Crossing Continents

The inside story of the Euro crisis. In "Europe's Choice", Allan Little examines how the rules governing the nascent single currency were broken from the start.

The inside story of the Euro crisis. In "Europe's Choice" Allan Little hears about the key decisions which brought the EU to the current crisis, starting in 1989.

Should the autonomous Kurdish region in Northern Iraq be a model for the Middle East to follow or avoid? Gabriel Gatehouse investigates.

The Brazilian authorities have managed to significantly reduce rates of deforestation in the Amazonian rainforest Justin Rowlatt investigates how.

As Frank Wild's ashes are taken to South Georgia for burial next to Shackleton Karen Bowerman retraces the route of Antarctic explorer Wild, Shackleton's second-in-command.

Jill McGivering investigates the discovery of thousands of bodies in mass graves in Indian Kashmir. Are they Pakistani militants - or innocent victims of the Indian military?

In Tales from the Arab Spring, the BBC's middle east editor Jeremy Bowen reflects on a momentous year. In the third and final programme he hears from some of the people who have witnessed the repression of President Bashir al-Assad's regime in Syria at first hand. We hope you enjoy this Crossing Continents Extra podcast.

In Tales from the Arab Spring, the BBC's middle east editor Jeremy Bowen reflects on a momentous year. In the second programme he considers events in Libya and the fall of Colonel Gaddafi. We hope you enjoy this Crossing Continents Extra podcast.

In Tales from the Arab Spring, the BBC's middle east editor Jeremy Bowen reflects on a momentous year in the Middle East. In this first programme he considers events in Egypt and recalls his own experiences of the Mubarak regime. We hope you enjoy this Crossing Continents Extra podcast.

China's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand hears stories of anger and reform.

Forty years ago, in December 1971, Pakistan suffered a humiliating defeat after a two week war with India and a new country, Bangladesh, was born. In this Crossing Continents Extra podcast Shahzeb Jillani examines how the memory of that defeat has shaped the thinking of the Pakistani military today and explores the hidden legacy of violence which fuels the resentment many Bangladeshis still feel towards Pakistan.

Ed Butler reports on a cycle of abuse in the orphanages of Bali. The most lucrative profits come from well-meaning tourists, who are often convinced by the tough living conditions to give generously - the hope being the money will benefit the children, not the owner. Is such charity actually intensifying the misery of Bali's most vulnerable children?

Zimbabwe's often-violent "land invasions" are one of the lasting images of President Robert Mugabe's fast-track land reform programme that began in 2000. After the farms of over 4,500 mainly white farmers were seized, Zimbabwe's highly-successful agriculture industry disintegrated. A decade on, Martin Plaut returns to meet some of the 170,000 new black farmers awarded a share of the seized land, and investigates claims that this new generation of farmers are rejuvenating the country's farmlands. He also reveals the fate of thousands of former farm workers, and learns that the farm seizures are still continuing.

Russian businessman Suleiman Kerimov has pumped a fortune into Dagestani football and is bankrolling projects across this restive republic. Can his roubles end the insurgency?

Despite promises by the Indian government to stamp out graft Rupa Jha investigates how local-level campaigners against corruption face threats and violence.