Crossing Continents

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Series focusing on foreign affairs issues


Episode Date
Armenia's Lost Garden
Apr 23, 2024
Reggaeton: The pride of Puerto Rico?
Apr 16, 2024
Mexico - Coyotes and Kidnap
Apr 09, 2024
Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus
Apr 02, 2024
American Mercenaries: Killing in Yemen
Jan 25, 2024
Bulgaria: the people smugglers
Jan 18, 2024
The Struggle for Barbuda's Future
Jan 11, 2024
Bones that speak
Jan 04, 2024
Bolivia’s giant fish intruder
Dec 28, 2023
Ukraine: Building back better
Dec 21, 2023
Ukraine: Fighting for Openness
Dec 14, 2023
Cyprus: The battle over songbird slaughter
Dec 07, 2023
Poland's Forest Frontier
Nov 30, 2023
Florida's political refugees
Nov 23, 2023
How a war has changed a Norwegian town
Sep 21, 2023
Missing in Syria
Sep 14, 2023
Surviving Greece's migrant boat disaster
Sep 04, 2023
Singing Morocco's New Identity
Aug 31, 2023
Belize's Blue Bond
Aug 24, 2023
Zimbabwe's worker exodus
Aug 17, 2023
When Wagner came home
Aug 10, 2023
Returning to Romania
Aug 03, 2023
Botswana: Living with elephants
Jul 27, 2023
Ukraine: the men who don’t want to fight
Jun 08, 2023
Hard Times in the Big Easy
May 18, 2023
Searching for my son
May 11, 2023
Kenya's Free Money Experiment
May 04, 2023
Laos: the most bombed country on earth
Apr 27, 2023
Leaving Sri Lanka
Apr 20, 2023
Gran Chaco - Paraguay’s vanishing forest
Apr 13, 2023
Vienna: getting housing right
Apr 06, 2023
Iran Protests: Tales from the front line
Jan 26, 2023
A Return to Paradise
Jan 19, 2023
Saving Children from the Mafia
Jan 12, 2023
South Korea - a room with a view
Jan 05, 2023
Fighting 'fat-phobia' in Brazil
Dec 29, 2022
Spain's Flamenco on the Edge
Dec 22, 2022
Hungary’s power dilemma
Dec 15, 2022
California's cannabis reparations
Dec 08, 2022
Cold-calling Siberia
Dec 01, 2022
Trouble in Taiwan?
Nov 24, 2022
Bye-bye Baguette?
Oct 10, 2022
A ‘Me Too’ Moment for Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews?
Sep 22, 2022
The Texas Tank: A Prison Radio Station Changing Lives
Sep 08, 2022
Nigeria’s oil thieves
Sep 01, 2022
Lacrosse: Reclaiming the Creator’s game
Aug 25, 2022
Moldova - East or West?
Aug 18, 2022
After the ‘Narco-President’: Rebuilding Hope in Honduras
Aug 11, 2022
Ukraine: Collaboration and Resistance
Aug 04, 2022
The Return of the Tigers
Jul 28, 2022
Love-bombing Estonia’s Russian Speakers
May 19, 2022
Cambodia: Returning the Gods
May 12, 2022
Mexico: The Yaqui Fight Back
May 05, 2022
The Accordion Wars of Lesotho
Apr 28, 2022
Myanmar: fighting the might of the junta
Apr 21, 2022
Russia's Unwelcome New Exiles
Apr 14, 2022
Dying to hunt in France
Apr 07, 2022
Hunting Syria's War Criminals
Jan 20, 2022
Montenegro’s Chinese Road
Jan 13, 2022
Turkey's Crazy Project
Jan 06, 2022
Peru's left behind children
Dec 30, 2021
The Runaway maids of Oman
Dec 23, 2021
Denmark's Red Van
Dec 16, 2021
Poland’s Fractured Borderlands
Dec 09, 2021
Sleepless in Seoul
Dec 02, 2021
Rotterdam and the cocaine connection
Nov 26, 2021
Salmon Wars
Nov 18, 2021
Libya's Unfinished Revolution
Sep 16, 2021
The Mystery of Havana Syndrome
Sep 09, 2021
Moria - After the Fire
Sep 02, 2021
Catalonia: Squatters, Eviction and Extortion
Aug 26, 2021
India’s Living Dead
Aug 19, 2021
What’s Killing Israel’s Arabs?
