Select projects from recent years. If you’d prefer to hear the highlights, you can find a reel over here.
The New Gurus, BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds | Everywhere you turn on the Internet, charismatic individuals are offering advice for how to live. But why are so many people turning away from the mainstream, and how can you tell a trustworthy guru from a dangerous charlatan?
93 Women, Audible UK | Serial killer Samuel Little preyed on sex workers of color for 35 years. This eight-episode series examines the structural inequalities and insidious narratives that allowed him to claim the lives of 93 women across the United States.
The Razumov Files | The 1917 Russian Revolution gets the investigative podcast treatment in this reimagining of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes.
ThinkIn with James Harding, Season 2: The China Problem | Tortoise editor and former BBC News director James Harding and his guests debate the thorniest issues in the West’s relationship with Xi Jinping’s China.
“The Lost Ark,” Slow Newscast | For 20 years, Ethiopia has been asking the British Museum to return its sacred tabots, which cannot be seen and cannot be studied except by clergy members of the Orthodox Church. So why won’t the Museum comply?
A History of the World in Spy Objects | What are the secret gadgets that have helped shaped the world we live in? This podcast for New York City’s spy museum pulls back the curtain on the tools of the espionage trade.
“Visit Rwanda,” Slow Newscast | When the UK government announced its decision to send refugees to Rwanda, it called the plan a “world first.” But it wasn’t a world first—not by a longshot.
True Spies (many episodes) | Each week, go behind the scenes of a real-life mission in the career of a spy, told with the help of Oscar nominee Vanessa Kirby.
Foreign Insiders | 1 in 20 residents of the Czech Republic is an immigrant, expat, refugee, economic migrant, alien, outsider, or another kind of “other.” Foreign Insiders is a window on the country through their eyes.