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Wild swimming: Sarah Cuddon reflects on what draws people into the open water. Show more
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The seemingly unimportant is worth observing: E L Doctorow on breaking and entering into hidden lives; plus science’s forgotten pathways and insights from the world’s first blogger. Show more
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Where to invest your money in 2010? We also hear from the disgraced scourge of Wall Street: Eliot Spitzer, about scandal and financial reforms. Plus: should sex and the work place ever mix? Show more
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Closing Guantanamo: What went wrong?
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The BBC's Jon Manel explores how President Obama went about trying to close the world's most controversial prison camp, Guantanamo Bay. Show more
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The Whoop is a musical, emotional method of preaching. An African American preaching style, called "singing the sermon".
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One year into the Obama presidency, how is his foreign policy shaping up? Robin Lustig chairs a discussion from Washington looking at the President's stance on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and China. Show more
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Prof Jim Al-Khalili, brings alive the stories of the great forgotten Arabic thinkers and their groundbreaking exploits.
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16/01/10 The Interview with Seamus Heaney: Seamus Heaney, Poet
28 minutes
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Lawrence Pollard talks to the Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney about writing amid the 30 years of political violence in his native Northern Ireland Show more
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A round-up of all the results, reports and interviews from the day's sporting action
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From Our Own Correspondent
16/01/2010
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Alan Johnston presents stories from Angola, Afghanistan, and more. (Short version) Show more
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Business Weekly Archive
Business Weekly
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Where to invest your money in 2010? We also hear from the disgraced scourge of Wall Street: Eliot Spitzer, about scandal and financial reforms. Plus: should sex and the work place ever mix? Show more
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Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.
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Cystic Fibrosis is the commonest life-threatening inherited disease. Vivienne Parry talks to patient volunteers helping scientists to replace the gene at fault by undergoing clinical trials. Show more
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The Whoop is a musical, emotional method of preaching. An African American preaching style, called "singing the sermon".
Climate change is already affecting food production. Richard Hollingham asks if Europe should give a signal to the developing world and licence the cultivation of genetically modified crops. Show more
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The former Empress of Iran tells Witness about going into exile because of the revolution over 30 years ago. Show more
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Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.
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The Shape of the Recovery
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Is an new era of growth underway? We talk to the secretary general of the OECD and to company bosses on three continents about the state of their businesses and the risks that might derail recovery. Show more
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Prof Jim Al-Khalili, brings alive the stories of the great forgotten Arabic thinkers and their groundbreaking exploits.
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Contemporary and classic tracks from around the world. Playlist at bbcworldservice.com Show more
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The Interview Archive
16/01/10 The Interview with Seamus Heaney: Seamus Heaney, Poet
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Lawrence Pollard talks to the Nobel-prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney about writing amid the 30 years of political violence in his native Northern Ireland Show more
