Coming in March 2023
Featuring voices from across the U.S. and around the globe, connect your audience to the world with these unique stories and perspectives. This month, we learn about women in celebration of Women’s History Month, honor ‘The King of Latin Music’, Tito Puente, and evaluate the mechanisms behind yawning. See below for details and more unique stories.
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Witness History: Women’s History Month
One hour
March 1 – 31, 2023
Stories of remarkable moments and movements in Women’s History. We hear about the sex workers who chose to go on strike against police mistreatment – and found refuge in a Catholic church. Other stories include the fight for women to drive in Saudi Arabia, and a visit to the fist American museum to be designed by a female architect.
World Questions – Iraq
One hour
March 11 – Apr 7, 2023
20 years on from the US-led invasion, we debate the big issues facing today’s Iraq. BBC World Questions is in the northern city of Erbil, the longest continually inhabited city on the planet for a free, open, public debate on the state of civilisation in Iraq.
The Documentary (Weekend): Tito Puento – Mambo Man
One hour
March 25 – Apr 14, 2023
Venezuelan professional dancer Karen Hauer presents a centenary celebration of percussionist and bandleader Tito Puente; the man also known as ‘The King of Latin Music’.
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People Fixing the World: The town giving sober teens free beer
- Description: Balen in Belgium noticed more young people getting drunk. So they invented ‘sobercoin’. It encourages people to be more sober – by rewarding them with free drinks.
- Suggested social copy: How one town is tackling anti-social behaviour by rewarding people who are sober with free drinks.
- Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds
Why is that?: Hologram shows patient’s heart during surgery
- Description: Drs Jennifer and Jon Silva, a husband and wife team working at Washington University in St Louis, US, have developed a hologram that visualises a patient’s heart while they are in the operating theatre. It is designed to provide real-time information in 3D and a direct view of internal tools, such as catheters. Initial tests have shown, for the first time, that holograms can improve accuracy when used during minimally invasive surgery to treat arrhythmias (heart rhythm problems). Video by Jennifer Green. Interview by Ania Lichtarowicz. (Image: Doctor looking at heart hologram, Credit: SentiAR.)
- Suggested social copy: Drs Jennifer and Jon Silva, working at Washington University in St Louis, US, have developed a hologram that visualises a patient’s heart while they are in the operating theatre.
- Duration: 2 minutes 3 seconds
- Description: What are the mechanisms behind this everyday behaviour? Are yawns really contagious?
- Suggested social copy: What are the mechanisms behind this everyday behaviour?
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds