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Rupa Jha takes you to the heart of India, to give a unique insight into what it means to live in the world’s biggest democracy.

Living India homepage

Matthew Teller asks how training at the UK's Military Academy at Sandhurst bolsters militarised monarchies in the Arab world.

Sandhurst and the Sheiks homepage

Lucy Ash examines the Russian military strategy of deception, maskirovka, from the 14th Century to the current crisis in Ukraine

Maskirovka - Deception Russian-Style homepage

Fred Dove investigates China's attempts to make itself a cricketing nation, and meets some of China's finest cricketers.

Batting for the Middle Kingdom homepage

Over 400,000 pages of Joseph Stalin’s private papers have gone online. Daniel Kalder uncovers new sides to the notorious leader.

Digitising Stalin homepage

Alan Kasujja presents a series of snapshots of a continent building its own opportunity, in Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania.

My Africa homepage

Vietnamese writer Le Ly Hayslip reflects on her life and work shedding new light on her country's experience of the Vietnam war.

Heaven and Earth - Le Ly Hayslip homepage

Zareer Masani examines the history and future of India’s biggest business group.

Tata - India's Global Giant homepage

Yona Laks and Vera Kriegel speak about their experiences as part of Josef Mengele’s experiments on Jewish twins at Auschwitz.

Mengele's Twins homepage

Lenny Henry tells the story of August Wilson, America's greatest modern black playwright.

August Shines homepage

Chie Kobayashi finds out what the annual 'Love Your Wife Day' tells us about love and life in Japan today.

Love Your Wife Day homepage

What happened to the rubbish pickers on South America’s biggest rubbish dump, closed two years ago?

Your Rubbish, Our Hope homepage

Juliana Iootty traces the life of Machado de Assis, Brazil’s great literary genius that the rest of the world doesn’t know about

Remembering Rio homepage

Jeremy Bowen sees how the olive harvest is at the heart of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis for control of land.

Olive Wars homepage

A look at the Hungry Generation – the angry young Calcutta poets whose antics struck a chord with the Beat Generation.

India's Beats - The Hungry Generation homepage

Kavita Puri hears stories of the pioneering migrants who arrived in Britain in the 1950’s from the Indian subcontinent.

Three Pounds in My Pocket homepage

Former Jihadi Aimen Dean tells Peter Marshall how Islamic State came to power and how it survives.

Islamic State - Bureaucracy And Brutality homepage

Shahidha Bari tracks the story of Noor Inayat Khan, one of Britain’s most courageous secret agents of the Second World War.

Codename Madeleine homepage

This programme looks at the ways money complicates our relationships, what we learn, and what questions still linger.

Death, Sex and Money homepage

Al Letson asks: is Tupac Shakur a modern Black American folk hero?

Tupac Shakur - Hip Hop Immortal homepage

Fergus Nicoll recounts the extraordinary story of the world's richest man ever - 14th century monarch King Mansa Musa of Mali.

Musa's Money homepage

Is karaoke now an art form? Music critic Katie Puckrik hits the clubs in Portland, Oregon, to find out.

Karaoke as Art? homepage