Mining
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 over a year
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
Assignment. Indonesia's Mercury Menace. Audio, 29 minutes
How mercury poisoning is threatening the health of Indonesian gold-miners
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Crossing Continents. Indonesia's Mercury Menace. Audio, 28 minutes
How mercury poisoning is threatening the health of Indonesian gold miners.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Assignment. China and the Two Iron Ladies of Burma. Audio, 25 minutes
Two farmer’s daughters in Burma object to the expansion of a Chinese backed copper mine.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Romania Gold Rush. Audio, 25 minutes
Tessa Dunlop investigates why a plan for a massive gold mine is dividing Romania.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Crossing Continents. Gold and Governance in Romania. Audio, 28 minutes
Tessa Dunlop investigates why a plan for a massive gold mine is dividing Romania.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Peru's Gold Rush. Audio, 25 minutes
The gold rush in Peru that is threatening the Amazon rainforest.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Australia's Fly In Fly Out Workers. Audio, 25 minutes
Australia's mining boom can be lucrative for its FIFO workers but there's a price to pay.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
