Welcome to the Beyond Borders world tour.
While much of the media talks about people, we listen to people. Telling the forgotten stories shaping our shared history.
Beyond Borders is a global study of the human experience. An exploration of what unites and divides us, through the eyes of ordinary people living often extraordinary lives.
From Sri Lanka’s former child soldiers, to Greenlandic inuits fighting for justice, and New York’s rat-catchers risking their lives - you can watch our entire back-catalogue of shows here:
www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld (www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld)
Beyond Borders is a TRT World original production
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Switzerland's Mountains are Falling: Inside our Alpine Shoot
What happens when the Alps start to fall?
In this episode of the Beyond Borders podcast, presenter David Foster and producers Nathalie Kantaris Diaz and Vivienne Dacre take us behind the scenes of their latest documentary "The Alps Are Falling".
From a Swiss village buried beneath millions of tonnes of rock and a glacier disappearing before their eyes, to thunderstorms, treacherous mountain roads, a blown-out tyre and a nerve-racking helicopter ride, the team shares what it was really like making the film.
They also reveal the people they met along the way, from Switzerland's top scientists racing to find ways to stabilise the mountains, to communities determined to stay in the places they call home. It’s the story behind the story: what surprised us, what went wrong, and what we discovered about a landscape being transformed by climate change.
Watch the full film on the Beyond Borders YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO4CsPyj4nw
Email us: beyondborders@trtworld.com
Everyone has a story.
Host: Adam Charlton
Guests: David Foster, Nathalie Kantaris Diaz, Vivienne Dacre
Editors: Vivienne Dacre, Emine Gezici Ustundag
Executive Producer: Alice Tegg
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From neighbours living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to breakaway micro nations, repentant child soldiers, and rat-catchers risking their lives - you can find our entire back-catalogue here:
https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld
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13 Aug 2026
Guns, Bunkers and the Neutrality Myth: Inside Our Switzerland Shoot
Switzerland hasn't fought a foreign war in more than 200 years. So why is it one of the most heavily armed nations in Europe?
The Beyond Borders team goes behind the scenes of its latest documentary, “Courage or Cowardice: Switzerland at War.” Presenter David Foster and producers Nathalie Kantaris Diaz and Vivienne Dacre reveal a country wrestling with its own identity: a shooting festival held on a military base, an advert where a young girl pulls a rifle from her cupboard instead of a toy, and a soldier's startling admission that the army couldn't properly defend the country with the equipment it has.
Then we go deep underground, into Switzerland's labyrinthine bunker network. The family shelter behind a massive steel door, the Cold War fortress carved into a mountainside, and the 11 km stronghold whose private owner surprised us all when asked if he'd shelter his neighbours in a crisis!
Vivienne, who is Swiss and grew up with a bunker under her own home, explains what outsiders get wrong about her country's relationship with guns and neutrality. And we hear how Ukrainians and Palestinians living in Switzerland experience that famous neutrality very differently.
With two referendums looming that could redefine Swiss neutrality forever, this is the story behind the story.
Watch the full film on the Beyond Borders YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlAb_zWxivc
Email us: beyondborders@trtworld.com
Everyone has a story.
Host: Adam Charlton
Guests: David Foster, Nathalie Kantaris Diaz, Vivienne Dacre
Editors: Vivienne Dacre, Nathalie Kantaris Diaz
Executive Producer: Alice Tegg
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From neighbours living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to breakaway micro nations, repentant child soldiers, and rat-catchers risking their lives - you can find our entire back-catalogue here:
https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld
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2 Jul 2026
Spain's Unfinished History
Making “Spain's Unfinished History” is the focus of our latest episode of The Beyond Borders Podcast. This is the story behind the documentary, told by the team that made it.
From a Friday conversion ceremony in the shadow of the Alhambra to 1,300-year-old Islamic water systems being restored to fight Spain's climate crisis, the Beyond Borders team reflects on the communities keeping Al-Andalus alive, and the far-right VOX party trying to erase it from Spanish schools.
Spain spent centuries trying to erase the legacy of Al-Andalus. But as the team discovered, history has a way of resurfacing through music, politics, and even the water flowing down the mountains.
Email us: beyondborders@trtworld.com
Everyone has a story.
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9 Jun 2026
Who's Hiring Sweden's Child Killers?
