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The pick of BBC World Service audio and video chosen by listeners around the globe

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.

Listeners to the BBC World Service not only love what they hear, they love to be a part of it: a two-way relationship that creates a special bond.

Each week, Digital Editor Anna Doble celebrates the most engaging audio and video from progammes and podcasts, exploring the reaction on social media.

She also speaks to some of those listeners around the world, to find out what it was about the issue - and the way we shared it - that captured them.

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Pick of the World: The 99-year-old swimmer with three world records

10/02/2024 GMT

The 99-year-old swimmer with three world records

BBC World Service - Pick of the World, The 99-year-old swimmer with three world records

You have been loving the amazing story of Betty Brussel from Canada

Canadian swimmer Betty Brussel is now the fastest swimmer in the 100 to 104-year-old age group in the 400m freestyle, 50m backstroke and the 50m breaststroke.

Canadian swimmer Betty Brussel is now the fastest swimmer in the 100 to 104-year-old age group in the 400m freestyle, 50m backstroke and the 50m breaststroke. Plus, a trip to Paris, football’s greatest talent factory? Yemen's secret war, and has Toyota cracked the electric car battery question?

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