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The Compass

America in Black and White: Criminal Justice

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

Available for over a year

An investigation into the deep, underlying structural issues that impact on black American lives, beginning with the criminal justice system. Show more

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America in Black and White: Economic Opportunity

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

Available for over a year

Economic opportunity, or lack of it, amongst black Americans and the senior corporate executives who have witnessed the subtle ways racial prejudice operates in the workplace. Show more

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America in Black and White: Looking Ahead

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

How are black Americans represented and what does it mean to be black in America today? Rajini Vaidyanathan discusses with those involved in politics, culture and activism. Show more

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The Battle of Ideas in the Middle East - Part One

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

Mainstream muslims are battling the violent ideology of the so-called Islamic State. Meet the religious scholars fighting extremism online and the comedians mocking it onstage. Show more

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The Battle of Ideas

The Battle of Ideas - Part Two

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

Many young men from the Arab World have joined the so-called Islamic State. We meet rock musicians and young Imams who want to turn the tide - and mothers who fear for the future. Show more

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Shakespeare in the World

Shakespeare and the American Dream - Part Two

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life. With Stephen Sondheim and Alec Baldwin. Show more

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Shakespeare in the World

Shakespeare in the World - India

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

From the Bollywood screen to village storytellers - how has India adopted Shakespeare? Show more

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Europe's Challenges

Europe’s Challenges: The Road to Rome

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

Allan Little examines the past and future of the European Union at a critical moment in its history. Show more

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Europe's Challenges

Europe’s Challenges: The Union in Crisis

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

With Britain preparing to vote on whether to leave, the BBC’s Chris Morris examines the multiple crises facing the European Union and asks whether it will survive. Show more

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Destination Europe

Greece: The Warehouse of Souls

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

Maria Margaronis reports from Greece where large numbers of migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere are trapped by the refusal of other EU countries to accept them. Show more

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The Borders of Sanity

Healing in Ghana

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

What options do people in Ghana have when a person suffers mental illness? Christopher Harding investigates whether spiritual and orthodox treatments can ever be combined. Show more

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Soul Music

Soul Music: Lili Marlene

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

Stories of love, loss and friendship through the WW2 song Lili Marlene, made famous by Marlene Dietrich and sung by soldiers on both sides. Show more

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Cutting Poverty in Peru

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service Australasia

Available for over a year

Peru has cut poverty by 50% in 10 years. Is it a model others could - or should - follow? Show more

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: 'State Feminism' in Tunisia

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service

Available for over a year

Is Tunisia’s approach to what women can and can't do an example for other Arab countries to follow? Show more

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: The Debate

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service

Available for over a year

Water, housing, gun control, women's rights, education and anti-smoking policies are debated by a panel and World Service listeners. Show more

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disUnited Kingdom

disUnited Kingom: Birmingham, England

Duration: 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service Americas and the CaribbeanLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

What does Brexit tell us about divisions between communities in Birmingham and being British in 2016? Show more