This time on The Beyond Borders Podcast, we go behind the story of Sweden's Child Killers: Victims or Criminals? - the documentary that asks how Sweden's gangs turned children into contract killers, and whether anyone can stop them.
This is what it was actually like on the ground. From a murder scene we arrived at less than 24 hours after a teenager was shot dead outside his home, to a police weapons cache holding 27,000 seized items including grenades, assault rifles, and 3D printed handguns.
Among those we meet are three alleged gang members who agreed to only talk to us in a cold basement. All three had a casualness about violence and criminal behaviour that was difficult to reconcile with how young they were.
We also go inside a community centre that makes a simple argument: £200,000 a year to keep kids off the street, or £700,000 a year to keep one person behind bars. The maths isn't complicated.
And we ask why it's the children of immigrants, not the first generation, who are most at risk of being recruited.
Sweden calls it a national emergency. The age of criminal responsibility has just been lowered to 13. But few think that’s the answer.
The story behind the story.
Watch the full documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB0uNP1enCA&t=212s
Hosts: Adam Charlton, David Foster, Vivienne Dacre
Executive Producer: Alice Tegg
Editor: Emine Gezici Ustundag
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From neighbours living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to breakaway micro nations, repentant child soldiers, and rat-catchers risking their lives - you can find our entire back-catalogue here:
https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld
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7 May 2026
The Country That Evicts Its Own People
Denmark is one of the happiest places on earth. So why is its government forcing thousands of people out of their homes on account of where they live and who they are?
Adam Charlton and David Foster go inside Denmark's controversial "Parallel Societies" policy - a social experiment that's demolished neighbourhoods and broken up communities. Now it’s being legally challenged as potentially unlawful racial discrimination.
They meet the residents left behind in near-empty tower blocks, the lawyer fighting to bring the whole thing down, and the activists who took 50,000 signatures to Parliament, only to be ignored.
The Danish government calls it integration. The people living through it call it discrimination.
What happens when the state decides your community is the problem?
Watch the full documentary, "Ghetto Blasted: Integration or Discrimination?" and tell us: is this pioneering social policy, or state-sanctioned discrimination?
Leave your comments here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XReHIUWekU&t=30s
Hosts: Adam Charlton, David Foster
Executive Producer: Alice Tegg
Editor: Nathalie Kantaris Diaz and Emine Gezici Ustundag
From neighbours living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to breakaway micro nations, repentant child soldiers, and rat-catchers risking their lives - you can find our entire back-catalogue here:
https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld
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9 Mar 2026
No Pain, No Spain: Why Spain Can’t Survive Without Migrants
Spain’s economy is booming. But its growth relies on a workforce some refuse to even acknowledge. From the people risking death to reach Europe, to the “Sea of Plastic” that enables Europeans to eat fresh fruit and vegetables all year round, these are the human stories behind the headlines.
Hosts: Adam Charlton, David Foster and Nathalie Kantaris Diaz
Executive Producer: Alice Tegg
Editor: Nathalie Kantaris Diaz and Emine Gezici Ustundag
From neighbours living with the threat of war between NATO and Russia on their doorstep, to breakaway micro nations, repentant child soldiers, and rat-catchers risking their lives - you can find our entire back-catalogue here:
https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld
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21 Jan 2026
Being Gypsy in Briatain
This episode of Beyond Borders explores the Romany Gypsy community in Britain, examining their nomadic way of life and the threats they face in modern society.
9 Jan 2026
Norway: Land, Language and Loss
Hosts Adam Charlton, Caoimhe Louise Willemoes, and Nathalie Kantaris Diaz explore the struggles of the Sami people in Norway as they navigate historical oppression and modern conflicts over land use for clean energy.
17 Nov 2025
Welcome to Liberland: Freedom or Fantasy?
Hosts Adam Charlton, Connor McLaughlin, and Caoimhe Willemoes explore Liberland, a self-declared micronation in Europe, examining its vision as a tax-free utopia and the controversies surrounding its legitimacy.
6 Oct 2025
My Russian Neighbour: Friend or Foe?
Hosts Adam Charlton, Caoimhe Willemoes, and Nathalie Kantaris Diaz explore the tense dynamic in a Norwegian town bordering Russia, highlighting the community's suspicion and the looming threat of war.
12 Sept 2025
South Africa: Whose Land is it?
