Laura Heighton-Ginns

What links the lightsabre, Mrs Doubtfire mask and Wilson the volleyball? They’re all film props - objects that help bring stories to life on screen. 

In this episode, I uncover the pressures on prop departments, following the death of Halyna Hutchins, who was killed on set by a prop gun.

It is the biggest sporting event on the planet based on the millions of spectators who line roads for a fleeting view. This programme examines how a cycling race became a global money spinner - particularly for its owners, the Amaurys, one of the richest families in sport.

Sri Lanka elected the world's first female Prime Minister, yet today only a third of Sri Lankan women are in work; well below the global average. 

With shocking first-hand testimony of social exclusion and harassment, this programme examines the forces holding women back in what's described as a 'culture of impunity'.

Ahead of the historic, extended 45th World Heritage Committee meeting, I hear about the so-called ‘UNESCO effect’ and its unintended consequences, including first hand accounts of forced evictions in Cambodia's Angkor Wat.

In the US there are major cities and entire states with no passenger rail services. But do Americans want a better network, and can "Amtrak Joe" deliver it, in any case?