Crossing Continents Podcast
Stories from around the world and the people at the heart of them.
Episodes to download
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Colombia鈥檚 Kamikaze Cyclists
Thu 12 Sep 2019
Simon Maybin spends time with the young men who race down the steep roads of Colombia.
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Marawi: the story of the Philippines鈥� Lost City
Thu 5 Sep 2019
The Philippine city that was besieged by Islamic State supporters.
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Kazakhstan: Port in the Desert
Thu 29 Aug 2019
China's New Silk Road is changing lives in Kazakhstan.
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Romania's killer roads
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Can one man's campaign for motorways in Romania make a difference and save lives?
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Barbuda: Storms, Recovery and 鈥楲and Grabs鈥�
Thu 15 Aug 2019
Who will shape the future of the hurricane-hit, tropical isle of Barbuda?
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Genoa's Broken Bridge
Thu 8 Aug 2019
An icon of Italian design; a centrepiece of a community; a tragedy waiting to happen?
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America's Hospital Emergency
Thu 1 Aug 2019
A small town goes on life-support after its lone hospital closes.
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The Undercover Migrant
Thu 25 Jul 2019
A young Ghanaian man goes undercover on the perilous migrant trail, with a hidden camera.
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Bolivia's Mennonites, Justice and Renewal
Thu 16 May 2019
In 2009, Mennonite women in a far-flung Bolivian colony reported mass rape.
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Abandoned in the Amazon
Thu 9 May 2019
The dangers of flying in the great wilderness of the Brazilian rainforest.
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Empty Spain and the Caravans of Love
Thu 2 May 2019
How does a lonely, Spanish shepherd find love when single women have left for the city?
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Bangladesh versus Yaba
Thu 25 Apr 2019
Thousands of Bangladeshi addicts are hooked on Yaba, a mix of methamphetamine and caffeine
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Restoring Brazil's National Treasure
Thu 18 Apr 2019
Can the treasures lost when Brazil's National Museum burnt down be salvaged or replaced?
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Poland's Partisan Ghosts
Thu 11 Apr 2019
For some in Poland the Cursed Soldiers are national heroes; for others they are murderers.
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Nepal Fights Foreign Paedophiles
Thu 4 Apr 2019
Hunting western paedophiles is a priority for a new police unit in Nepal.
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Japan's Elderly Crime Wave
Thu 17 Jan 2019
Elderly pensioners in Japan commit petty crimes so that they can be sent to prison.
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Balkan Border Wars - Serbia and Kosovo
Thu 10 Jan 2019
Old enemies Serbia and Kosovo discuss what for some is unthinkable - an ethnic land swap.
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The Brazilian Footballer Who Never Was
Thu 3 Jan 2019
How one boy鈥檚 dream was cut short by the beautiful game鈥檚 ugly prejudice in Brazil.
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Armenia: Return to a Town That Died
Thu 27 Dec 2018
Two British firefighters revisit the scene of Armenia's devastating earthquake in 1988.
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DNA, Me and the Family Tree
Thu 20 Dec 2018
How home DNA testing kits are revealing more than some people bargained for.
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China's Hidden Camps
Thu 13 Dec 2018
The 蜜芽传媒 gains rare access to a region of China where Muslims are being held without trial.
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Inside Burundi鈥檚 Killing Machine
Thu 6 Dec 2018
An investigation into repression in Burundi, one of Africa's most secretive countries.
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A Stark Choice for Cambodia's Surrogates
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Locked up for renting out their wombs, mothers in Cambodia must make an agonising choice.
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Nigeria's Patient 'Prisoners'
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Nigerian patients held in hospital because they can鈥檛 pay their medical bills.
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Generation Identity
Thu 20 Sep 2018
Simon Cox investigates a new far right youth organisation in Europe, Generation Identity.
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Uganda's Prison Farms
Thu 30 Aug 2018
'He was using prisoners like oxen' - an ex-convict recalls life on a Ugandan prison farm.
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'Gone to Foreign' from Jamaica
Thu 23 Aug 2018
A life in limbo for two Britons. Not wanted in the UK and not wanted in Jamaica.
