The Global Story

Episodes

• The Global Story: US at 250 – your questions answered 2026-07-05
  As the United States celebrates 250 years since its founding, this week The Global Story has been exploring the surprising and often hidden ways the…
• The Global Story: Abdi’s American Dream 2026-07-03
  As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, The Global Story podcast is exploring the surprising and often hidden ways the US has shaped the…
• The Global Story: Is the US falling out of love with Israel? 2026-06-28
  The United States has been a staunch ally of Israel for decades, and Americans used to be steadfast in their support for the country. But in recent…
• The Global Story: How to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon 2026-06-21
  On Wednesday, President Trump met with Iranian leaders to sign an initial memorandum of understanding towards ending the months-long war. In a press…
• The Global Story: The world according to Marco Rubio 2026-06-14
  As a Florida senator, Marco Rubio seemed to hold an opposing world view to Donald Trump; on Russia-Ukraine, on China, on USAID, and more. He notably…
• The Global Story: The battle to save James Bond from becoming slop 2026-06-07
  Casting is finally underway for a new James Bond. But why has it taken five years to even begin the search? Since Daniel Craig retired as Bond in…
• The Global Story: World Cup 2026: The most political of all time? 2026-05-31
  Politics, power and money have always been part of international sporting competitions, and football (or soccer) is no exception. However, this…
• The Global Story: The American mayor accused of working for China 2026-05-24
  The mayor of the Californian city of Arcadia has agreed to plead guilty to charges she acted as an illegal agent for China. Prosecutors say Eileen…
• The Global Story: Operation Ajax: The CIA’s Iran coup 2026-05-17
  At the outset of the war in Iran, US President Donald Trump suggested that regime change was one of its goals. He later said it had been had…
• The Global Story: What Elon Musk did next 2026-05-10
  It’s been a year since billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk left his informal position in President Trump’s White House in May 2025. But behind…
• The Global Story: The US and Israel entered the Iran war together. Is Israel now being sidelined? 2026-05-03
  Since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran, there has been an ongoing debate over the role played by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu,…
• The Global Story: The global network hunting predators on the internet 2026-04-26
  Warning: this episode includes discussions of child sexual abuse and upsetting scenes. The BBC has been following a global team of undercover…
• The Global Story: The AI model that’s ‘too powerful’ to be released to the public 2026-04-19
  Anthropic - one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI firms - recently announced that they have built a model which is too dangerous to be released to the…
• The Global Story: The medications that can trigger sex and gambling addictions 2026-04-12
  A BBC investigation has heard from hundreds of people who say they developed sex and gambling addictions after taking a category of prescription…
• The Global Story: Are we heading for World War Three? 2026-03-29
  It’s been almost a month since Israel and the US launched their war against Iran, and already there have been strikes in more than a dozen…
• The Global Story:How does war affect a child’s brain? 2026-03-22
  For nearly forty years, Fergal Keane has reported for the BBC from some of the world’s most brutal conflicts – in Gaza, Iraq, Rwanda, Sudan, Ukraine…
• The Global Story:The tightrope of reporting in Putin’s Russia 2026-02-22
  Next week marks four years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In that time, there’s been an intense crackdown on freedom of speech and…
• The Global Story: Epstein’s global network: What the files reveal 2026-02-15
  Two weeks after the latest release of the Epstein files, the headlines keep pouring in. In just the past few days, revelations in the documents have…
• The Global Story: Is ISIS having a resurgence in Syria? 2026-02-08
  The US military has begun to transfer up to 7000 Islamic State (IS) group detainees held in prisons in Syria to Iraq, which officials say is to…
• The Global Story: The mystery of Putin and the apartment bombs 2026-02-01
  In September 1999, just weeks into Vladimir Putin’s first premiership, four bombs blew up four apartment buildings, over a period of twelve days,…
• The Global Story: How Canada's Mark Carney is taking on Trump 2026-01-25
  Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seemed to challenge Donald Trump in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, declaring that “the…
• The Global Story: The post-World War II era is over. What comes next? 2026-01-18
  For most of the years since World War 2, many global powers said they adhered to a rules-based international order. Since Donald Trump returned to…
• The Global Story: The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall – it predicted chaos 2026-01-11
  When the US government captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, on Saturday, most of the world was shocked. But US officials had for years…
• The Global Story - Why Australia’s gun laws aren’t as strong as you might think 2025-12-21
  After the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, Australia tightened its gun laws, and has since been considered a world-leading example by gun control…
• The Global Story: The murders that moved a nation: Italy’s new femicide law 2025-12-14
  **This episode contains descriptions of abuse and violence** In November, the Italian parliament voted unanimously to introduce the term “femicide”…
• The Global Story: The Fifa-Trump bromance 2025-12-07
  Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, is widely expected to award Donald Trump the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize on Friday, at the draw for the 2026…
• The Global Story: The international drama of Miss Universe 2025-11-30
  Miss Universe 2025 has been rocked by controversies and chaos, from stage falls and contestants storming out, to judges quitting and allegations of…