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Making their mark: the individuals behind the headlines

Stories of the people making their mark on the world around them

• 24 mins

Rekindling Afghan Education, and Fighting Australia's Bushfires

The inspirational Kabul headmaster won't back down; could Aboriginal methods fight fires?

• 11 mins

Bearing Witness on the Middle East

Journalists on trial in Cairo; the war graves shedding light on today's Middle East

• 11 mins

Iraq and Afghanistan

Rising sectarian tension in Iraq; what can history teach us about invading Afghanistan?

• 11 mins

Inside your shell: in St. Helena and Italy

St Helena's prestigious tortoise; trying a codpiece on for size in Florence

• 11 mins

Ukraine and South Korea

Rising tensions in Crimea; reconfiguring the South Korean economy

• 11 mins

Weekend Edition: War Wounds

The roots and the scars of violence in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Niger and Somalia

• 24 mins

The Price of Pleasure: in Burkina Faso and Germany

Hope for victims of FGM in Burkina Faso; legal prostitution in Germany.

• 11 mins

Syria and Egypt

Three years on from the start of the Syrian conflict; Egypt's struggling tourist sector

• 11 mins

Israel and the USA

Mindgames at an Israeli airport; biting off more than can be chewed in Philadelphia

• 11 mins

A Tale of Two Cities: Singapore and Melbourne

Does Singapore have a 'compassion deficit'? End of the road for Melbourne's laneways?

• 11 mins

France and Sri Lanka

The National Front move into the mainstream; playing rugby in Sri Lanka

• 11 mins

Weekend Edition: Satisfaction!

Thoughts from around the world on what people want and whether it really makes them happy

• 24 mins

El Salvador and Tunisia

El Salvador's lone forensic scientist and Tunisia's creative explosion

• 11 mins

Venezuela and the UAE

On the barricades of San Cristobal; changing face of Bedouin life

• 11 mins

Ukraine: past and present

A job offer from the President of Crimea; Ukrainian independence, in 1991 and today.

• 11 mins

Business and elections in Afghanistan, and Goa’s trashmobs

Business in Afghanistan and Goa’s trashmobs – dispatches from Ö÷²¥´óÐã correspondents

• 11 mins

Cyprus and Lebanon

Returning to post-bailout Cyprus and a temporary escape from Damascus

• 11 mins

Touring Central Asia

From Afghanistan to Kazakhstan, we hear the latest stories and insights from the 'stans'

• 24 mins

Trans-Dniester, and San Francisco’s Most Famous Bookshop

A story from Trans-Dniester, and a visit to the famous independent bookshop City Lights

• 11 mins

A special live edition from W1: Freedom's Paths

Gabriel Gatehouse, Jeremy Bowen, Audrey Brown and Shaimaa Khalil on freedom's path

• 24 mins

Ukraine and Bangladesh

Fighting corruption in Kiev; army and local tribes at odds in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

• 11 mins

A hero in Rwanda; a nuclear dilemma in France

How one man saved hundreds from the 1994 genocide; why atomic waste's buried in Champagne

• 11 mins

Afghanistan and Romania

Tension spikes in Kabul before the election; two men's private revolt against Ceausescu

• 11 mins

What’s Left Behind?

Stories about the people, places and things left behind, from Ö÷²¥´óÐã correspondents.

• 24 mins

Mexico's Migrants and Uruguay's 'First Couple'

The town that depends on people crossing into the US; growing up gay in a dictatorship

• 11 mins

The Voynich Manuscript

The mystery of the never-deciphered Voynich Manuscript - who could have written it?

• 11 mins

Central African Republic and Qatar

The Central African Republic's farmers v cowboys conflict, and Qatar's first bus service.

• 11 mins

India Special

India: the contrast between rich and poor in Gujarat, and between old and new in Assam

• 11 mins

Weekend Edition: Misfits

Global stories of those who stand out from the crowd - for good reasons and bad

• 24 mins