Crossing Continents

by BBC Radio 4
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Stories from around the world and the people at the heart of them.

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Recent Episodes
  • Leaving Israel for Cyprus
    Apr 29, 2025 – 28:57
  • Dicing with democracy? Romania’s cancelled election
    Apr 22, 2025 – 33:47
  • Spain - can an algorithm predict murder?
    Apr 15, 2025 – 28:36
  • Unidentified Flying Drones in Denmark
    Apr 8, 2025 – 28:55
  • Lebanon: Hezbollah in trouble
    Mar 31, 2025 – 28:34
  • Reel Revolution? The dramatic rise of Saudiwood
    Jan 28, 2025 – 28:33
  • Death Marches: uncovering the truth beneath the soil
    Jan 21, 2025 – 31:03
  • The Gambia: When migrants are forced to go home
    Jan 14, 2025 – 28:51
  • South Korea: The Feminist Hunters
    Jan 7, 2025 – 30:43
  • The human cost of developing Cambodia's Angkor wonder
    Dec 31, 2024 – 28:14
  • Poland's Ghosts, Ukraine's Heroes
    Dec 24, 2024 – 31:40
  • Argentina - Milei's Chainsaw
    Dec 17, 2024 – 28:38
  • Mining the Pacific – future proofing or fool’s gold?
    Dec 10, 2024 – 28:27
  • France: trouble on the vine
    Dec 3, 2024 – 32:26
  • Our whole life is a secret
    Nov 26, 2024 – 28:30
  • Ivory Coast's cocoa crisis
    Sep 10, 2024 – 29:07
  • The 'ghost city' of Cyprus
    Sep 3, 2024 – 28:36
  • The struggle for Jerusalem’s Old City
    Aug 27, 2024 – 28:57
  • Ageing without a safety net in Malaysia
    Aug 20, 2024 – 28:13
  • Rejecting public education in Arizona
    Aug 13, 2024 – 28:47
  • The Italian town where praying is a political issue
    Aug 6, 2024 – 29:23
  • A Slogan and a Land (Part 2)
    Jul 17, 2024 – 47:47
  • A Slogan and a Land (Part 1)
    Jul 17, 2024 – 40:00
  • The Caspian Crisis
    May 21, 2024 – 29:23
  • Return of the Benin Bronzes
    May 14, 2024 – 29:05
  • Italy’s Mafia Whistleblower
    May 7, 2024 – 28:52
  • Kosovo: Euro or Bust
    Apr 30, 2024 – 28:23
  • Armenia's Lost Garden
    Apr 23, 2024 – 29:32
  • Reggaeton: The pride of Puerto Rico?
    Apr 16, 2024 – 29:07
  • Mexico - Coyotes and Kidnap
    Apr 9, 2024 – 28:59
  • Secret Sisters. Political prisoners in Belarus
    Apr 2, 2024 – 28:38
  • American Mercenaries: Killing in Yemen
    Jan 25, 2024 – 28:40
  • Bulgaria: the people smugglers
    Jan 18, 2024 – 28:25
  • The Struggle for Barbuda's Future
    Jan 11, 2024 – 29:12
  • Bones that speak
    Jan 4, 2024 – 29:21
  • Bolivia’s giant fish intruder
    Dec 28, 2023 – 28:23
  • Ukraine: Building back better
    Dec 21, 2023 – 28:37
  • Ukraine: Fighting for Openness
    Dec 14, 2023 – 28:30
  • Cyprus: The battle over songbird slaughter
    Dec 7, 2023 – 28:48
  • Poland's Forest Frontier
    Nov 30, 2023 – 28:36
  • Florida's political refugees
    Nov 23, 2023 – 28:17
  • How a war has changed a Norwegian town
    Sep 21, 2023 – 29:41
  • Missing in Syria
    Sep 14, 2023 – 29:04
  • Surviving Greece's migrant boat disaster
    Sep 4, 2023 – 28:13
  • Singing Morocco's New Identity
    Aug 31, 2023 – 28:57
  • Belize's Blue Bond
    Aug 24, 2023 – 29:24
  • Zimbabwe's worker exodus
    Aug 17, 2023 – 29:30
  • When Wagner came home
    Aug 10, 2023 – 29:12
  • Returning to Romania
    Aug 3, 2023 – 28:28
  • Botswana: Living with elephants
    Jul 27, 2023 – 29:24
Recent Reviews
  • camping crafter
    Phenomenal
    This podcast covers such a wide range of topics! I always learn something new, often about a topic I did not previously know anything about! Thank you for taking us all over the world!!!
  • Nicalandra
    Amazing!
    I can’t believe there aren’t more reviews on here for a podcast that’s been around for ten years. And it’s all so, so good! So many stories I’d never hear about anywhere else.
  • Man from Porlock
    6 ****** if I could
    6 ****** if I could
  • eeyoremom
    Amazing variety of perspectives
    Listen to firsthand accounts and actual people talk about issues from their point of view.
  • bmld16
    Make more
    I love the show it is great!!!!!!
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