This lesson provides opportunity for English learners to practice listening to information and gaining insight by asking wh- questions (“who”, “what”, “when”, “where” and “why”).

Making abortions illegal does not stop them from happening, but it does stop them happening safely. Meet the charity taking women out to international waters where they can have safe abortions without fear of prosecution.

We cover image classification vs. captioning and touch on recurrent neural networks with long-short-term-memory. • Understand that captioning is an extension of classification to generate more human friendly image labelling • Learn about...

Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist and activist who escaped from slavery, and then returned to the South to lead dozens of other enslaved people to freedom. As a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, a path leading from slave to free...

The Restoration Planet team explores an environmental disaster very close to home, the Mount Polley tailings dam failure of August 2014. Turbidity is an intimate and poetic perspective on one of Canada's largest environmental disasters....

Charles Moore discusses the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady: where she succeeded, where she failed and why she still matters today.

Researchers believe that the town was founded in the 7th or 6th century BC by the Osci or Oscans. It came under the domination of Rome in the 4th century BC, and was conquered and became a Roman colony in 80 BC after it joined an...

The Child Who Was Wild | POEM Poem written and performed by Michael Rosen.

The Ninth Day DAY 09 | STORY | The Wicked Tricks of Till Owlyglass - Kids' Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen When we hear how Till Owlyglass filled his pockets with money, making bets at the court of Count Limburg.

This video tells the story of Shay, a breast cancer survivor who challenges societal expectations of femininity and embraces her body after undergoing surgeries and losing her breasts. Through her nonprofit organization, she supports and...

For many girls around the world motherhood comes all too quickly – and often it can be dangerous. Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading causes of death among teenage girls in developing countries. We went to India,...

We continue our journey through T.S. Eliot’s vivid streetscape in Preludes 2 and 3 of his quadriptych poem ‘Preludes’. Experience the morning bustle of bleary-eyed city-dwellers as light struggles to break through the darkness. We’ll...

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was the biggest protest America had ever seen. It culminated in Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. But the man who made it all possible, chief...

Aisha, the wife of the founder of Islam, lived with unique connections that allowed her to have a large amount of power in the early Islamic Empire. This is the story of a woman who spent her life as a politician, adviser, educator, and...

A 6-part series about diverse transgender people in the UK. This film is about Charlie Martin, an inspiration racing driver and trans woman.

The Loaf and The Knife | Part 1 | STORY | NASTY Michael Rosen keeps bumping into a chatty old lady who tells him wildly unlikely stories - like there being man eating fleas on the London tube.

Director Simon Godwin and actors Tamsin Grieg and Doon Mackichan discuss gender in Shakespeares' Twelfth Night.

Learn 3 rules for pronouncing words that end in E. 1. vowel + consonant + e 2. L + e 3. C or G + e

Who was the first black man to run for President? How about the first Woman, Black Woman, Jewish Candidate, Hispanic, Openly Gay person? Watch and find out!

Birth is a treacherous business, especially in Africa where every year up to half a million babies die on the day they are born. Evelyn Katunge, from Kenya, knows about the heartbreak of losing babies. She was just 18 when she gave...

August might often be a quiet month for news, but not when there's a Presidental election less than 100 days away - well there is for now. That's because Trump has suggested that the 2020 election could end up being delayed. In this...

Antoinette Brim, author of These Women You Gave Me, Icarus in Love and Psalm of the Sunflower, is a Cave Canem Foundation fellow, a recipient of the Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a...

Mulan is one of the cultural pillars of a millennial westerner's upbringing. But, where does this story come from? How did we go from an ancient ballad to a movie with Eddie Murphy?

Virginia Tech Biologist Carla Finkielstein is using funding from the National Science Foundation to investigate a possible connection between body rhythms and breast cancer. Her lab is full of frogs because she uses their eggs to study...