'I know it's horses, because I can smell them!'

An audio journey through Marrakesh. Plus, are people being prescribed too many medicines?

Having difficulty reading this email? View it online Travelling the world without sight Journalist and broadcaster Peter White has been blind since birth, but that hasn't stopped him from travelling to many countries and cities all over the world. In this illuminating documentary, he explores the twisting, vibrant streets of Marrakesh in Morocco, and discovers how visually impaired locals make their way through one of Africa's busiest conurbations. 'I know it's horses, because I can smell them!' Download the Documentary podcast Is the world taking too many pills? Manuela Saragosa investigates claims that people are being prescribed too many medicines. Are some parts of the pharmaceutical industry leading patients and doctors astray? 'Our patients are guinea pigs, and they don't even know it' 'We treat the past like a horror film' In the second of this year's Reith Lectures, novelist Hilary Mantel examines why, when we try to remember the past, we sometimes distort the truth to suit our own ends. 'Materially, it was gone. Spiritually, it still existed' Emergency at the grocery store Much of the time, supermarkets can be quite mundane places. In our podcast of the week, they play host to frightening, life-changing events. 'I knew something was wrong when I first heard the gunshot' The three-day massacre It's estimated that, over the course of three days in February 1937, Italian forces killed up to 30,000 civilians in Ethiopia. Alex Last explores one of the most infamous events in both countries' histories. 'The first wave was wild. Then it became systematic' Can Greece ever get on top of its mountain of debt? Owen Bennett Jones travels to Athens to explore how years of severe austerity have changed Greece. Is the country any closer to an economic recovery? 'At the moment, there's no system' 'Like turning into a butterfly' In the last instalment of this series of Where Are You Going?, Catherine Carr discovers some of the stories waiting to be told on the densely populated streets of Hong Kong. 'It's not normal, the pressure these kids have got' Listen to the World Service online Download the Global News Podcast Follow BBC World Service Facebook Twitter

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