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BBC
Arabic launches phone-in programme
BBC
Arabic Service launches a new phone-in programme, Nuqtat Hiwar
(Talking Point).
Starting
on Wednesday 26 March, and broadcast after the 1000 GMT News, Monday
through Friday, the programme offers a forum for exchange of opinion
on specific topics.
The
first edition of Nuqtat Hiwar will present listeners' views on the
war in Iraq.
Presented
by Hosam el-Sokkari, the programme invites listeners of the BBC
Arabic Service and visitors to its online site - bbcarabic.com
- to participate in the programme by sending their phone number
and their input to arabic.debate@bbc.co.uk
Notes
to Editors
BBC
World Service broadcasts programmes around the world in 43 languages
and is available on radio and online at bbcworldservice.com.
It
has a global audience of 150 million listeners while its websites
receive 100 million page impressions each month.
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the BBC's eight television channels, interactive services
from BBCi, as well as 11 BBC radio networks.
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