Aug 12, 2021
Nigeria's Kidnapped Children
Aug 05, 2021
Rebuilding Beirut’s Village in a City
Jul 29, 2021
Dangerous Liaisons in Sinaloa
Jul 22, 2021
Saving the Vaquita
May 13, 2021
Myanmar: The Spring Revolution
May 06, 2021
Drug Free in Norway
Apr 29, 2021
Kenya's Unhappy Doctors and Nurses
Apr 22, 2021
Sexual Healing in the Israeli Military
Apr 15, 2021
Denmark: goodbye to mink
Apr 08, 2021
Namibia: the Price of Genocide
Apr 01, 2021
Europe’s Most Dangerous Capital
Jan 21, 2021
Shipwreck
Jan 14, 2021
Libya's Brothers from Hell
Jan 07, 2021
Searching for Wisdom in Lagos
Dec 31, 2020
The Mapuche - Fighting for their right to heal
Dec 24, 2020
Darfur: A Precarious Peace
Dec 17, 2020
Syria's Soldiers of Fortune
Dec 10, 2020
Belarusian Police – Behind the Balaclavas
Dec 03, 2020
Sicily's Prisoner Fishermen
Nov 26, 2020
Martinique: The Poisoning of Paradise
Nov 19, 2020
Poland's Gay Pride and Prejudice
Sep 18, 2020
The Trouble with Dutch Cows
Sep 10, 2020
South Africa Moonshine
Sep 03, 2020
Reza's Story
Aug 27, 2020
Spain: the elephant in the palace
Aug 20, 2020
The Missing Bodies of Guayaquil
Aug 13, 2020
Algeria's Plague Revisited
Aug 06, 2020
Venezuela's 'Bay of Piglets'
Jul 30, 2020
The Many Colours of Raqqa
Jul 23, 2020
Bulgaria's Children and the Norwegian Bogeyman
May 14, 2020
Lithium: Argentina's 'White Gold' Rush
May 07, 2020
Spain’s care home nightmare
Apr 30, 2020
Ireland's Housing Hunger
Apr 23, 2020
Chile: An Education for All
Apr 21, 2020
Riding the 'Motel 22'
Apr 09, 2020
The Man Who Died for Trees
Apr 02, 2020
Indonesia: Not cool to date
Mar 26, 2020
Ayahuasca: Fear and Healing in the Amazon
Jan 16, 2020
Belarus: The Wild World of Chernobyl
Jan 09, 2020
Sierra Leone - The Price of Going Home
Jan 02, 2020
Iceland: The Great Thaw
Dec 26, 2019
Finland's Race to Go Carbon Neutral
Dec 19, 2019
A Fight for Light in Lebanon
Dec 12, 2019
Sri Lanka: The New Climate of Fear
Dec 05, 2019
The Man Who Laughed at al-Qaeda
Nov 28, 2019
Russian Women Fight Back
Nov 21, 2019
The Bitter Song of the Hazelnut
Sep 19, 2019
Colombia’s Kamikaze Cyclists
Sep 12, 2019
Marawi: the story of the Philippines’ Lost City
Sep 05, 2019
Kazakhstan: Port in the Desert
Aug 29, 2019
Romania's killer roads
Aug 22, 2019
Barbuda: Storms, Recovery and ‘Land Grabs’
Aug 15, 2019
Genoa's Broken Bridge
Aug 08, 2019
America's Hospital Emergency
Aug 01, 2019
The Undercover Migrant
Jul 25, 2019
Bolivia's Mennonites, Justice and Renewal
May 16, 2019
Abandoned in the Amazon
May 09, 2019
Empty Spain and the Caravans of Love
May 02, 2019
Bangladesh versus Yaba
Apr 25, 2019
Restoring Brazil's National Treasure
Apr 18, 2019
Poland's Partisan Ghosts
Apr 11, 2019
Nepal Fights Foreign Paedophiles
