This week on our international documentary series Global Perspective, SAFM presents ‘The Ancestors are Calling’. In a South African family where there has been a traditional healer, or sango...
In Hong Kong, Bun Chai has been struggling to regain control over his life. He was paralysed from the neck down in an accident twenty years ago. After spending more than a decade in a hospital bed, he made a public appeal for the...
Over the last fifteen years, a third of Britain’s commercial fishermen have left the industry. This week's Global Perspective story takes a look at a fisherman's life in the UK.
Elkader, Iowa (population 1,500) is a town with an unusual namesake - American settlers named it after the Algerian jihadist and anti-colonialism fighter Abd al-Qader in 1846. This story charts the efforts of an o...
The New Zealand Navy might be small, but it’s known for punching above its weight. The Achilles, on loan from the Royal Navy at the time, was involved in one of the first naval encounters at the outset of Wo...
This week, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation gives a double meaning to this year's Global Perspective theme "Who says I can't?" There is the defiance of Eduardo Lopez, and the price he and his family...
Disabled people are rarely touched in a loving way or thought of as sexually desirable. Yet they have the same need for a sex life as everyone else. In the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's confronting edition of Globa...
Sanne, Tom and Bo are young and idealistic. And like many of their friends and contemporaries, they can’t afford a home at current Amsterdam prices, so they followed a time honoured Dutch tradition: they found an empty apa...