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.
From freedom fighter to environment champion
Since the peace deal signed in 2016 between the Colombian government and the leftwing FARC rebels, deforestation has soared. I heard the story of Albeiro Suarez, a former FARC fighter who is now leading local efforts to protect the rainforests in southwest Colombia from illegal logging.
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.
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.
Veteran gets world's first full penis and scrotum transplant
Live interview about the first operation of this kind, after years of research by a hospital in Baltimore, USA, to help veterans with this untold effect of war. Hundreds of US soldiers lost all or part of their genitalia in IED explosions in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. April 2018.
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?
Somalia on the brink of famine
A report for BBC 5 Live from Puntland, Somalia as 6.2 million people in the country face acute food shortages. (March 2017)
Somali herders fight for survival
Report from drought-hit Somalia. UN livestock coordinator Khalid Saeed explains the importance of keeping animals alive to avoid the outbreak of famine, and 23-year-old herder Muna Hashid Mohammed tells of...
