Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
World Service,·5864 episodes
The US House of Representatives debates President Obama's healthcare reforms
01 Sep 2009,·55 mins
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
31 Aug 2009,·55 mins
Exit polls in Japan suggest a landslide win for the former opposition.
31 Aug 2009,·50 mins
30 Aug 2009,·55 mins
The Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah complains of state-engineered fraud.
30 Aug 2009,·50 mins
John Yettaw, the man who swam to Aung San Suu Kyi's home, gives his first radio interview.
29 Aug 2009,·55 mins
Reports emerge of a serious row between the Afghan President and the US special envoy.
28 Aug 2009,·55 mins
Nigerian bankers on the run, America remembers Edward Kennedy, and are you an adultescent?
27 Aug 2009,·55 mins
We look back at the life of Edward Kennedy, in particular his role in Northern Ireland.
26 Aug 2009,·55 mins
South African officials defend their handling of the athlete gender controversy.
A soldier's view on the Afghan elections and the Lockerbie bomber's first day of freedom.
25 Aug 2009,·55 mins
Were the Afghan elections free or fair? And a special feature on internet addiction.
25 Aug 2009,·50 mins
The FBI chief deplores the release of the Lockerbie bomber. We get a Libyan view.
Kenyan census sparks row over 'tribalism' and Scotland debates Lockerbie bomber's release.
Has the Lockerbie bomber release damaged US-Scottish relations? And a new comic-book hero.
Scotland's first minister weighs into the Lockerbie row. And we ask: why is Africa poor?
The Lockerbie bomber is released. Compassion or a travesty of justice?
20 Aug 2009,·55 mins
The man convicted of bombing Pan Am flight 103 is freed and Afghans go to the polls.
19 Aug 2009,·55 mins
We talk to a former Talib leader, a warlord and women activists as Afghans prepare to vote
BBC investigation on Afghanistan election fraud. And new research on zombies vs humans.
Industrial poisoning in China and why hundreds of gay men have been killed in Iraq.
18 Aug 2009,·55 mins
Is the key to change in Burma engagement or isolation? Plus new sports for the Olympics.
