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The Global Jigsaw

Looking at the world through the lens of its media. Think of us as your media detectives, helping you get past the propaganda and misinformation.

World Service,63 episodes

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Persian poetry and politics
How poetry is used by Persian speaking leaders to build legitimacy
25 Dec 2025,36 mins
Made in Russia: The Kremlin’s economic rebrand
How Moscow is working around international sanctions by promoting self-sustainability
04 Dec 2025,34 mins
What is the 'Russian cultural code'?
Why a headdress has become a poster image for the Kremlin’s vision of national identity
27 Nov 2025,31 mins
What’s behind the war in Sudan?
Blood spilled in Sudan's el-Fasher massacre is visible from space
01 Nov 2025,37 mins
Jihadists and AI
The AI dilemma facing IS and al-Qaeda
30 Oct 2025,30 mins
Nuclear tensions in the Middle East
Why fears of a new nuclear arms race are growing in the Middle East
04 Oct 2025,49 mins
Decoding China’s doublespeak
How the Chinese Communist Party gets lost in translation
13 Sep 2025,27 mins
Life under JNIM
The al-Qaeda offshoot JNIM is one of the deadliest Jihadist groups in the world
15 Aug 2025,31 mins
The JNIM branch of al-Qaeda
The JNIM branch of al-Qaeda is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups
24 Jul 2025,32 mins
What next for Poland?
Why are Poland's young voters turning to the right?
26 Jun 2025,29 mins
What’s Iran’s IRGC?
The engine powering Tehran’s “Axis of resistance”
19 Jun 2025,26 mins
Netanyahu’s media squeeze
The Israeli government’s push to transform the media landscape
30 May 2025,31 mins
The Trump effect on global media
Exploring the changes to media around the world caused by cuts to USAGM and USAID
08 May 2025,34 mins
The Kurdish issue: Part three
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
01 May 2025,30 mins
The Kurdish issue: Part two
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
24 Apr 2025,29 mins
The Kurdish issue: Part one
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
17 Apr 2025,32 mins
Life in occupied Ukraine: Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
The uncertainty over what Ukraine calls “temporarily occupied territories” grows bigger
06 Mar 2025,32 mins
Life in occupied Ukraine: Donbas
Moscow’s efforts to assert itself in the east of Ukraine
27 Feb 2025,26 mins
Life in occupied Ukraine: Crimea
Looking at the world through the lens of its media
20 Feb 2025,26 mins
The language of war: Ukraine
Kyiv’s answer to the Kremlin’s warspeak
28 Dec 2024,36 mins
The language of war: Russia
Decoding the Kremlin’s warspeak
21 Dec 2024,28 mins
Russia’s gateway to Africa in jeopardy
What would the potential loss of Syrian bases mean for Russia?
20 Dec 2024,42 mins
The rebels who retook Aleppo
A shock offensive turned Syria’s forgotten conflict into hot war
06 Dec 2024,26 mins
Culture wars: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive
What’s behind the evolution of the Turkish president's anti-LGBT narrative?
23 Nov 2024,29 mins
Russia’s “special demographic operation”
Why is the Kremlin worried about population decline?
16 Nov 2024,39 mins
Yemen: A frozen conflict
Ten years on, where do the warring parties in Yemen stand?
16 Nov 2024,39 mins
Yemen: A tale of three cities
Sanaa, Aden and Taiz - stuck in a “no war, no peace” limbo
26 Sep 2024,30 mins
The Taliban’s war on women
The group’s return to power in Afghanistan has seen the erasure of women from public life
08 Aug 2024,36 mins
The Sahel’s coup contagion
The geopolitical tectonic shifts in Africa that could be felt in Europe too.
27 Jul 2024,36 mins
The evolution of the Islamic State Group
After a lull in activities, in 2024 IS claimed to be behind several major attacks
15 Jun 2024,37 mins