Buena Vista Social Club

In 1984 a group of lesbians and gay men organised a benefit concert to support striking coal-miners. They sent the money they raised to a mining village in Wales. The miners' strike was the biggest industrial dispute in British history. Hear from Mike Jackson, one of the gay men ...  Show more

There was a frenzy of celebrations on New Year's Eve 1999. But amid the partying, there was also some anxiety over the effects of a potential global computer meltdown, the so-called Millennium Bug - or Y2K.(Photo: The White House Y2K Crisis Centre in Washington in 1999. Credit : ...  Show more

Cantada cómo pocas, admirada cómo pocas, La Habana está ubicada en la costa norte cubana. Conocida por su colorida arquitectura colonial, animada escena musical y por sus calles que reflejan el paso poderoso de innumerables historias, melodías y letras. El bello centro histórico ...  Show more

El Caribe es el escenario de este episodio de nuestro viaje por los Museos de América Latina. Nuestro invitado es el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba, un lugar tan increíble que parece propio del realismo mágico que cubre al Mundo Caribe. Les relataremos entonces la impo ...

In June 1973, the nightclub Pacha opened in Ibiza. Other clubs with the capacity to fit thousands of people on the dancefloor opened in the years after, turning Ibiza into a destination for music and party lovers from around the world. Vicky Carter speaks to Carlos Martorell who ...  Show more

We go back to 1959 when Cuba’s most famous ballet dancer Alicia Alonso turned her back on a successful career on the world stage and returned home to form Cuba’s National Ballet Company. She spoke to Mike Lanchin in 2015.(Photo: Alicia Alonso. Credit: Alicia Alonso)