Tag: New Silk Road

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Stories from the New Silk Road: Iceland

In the second episode from the Polar Silk Road, Anna Holligan and I head over to Iceland. For anyone who hasn’t been to this volcanic outpost of Europe, as soon as you get off the plane you are struck by the landscape, which is more like a moonscape, lava fields of black and grey with…
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Stories from the New Silk Road: Norway

The BBC World Service series, ‘Stories from the New Silk Road’, has been a longstanding feature since 2019. Based around the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, we have been documenting how the Chinese scheme has been changing our world in so many ways; From Kenya to Jamaica, from new ports to railways and from roads…
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Stories from the New Silk Road: The Americas on the BBC World Service

Following a previous award-winning series of The Compass exploring the New Silk Road, the BBC World Service commissioned C60 to produce four brand new episodes, this time looking at it’s impact in Latin America and the Caribbean. For Stories From The New Silk Road: The Americas C60 producer Pete Shevlin travelled with the BBC’s South…
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