Hosts David Foster and Adam Charlton interview South Africans grappling with the nation's divisive land ownership issues, exploring historical and political collisions.
15 Aug 2025
Darwin: A Way of Life
David Foster and Adam Charlton explore young scientists' efforts to save endangered species in South Africa, inspired by Darwin's legacy.
11 Jul 2025
South Africa: In Gold We Trust
This episode of Beyond Borders investigates South Africa's illegal gold mining operations and the violent clashes between rival gangs, revealing the economic impact and governmental responses.
30 Jun 2025
Romania: Love, Lies and Control
This episode of Beyond Borders explores how poverty and inadequate social support in Romania create opportunities for human traffickers, who exploit vulnerable individuals, especially women and children.
20 May 2025
Romania: The Long Road Home
The fall of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 exposed the horrors of Romania’s state-run orphanages. David Foster and the Beyond Borders team return to uncover the legacy of one the darkest chapters in the nation’s history. We visit abandoned institutions that still echo with pain, speak with survivors of the system and meet those fighting to end institutional care for good. How far has the country really come? And can it ever shake the shame of this dark legacy?
Join the Beyond Borders team for this companion podcast to the full show, bringing you the story behind the story.
Hosts: Adam Charlton & Vivienne Dacre
Executive Producer: Alice Tegg
Podcast Producer: Nathalie Kantaris Diaz
Podcast Editor: Emine Gezici Ustundag
Programmes Manager: Mark Klusener
TRT World Director: Mevlut Selman Tecim
TRT International Broadcast Head: Omer Faruk Tanriverdi
Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQTZr-HvApc&t=4s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQTZr-HvApc&t=4s)
From Sri Lanka’s former child soldiers, to Greenlandic inuits fighting for justice, and New York’s rat-catchers risking their lives - you can watch our entire back-catalogue of shows here:
https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld (https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld)
Get in touch:
beyondborders@trtworld.com (mailto:beyondborders@trtworld.com)
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16 Apr 2025
Sri Lanka: Searching for Serendipity
Sri Lanka has been plagued by civil war, natural disaster, political turmoil, and economic collapse. Beyond Borders meets those determined to rebuild their country after decades of misfortune, from a new government taking on a powerful political dynasty, to children freed from years of unbelievable cruelty, and China's multibillion-dollar bet on the island's future.
Join David Foster and the Beyond Borders team in this companion podcast to the full show, bringing you the story behind the story - crocs and all.
Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hFGYgVxiN8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hFGYgVxiN8)
Hosts: David Foster and Adam Charlton
Executive Producer: Alice Tegg
Podcast Producer: Nathalie Kantaris Diaz
Podcast Editor: Emine Gezici Ustundag
Programmes Manager: Mark Klusener
TRT World Director: Mevlut Selman Tecim
TRT International Broadcast Head: Omer Faruk Tanriverdi
From Sri Lanka’s former child soldiers, to Greenlandic inuits fighting for justice, and New York’s rat-catchers risking their lives - you can watch our entire back-catalogue of shows here:
https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld (https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld)
Get in touch:
beyondborders@trtworld.com (mailto:beyondborders@trtworld.com)
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5 Mar 2025
Sri Lanka: Sands of Time
Sri Lanka has been living with wounds that won't heal since its decades-long civil war ended. Beyond Borders travels to Sri Lanka to meet the women clearing mines, ex-child soldiers reintegrating into society, war widows finding new opportunities, and families still convinced their missing loved ones are alive.
In this companion podcast to the full show, David Foster and the Beyond Borders team bring you the story behind the story - including a close call with an insanely hot chilli.
Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/sfJs13opt9I (https://youtu.be/sfJs13opt9I)
Hosts: David Foster and Adam Charlton
Executive Producer: Alice Tegg
Podcast Editor and Producer: Nathalie Kantaris Diaz
Programmes Manager: Mark Klusener
TRT World Director: Mevlut Selman Tecim
TRT International Broadcast Head: Omer Faruk Tanriverdi
From Sri Lanka’s former child soldiers, to Greenlandic inuits fighting for justice, and New York’s rat-catchers risking their lives - you can watch our entire back-catalogue of shows here:
https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld (https://www.youtube.com/@BeyondBordersTRTWorld)
Get in touch:
beyondborders@trtworld.com (mailto:beyondborders@trtworld.com)
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