Manchester’s Cold War
A piece looking at the extraordinary lengths football clubs will go to to find and recruit young players.
Body On The Moor
The story of how the body of an unidentified man came to be found on a moor in the Peak District.
The Cave Divers Who Went Back For Their Friends
The tragic story of what went wrong for a group of Finnish deep water cave divers when they were over a hundred meters underground.
The strange figures behind a secret trade
McMafia author Misha Glenny digs into the sophisticated organised crime networks behind the rhino poaching trade.
The town that disappeared
A story looking at Russian “monotowns” – places that were often built and populated decades ago to exploit a single resource (such as coal or ore) and are now in decline as those resources are exhausted or the economyÕs needs have moved on.
The Pilot Who Stole a Secret Soviet Fighter Jet
The story of the Soviet fighter pilot who defected in 1976 in a new supersonic fighter jet that no one outside the Soviet military had ever before set eyes upon.
Erdogan’s Turkey
A thorough state of the nation piece looking at Turkey as it prepares for a critical referendum, which would allow President Recep Erdogan yet more sweeping powers if the ‘yes’ vote comes out on top.
The Tortoise and the Share
Amol Rajan, BBC Media Editor and former Editor of The Independent, delivered this lecture on the future of journalism, aptly summarised in the subhead as “How to Save Journalism (from Itself)”.