In its second series, Crossing Continents visited some extraordinary places. The pages below include full audio of the programmes, pictures, links to relevant BBC News Online stories and related sites on the Web, and fuller reports on the top features of each programme. Top features pages contain unique material, not broadcast or published anywhere else.

Western Australia (9 July 1998)

• Full audio and programme details
• Top feature: Why the territory's wealth brings conflict as well as prosperity.

Barcelona (16 July 1998)
Meriel Beattie reports from one of Europe's most vibrant cities and finds out what its residents are most passionate about

• Full audio and programme details
• Top feature: the rebirth of Barcelona's Jewish community.

Singapore (23 July 1998)

• Full audio and programme details
• Top feature: Three generations under one roof.

New Mexico (30 July 1998)
Tim Whewell explores the bitter controversies dividing the American West. Is the cowboy to become a figure of the past?

• Full audio and programme details
• Top feature: End of the trail? Ranchers and conservationists at loggerheads in the American West.

Iceland (6 August 1998)

• Full audio and programme details
• Top feature: Refugees adjust to a new home in Iceland.

Zimbabwe (13 August 1998)
Rosie Goldsmith examines the pitfalls of progress in Zimbabwe - a once-tolerant country whose government is now denouncing gays

• Full audio and programme details
• Top feature: Homosexual and hated

Argentina (20 August 1998)

• Full audio and programme details
• Top feature: Anguish over the Children of the Disappeared.