Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories beyond the news headlines. Presented by Kate Adie.
Nigeria's recent presidential election encouraged many young Nigerians to engage with the political process for the first time and cast a vote, despite a backdrop of voter intimidation and claims of …
Kate Adie presents stories from Uzbekistan, Turkey, USA, South Africa and Sweden.
Uzbekistan is one of the largest gas producers in the world but is in the throes of a full-blown energy crisis. People…
Kate Adie presents stories from Moldova, Estonia, Cambodia, Chile and the Seychelles.
Lucy Williamson visits the Moldovan enclave of Moldova Noua, which has been surrounded by pro-Russian forces since…
Orla Guerin, senior international correspondent, reports from Ukraine's east, a region she has covered on different trips during the last year, on the permanent sense of danger lingering there, that …
Kate Adie introduces analysis and reportage from correspondents in Turkey, Israel, Nigeria, Georgia and South Sudan.
While reporting from across southern Turkey after the February 6 earthquake, Nick B…
Kate Adie presents stories from Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, Sao Tome and Principe and Lithuania.
Lyse Doucet has been in Southern Turkey reporting on the earthquake which has devastated towns there and …
Kate Adie presents stories from Turkey, the USA, Myanmar, Italy and Ukraine.
Anna Foster has been in Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the recent earthquake, where diggers work to remove the debris, rev…
Kate Adie presents stories from Syria, Nigeria, Romania, Armenia and Pakistan
Leila Molana-Allen has spoken to anxious friends and relatives in the Syrian diaspora who are preparing for the worst as r…
After a surge in violence over the last week, in which several were killed in a military raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank and a synagogue attack in Israel, Yolande Knell visited the b…
Kate Adie presents stories from Pakistan Ukraine, Gibraltar, Uzbekistan and Namibia
More than 100 people were killed in an attack targeting police in a high security mosque in the northern city of Pes…
Kate Adie presents stories from Afghanistan, Peru, Russia, the US and Spain
As Afghanistan experiences its harshest winter in a decade, Lyse Doucet travels to Salang, the world's highest road tunnel. …
Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Nepal, Iraq, Norway and the US
Andrew Harding is at the frontline in Eastern Donbas, close to Russian lines, where soldiers share their dreams of the future af…
Kate Adie presents stories from China, Brazil, Sri Lanka, the US and Portugal.
China has opened up its borders again ahead of the New Year festival. Late las year, Xi Jinping eased Covid restrictions …
Kate Adie presents stories from Brazil, Russia, the US, South Korea and Italy
Brazilians this week mourned the loss of one of their greatest footballers, Pele, with hundreds of thousands going to view…
Kate Adie presents a selection of stories from correspondents who have covered the war, from the invasion of Kyiv to the present day. Fergal Keane remembers the beekeepers of the Donbas who he met in…
Kate Adie presents highlights from 2022, beginning in Moscow, where we hear the story of the friendship between BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg and Valentina, a vendor at a newspaper kiosk. Earlier…
Kate Adie presents stories from Haiti, Germany, Sri Lanka, Morocco and Sweden.
Orla Guerin reports from Haiti where gangs now control 60 per cent of the capital and surrounding areas. Hundreds of peop…
Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Iran, Niger, Bhutan and Lithuania.
Russian troops captured Irpin, north-west of Kyiv, early on in the invasion. When the satellite town was liberated, the atro…
Kate Adie presents stories from China, Ukraine, Moldova, Zimbabwe and the US.
Protests have taken place across China, from Shanghai, to Guangdong to Beijing after a fire in Urumqi killed ten people wh…
Kate Adie presents stories from Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Colombia and Ireland.
The Taliban announced a ban on women going to parks, swimming pools and gyms this month, following one on girls attendin…