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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

Brazil and France

Barbed satire about slum 'pacification' in Rio; Euro-scepticism on the rise in Marseille

• 11 mins

Choices in Damascus and a Piano in Toulouse

Difficult choices in Syria and the success of a piano in Toulouse train station

• 11 mins

Winds of change in Algeria and the ‘browning’ of America

Has the Arab Spring affected Algeria? Plus a dispatch on Latinos in America.

• 11 mins

Race and house-hunting in Singapore, plus old fashioned mail boats in the Bahamas

Stories on race and housing in booming Singapore – and the mail boats of the Bahamas.

• 11 mins

Held at Gunpoint in Ukraine, and the Secrets of Brooklyn’s Jewish Community

Facing danger in eastern Ukraine, and a sex abuse cover-up in New York.

• 11 mins

Weekend Edition: Moving With the Times

Adjusting to new realities - from Qatari family life to South Africa's mining industry

• 24 mins

Brazilian Squatters and a Burmese Village

Surprises from a Brazilian neighbourhood of squatters and children in a Burmese village

• 11 mins

A journey with the fishermen of Mauritania

Our correspondent rides along with the fishermen of Mauritania

• 11 mins

Reconciliation: The Middle East and East Timor

A new accord between Hamas and Fatah; statues, tarts and forgiveness in East Timor

• 11 mins

Iraq and Australia

A book stall in Baghdad; paradise on Palm Island?

• 11 mins

Bangladesh and Indonesia

Caring for premature babies in Bangladesh; Indonesia responds to child abuse

• 11 mins

Weekend Edition: Give Us the Force!

Stories of effort and daring from Palestine, Mauritania, Brazil, India and France

• 24 mins

South Sudan and South Africa

Brutal violence in Bentiu; is South Africa a colour-blind society?

• 11 mins

Ukraine and Cambodia

At gunpoint at a Sloviansk checkpoint; remembering forced marriage under the Khmer Rouge

• 11 mins

Colombia's Drug War and Condoms in Ethiopia

A night out with the Colombian Army in Puerto Leguizamo; aid, ads and AIDS in Addis Ababa

• 11 mins

Canada

Quirks of the maple syrup industry in Quebec; an awkward guest at a 'feminist' porn shoot

• 11 mins

Bosnia and Argentina: Echoes of the Past

A World War I relic on a Balkan farm; a touch of England in a Buenos Aires sporting club

• 11 mins

Let's Talk about Sex

Exploring the very different ways sex shapes people's lives around the world

• 24 mins

Kenya and Canada

A coastal tourist industry in decline; a national postal service cuts back deliveries

• 11 mins

Europe

Europe prepares for elections, and the British architect with a vision for a French port

• 11 mins

Sri Lanka and (Scottish) Panama

Coming to terms with Sri Lanka's past; lessons from Scotland's colonial misadventure.

• 11 mins

India and Canada

How complacency cost Congress votes; the alliance using a potlatch to fight a pipeline

• 11 mins

Brazil and Niger

Awa tribal land reclaimed in Brazil's Amazon rainforest and a ski shop, in the Sahara

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