Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
World Service,·5864 episodes
North Korea mourns, Iraq crisis, and the best classical music recording ever?
26 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Vaclav Havel dies; US forces leave Iraq; and Libyan widow of Mohammed Nabbous
25 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Madeleine Albright remembers Vaclav Havel; political rivalries emerge in Iraq;
More violence in Cairo; extreme Olympic training; and is the euro deal unravelling?
24 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Iraqi delegation to Syria;British PM promotes Christian values;the music of Cesaria Evora.
Tony Blair and Ian McEwan talk to Newshour about the death of Christopher Hitchens
23 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Bradley Manning, hero or traitor? deadly Kazakh protest; tributes to Christopher Hitchens
Major US rape study; Indian contaminated liquor deaths; tiny Bronte manuscript sold
22 Dec 2011,·55 mins
End of US operation in Iraq/ Chirac guilty of corruption/ Putin questioned live on TV
Merkel faces the Bundestag on Europe; land protests in China; why bed bugs don't like hair
21 Dec 2011,·55 mins
US troops head home from Iraq; Testing in schools; And prisoners paying for jail.
Gunman attack in Belgium; the age of criminal responsibility; universe's missing particle
20 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Attacks in Belgium; tortured students released in Pakistan; and hints of the Higgs Boson
Inside Syria's uprising; the cost of Britain's EU opt out; China gets football star
19 Dec 2011,·55 mins
David Cameron's political gamble;faking filming polar bears? Swiss eurovision singer at 87
UK coalition tensions over Europe; Romney's $10,000 bet; and a palace made out of teeth
18 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Pakistan PM on strained relations with US; cracks in UK coalition; free running in Gaza
Russians protest against Putin; the search for Robert Levinson; Cabbies' brains
17 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Protests in Russia; climate conference ends; and jerks in banks.
Special coverage from Brussels of the Eurozone crisis; Calcutta hospital blaze
16 Dec 2011,·55 mins
UK isolation over the Euro; Haiti demands compensation from UN; and finding the Joker.
15 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Can the Euro be saved?; auctioning Hitler's library, and clinics for stalkers
Interview with President Assad; Pearl Harbour 70th anniversary; and is the US in decline?
14 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Syrian President says he gave no orders to kill; Camorra chief arrested; payday loans bad?
More than 50 dead in Kabul attack; Geithner's Europe tour; and are conferences pointless?
13 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Moscow protest arrests; results delayed in DRC vote; and African football discrimination?
Bonn conference debates Afghanistan's future; Gbagbo speaks at the ICC; the sound of 2012
12 Dec 2011,·55 mins
Climate summit hots up; protests against Putin; and supermassive black holes
