Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
World Service,·5864 episodes
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
09 Jan 2010,·50 mins
08 Jan 2010,·55 mins
07 Jan 2010,·55 mins
06 Jan 2010,·55 mins
A British hostage in Iraq is released after 2 years. And bizarre emergency phone calls.
The EU criticises China for executing a British man. His family says he was mentally ill.
29 Dec 2009,·55 mins
President Obama vows to improve security after the failed airline bombing over Detroit.
28 Dec 2009,·55 mins
Eye-witness accounts from Tehran's streets as protests intensify.
27 Dec 2009,·55 mins
27 Dec 2009,·50 mins
A Nigerian man is charged in the US for trying to blow up an airliner
26 Dec 2009,·55 mins
26 Dec 2009,·50 mins
25 Dec 2009,·55 mins
Pope Benedict delivers his traditional Christmas message just hours after being assaulted.
The US Senate passes a key healthcare reform bill and a Somali pirate tells us his story.
24 Dec 2009,·55 mins
A special report on Al Qaeda in Yemen, and how Iraqi militants hacked into US drones.
Can Obama help clinch a deal at Copenhagen, and who's stolen the famous sign at Auschwitz?
Climate guru Lord Stern calls Copenhagen summit "chaotic." Connie Hedegaard defends it.
Owen Bennett Jones talks to Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard - and coping with asthma
24 Dec 2009,·50 mins
Protests mark funeral of Iranian dissident cleric and why the Mafia likes Christmas.
Its deal time in Copenhagen as climate change summit nears end and khat culture in Yemen.
Liberia's president offers cash to expose graft and a new gift idea - divorce vouchers.