Apr 04, 2019
Unrest in Ukraine’s Little Hungary
Mar 28, 2019
Japan's Elderly Crime Wave
Jan 17, 2019
Balkan Border Wars - Serbia and Kosovo
Jan 10, 2019
The Brazilian Footballer Who Never Was
Jan 03, 2019
Armenia: Return to a Town That Died
Dec 27, 2018
DNA, Me and the Family Tree
Dec 20, 2018
China's Hidden Camps
Dec 13, 2018
Inside Burundi’s Killing Machine
Dec 06, 2018
A Stark Choice for Cambodia's Surrogates
Nov 29, 2018
Nigeria's Patient 'Prisoners'
Nov 22, 2018
Generation Identity
Sep 20, 2018
Chile - Sexual Abuse, Secrets and Lies
Sep 13, 2018
Nevada's Brothels Face the Axe
Sep 06, 2018
Uganda's Prison Farms
Aug 30, 2018
'Gone to Foreign' from Jamaica
Aug 23, 2018
Seaweed, Sex and Liberation in Zanzibar
Aug 16, 2018
Euthanasia - Aurelia's Story
Aug 09, 2018
Norway's Silent Scandal
Aug 02, 2018
Not Making Babies in South Korea
Jul 26, 2018
Shades of Jewish in Israel
May 17, 2018
China's World Cup Dreams
May 10, 2018
The Belarus Tractor Factory
May 03, 2018
Corruption Incorporated: The Odebrecht Story
Apr 26, 2018
The Mystery of Russia's Lost Jihadi Brides
Apr 19, 2018
The Child Saver of Mosul
Apr 12, 2018
Greece's Haven Hotel
Apr 05, 2018
Digging Up the Past in Catalonia
Mar 29, 2018
Sweden's Child Migrant Mystery
Jan 18, 2018
Ukraine's Frontline Bakery
Jan 11, 2018
Black and Proud in Brazil
Jan 04, 2018
Taming the Pilcomayo
Dec 28, 2017
33 Ways to Dispel a Chinese Mistress
Dec 22, 2017
Daphne and the Two Maltas
Dec 14, 2017
The Lost Children of Isis
Dec 07, 2017
Pride, Passion and Palestinian Horses
Nov 30, 2017
The Tula Toli Massacre
Nov 28, 2017
Panama's Vanishing Islands
Sep 21, 2017
Starting from Scratch in Uganda
Sep 14, 2017
Bulgaria on a Cliff Edge
Sep 07, 2017
Abdi in America
Aug 31, 2017
The Sailors of Sevastopol
Aug 24, 2017
Abkhazia - a Land Forgotten
Aug 17, 2017
Romania's Webcam Boom
Aug 10, 2017
Last Call from Aleppo
Aug 03, 2017
Inside Transgender Pakistan
Jul 27, 2017
Banishing America's 'Bad Hombres'
May 19, 2017
Elephants, Politics and Sri Lanka
May 11, 2017
Living with the Dead
May 04, 2017
Wives Wanted in the Faroes
Apr 27, 2017
Cuba's Cancer Revolution
Apr 20, 2017
Coming Out of the Shadows in Kenya
Apr 13, 2017
Hong Kong's Secret Dwellings
Apr 06, 2017
Brazil's modern-day Captains of the Sands
Mar 31, 2017
Russia's Extreme Selfie Daredevils
Mar 23, 2017
Siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery
Jan 12, 2017
Poland: Behind the Black Protests
Jan 05, 2017
Mexico - The Town That Said, 'No!'
Dec 29, 2016
Punk Art and Protest in Malaysia
Dec 22, 2016
India's Silent Terror
Dec 15, 2016
Cricket, Colour and Quotas in South Africa
Dec 08, 2016
Albania's Cannabis Boom
Dec 01, 2016
Checkmate for the King of Chess?
