirus and Africa

What is the impact of Coronavirus on Africa?

• 50 mins

Embankment baby

Tony May was abandoned as a baby in 1942. Can DNA testing reveal who his parents were?

• 51 mins

South Africa’s alcohol ban

How does banning alcohol sales help doctors tackling Covid-19?

• 28 mins

The confined: A story of hidden children

How Jewish children and French nuns together defied the Nazis

• 27 mins

Ingenious: The ginger gene and breast cancer gene

The origins of the ginger gene and the genes that can increase the risk of breast cancer

• 27 mins

The many colours of Raqqa

How Syria's secret photographer worked and survived under every force in the conflict

• 26 mins

The most important, least important thing

Why is watching sport so important to us as a species? What happens when it disappears?

• 50 mins

Death of Elijah McClain

We hear from Sheneen McClain, whose son Elijah died after being detained by police

• 24 mins

Karachi's ambulance drivers

What can ambulance drivers tell us about political change in Pakistan?

• 27 mins

Ingenious: The milkshake and the cyclops gene

Why some of us are unable to digest dairy and the intricate process of creating a baby

• 27 mins