Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
World Service,·5864 episodes
An eyewitness account of the floods in southern Pakistan, Hurricane Katrina - 5 years on.
05 Sep 2010,·50 mins
Pakistan implicated in alleged cricket scam and Hurricane Katrina five years on.
05 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
04 Sep 2010,·50 mins
Pakistan floods; Attacks in Afghanistan and a rally by ultra-conservatives in Washington.
04 Sep 2010,·55 mins
The US economy falters again; the wheat genome mapped out; and what is character amnesia?
03 Sep 2010,·55 mins
How many civilians died in the Iraq war? Also, Kenya's new constitution is signed into law
HIV-positive singer sentenced; warnings Taliban will attack aid workers in Pakistan.
02 Sep 2010,·55 mins
South Africans on strike; privatising electricity in Nigeria; the English in New York
An Afghan policeman shot; teaching kids about terrorism; a presidential heir for Egypt?
01 Sep 2010,·55 mins
Migrant link to mass grave in Mexico, and why a French doctor refused the Legion D'honneur
A deadly attack by Islamist insurgents in Somalia, & was a Catholic priest an IRA bomber?
31 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Rebels in Somalia have killed more than thirty people including members of parliament.
Pakistani officials go to IMF, Philippines bus hijacking and the 33 trapped Chilean miners
30 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Trapped miners in Chile; hostage drama in the Philippines, and the Autotune debate.
29 Aug 2010,·50 mins
29 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Australia's cliff-hanger election and rape allegations withdrawn against Wikileaks founder
28 Aug 2010,·55 mins
28 Aug 2010,·50 mins
Scottish Minister stands by Megrahi release; Viktor Bout to be tried in the US.
27 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Amid Pakistan's new flood warnings, tens of thousands of people are still stranded.
25 Aug 2010,·55 mins
A suicide bomber kills more than 50 people queuing for work in Baghdad.
24 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Pakistan aid pledge; new BP oil spill study; should we decriminalise recreational drugs
Pakistan's Foreign Minister warns of instability; and are men funnier than women?
23 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Tony Blair book donation; New York mosque row; Russian spy swap interview.
Cholera fears in Pakistan, Italian art find, and can the travel guidebook survive?
22 Aug 2010,·50 mins
Pakistan floods; Will US forces leave Afghanistan in 2011? And Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
22 Aug 2010,·55 mins
On Independence Day, an in-depth look at the worst floods for decades in Pakistan
21 Aug 2010,·50 mins
Floods in Pakistan; 'pink panther' gem thieves; and the origins of tango
21 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Illegal mining in South Africa, Pakistan floods latest, and an Inuit dialect at risk.
20 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Is Pakistan's reputation affecting donations? Vampire bat attacks and Chinese Christianity