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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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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

India and Morocco

Why Kolkata wants to be more like London, and the dying art of storytelling in Marrakech.

• 11 mins

Migrants in Melilla, misgivings in Malaysia

Meeting people who jump the fence into the EU; the MH370 affair and Malay-China relations

• 11 mins

Gaza's New Challenges and Hungary's Prime Minister

Hamas is now at odds with Egypt's government; and what does Viktor Orban want?

• 11 mins

Germany, Russia, Syria and the USA

Why many Germans are so ambivalent about Russia, and how Syrian refugees adjust to NYC

• 11 mins

Brazil and Canada

Fashion meets indigenous arts in the Amazon rainforest; separatism wanes in Quebec

• 11 mins

A Joyful Noise

Car horns, national anthems and calypso - a cacophony of stories from ´óÏó´«Ã½ correspondents

• 24 mins

South Africa: end of the mine?

Are we in the last days of South Africa's mining industry?

• 11 mins

Reporting on India and China

The riddles of modern China, and invented traditions in India

• 11 mins

Ukraine and France

Encounters with hardline "pro-Russians" in Slaviansk and the con artists of Montmartre

• 11 mins

Syria and Siberia

Rebel fighters grow weary around Latakia; classical concert-goers thrill in Berdsk

• 11 mins

Liberia and Italy: the Days of the Dead

Sprucing up family vaults in Monrovia; the great names of Rome's Non-Catholic cemetery

• 11 mins

Short Stories and Tall Tales

Tales about writers, storytellers and poets - and stories that are too good to be true

• 24 mins