Island Stories

All Episodes 2016

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  • 2016-01-23T20:30:00Z
  • 5m
  • 35m (7 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
BBC World Service reporters travel to six islands to discover what makes them some of the most scenic, culturally rich and diverse destinations on the planet.

7 episodes

Series Premiere

2016-01-25T20:30:00Z

1x01 Khortytsia, Ukraine

Series Premiere

1x01 Khortytsia, Ukraine

  • 2016-01-25T20:30:00Z5m

In the first edition, Andriy Kravets heads to Khortytsia, Ukraine, which lies in the middle of the Dnieper river and is host to icons of Ukrainian national identity including the fabled Zaporozhian Cossacks.

2016-01-26T20:30:00Z

1x02 Bugala, Uganda

1x02 Bugala, Uganda

  • 2016-01-26T20:30:00Z5m

The BBC African Service's Alex Jakana presents a profile of Bugala, the biggest of Uganda's archipelago of islands in Lake Victoria.

2016-01-27T20:30:00Z

1x03 El Hierro, Spain

1x03 El Hierro, Spain

  • 2016-01-27T20:30:00Z5m

Laura Plitt looks at the remotest, most neglected of the Canary Isles, El Hierro, which has become the world's greenest island thanks to the ingenuity of its people.

2016-01-28T20:30:00Z

1x04 Old Providence, Colombia

1x04 Old Providence, Colombia

  • 2016-01-28T20:30:00Z5m

Hernando Alvarez visits Old Providence, one of the few Caribbean islands that has not been touched by tourism, and where life is dominated by the laid-back Rastafarian way.

2016-01-29T20:30:00Z

1x05 Anjouan, Comoros Islands

1x05 Anjouan, Comoros Islands

  • 2016-01-29T20:30:00Z5m

Zuhura Yunus details the lives led by the people of Anjouan, who have a precarious existence despite the enveloping natural beauty of the Comoros Islands, near Mozambique.

2016-02-01T20:30:00Z

1x06 Buru, Indonesia

1x06 Buru, Indonesia

  • 2016-02-01T20:30:00Z5m

Kiki Siregar relates the fortunes of the once-impoverished former penal colony of Buru, Indonesia, which has been transformed since the discovery of gold in the mountains.

2016-01-23T20:30:00Z

1x07 Compilation

1x07 Compilation

  • 2016-01-23T20:30:00Z5m

BBC World Service reporters travel to six islands to discover what makes them some of the most scenic, culturally rich and diverse destinations on the planet. Among the people featured are the gold-diggers of Buru in Indonesia, and the rastafarians of the Colombian islet of Providencia.

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