Nov 24, 2016
Cleansing Turkey
Nov 17, 2016
Fixing India's Car Crash Capital
Sep 15, 2016
Torah and Tech in Israel
Sep 08, 2016
Addicted in Suburbia
Sep 01, 2016
Protesting in Putin's Russia
Aug 25, 2016
Colombia's Forgotten Exodus
Aug 18, 2016
Poland's Amateur Defenders
Aug 11, 2016
Going Hungry in Venezuela
Aug 04, 2016
Syria's Secret Library
Jul 28, 2016
Stealing Innocence in Malawi
Jul 21, 2016
'Islamic State's' Most Wanted
May 27, 2016
Checkmate Me in St Louis
May 12, 2016
China's Family Planning Army
May 05, 2016
Forgetting Igbo
Apr 28, 2016
Norway: Parents Against the State
Apr 14, 2016
Born Free, Killed by Hate in South Africa
Apr 07, 2016
Thai Buddhism - Monks, Mercs and Women
Mar 31, 2016
Romania: The Shepherds Revolt
Mar 24, 2016
Molenbeek, Through the Looking Glass
Jan 14, 2016
Brazil Versus Sleaze
Jan 07, 2016
The Battered Champions of Aleppo
Dec 31, 2015
Saving India's Parsis
Dec 24, 2015
Cambodia: Trust Me, I'm not a Doctor
Dec 17, 2015
Malaysia's Runaway Children
Dec 14, 2015
Albania: Shadows of the Past
Dec 03, 2015
Greece: No Place to Die
Nov 27, 2015
The Drugs Mules of the Andes
Nov 19, 2015
Norway and Russia: An Arctic Friendship Under Threat
Nov 13, 2015
Paraguay's Schoolgirl Mothers
Sep 10, 2015
Hodei - The Man Who Vanished
Sep 03, 2015
Losing Louisiana
Aug 27, 2015
The Harragas of Algeria
Aug 20, 2015
Cuba on the Move
Aug 13, 2015
China's Ketamine Fortress
Aug 06, 2015
South Africa Unplugged
Jul 30, 2015
A Mediterranean Rescue
Jul 30, 2015
Peru's Wildlife for Sale
May 14, 2015
Georgia: Orthodoxy in the Classroom
May 07, 2015
Wrestling out of Poverty
Apr 30, 2015
'Police State' Portugal
Apr 23, 2015
Who's Afraid of Teatr Doc?
Apr 16, 2015
The Bizarre Workings of St Louis County, Missouri
Apr 09, 2015
Escaping Tanzania's Cutting Season
Apr 02, 2015
Saving Gaza's Grand Piano
Mar 26, 2015
Greece: The Rubber Glove Rebellion
Jan 15, 2015
Should Comics Be Crimes?
Jan 08, 2015
Colombia - Where the Truth Lies Buried
Jan 01, 2015
Abdi and the Golden Ticket
Dec 29, 2014
The Knights of New Russia
Dec 18, 2014
Washington Redskins
Dec 11, 2014
Yemen's Swap Marriages
Dec 04, 2014
Searching for Annie in Liberia
Nov 27, 2014
Hunting the Taliban
Nov 20, 2014
Ivory Coast's School for Husbands
Sep 18, 2014
Thailand's Slave Fishermen
Sep 11, 2014
A Song for Spanish Miners
Sep 04, 2014
Guatemala's Addicts Behind Bars
Aug 28, 2014
Goodbye Ireland; Goodbye Gaelic Football
Aug 21, 2014
Chasing China's Doomsday Cult
Aug 14, 2014
Crimea: Paradise Regained
Aug 07, 2014
Fearless Women in Turkish Kurdistan
Jul 31, 2014
Tornado Hide and Seek
Jul 24, 2014
The Reykjavik Confessions
May 15, 2014
Argentina: GM's New Frontline
May 08, 2014
Arizona: The Missing Migrants
May 01, 2014
Central African Republic: A Road Through Hatred
Apr 10, 2014
Ukraine: The Paper Trail to Corruption
Apr 03, 2014
Syria: The Silent Enemy
Mar 27, 2014
Uzbekistan: Searching for Googoosha
Jan 16, 2014
Russia: Digging up the Dead
Jan 09, 2014
Greenland: To dig or not to dig?
