蜜芽传媒

Poverty And Pentecostalism

The relationship between poverty and the rise of Pentecostalism

• 28 mins

The Fear of Thirteen

Why are Europeans superstitious about the number 13?

• 29 mins

Mark of the Beast

Who is the beast 鈥� and what鈥檚 the relevance of the number 666?

• 29 mins

Locating the Bermuda Triangle

Inexplicable disappearances inside the Bermuda Triangle

• 29 mins

The Geneva Convention

The international rules of warfare

• 26 mins

The World Bank

The role of the World Bank in humanitarian emergencies

• 27 mins

England鈥檚 Dwindling Churchgoers

The decline in popularity of the Church of England

• 27 mins

The Origins and Adoption of Female Genital Mutilation

How did the practice come to be adopted? And why does it continue to exist?

• 28 mins

The Pursuit of Happiness

Does money make us happy?

• 27 mins

The Hindenburg Disaster

How airships work and what causes disasters

• 26 mins

Scaling Mount Everest

Sir Edmond Hilary describes his 15 minutes on top of Mount Everest

• 26 mins

Metric v Imperial

Why the US prefers the outdated Imperial system

• 26 mins

Funding the World Service

The 拢200 million required every year to keep the public service on air

• 27 mins

Understanding HIV and Aids

How HIV and Aids affects the human body

• 27 mins

Crossing the African Continent

Discovering the differences between east and west Africa

• 27 mins

The Story of Mankind

Tracing the footsteps of human evolution

• 27 mins

What is Kleptomania?

Demystifying the psychological disorder kleptomania

• 26 mins

Animal Intuition

How birds and animals predict earthquakes

• 27 mins

In a Coma for 19 Years

One man wakes up after 19 years in a coma

• 26 mins

The End of the World as we Know it

The death of the sun will be spectacular

• 26 mins

Golf鈥檚 Humble Beginnings

How golf began in Scotland with a pebble and stick

• 26 mins

A Laughing Matter

The physiology of laughter

• 26 mins

Kidnap and Ransom

The origins of the words kidnap and ransom

• 28 mins

The Many Languages of the 蜜芽传媒

The 蜜芽传媒 portfolio of foreign broadcasts

• 27 mins

How Languages Develop

How certain ideas and myths transcend languages

• 27 mins

Helping the Blind

Eighty per cent of the world鈥檚 blindness is preventable or curable

• 27 mins

The Scent of a Farmyard

Why do animal faeces have distinctive odours?

• 27 mins

The Birth of Qwerty Keyboards

Who decided how computer keyboard keys are arranged?

• 27 mins

鈥楾he Blood of Freedom鈥�

What the colours of Ghana鈥檚 national flag symbolise

• 26 mins

Catch 22 Situation

The meaning of the title from Joseph Heller鈥檚 book Catch 22

• 26 mins