Host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is. The World, the radio program, is heard each weekday on over 300 public stations across North America.
British prime minister refuses to resign as party rift widens
May 12, 2026 • 5m
Songs that inspired African liberation
May 12, 2026 • 2m
France convenes African leaders in Kenya
May 12, 2026 • 5m
Families organize amid government funding cuts into rare disease research
May 12, 2026 • 11m
Doctors in Prague give more accurate name to condition affecting 1 in 8 women
May 12, 2026 • 8m
New Israeli report finds 'systemic' rape central to Oct. 7 attack
May 12, 2026 • 7m
Traditional Japanese art form combines storytelling and standup
May 12, 2026 • 5m
Musical duo 'Los Sara Fontan' takes sonic experimenting to the next level
May 11, 2026 • 6m
War is taking a toll on Russian coal
May 11, 2026 • 6m
Mexicans vanish, and it's not just criminals who are to blame
May 11, 2026 • 6m
Hungary's incoming health minister busts a move ahead of boss's inauguration
May 11, 2026 • 1m
Venezuela's socialist revolution faces a reckoning
May 11, 2026 • 7m
The doctor who doesn’t want credit for 'discovering' a rare syndrome bearing her name
May 11, 2026 • 9m
US-Israeli war in Iran triggers plastic shortage in Asia
May 11, 2026 • 8m
What a scaled-back Victory Day Parade and growing security concerns say about Putin's Russia
May 8, 2026 • 8m
Report: Gaza's farming system has collapsed
May 8, 2026 • 5m
Sir David Attenborough, voice of the planet, turns 100
May 8, 2026 • 8m
Pros and cons in the global flower market trade
May 8, 2026 • 17m
May 8, 2026 • 1m
Translating a film's title is harder than it seems
May 8, 2026 • 5m