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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.

Pick of the World: The songs that saved our lives

02/03/2024 GMT

The songs that saved our lives

BBC World Service - Pick of the World, The songs that saved our lives

The immense power of music in shaping our lives and memories

The immense power of music and song in shaping our lives and memories - plus Stephen Fry tells us what it was like to narrate the Harry Potter books.

The immense power of music and song in shaping our lives and memories - plus Stephen Fry tells us what it was like to narrate the Harry Potter books and why spiders might be the kindest creatures we know.

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