The Global Story

A podcast by BBC World Service

360 Episodes

  1. What keeps China’s president up at night?

    Published: 3/14/2024

  2. Haiti: The country governed by gangs

    Published: 3/13/2024

  3. Panama Canal: It's running dry and it's going to cost us

    Published: 3/12/2024

  4. Will politics steal the show at the Eurovision Song Contest?

    Published: 3/11/2024

  5. How to win an Oscar

    Published: 3/8/2024

  6. Could just 100,000 people decide the US election?

    Published: 3/7/2024

  7. Have we finally solved the mystery of flight MH370?

    Published: 3/6/2024

  8. Why young people are having less sex

    Published: 3/5/2024

  9. How Man City’s business model is transforming football

    Published: 3/4/2024

  10. Trump’s trouble with abortion

    Published: 3/1/2024

  11. Why everyone wants to get back to the Moon

    Published: 2/29/2024

  12. Rafah: caught in the crossfire (again)

    Published: 2/28/2024

  13. Are you ever too old to have a baby?

    Published: 2/27/2024

  14. Child soldiers & blood feuds: Sweden's growing gang wars

    Published: 2/26/2024

  15. Bengal famine: The WWII tragedy the world forgot

    Published: 2/23/2024

  16. Ukraine frontline: ordinary lives in extraordinary times

    Published: 2/22/2024

  17. Is #MeToo finally exploding in French cinema?

    Published: 2/21/2024

  18. 'Category 6': the growing fury of hurricanes

    Published: 2/20/2024

  19. How Denmark became a super producer of viral 'skinny jabs'

    Published: 2/19/2024

  20. Alexei Navalny: The death of Putin’s biggest critic

    Published: 2/16/2024

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Global perspectives on one big story. In-depth insights from the BBC, the world's most trusted international news provider. Make sense of the news with our experts around the world, every Monday to Friday. Episodes will be ready by 10:30 GMT. Host Katya Adler and our BBC teams guide you through one major global news story each episode. From Beijing to Boston, Baghdad to Bangalore, our unrivalled reach will take you beyond the headlines to help understand and explore what’s happening. The Global News Podcast brings you the latest updates and, on The Global Story, we will drill deep into a single story. From the climate emergency, to the burning questions around Artificial Intelligence, to the movements of money and markets, and the power of the ballot and the bullet. Katya Adler has been a BBC correspondent and editor for more than 25 years, covering conflicts in the Middle East, political and economic crises in Europe, and drug cartels in Mexico. The Global Story team would like to hear your stories and experiences on the issues that we’re covering on the podcast. Please get in touch: [email protected] #TheGlobalStory and tell us your thoughts on what you would like us to talk about.