People & Power Podcast
1) Finland's Climate Warriors | People and Power
Finland has set itself one of the world's most ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets, promising to go carbon neutral by 2035. Even the coronavirus pandemic, which has diverted much of the interna...Show More
2) Kenya: The Unfathomable Virus | People and Power
When a deadly new virus appeared in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, few would have imagined its wide-ranging effects. Within weeks COVID-19 was spreading around the world; within a year it had killed one ...Show More
3) Bolivia: Exile or Return | People and Power
In late 2019, mass protests triggered by a fiercely disputed election forced Bolivia's first Indigenous president into exile after 14 years in power. As Evo Morales took stock in Argentina - and we...Show More
4) Romania: Rape of the Forest | People and Power
It is getting dangerous in Romania’s vast ancient forests. The figures are stark: Six rangers killed (two in 2019 alone) and a further 650 attacked with axes, knives and guns. The Carpathians, where 7...Show More
5) The Battle for Ethiopia | People and Power
When Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, came to power in 2018, he promised a new era of democratic reforms and an end to years of autocracy. Political prisoners were freed, opposition parties w...Show More
6) Bureau 39: Cash for Kim (Part 2) | People and Power
How is it possible that North Korea, one of the poorest countries on earth, manages to finance a nuclear weapons programme? The answer is through Bureau 39, a secretive organisation hidden deep ins...Show More
7) Bureau 39: Cash for Kim (Part 1) | People and Power
How is it possible that North Korea, one of the poorest countries on earth, manages to finance a nuclear weapons programme? The answer is through Bureau 39, a secretive organisation hidden deep ins...Show More
8) Chronicles of a Pandemic | People and Power
When, on March 11, 2020, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, formally announced that the pathogen known as COVID-19 had developed into a pandemic, it came as...Show More
9) Hong Kong: Endgame | People and Power
At 11pm on June 30, 2020, a new national security law came into effect in Hong Kong - just an hour before the 23rd anniversary of Britain's handover of the city to China. The legislation, which spa...Show More
10) Italy's Sikh Slaves | People and Power
The vast agricultural plains of the Agro-Pontino in central Italy is now one of the country's main areas of food production. Yet it was not always the case. This 100 mile-long stretch of land fa...Show More