BBC Radio 4 - Crossing Continents

Panama's Vanishing Islands

Panama's idyllic islands are threatened by a rising sea, but one community has a plan.

How do you make a new home in the African bush with a machete, rope and plastic?

What's it like to live in the country with the fastest-shrinking population in the world?

A young Somali refugee tries to live the American dream.

Sevastopol - home to Russia's Black Sea fleet and source of international tensions.

Tim Whewell travels to remote Abkhazia where the price of statehood is deep isolation.

Inside Romania's live web-camming world - the engine of the online sex industry.

In besieged East Aleppo, a terrified mother of three makes one last desperate phone call.

Pakistan's Hijra, or third gender, community shun a new emerging transgender identity.

Lucy Ash asks how a ruthless street gang is affecting the immigration debate in the US.