Heart and Soul: I joined the Taliban after they kept me hostage

Why Jibra’il Omar, formerly Timothy Weeks, joined the Taliban after they kept him hostage

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: The cost of living crisis in Nigeria

Daily experiences from the country’s worst economic crisis in a generation

• 23 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Why young people are having less sex – The Global Story

• 22 mins

In the Studio: Peter Beatty

Artist and film-maker Peter Beatty turns his barge into a film studio

• 26 mins

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

Miracle on the ocean floor – Lives Less Ordinary

• 41 mins

Running out of sand

Sand mining is fuelling Cambodia's construction boom but at what cost to the environment?

• 50 mins

Assignment: Border Stories, part one - Zero Tolerance

The ongoing effects of Zero Tolerance, the policy that divided families on the US border

• 27 mins

Heart and Soul: Not even water?

How young Muslims manage Ramadan in their lives and work

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Haiti gangs and stray bullets

People in Haiti trying to survive and the struggle for aid workers trying to help them

• 23 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Panama Canal: It's running dry and it's going to cost us - The Global Story

• 25 mins

In the Studio: Colm Tóibín

Inside the creative world of the acclaimed author of Brooklyn

• 24 mins

Trapped in Oman

The fight to bring home a group of Malawian domestic workers trapped in servitude

• 27 mins

A reckoning with drugs in Oregon

How has Oregon’s radical drug decriminalisation policy changed lives?

• 27 mins

Bonus: What in the World

Energy solutions in the Philippines

• 23 mins

Assignment: Border Stories, part 2 - Coyotes and Kidnap

Tales of kidnap and extortion from those who risk everything to enter the US from Mexico

• 28 mins

Heart and Soul: How the Church’s role in Argentina’s dictatorship shook the nation’s faith

How the Church’s role in Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship changed people’s faith

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Protesting farmers

Why are farmers taking to the streets?

• 24 mins

The Cultural Frontline: Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels and the Manhattan Flood project

• 27 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Rare access inside Sudan's forgotten war - The Global Story

• 28 mins

In the Studio: Helmut Deutsch and Michael Volle - Staging Winterreise

An acclaimed pianist and baritone tackle Franz Schubert's song cycle

• 27 mins

Bonus: The Black 14

The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism

• 33 mins

Rwanda 30 years on

Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide

• 50 mins

Assignment: Choking in Chiang Mai

What it’s like to live and die in a polluted city

• 27 mins

Bonus: HARDtalk

On the road in Guyana - HARDtalk

• 24 mins

Heart and Soul: An ‘Encore’ for Jesus

The older women taking vows and becoming nuns in their 50s and 60s.

• 27 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Messages from Gaza

Four women share their experiences of resilience, fear and despair in war-torn Gaza

• 30 mins

Bonus: The Global Jigsaw: Moscow attack: disinfo wars

Who is behind the Crocus City Hall attack? We track the blame game.

• 32 mins

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

Fugees Family: the refugee football team who became my life - Lives Less Ordinary

• 43 mins

In the Studio: Maria Grachvogel

Maria Grachvogel shares her passion for creating outfits and working with Victoria Beckham

• 26 mins

Assignment: Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus

Belarus has huge numbers of political prisoners - many of them are women

• 28 mins

Forward Thinking: Is it ethical to live longer?

The dilemmas caused by treatments that could tackle some of our most serious illnesses

• 49 mins

Azovstal: The 80 day siege

Ukrainian citizens and soldiers who survived the siege of Azovstal recount their ordeal

• 26 mins

Heart and Soul: The caste faultlines in Modi’s India

How the Hindu majority in Modi’s India is still divided by caste

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Living with cancer

How six young women around the world are living with cancer

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: My Ramadan

How are people observing Ramadan around the world, and why is it different this year?

