Carrie Gracie explores whether China's great push to innovate is succeeding, or whether cultural factors hold China back from becoming a truly innovative power. Show more

Carrie Gracie speaks to a former MP with Bahrain's largest Shia group. Can talking overcome the divisions between Sunni and Shia and the scheming of rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia? Show more

Carrie Gracie talks to Mona Makram-Ebeid, an Egyptian politician, a feminist and a Coptic Christian. On all three grounds, might the future be worse than the Mubarak past? Show more

HRH Princess Basma bint Saud bin Abd Al-Aziz al Saud writes a blog about the plight of ordinary Saudi women. How might the winds of change from the Arab spring help them? Show more

Carrie Gracie returns to White Horse Village for a special documentary and finds out how the people she first met ten years ago are faring in the new China.

Presented by Samira Ahmed. As the go-ahead is given for Hinkley Point, part-funded by the Chinese, we speak to the BBC's China editor, Carrie Gracie. Show more

Carrie Gracie returns to White Horse Village, deep in rural China, to examine the impact of China's rush to modernise one community. Show more

Mark Kermode joins Carrie Gracie to discuss the latest cinema and DVD releases, including Green Book, Can You Ever Forgive Me and Burning.

The BBC's China editor, Carrie Gracie, has travelled from the east of China to the west of Europe, to hear from people who live along the route of China's new Silk Road.

Mark Kermode joins Carrie Gracie to discuss the latest cinema and DVD releases, including Aladdin, Rocketman and Booksmart.

James King joins Carrie Gracie to talk through the week's cinema releases including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Dora and the Lost City of Gold and Good Boys.

Carrie Gracie travels to White Horse Village in rural China to see how the community is coping with China's astonishing pace of industrialisation. Show more

Carrie Gracie returns to White Horse Village in China to see how people are faring following government plans to relocate inhabitants to the cities. Show more

Coverage of the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, with Huw Edwards, Hazel Irvine and Carrie Gracie.

Carrie Gracie talks with Valerie Amos, Head of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and asks her if the UN aid effort is fit for purpose. Show more

Highlights of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Carrie Gracie returns to White Horse Village in China to witness its transformation from a place cut off from the rest of the world to a modern city. Show more

Carrie Gracie talks with the Ribal al-Assad, exiled cousin of the Syrian president. After 40 years of dynastic rule, can anyone in the Assad family bring Syria out of its crisis? Show more

HARDtalk asks Martin Wolf, a member of the UK's Independent Banking Commission, if the system could be made safer without stifling business and driving the banking industry abroad. Show more

Carrie Gracie investigates whether China hid crucial information about Covid-19 from the world. Show more