Assignment Episodes Episode guide
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Uruguay’s cash cow
How does Uruguay’s beef industry compete with their neighbours and climate change threats
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Iran Protests: Tales from the frontline
Why did people take to the streets, risking arrest and a barrage of bullets?
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A return to Paradise
Survivors rebuild a town destroyed by one of the worst wildfires in California's history
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Saving children from the mafia
Why an Italian judge is taking kids away from Mafia families
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South Korea: A room with a view
How a housing crisis contributes to a population problem
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Fighting 'fat-phobia' in Brazil
The Brazilian city passing laws to fight discrimination against people who are obese
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Spain's flamenco on the edge
Can Spain's most iconic live music and dance recover from the pandemic?
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Hungary’s Power Dilemma
The nuclear power plant in Hungary being built by Russia; will the Ukraine war stop it?
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California's cannabis reparations
Giving communities targeted in the 'war on drugs' a share in the legal cannabis boom
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Cold-calling Siberia
How has Putin's war against Ukraine affected one remote city in Siberia?
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Trouble in Taiwan?
What do Taiwanese people think about the increased rhetoric from China in recent months?
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China's accidental activists
The women battling the Chinese state after their loved ones were jailed as dissidents
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Iraq: Under poisoned skies
The toxic impact of gas flaring on people and the environment in southern Iraq
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America’s Dropbox Babies
America’s Safe Haven laws for new-born babies – an alternative to abortion?
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Svalbard’s climate change fight
Svalbard is estimated to be heating at six times the global average
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The brain drain
The ‘brain drain’ of doctors from developing countries to work in the UK
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Bye-bye Baguette?
The bakers and farmers trying to wean Senegal off imported wheat.
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Leicester: Behind the divide
What's behind the recent tensions between Hindi and Muslim communities in Leicester?
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Argentina: Life with hyperinflation
Living with hyperinflation in Argentina – how do people cope with everyday life?
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A ‘Me Too’ moment for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews?
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews struggle to come to terms with child sex abuse scandals
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The Texas Tank: A prison radio station changing lives
A radio station at a Texan prison is creating community and changing inmates' lives
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What next for School no 20?
What’s it like to be a teenager in Ukraine? School leavers in Chernihiv tell it how it is
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Lacrosse: Reclaiming the Creator’s game
Why lacrosse is much more than just a game for Native Americans
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Moldova - East or West?
This former Soviet republic faces both east and west
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After the ‘Narco-President’: Rebuilding hope in Honduras
When the president stands accused of drug trafficking, what hope is there?
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Ukraine: Collaboration and resistance
The dilemma facing the citizens of Kherson
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The return of the tigers
Tigers are making a remarkable comeback in Nepal
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Shanghai lockdown
How covid changed China’s commercial capital
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Ukraine war: The man who came back from the dead
How one man survived to bear witness to one of the worst atrocities of the war in Ukraine
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Ukraine war stories
Assignment follows the stories of four young women whose lives have been changed by war
