Today North Korea opened up to Western tourists for the first time in five years. Usual rules apply: no free roaming, no insulting the Kim dictators etc. I spoke to Simon Cockerell from Koryo Tours and Lina Yoon from @hrw.org for an audio piece for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world's first openly gay imam, was murdered last Saturday. He was pure love. Audio story for @theworld.org, featuring my interview with Imam Muhsin at his mosque in Cape Town. (Photo by Matjaz Tancic) theworld.org/segments/202...

Bridges save Costa Rican sloths from road deaths: I headed to Central America to hang out with some greasy mammals. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

I went to Costa Rica's Boruca village to see the Dance of the Little Devils: a four-day ritual celebrating indigenous resistance against Spanish colonists. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

Spent Christmas Day watching this lot get nailed by bulls in Pedregal, Costa Rica, where bullfighting is more like bull 'dodging'. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

Olguita Acuna left Nicaragua in 2018 after taking part in protests against the dictatorship. Now, in San Jose, she sings songs of resistance and hope, galvanising the huge Nicaraguan exile community. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

There’s a lobster hatchery in Cornwall that releases up to 50,000 baby lobsters into the ocean each year. I made an audio story about it for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

Community sheds are opening in the UK, offering friendship amid woodwork. I went to The Witney Shed, one of many sheds linked to UK Men’s Sheds Association, to see how the stereotype of the lone gent tinkering in a shed is being flipped. Audio story for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

I met Riyosuke Kiyasu in Warsaw and saw his somewhat unconventional drum show, then made an audio story about it for The World theworld.org/segments/202...

Two years ago a female Russian explorer, along with two friends, was arrested for espionage in Albania. She’s still waiting for the case to be resolved, so in the meantime has accidentally become Albania’s no.1 urban explorer. I met her for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...

Bagpipes: big in Bulgaria. I went to a bagpipe festival in the Rhodope Mountains to create an audio story for PRX’s The World theworld.org/segments/202...