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BBC OS: 2024/03/29 17:06 GMT: Beyoncé's country album

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Beyoncé's country album

2024/03/29 17:06 GMT

2024/03/29 17:06 GMT: Beyoncé's country album

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Critics and fans have praised Beyoncé's new country-inspired album Cowboy Carter

Critics and fans have praised Beyoncé's new country-inspired album Cowboy Carter.

Beyoncé has released her new country-inspired album, Act II: Cowboy Carter. The album has been highly praised by her fans and critics who've described it as "instantly timeless" and "a soulful celebration of Southern values and the genre's African American roots". We bring together superfans to talk about the main talking points from the album release.

Dozens of Nigerian pupils who were captured by gunmen earlier this month have now been reunited with their families. We speak to our reporter and hear from one of the relatives of those pupils. 

We get wheelchair users in Africa to share their experiences after one wheelchair user was refused service at Lagos airport in Nigeria.

Even Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter, who is the first US journalist charged with spying in Russia since the Cold War, has now been imprisoned for a year. We speak to his friend and journalist James Beardsworth.

Presenter: James Reynolds. 

(Photo: Undated handout photo issued by Parkwood Entertainment of the artwork for the latest album by Beyonce, Act II: Cowboy Carter. Issue date: Thursday February 29, 2024. Credit: Parkwood Entertainment/PA Wire)

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