• 26 mins

El Salvador's missing children

Children separated from their parents by civil war now in search of their birth families

• 52 mins

In the Studio: Ellie Simmonds

The Paralympic gold medallist follows the construction of a new public swimming pool

• 26 mins

Assignment: New Caledonia - new agreement needed

Can the French settlers and indigenous Kanak of New Caledonia agree on a constitution?

• 26 mins

Forward Thinking: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Why a celebrated astrophysicist believes space research needs a new approach

• 49 mins

Bonus: What in the World

Is Botswana really going to send Germany 20,000 elephants?

• 16 mins

From the Archive: Heart and Soul - Faith, terrorists and mercy at Guantanamo

Former Guantanamo Bay interrogator Dr Jennifer Bryson on torture, faith and mercy

• 26 mins

Bonus: The Global Story

Lina Khan: The woman taking on big tech billionaires - The Global Story

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Sudan's war - One year on

What it’s like to live in Sudan after one year of civil war

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: A journalist's life in Israel

What is it like to live and work as a journalist in Israel right now?

• 26 mins

His and hers medicine

Dr Zoe Williams examines historical inequalities in the diagnosis and treatment of women

• 49 mins

In the Studio: Helle Nebelong

Landscape architect Helle Nebelong designs one of America's largest natural playgrounds

• 26 mins

Bonus: The Global Story on Iran-Israel attacks

A turning point for the Middle East? Analysis from The Global Story

• 24 mins

Assignment: Reggaeton - the pride of Puerto Rico?

Reggaeton’s the soundtrack to Puerto Rico, reflecting the cultural and political scene

• 27 mins

Forward Thinking: Can going vegan feed the world?

Could going vegan help feed the world and save the planet?

• 49 mins

The poker parent

Why teaching a child how to call, raise and bluff can impart important life lessons

• 27 mins

Heart and Soul: Should I change my name?

Robert Beckford explores the significance of slave names and their impact on individuals

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Living in Israel

Israelis share their experiences after Iran’s drone and missile attack

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: My emergency kit list

How do you prepare for the worst-case scenario?

• 26 mins

Bonus: What in the World: South Korea’s shamans are now online

South Korea’s shamans are now online

• 15 mins

In the Studio: David Haig and Max Webster

David Haig and Max Webster's stage adaptation of Philip K Dick's Minority Report

• 26 mins

Assignment: Armenia's lost garden

The life and death of a non-existent country - and the rebirth of its improbable pub

• 27 mins

Forward Thinking: Can feminism fix the internet?

Our technology dominated world is in a crisis – what are the solutions?

• 49 mins

Super-rich Swedes

Why is Sweden home to so many dollar billionaires?

• 32 mins

Heart and Soul: The whale worshippers of Vietnam

On the southern shores of Vietnam, whales are revered as gods of the oceans.

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Ukrainian aid from the US

How Americans with Ukrainian heritage are funding medical packages, vans and art therapy

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: The disinformation wars

How is disinformation created and spread? Stories from Latin America, Russia and Nigeria

• 26 mins

The Cultural Frontline: Exposing the fake Russian modern art collection

How museums and collectors have been sold dubious Russian modern art.

• 26 mins

In the Studio: Kenyan artist Wangari Mathenge

Exploring the plight of female domestic workers in Kenya through art

• 26 mins

Assignment: Kosovo - euro or bust?

Could new financial restrictions revive the spectre of violence?

• 26 mins

Bonus: Lives Less Ordinary

Evy Mages learns the truth about her time in an Austrian ‘child-observation station'

• 48 mins

South Africa: The people shall govern

Has 30 years of democracy in South Africa delivered for its citizens?

• 27 mins

Heart and Soul: Jewish dating

Navigating Jewish dating in a globalised world

• 26 mins

BBC OS Conversations: Student protests in the US

The experience on campus for both protesters and Jewish students

• 23 mins

The Fifth Floor: Love and politics in Russia

Why did Yulia Navalnaya step in for her husband after his death?

• 26 mins