Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
World Service,·5864 episodes
Why are some Muslims angered more by insults to the Koran than by social injustices?
19 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Turkey votes on constitutional reform, and Iran offers to free a US prisoner..for a price.
19 Sep 2010,·50 mins
Middle East peace talks; Iran releases US prisoner; and a forgotten British war heroine.
Belgium's Catholic Church pledges to help sex abuse victims, and Mario; still Super at 25
Islam and the US; Malaysian babies and vitamins for Alzheimer's
16 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
The Mayor of Gainesville on the threat to burn the Koran; and a academic course on zombies
The US marks the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks amid heightened religious animosities.
16 Sep 2010,·50 mins
Koran burning; Mozambique food shortages and offshore teaching
Musharraf plans comeback; Obama pleads for calm; and Italian footballers announce strike.
15 Sep 2010,·55 mins
BP report on oil spill; Sri Lanka's constitution; and sexual abuse of boys in Afghanistan.
Julia Gillard heads new Australian goverment; France strikes, and who is Bob Diamond?
14 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Is it legal to burn the Koran?Parsis take to speed-dating and why are bumble bees dying?
US midterms; Mongolia's extreme nationalism and Saad Hariri's surprising revelation.
13 Sep 2010,·55 mins
A longer life for German nuclear power; questions on death of Belarus opposition figure
ETA's call to halt violence; Bets and cricket; Music censorship and Mao's great famine.
12 Sep 2010,·50 mins
ETA declares halt to attacks; US troops fight in Iraq; and 12 year olds swim the Channel.
12 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Protests in France against the expulsion of the Roma and the UN investigates Darfur attack
11 Sep 2010,·50 mins
Afghan Peace Council; French protests support Roma; a new biography of Simon Wiesenthal.
11 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Tony Blair on radical Islam, traffic jams in China, and the talking stamp.
10 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Verdicts in Portugal sex abuse trial, new malaria drug offers hope, and a French tiff.
Hamas on latest peace talks, ordering wine in Pennsylvania, and the theory of everything.
09 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Middle East peace talks; run on Afghan bank; physics and God
The prospects for Middle East peace, the UN report on Rwanda and The Stig unmasked
08 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Tony Blair's memoirs; end of the US combat mission in Iraq; stem cell tourism
US combat operations end in Iraq; and has a dry run for a plane bombing been discovered?
07 Sep 2010,·55 mins
The end of combat ops in Iraq, and Israeli deaths shake the peace process.
Pakistan investigates alleged cricket betting scam; a gunman in Slovakia kills 6 people
06 Sep 2010,·55 mins
The UN's climate change panel feels the heat; why sport is rife with corruption