Jan 02, 2014
Brazil: Fighting Slavery
Dec 26, 2013
Bangladesh: Trials of Strength
Dec 19, 2013
Indonesia's humungous healthcare plan
Dec 12, 2013
India: Resisting Rape
Dec 05, 2013
Mexico: Exorcising Evil
Nov 28, 2013
Moldova - Sour Grapes
Nov 21, 2013
Indonesia's Mercury Menace
Sep 19, 2013
Matchmaking in Modern China
Sep 12, 2013
Venezuela - Out of Stock
Sep 05, 2013
Inside Gay Pakistan
Aug 29, 2013
Turkey's New Opposition
Aug 22, 2013
Kazakhstan's Living Gulags
Aug 15, 2013
Romania, Religion and Riches
Aug 08, 2013
Kermit Gosnell: Doctor and Murderer
Aug 05, 2013
Spain: Operation FGM
Jul 25, 2013
Sweden
May 24, 2013
Romario Tackles Brazil
May 16, 2013
Return to Ghana's Oil City
May 09, 2013
Hazaras, Hatred and Pakistan
May 02, 2013
Belarus's university in exile
Apr 25, 2013
Mexico's Village Vigilantes
Apr 18, 2013
Ukraine's HIV battle
Apr 11, 2013
Nepal: Getting Away with Murder
Apr 04, 2013
Mongolia's Mining Boom
Mar 28, 2013
Trafficking girls in India
Jan 10, 2013
Forced Confessions in Japan
Jan 03, 2013
Burma
Dec 27, 2012
Poland's New Immigrants
Dec 20, 2012
Libya: Life after the Revolution
Dec 13, 2012
Sexual Abuse in US Prisons
Dec 06, 2012
The Mystery of South Africa's Missing Textbooks
Nov 29, 2012
El Salvador's Gang Truce
Nov 22, 2012
The Mayor of Mogadishu
Nov 15, 2012
Israel's New Front Line
Sep 06, 2012
Gold and Governance in Romania
Aug 30, 2012
Bulgaria's Criminal Football
Aug 23, 2012
Korea Host Bars
Aug 16, 2012
Cold Turkey in Karachi
Aug 09, 2012
Rwanda Cycling
Aug 02, 2012
Spain's White Elephants
Jul 26, 2012
China Tweeting
Jul 19, 2012
Some Promised Land
Jul 12, 2012
China: Too Old to Get Rich?
May 17, 2012
Russia's New Energy Frontier
May 10, 2012
A Death in Honduras
May 03, 2012
The Marriage Breakers of Bangladesh
Apr 26, 2012
The Pink Certificate
Apr 19, 2012
Forced Sterilisation in Uzbekistan
Apr 12, 2012
The Angola 2
Apr 05, 2012
Canada's prescription drug crisis
Mar 29, 2012
What happened to the Kurdish spring?
Jan 12, 2012
Saving the Brazilian Amazon
Jan 05, 2012
Frank Wild's last journey
Dec 29, 2011
The Graves of Kashmir
Dec 22, 2011
China's Migrant Worker Mega-City
Dec 15, 2011
Exposing Bali's Orphanages
Dec 08, 2011
Farming Zimbabwe
Dec 01, 2011
Roubles and Radicals in Dagestan
Nov 24, 2011
India's Whistleblowers
Nov 17, 2011
Zimbabwe's child migrants
Sep 08, 2011
9/11 - Toxic Ash
Sep 01, 2011
The Mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi
Aug 25, 2011
Takoradi, Ghana's Oil City
Aug 18, 2011
Murder, migration and Mexico
Aug 11, 2011
The Mourides of Senegal
Aug 04, 2011
Escape from North Korea
Jul 28, 2011
Libyan refugees
Jul 21, 2011
On the road with Hillary Clinton
Jul 14, 2011
Searching for an Alzheimer's Cure in Colombia
May 19, 2011
The Pakistan Connection
May 12, 2011
South Africa: Aurora Mine Controversy
May 05, 2011
What happened next?
Apr 28, 2011
Germany
Apr 21, 2011
Egypt: Sisters of the Revolution
Apr 14, 2011
Ecuador
Apr 07, 2011
Uganda
Mar 31, 2011
Baghdad Airport
Mar 24, 2011
Cambodia: Country for Sale
Jan 13, 2011
Palliative Care in India
Jan 06, 2011
Syrian corruption
Dec 30, 2010
Senegal
Dec 23, 2010
The Two Faces of Bahrain
Dec 16, 2010
Nichi Vendola
Dec 09, 2010
Georgian fir cones
Dec 02, 2010
The Primorsky Partisans
Nov 25, 2010
Road Kill
Nov 18, 2010
Delhi
Sep 09, 2010
The Church in China
Sep 02, 2010