In Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia historians are struggling to produce school textbooks that will help overcome deep-seated misunderstandings and hatreds between neighbouring states....

A door creaks, footsteps echo, someone's breathing - and we are terrified. But why? Sean Street investigates the psychology of fear, so potently sensitive to sound. Talking to musicians, writers,...

The second and final part of a series for 'One Planet' about the health and development implications surrounding household energy and domestic smoke in the developing world. Smoke inhalation kills...

In the USA whole towns have been abandoned -- one after a 12 year old boy was almost swallowed up by a hole caused by a mine fire, and a whole family was lucky to escape carbon monoxide poisoning....

Mark Whitaker reports from California and Arizona on why so many Americans die after being shot by allegedly 'safe' police stun guns. Is the weapon to blame or do the deaths result from other...

Across Europe school history textbooks are being used to build bridges over deep fault lines of nationalist hatred or suspicion; but while it's proved easy enough to create a joint Franco-German...

Smoke inhalation kills more people that malaria according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)... This episode was part of the 'One Planet' series about the health and development implications...

A hilarious collection of BBC broadcasting blunders presented by John Inverdale.There are no gaffes like sporting gaffes. In the excitement of the moment, and live on air, commentators and...

Fires have been burning for up to ninety years under the ground in India's largest coalfield. Smoke seeps from the ground, making it the unhealthiest place in the country for up to a million...