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1,388 episodes
Updated June 19

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Feb 15, 2021 · 8 min
Ep 26: Driving for freedom in Saudi Arabia
Loujain al-Hathloul spent 3 years in jail in Saudi Arabia for the crime of 'driving while female'. Why has she just been released?
Feb 12, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 25: 306 days with Covid
Geoff Woolf has spent longer than almost anyone in hospital with Covid. His son Nicky tells his story.
Feb 11, 2021 · 5 min
Ep 24: The forever ponytail
Tessica Brown put glue on her hair by mistake - and went viral
Feb 10, 2021 · 6 min
Ep 23: The man who risked his life for civilisation
Khaled Asaad loved Palmyra, a beautiful, ancient Syrian city. But when Isis captured it, his life was on the line.
Feb 9, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 22: The world's richest man retires
Jeff Bezos is stepping down from running Amazon day to day. What will he do next?
Feb 8, 2021 · 6 min
Ep 21: Escape from Iran
A British-Iranian man risks everything to avoid being a pawn in a diplomatic game
Feb 5, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 20: The bat woman
There's a theory that Covid-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan. Should we take it seriously?
Feb 4, 2021 · 6 min
Ep19: Is the Russian vaccine safe?
Russia cut corners to develop its Sputnik V covid vaccine. Can we trust it?>
Feb 3, 2021 · 6 min
Zero Covid
Some countries have decided not to try to live with Covid. They're trying to get rid of it altogether.
Feb 2, 2021 · 5 min
The never-ending power struggle
The army seizes control in Myanmar
Feb 1, 2021 · 5 min
A man called Swampy
Britain's best-known environmental activist is up to his old tricks again, underground
Jan 29, 2021 · 5 min
The vaccine queue-jumpers
How a super-rich Canadian couple sneaked two jabs of the Moderna vaccine by posing as motel workers.
Jan 28, 2021 · 6 min
Hidden homicides
How many women are being killed - but not counted?
Jan 27, 2021 · 5 min
MeToo finally arrives in Greece
Why has Greece taken so long to wake up to MeToo?
Jan 26, 2021 · 7 min
The great vaccine gamble
The UK is betting everything on giving people a single dose of the coronavirus vaccine. How sure are we that it will work?
Jan 25, 2021 · 5 min
87 years in jail for criticising the king
Thailand's playboy monarch cracks down on his critics
Jan 22, 2021 · 6 min
The alien hunter
A leading scientist says our solar system had a visit from an alien spacecraft. His fellow scientists disagree but he's not backing down
Jan 21, 2021 · 6 min
One man's war against the mafia
A fearless Italian prosecutor is trying to free Italy from the grip of organised crime
Jan 20, 2021 · 5 min
Why the UK is good at vaccinating
Nearly everything that could go wrong with the UK's coronavirus response has gone wrong. But not the vaccine roll-out.
Jan 19, 2021 · 5 min
The bravest man in the world?
The Russian secret service tried to kill politician Alexei Navalny but he doesn't seem intimidated. He's gone back to Russia regardless.