Revisited Podcast
1) Turkey's Kurdish city of Diyarbakir hopes for peace following PKK dissolution
It's a conflict that has raged for 40 years – and cost the lives of 40,000 people – but could now be coming to an end. Since the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group announced its dissolution...Show More
2) Ten years after Paris attacks, Belgian district of Molenbeek struggles to change its image
A decade after the Paris terror attacks that left 131 people dead and more than 400 wounded, the Belgian district of Molenbeek is trying to reinvent itself. The Brussels neighbourhood where several of...Show More
3) 2005 riots: Have Paris's underprivileged suburbs left their violent past behind?
It’s been two decades since a wave of riots in France was sparked by the tragic death of two young men fleeing a police patrol in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. Have lessons been learnt, or cou...Show More
4) Cults, mass graves, 'encounters with Jesus': In Kenya, freedom of worship comes under scrutiny
In April 2023, Kenyan human rights defenders discovered a deadly cult in the Shakahola forest. They exhumed more than 400 bodies from mass graves. The pastor of the Good News International Ministries,...Show More
5) Narva revisited: History, division and Russian influence at Estonia’s border
In Estonia's far northeast lies the Baltic city of Narva, right on the border with Russia. With a tumultuous history marked by successive invasions – first Soviet, then Nazi, then Soviet again – Narva...Show More
6) Philippines: Ten years after Duterte's war on drugs, families fight for justice
It was a campaign promise with deadly consequences. In the Philippines, the war on drugs led by former president Rodrigo Duterte resulted in over 30,000 deaths, according to international organisation...Show More
7) Exiled Syrian family returns home to ruins of Yarmouk refugee camp after fall of Assad
South of the Syrian capital Damascus, Yarmouk refugee camp was the scene of violent clashes between Bashar al-Assad's regime and rebel militias, and later the Islamic State group, during the almost 14...Show More
8) Thirty years after end of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, tensions remain
Three decades after the signature of the Dayton Accords put an end to the devastating war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the nation remains deeply divided. To what extent are the different communities in this...Show More
9) Bukele’s El Salvador: Popularity, power, and the price of security
Nayib Bukele came to power in El Salvador in 2019, winning outright in the first round of presidential elections. Since then, he has steadily consolidated his control. Bukele’s party has dominated the...Show More
10) Hiroshima, 80 years on: Meeting the last survivors of the apocalypse
August 6 will mark 80 years since the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Little Boy, as the bomb was nicknamed, killed 80,000 people instantly. By the end of the year, the de...Show More