Global News Podcast

The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens.

World Service,277 episodes

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The Happy Pod: Filling the empty chair left by my best friend
The man helping to tackle loneliness by offering strangers somewhere to sit and chat
18 Apr 2026,26 mins
The Global Story: The medications that can trigger sex and gambling addictions
The latest from Iran and the Middle East, and the rest of the world’s news, from the BBC
12 Apr 2026,27 mins
The Happy Pod: From a small town, to the moon
The mayor of Ingersoll beams with pride as the Canadian town is represented on Artemis II
11 Apr 2026,27 mins
The Happy Pod: The decades long wait for the World Cup
Fans in Iraq and the DRC are celebrating being back in football's biggest competition.
04 Apr 2026,26 mins
The Global Story: Are we heading for World War Three?
Will the US-Israel war with Iran spiral out of control and how can it be stopped?
29 Mar 2026,28 mins
The Happy Pod: The hug that stopped a bombing
Nathan Newby received a bravery medal for preventing an attack on a hospital
28 Mar 2026,26 mins
The Global Story:How does war affect a child’s brain?
Veteran war reporter Fergal Keane on PTSD among children in conflicts worldwide.
22 Mar 2026,27 mins
The Happy Pod: Beers, braids and bonding
Meet the men helping fellow Dads connect with their daughters through hairstyling lessons
21 Mar 2026,26 mins
The Happy Pod: Turning my toddler's tales into tunes
Millions of people have watched Stephen Spencer set his daughter's stories to music
14 Mar 2026,27 mins
The Happy Pod: My friends made me a new hand
Lois, 14, and her classmates used a 3D printer to make her new prosthetic hand
07 Mar 2026,26 mins
The Global Story:The tightrope of reporting in Putin’s Russia
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 led to an intense crackdown on dissent
22 Feb 2026,27 mins
The Happy Pod: Former teacher celebrated as a crocodile
A newly discovered species is named after Mr Jones
21 Feb 2026,26 mins
The Global Story: Epstein’s global network: What the files reveal
The latest tranche of Epstein files shed new light on the scandal’s global implications.
15 Feb 2026,27 mins
The Happy Pod: The model redefining beauty norms
A woman whose leg was amputated aged 2 is challenging stereotypes through modelling
14 Feb 2026,27 mins
The Global Story: Is ISIS having a resurgence in Syria?
The US has carried out strikes on ISIS targets, amid prison breaks and in-fighting
08 Feb 2026,28 mins
The Global Story: The mystery of Putin and the apartment bombs
How a series of attacks on Russian apartments helped propel Putin’s rise to power.
01 Feb 2026,27 mins
The Happy Pod: What makes people instinctively kind?
Lessons in kindness from an expert inspired by a stranger risking his life to save hers
31 Jan 2026,26 mins
The Global Story: How Canada's Mark Carney is taking on Trump
Canada’s PM Mark Carney says “the old world order is not coming back”.
25 Jan 2026,28 mins
The Happy Pod: Saving lives with the man who saved mine
A man who had two heart operations later worked with his surgeon to save others
24 Jan 2026,26 mins
The Global Story: The post-World War II era is over. What comes next?
Did the rules based order ever exist and what could replace it if it goes away?
18 Jan 2026,28 mins
The Happy Pod: The injection that saved my sight
The new sight-saving treatment inspired by one woman's determination not to go blind
17 Jan 2026,25 mins
The Global Story: The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall – it predicted chaos
Officials have for years run war games on Venezuela – here's what they predicted.
11 Jan 2026,28 mins
The Happy Pod: The 88-year-old veteran given nearly $2m by strangers
Why an Australian man raised nearly two million dollars to help an elderly US veteran
10 Jan 2026,26 mins
The Happy Pod: Christmas with the man I saved
A US bone marrow donor spent Christmas with the man whose life she saved in Australia
04 Jan 2026,26 mins
The Global Story - Why Australia’s gun laws aren’t as strong as you might think
Australia reconsiders its gun control laws, following the Bondi Beach massacre.
21 Dec 2025,27 mins
The Happy Pod: The magic of festive airport reunions
Videos of emotional families reuniting in Dublin Airport have gained thousands of views
20 Dec 2025,27 mins
The Global Story: The murders that moved a nation: Italy’s new femicide law
How two shocking murders of young women fueled outrage in Italy and led to femicide law.
14 Dec 2025,27 mins
The Happy Pod: The cafe where mistakes are expected
A pop-up cafe in Tokyo is giving people with dementia a place to volunteer
13 Dec 2025,28 mins
The Global Story: The Fifa-Trump bromance
Fifa’s new ‘Peace Prize’ raises questions about politics in the world’s biggest sport.
07 Dec 2025,27 mins
The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby
The extraordinary teenage promise that led to a woman having a baby for her best friend
06 Dec 2025,26 mins