Crossing Continents
Summary: On the ground reporting from around the world which focuses on the human dimension of the big international stories.
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Podcasts:
The protest by cleaners, laid off from tax offices and the Greek Finance Ministry, which has captured the imagination of those opposed to the country's harsh austerity programme.
James Fletcher travels to Japan to find out why they decided earlier this year not to ban graphic cartoons depicting children in sexual situations.
In Medellin there's a huge dump. Locals say it's where the truth is buried - they're talking about victims killed in the armed conflict. Now there are moves to excavate it.
Crossing Continents follows Abdi Nor, a winner of the annual US green card lottery, as he attempts to escape from a life of poverty in Kenya and realise the American dream.
Tim Whewell gains rare access to the shadowy world of Russia's radical nationalists fighting in eastern Ukraine for Novorossiya, or New Russia, and a dream of empires past.
Mike Wendling explores the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins. It's one of the most popular American football teams but many Native Americans say the name is racist.
Mai Noman returns to her native Yemen and meets two women who have loved and lost because of a traditional practice allowing men to marry - and divorce - each other's sisters.
Gabriel Gatehouse and his team go in search of Annie and along the way meet the medics and families on the front line of the Ebola crisis.
Mobeen Azhar is in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, where police are fighting an increasingly desperate war against the Taliban. Every day an officer is killed in the struggle.
In Ivory Coast, men are going back to the classroom. It's an innovative project dubbed the 'school for husbands' - and designed to save the lives of mothers and children.
Becky Palmstrom investigates allegations of modern day slavery on Thailand's fishing boats
Natalio Cosoy meets the miners of northern Spain who sing to their patron saint, Santa Bárbara Bendita. As the industry declines, can they save their culture and communities?
How effective are the drug rehabilitation centres run by Guatemala's Pentecostal churches?
As more young people leave Ireland, Gaelic Football is losing its lifeblood. John Murphy reports on the struggle to keep alive the game that is at the heart of Irish identity.
The BBC's China Editor investigates an elusive cult at the centre of a grisly murder that has shocked the nation.