Pick of the World

Digital Editor Anna Doble celebrates the most engaging audio and video produced by BBC World Service, exploring the reaction on social media and chatting to listeners.

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Swahili travels from Africa to South America
From Nairobi to Bogota, how learning a language has changed your life
01 Jul 2023,17 mins
Your top tips for the best new African music
DJ Edu and the best new African music that we should all know about
24 Jun 2023,17 mins
How to visit every country on Earth without flying
Thor Pedersen describes his almost decade-long journey around the world
17 Jun 2023,17 mins
What are Indian audiences talking about online?
Zooming in on India after the country’s worst rail accident this century
10 Jun 2023,17 mins
The family tree detective bringing relatives together
How Shamshu Deen helped thousands trace their roots. Plus - the woman who feels no pain
03 Jun 2023,17 mins
Hiking all 63 US national parks - with my granny
Brad and Joy Ryan went on a seven-year adventure and slept under the stars
27 May 2023,17 mins
The last flight out of 'heart attack' airport
More than a million of you engaged with our story about Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong
20 May 2023,17 mins
The Netflix show causing its own drama in Egypt
The historical debate that got thousands of you commenting on Facebook
13 May 2023,17 mins
The bus boycott that changed Britain
The pioneering black activists behind the Bristol Bus Boycott
06 May 2023,17 mins
What are the chances of finding alien life?
Counting stars and planets with CrowdScience - and goodbye Bola Mosuro.
29 Apr 2023,17 mins
About to be crypto scammed?
Inside the fake crypto criminal network believed to have raked in a billion dollars
22 Apr 2023,17 mins
What happens when you take a rooster to court?
An unusual legal dispute unfolds in Nigeria. Plus, the first call made on a mobile phone.
15 Apr 2023,17 mins
The dream of finding a diamond
A glittering discovery in the earth of Sierra Leone - but what happened next?
08 Apr 2023,17 mins
Hackers and scammers, from North Korea to Cambodia
Did North Korean hackers make ATMs spew their cash? Plus India’s longest-running movie.
01 Apr 2023,17 mins
The playing cards used to target Saddam Hussein
Twenty years since the invasion of Iraq, did it change Western foreign policy forever?
25 Mar 2023,17 mins
The most remote museum on Earth?
A visit to a museum at the end of the world - and do good-looking people earn more money?
18 Mar 2023,17 mins
Young, gifted and a Cambridge professor
Jason Arday is the youngest black person to become a professor at the famous university
11 Mar 2023,17 mins
Moments when we become our true selves
A difficult conversation about changing to the Ifa religion of Nigeria and West Africa
04 Mar 2023,17 mins
The social media war in Ukraine
BBC Ukraine Correspondent James Waterhouse on the role played by social media in the war
25 Feb 2023,17 mins
A plea from earthquake-hit Syria
A plea from a follower in earthquake-hit Syria - and the strange case of UFOs over the US
18 Feb 2023,17 mins
A balloon floats into 1.5 million Facebook feeds
The Chinese spy balloon mystery - and fine dining, are we over it?
11 Feb 2023,17 mins
India's female airline pilot revolution
At 12.4% India has the highest percentage of female pilots, why?
04 Feb 2023,17 mins
Why we love physical music in our digital world
Inside the biggest vinyl factory in Europe - and do we talk too much about Elon Musk?
28 Jan 2023,17 mins
What would you change about the seven-day week?
How this unnatural cycle came to organise our lives - and what you would do differently
21 Jan 2023,17 mins
The intense pressure of being a chef
Long hours and obsession in the life of a top chef. Plus, the town giving out free beer
14 Jan 2023,17 mins
'My friend, the serial killer'
The nurse who realised her colleague and friend was killing patients
07 Jan 2023,17 mins
Your social media news stories of 2022
A special show on the social posts from BBC World Service that you engaged with in 2022
31 Dec 2022,17 mins
With the Christmas post, comes hope in Ukraine
Why the postal service brings hope in Ukraine, and what next for Iranian protesters?
24 Dec 2022,17 mins
'The sketchpad that saved my life'
The parallel lives of two young women, one with a sketchbook, one with a gun
17 Dec 2022,17 mins
Which food would you give special UN status?
The French baguette... but which food item would you give special UN status?
10 Dec 2022,17 mins