Mining
Commuting by rusty Soviet cable car. Video, 00:02:49
A dizzying, dramatic way to get to work
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- Posted10 October 2017
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- Posted9 October 2017
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- Posted4 October 2017
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- Posted29 September 2017
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- Posted25 September 2017
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- Posted20 September 2017
Who Do You Think You Are? Series 14, Fearne Cotton. Video, 58 minutes
Fearne Cotton learns about her Welsh great-grandfather who worked down a coal mine at 13.
- AttributionBBC One
- Available for 6 months
The Documentary Podcast. Myanmar’s Drug Vigilantes. Audio, 27 minutes
A vigilante drug squad tackles a heroin epidemic in northern Myanmar’s jade mines
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Myanmar’s Drug Vigilantes. Audio, 27 minutes
A vigilante drug squad tackles a heroin epidemic in northern Myanmar’s jade mines
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Who Do You Think You Are? Series 14, Craig Revel Horwood. Video, 59 minutes
Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood heads to Australia to learn more about his family.
- AttributionBBC One
- Available for 6 months
The End of Sand. Audio, 28 minutes
Yogita Limaye investigates concerns that vital reserves of sand may be running out.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Science In Action. Why Bird Eggs are not all ‘Egg-shaped’ Audio, 27 minutes
Surprising evolutionary pressures on the shape of bird eggs
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
CrowdScience. Space Mining. Audio, 27 minutes
Could we mine on asteroids?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Brainwaves. Series 4, Urban Mining. Audio, 28 minutes
Pennie Latin explores how gold is being recovered from unused smartphones.
- AttributionBBC Radio Scotland
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Ghana: The Obuasi Stand-Off. Audio, 27 minutes
Why have illegal miners invaded three of Ghana's gold mines in recent months?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Open Country. Scowles in the Forest of Dean. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark is in the Forest of Dean in search of geological formations known as scowles.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Profile. Gina Rinehart. Audio, 13 minutes
Mark Coles profiles the controversial Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Open Country. Cornish Alps. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark visits Cornwall's clay country to see how mining has sculpted the landscape.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Open Country. The Purbeck Clay Mines. Audio, 25 minutes
Helen Mark explores the clay mining history of Dorset's picturesque Isle of Purbeck.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Open Country. Dennis Potter and the Forest of Dean. Audio, 25 minutes
Felicity Evans visits the Forest of Dean, the landscape that author Dennis Potter loved.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Reunion. The Miners' Strike. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue MacGregor brings together some of those involved in the miners' strike of 1984-5.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Greenland: To Dig or Not to Dig? Audio, 29 minutes
Will mining harm the environment - or lead the country to independence?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Crossing Continents. Greenland: To dig or not to dig? Audio, 28 minutes
Will mining harm Greenland's environment, or lead the country to independence?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Timeshift. Series 13, When Coal Was King. Video, 58 minutes
Exploring the lost world of coal mining and the lives of those who worked in the industry.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for 23 days
