We live in a time of unprecedented population growth. People born 60 years ago have seen the population of the world triple. In the UK, in...
India is not only the world’s largest democracy, but it will soon also be home to our travelling film unit, BBC Pop Up. BBC Pop Up...
The Mona Lisa is the most famous portrait in the world – Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece. A French scientist has spent more than 10 years analysing...
So-called “smart drugs” are drugs that can supposedly enhance your cognitive abilities. People all over the world are taking them in universities, offices and the comfort...
Edward Snowden, the man responsible for the biggest leak of top secret intelligence files the world has ever seen, talks to the BBC’s Peter Taylor, about...
Growing numbers of refugees are choosing to avoid the long dangerous journey overland and by sea to reach Europe. Instead, many are turning to gangs selling...
An exclusive investigation by the Asian Network and Victoria Derbyshire Program has found online services charging divorced Muslim women thousands of pounds to take part in...
The space race of the Cold War pitted the world’s two superpowers against one another to explore what lies beyond Earth. Now anyone with enough money...
A pioneering team of tropical scientists in search of new creatures and plants gets rare access to Brazil’s highest and most isolated mountain, the Pico da...
*WARNING this film contains some graphic images* America is in the grip of a heroin and prescription-drug epidemic. More Americans – almost 50,000 per year –...
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