Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
World Service,·5864 episodes
Moscow's Mayor Luzhkov is sacked; does nepotism work, and is slang just sloppy language?
05 Oct 2010,·55 mins
Top jobs for N Korean leader's son; landslide in Mexico; and Miliband calls for change
Settlements; the Miliband brothers and mammoth ivory
04 Oct 2010,·55 mins
Pakistan protests about raids; Kim's son made general in N Korea; and banker turns clown.
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
03 Oct 2010,·55 mins
03 Oct 2010,·50 mins
Calls to boycott the Commonwealth Games; and would you want to meet your attacker?
02 Oct 2010,·50 mins
02 Oct 2010,·55 mins
President Obama on BBC Persian;A tragic elephant accident;Chilean miners' families.
01 Oct 2010,·55 mins
Liberia's presidential candidates line up, but can brutal leaders reform enough to govern?
30 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Urgent meeting to save Commonwealth Games, pensions strikes in France and nudism politics.
Who owns the Arctic; athletes debate going to Delhi, and can Carla Bruni sing?
29 Sep 2010,·55 mins
India says it will be ready for Games; UN condemns Israel; and Nerdcore rapping.
Commonwealth Games in crisis; US gay military reform blocked; heirloom vegetables.
28 Sep 2010,·55 mins
The UN Millennium Development goals under scrutiny & Indian politicians travel to Kashmir
27 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Kashmir separatist leader; British troops withdraw from Sangin; avoiding whales at sea.
The Pope beatifies Cardinal Newman, and the tweeter known as PigSpotter.
26 Sep 2010,·50 mins
Iranian leader on US TV; did the Pope win over his UK critics? Islamists in Tajikistan
26 Sep 2010,·55 mins
At a mass in London's Westminster Cathedral the Pope apologises to victims of child abuse
25 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Elections in Afghanistan, and the Pope speaks on clerical abuse in a London sermon.
25 Sep 2010,·50 mins
Chechen separatist leader arrested; Pope meets UK pupils; do we need philosophy?
24 Sep 2010,·55 mins
The eve of Afghan elections; music from an MRI scan; the end of the foreign correspondent?
The Pope warns of aggressive secularism in the UK. And a controversial statue in Zimbabwe.
23 Sep 2010,·55 mins
The Pope visits the UK; Mexican children on the drugs war; a rare male opera singer
Tea Party shakes-up US politics; Senegal's begging children; George Michael behind bars
22 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Nigerian politics by Facebook; Papal controversy; and should we care if languages die?
Turkish referendum; banking reforms; the cat organ and what is a Jewish State?
19 Sep 2010,·55 mins
US woman freed from Iranian detention; France's Roma expulsions; and economic euthanasia?