Assignment Episodes Available now
Hugh Sykes: Reporting from the frontlines
Hugh Sykes recounts the drama, danger and humour of life on the journalistic frontline
Barbara Demick: True stories from North Korea
The writer Barbara Demick discusses her ‘narrative non-fiction’ style of journalism
Milton Nkosi: The apartheid child who changed Africa’s story
How a boy from Soweto rose to become the BBC’s chief journalist in Africa.
Algeria's plague revisited
A tale of two plagues in the Algerian city of Oran - one fictional and the other Covid-19
Venezuela's 'Bay of Piglets'
A failed coup in Venezuela - a story of hubris, incompetence, and treachery
The many colours of Raqqa
How Syria's secret photographer worked and survived under every force in the conflict
What the sediment revealed in Lebanon
What’s behind the scandal sparked by a delivery of tainted fuel to crisis-ridden Lebanon?
The missing bodies of Guayaquil
Families search for their loved ones, victims of Covid-19, in Ecuador’s largest city
Wuhan: City of silence
Where did Covid-19 come from? John Sudworth searches for answers where it first emerged
Kenya’s locust hunters
As desert locusts swarm across East Africa, can Kenya’s locust hunters prevent a plague?
