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China: "Tiger" kids and a colonial time-capsule

Academically-minded parents seek a rounded curriculum; a colonial location for newly-weds

• 11 mins

Iraqi Kurdistan and Europe's Roma

Marking out a border between territories in Iraq; remembering the Roma dead at Auschwitz

• 11 mins

Weekend Edition: The Times of Our Lives

Stories of love, life and death from Yemen, Sierra Leone, Cyprus, China and Ethiopia

• 24 mins

Argentina's Debt - and Moldova's Wines

Fiery rhetoric and financial realities in Buenos Aires; worries in Moldova's vineyards

• 11 mins

Israel and India

What Israeli civilians think about Gaza; the sport of Kabbadi gets a glitzy new makeover

• 11 mins

Scotland and Northern Ireland

Scottish independence without gunshots and a musical tour of Belfast.

• 11 mins

Iraqi Kurdistan

Shaima Khalil explores the hopes and fears of young Iraqi Kurds.

• 11 mins

The Philippines and India

Geotourism in the Philippines and the popularity of Western music in India

• 11 mins

Weekend Edition: Drawing the Line

Stories of borders and frontiers from Iraq, the UK, Greece and Pakistan

• 24 mins

Panama and Britain

Celebrating 100 years of the Panama Canal; joining a hectic Chinese bus tour of Europe

• 11 mins

Iraq and China

Refugees from IS crowd the streets of Dohuk; a Western bridesmaid at a Shanghai wedding

• 11 mins

Young Futures - in Gaza and County Mayo, Ireland

How many more conflicts will Gazan children see; where will Irish students go to work?

• 11 mins

Somalia and Italy

A nerve-wracking mobile-phone relationship with Al Shabaab; the seagulls invading Rome

• 11 mins

Cuba and Iran

Havana's supermarket shelves can baffle outsiders; contemporary art sells well in Tehran

• 11 mins

Experiencing China

Politics, Maoist history and the attitudes of Chinese tourists to Europe

• 25 mins

Money and Secrets in Jersey

Christine Finn was born on Jersey, but its residency rules mean she can't live there now

• 10 mins

Guatemala and Canada

A deportee's way from the US to rehab in Guatemala; and the farm raising insects for food

• 10 mins

A Poet at War

The poet chronicling his experience of conflict in Luhansk; nationalism in Crimea.

• 10 mins

The Ebola Virus and a Little-loved Airline

The spread of Ebola in West Africa; and the decline of Pakistan International Airlines

• 10 mins

A Greek Goodbye and a Swiss Selfie Scandal

Saying farewell to Greece after three years; sexy selfies scandalise the Swiss parliament

• 10 mins

Weekend Edition: Tales of the Unexpected

English words in Hindi, scantily-stocked shelves in Havana or the seagulls plaguing Rome

• 25 mins

An Independent Scotland?

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland correspondent Colin Blane meets a nation preparing to vote on independence

• 10 mins

Iraqi Kurdistan and Iceland's "Pompeii"

Might Kurds have to defer their dreams of independence? Plus: a village engulfed in lava

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Australia Special: Today's Migrants and Memories of WWI

Refuge and refugees Down Under- and whether this is a country obsessed with past conflict

• 10 mins

The Headscarf and the Bicycle

A personal account of giving up the hijab; the bikes empowering young women in Rwanda

• 10 mins

Inequality in Indonesia and Hemingway's Paradise

How Indonesians feel about the country's wealth gap; an author's idyll in 1920s France

• 10 mins

Weekend Edition: Unusual Leisure Pursuits

Rowing choppy seas, reading poems on battlefields and dancing at Caribbean festivals

• 25 mins

Israel and Mexico: Matters of Life and Death

Love and loss in coma wards in Jerusalem; denial and paranoia about cartels in Nogales

• 10 mins

Iraq and United Arab Emirates

Evading IS in Iraq to reach a besieged Shia town and Indian kushti wrestling in Dubai

• 10 mins

Russia

Meeting President Putin at a mammoth museum, and hearing provincial Russians on Ukraine

• 10 mins