Crossing Continents

Writer Andrew Brown tries to find out if the rural heart of Sweden still lives on in the modern age. In an entertaining ... Read more

Lucy Ash asks what the explosion in popular protest over a Chinese-backed copper mine says about changes in Burma and as... Read more

Elderly pensioners in Japan are committing petty crimes so that they can be sent to prison. One in five of all prisoner... Read more

Old enemies Serbia and Kosovo discuss what for some is unthinkable - an ethnic land swap. This dramatic proposal is one ... Read more

The dangers of flying in the great wilderness of the Brazilian rainforest. When a light aircraft carrying two families f... Read more

Inside Romania's live, web-camming world - the engine of the online sex industry... Crossing Continents explores the fas... Read more

Will Grant takes a ride in Cuba to discover how people get around and whether the thaw in relations with the United Stat... Read more

Israel gives all Jews the right to citizenship - but has it become less welcoming to African Jews?Since its founding in ... Read more

Celia Hatton goes undercover to The Fortress, the Chinese village at the centre of the world's illicit ketamine problem.... Read more

The global trade in wildlife is worth an estimated US$20 billion a year. Peru is one of the most biodiverse nations on t... Read more

According to a recent study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 24 million Chinese men will be unable to find wiv... Read more

Of the estimated 70 million deaths attributed to World War two, 30 million died on the Russian front. Of those, as many ... Read more

Each year, thousands of illegal migrants try to enter the United States via a treacherous journey across the Arizona des... Read more

South Korean women, tradition says, are hard-working, respectful to family, and know their place in Korea's Confucian hi... Read more

Why are so many young people leaving Algeria? Unlike Syria or Libya, Algeria is supposedly a beacon of stability in a tr... Read more

Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, leaving over 1800 people dead and causing billions of dollars of... Read more

Where do you come from? Tracing your ancestry in the USA is one of the most popular hobbies along with gardening and gol... Read more

Rwanda is a nation of bicycles; large cumbersome machines, piled high with sacks of coffee or potatoes, so heavy they ca... Read more

The United States is in the throes of a heroin and opiate epidemic. For Crossing Continents, India Rakusen travels to Lo... Read more