For Canal Boat Dwellers, Lockdown Can Be Claustrophobic — But Also Offers Escape
The Covid-19 lockdown has impacted the thousands of people in Britain who live on boats, many of them on the country's ancient system of canals.
Radio: Healing the land in Colombia
In our special report from Colombia we take you to a remote part of the south west, where a local community is taking on the task of clearing their land of landmines left by civil war. According to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Colombia has the second-highest number of landmine victims in the world, after Afghanistan.
Veganuary: Going Vegan To Start The New Year
Why hundreds of thousands of people around the world signed a pledge to go vegan - many driven by climate change.
Colombia sees nearly 80% rise in deforestation after peace deal
Live radio hits from the Colombian Amazon for BBC's Newsday programme, explaining how the end of the 50 year conflict between the government and left wing FARC rebels created a power vaccuum that's been seized upon by illegal loggers.
Risking her life every day hunting for landmines
Paola Sanchez is 24 years old and risks her life every day, finding and deactivating landmines after five decades of conflict in Colombia. Video and radio story I produced for the BBC.
Ex-FARC rebels fight to protect the Amazon
Former Farc rebels in Colombia, who spent decades fighting the government over land and power, are now working to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal logging. Original idea I pitched and produced for BBC News video and radio.
Colombia: Cleansing the soul in the ‘Lost City’
I peer up from the ground at a chain of stone circles ascending before me. A top terrace crowns the ‘Lost City’ — or Teyuna, as the locals call it — a sacred site high in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range near Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
BBC Outlook: The giants of gelati
No matter how much you think you love ice cream, you do not love it as much as Caroline and Robin Weir. The British couple have more than fourteen thousand items of ice cream paraphernalia, including moulds, scoops and machines, some more than two hundred years old.
Outlook, The Tale of the King of the Wild Blue Sky
In the 1970s, American helicopter pilot Jerry Foster changed the face of modern news reporting. Jerry was seen as a hero, but there were secrets, scandals and accusations about his behaviour that threatened to ruin his life. Produced for Outlook.
BBC Outlook: The moving story behind London's animal-shaped hedges
Architect Tim Bushe is quite literally carving out a niche for himself by cutting the privet hedges that surround local gardens into giant animal shapes - and making a big impact on his neighbourhood.
The man who cycled from India to Sweden for love
Charlotte Von Schedvin was a blonde, blue-eyed young woman who hailed from Swedish nobility.PK Mahanandia was a poor art student from eastern India, seen as an "untouchable" in his country's caste system. Yet their chance meeting in Delhi, late 1975, led to him cycling a mammoth 3,600 km to be with her.
The future of the US-Mexican border: inside the 'split city' of El Paso-Juárez
Unlike most teenagers, Ashley Delgado starts her school day by crossing an international border. She gets up at 5am so her mother Dora can drive through Juárez’s dense traffic to...
Senegal's football dream house
Dakar (CNN) For 13-year-old Amar, it's Real Madrid. For 17-year-old Junior, it's Marseille. Like so many boys, their dream is to travel from Africa to Europe and follow in the...
Protests and poetry: The death of Kyoto's original counterculture hub
In the spring of 1972, three Kyoto dropouts -- a folk singer, a photographer and a poet -- decided to build a space where their creative and political ideas could meet. The US and its allies had been fighting communist Vietnam in a brutal and unpopular war.
The devastating reality of Somalia on the brink of famine
Three months after the United Nations warned of the imminent risk of famine in Somalia, aid agencies there are battling a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Drought has devastated vegetation...
Satellite images trigger payouts for Kenyan farmers in grip of drought
The Kenyan government is scaling up an innovative livestock insurance programme that uses satellite imagery of drought-hit areas to offer a safety net to vulnerable farmers. The Kenya Livestock Insurance...
BBC 5 Live: Could these graduates solve Britain's prison crisis?
Overcrowding, self harm, record levels of attacks on staff. Could bright young graduates be the fresh blood needed to solve the problems plaguing Britain's jails?
Born in a cell: The families stranded at the US border
El Paso, Texas - Â Sayed came into the world in a border detention cell. His mother, who had travelled from El Salvador with her husband, daughter and 100 others...
Auschwitz's 'conspiracy of silence' 70 years later
London, United Kingdom - In revenge for trying to side with the Allies, in March 1944 the Nazis invaded Hungary and quickly forced 424,000 Hungarian Jews on the death train...
Dakar Lives: The milennials showing off the 'real' Senegal
Dakar Lives began as an Instagram feed in 2015 with the aim of "curating the best photos from Senegal". Now, the account has become an avid community sharing vibrant snaps of the West African nation's idyllic beaches, buzzing street scenes and rich cuisine.
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