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Over to You: A Week Without the World Service in Freetown

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25/11/2017 GMT

A Week Without the World Service in Freetown

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Listeners in Freetown, Sierra Leone, could not tune into the World Service for a week

Frustrated listeners in Freetown were unable to tune into the World Service via 93.4FM for a week. Plus, a listener questions the balance of guests on World Business Report.

For a week, listeners in Freetown, Sierra Leone heard only static when they tried to tune into BBC World Service on 93.4FM. On Tuesday evening, it appeared that the station had finally returned to the airwaves. Abass Shaw, an avid World Service listener in Freetown, explains why he was so badly affected by the station’s absence. And Umaru Fofana, a BBC journalist based in Freetown, sheds some light on what happened.

Listener Kerry in Edinburgh, UK has been wondering why the World Business Report appears to give a regular platform to the pro-Brexit economist Roger Bootle, but not to a Remain supporter. Editor Martin Webber joins Rajan Datar in the studio to address Kerry’s point and explain how he selects his regular guests.

Plus, a recent episode of World Hacks about the decline in smoking, drinking, and drug-taking among Iceland’s teenagers proved a huge talking point for listeners. We hear the reaction of five of them.

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