BBC OS Conversations: Living alongside Mexico's drug gangs

Residents in Mexico on coping with crime, kidnappings and murders

• 22 mins

The Fifth Floor: Who runs Russia's African Initiative?

African Initiative claims to be a media organisation. Who's behind it?

• 20 mins

Caught at the helm

Are Greece's tough people smuggling policies seeing the wrong people pay the price?

• 26 mins

In the Studio: Jonny Banger

Jonny Banger is an artist who blurs the lines between fashion, music and activism

• 26 mins

Assignment: Singing in Gaza

Amid the rubble, children in Gaza are learning music. How and why do they go on singing?

• 26 mins

BBC Trending: Meet the anti-witch hunter

Meet the man who intervenes to protect people accused of witchcraft across Africa

• 18 mins

Iraq's secret women's shelters

The dangerous and secretive work of the Iraqi women helping victims of domestic violence

• 26 mins

Heart and Soul: Seeking justice from Opus Dei

Former assistant numeraries who worked in Opus Dei centres say they were abused

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: US black and Latino male voters

We discuss if the male vote is a problem or opportunity ahead of the US election

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: Where do vampires come from?

Where did the vampire myth originate from?

• 23 mins

Bonus: The Climate Question

Is the climate on the ballot at the US election?

• 26 mins

In the Studio: Ishmael Reed

Legendary American author Ishmael Reed is 86 – how does he keep creating?

• 26 mins

Assignment: Choosing race

Stories of people fighting to claim their racial identity, and those looking to police it

• 26 mins

BBC Trending: The cost of an addiction to Somali TikTok battles

Cash-strapped and verbally abused – players of the TikTok game taking Somalia by storm

• 18 mins

The jaguar's last stand

The Jaguar is the apex predator in the Pantanal, Brazil, but loss of habitat is a threat

• 26 mins

Heart and Soul: How the war in Gaza helped me find God

How the unshakeable faith of Palestinian Muslims in Gaza led Vanessa to embrace Islam

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: US voters and the cost of living

How major news stories are affecting the lives of people around the world

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: Ikat fashion and other Uzbek wonders

Ibrat Safo explores Uzbekistan's love story with textiles

• 17 mins

Assignment: Denmark’s weight loss boom town

Assignment visits the small Danish manufacturing town making the weight loss drug Wegovy

• 26 mins

In the Studio: TRIVAX

TRIVAX on their mission to fight against oppression and totalitarianism through music

• 26 mins

Tongue and talk: Keeping language alive in Africa

Ghanian journalist Justice Baidoo examines the threat to hundreds of languages in Africa

• 48 mins

Bonus: People Fixing the World: Fixing elections - for the better

2024 has been a big year for elections. But how can we make sure people can vote safely?

• 23 mins

Tuvalu: The first digital nation?

With its future under threat, how can Tuvalu preserve its culture?

• 26 mins

Heart and Soul: The Arab Holocaust museum

Why an Arab Israeli set out to educate his fellow Palestinians about the Holocaust

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Americans react to Donald Trump's re-election

We get reaction from Republicans, Democrats and Ukrainians

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: What do Georgians want?

Why are people protesting on the streets of Tbilisi, in Georgia?

• 26 mins

In the Studio: Opera Australia

Ce Benedict goes behinds the scenes of Opera Australia

• 26 mins

Poisoned flood: South Sudan life at 50°C

Blood, pollution and oil in South Sudan but who is responsible? BBC Eye investigates

• 26 mins

Heart and Soul: The human shield

Why an Australian journalist decided to try and stop Western powers bombing Iraq

• 26 mins

Faith on the fly: The airport chaplains

Spend a week with the chaplains of Heathrow Airport supporting passengers and staff

• 26 mins