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Pick of the World Episodes

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    Swahili travels from Africa to South America

    From Nairobi to Bogota, how learning a language has changed your life

  2. Your top tips for the best new African music

    DJ Edu and the best new African music that we should all know about

  3. How to visit every country on Earth without flying

    Thor Pedersen describes his almost decade-long journey around the world

  4. What are Indian audiences talking about online?

    Zooming in on India after the country鈥檚 worst rail accident this century

  5. The family tree detective bringing relatives together

    How Shamshu Deen helped thousands trace their roots. Plus - the woman who feels no pain

  6. Hiking all 63 US national parks - with my granny

    Brad and Joy Ryan went on a seven-year adventure and slept under the stars

  7. The last flight out of 'heart attack' airport

    More than a million of you engaged with our story about Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong

  8. The Netflix show causing its own drama in Egypt

    The historical debate that got thousands of you commenting on Facebook

  9. The bus boycott that changed Britain

    The pioneering black activists behind the Bristol Bus Boycott

  10. What are the chances of finding alien life?

    Counting stars and planets with CrowdScience - and goodbye Bola Mosuro.

  11. About to be crypto scammed?

    Inside the fake crypto criminal network believed to have raked in a billion dollars

  12. What happens when you take a rooster to court?

    An unusual legal dispute unfolds in Nigeria. Plus, the first call made on a mobile phone.

  13. The dream of finding a diamond

    A glittering discovery in the earth of Sierra Leone - but what happened next?

  14. Hackers and scammers, from North Korea to Cambodia

    Did North Korean hackers make ATMs spew their cash? Plus India鈥檚 longest-running movie.

  15. The playing cards used to target Saddam Hussein

    Twenty years since the invasion of Iraq, did it change Western foreign policy forever?

  16. The most remote museum on Earth?

    A visit to a museum at the end of the world - and do good-looking people earn more money?

  17. Young, gifted and a Cambridge professor

    Jason Arday is the youngest black person to become a professor at the famous university

  18. Moments when we become our true selves

    A difficult conversation about changing to the Ifa religion of Nigeria and West Africa

  19. The social media war in Ukraine

    蜜芽传媒 Ukraine Correspondent James Waterhouse on the role played by social media in the war

  20. A plea from earthquake-hit Syria

    A plea from a follower in earthquake-hit Syria - and the strange case of UFOs over the US

  21. A balloon floats into 1.5 million Facebook feeds

    The Chinese spy balloon mystery - and fine dining, are we over it?

  22. India's female airline pilot revolution

    At 12.4% India has the highest percentage of female pilots, why?

  23. Why we love physical music in our digital world

    Inside the biggest vinyl factory in Europe - and do we talk too much about Elon Musk?

  24. What would you change about the seven-day week?

    How this unnatural cycle came to organise our lives - and what you would do differently

  25. The intense pressure of being a chef

    Long hours and obsession in the life of a top chef. Plus, the town giving out free beer

  26. 'My friend, the serial killer'

    The nurse who realised her colleague and friend was killing patients

  27. Your social media news stories of 2022

    A special show on the social posts from 蜜芽传媒 World Service that you engaged with in 2022

  28. With the Christmas post, comes hope in Ukraine

    Why the postal service brings hope in Ukraine, and what next for Iranian protesters?

  29. 'The sketchpad that saved my life'

    The parallel lives of two young women, one with a sketchbook, one with a gun

  30. Which food would you give special UN status?

    The French baguette... but which food item would you give special UN status?

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