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The Star-Spangled Banner

Why America's national anthem, by Francis Scott Key, inspires emotion and controversy

• 26 mins

The TikTok election

Sophia Smith Galer finds out how TikTok could influence the outcome of the US election

• 49 mins

A perfect match

The inequalities in US healthcare exposed through a deeply personal story

• 26 mins

Fighting together in Korea

How the Korean War forced the US military to desegregate

• 49 mins

China's rocket man

What does a pioneering scientist's story reveal about China and America?

• 26 mins

Missing and murdered: America’s forgotten native girls

The shocking violence against Native American women

• 26 mins

America decides: How it happened

Philippa Thomas introduces a rapid-fire round-up of the US presidential election

• 26 mins

India's missing children

Rajini Vaidyanathan searches for one of the many Indian children trafficked into slavery.

• 26 mins

Blood lands

The frenzied attack in a farmhouse that left two dead and a South African town divided

• 49 mins

Obesity crisis in Thai temples

Why are Buddhist monks in Thailand more obese than the population at large?

• 26 mins

The five-day election

Voters talk about waiting for results of the unusually protracted US presidential election

• 26 mins

Barack Obama talks to David Olusoga

Ahead of the release of his memoirs, the former President talks to David Olusoga

• 26 mins

100 Women: Rebel girls soundtrack

The ways in which real events are reflected in the lyrics of popular songs

• 49 mins

100 Women: The mushroom woman

How Chido Govera's curiosity with mushrooms helped feed her family and other growers

• 26 mins

Don't Log Off: Resilience

Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic

• 26 mins

100 Women: Women in power

Mary Ann Sieghart hears the inspiring stories of women in power

• 49 mins

Belarus across the barricades - part one

Day 115 of the astonishing protests in Belarus

• 26 mins

Don't Log Off: Searching for hope

Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic

• 26 mins

Back down to Earth

Is it time to abandon dreams of human space travel?

• 49 mins

Belarus across the barricades - part two

Dazzling poet Valzhyna Mort explores a hundred days of protest in Belarus

• 26 mins

Don't log off: Grounded

Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic

• 26 mins

Coping with grief

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the UK’s Chief Rabbi discuss coping with losing a child

• 26 mins

Disunion

Edward Stourton asks whether Covid-19 could hasten the breakup of the United Kingdom?

• 26 mins

Don't log off: Opportunity

Alan Dein connects with individuals whose lives have shifted in the coronavirus pandemic

• 26 mins

Dissecting Beethoven

A look at theories that health problems may explain Beethoven’s suffering and his music.

• 49 mins

Warrior elephant guardians

Former Samburu warriors turn their skills to caring for baby elephants in Kenya

• 26 mins

Revolution of the senses

Has Covid-19 changed the way we hear, see, smell, taste and touch?

• 49 mins

The Hindu bard

In 1914 an Indian student caused a sensation when she won a top Welsh cultural prize

• 26 mins

Breakthrough: The race for the Covid vaccine

Dr Kevin Fong talks to the people who have created a coronavirus vaccine in record time

• 49 mins

Donald Trump: The man

The businessman and TV show host who became the 45th President of the United States

• 23 mins