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After centuries of decline, London's gin distilling industry is picking up again, fuelled by small-scale producers. Peter Day finds out what's behind the boom. Show more
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The World Today Weekend Archive
24/12/2011
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.
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The latest on the search for another planet like our own Earth; Stealing a trick from nature to make hydrogen - a clean fuel; Elephants tottering around on tiptoes Show more
How the Kenyan running legend Kip Keino, won Olympic gold at the Mexico City games in 1968. Show more
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The World Today Weekend Archive
24/12/2011
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.
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The World Today Weekend Archive
24/12/2011
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.
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From Our Own Correspondent
24/12/2011
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world.
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How survivors and bereaved families face their first Christmas since the Utoya island massacre in July. Show more
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In the Balance
In the Balance: 2011 - Reaping the Whirlwind
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Are we as perilously placed now as we were in the darkest days of 2008? Lesley Curwen asks a former British finance minister, a former central banker, and a former US presidential adviser. Show more
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The Strand Weekend Archive
24/12/2011
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Show more
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Thousands rally against Russia elections; Libyan independence day; Bethlehem shepherds
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BBC News reports from around the world.
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How survivors and bereaved families face their first Christmas since the Utoya island massacre in July. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
From Our Own Correspondent
24/12/2011
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents around the world.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
The latest on the search for another planet like our own Earth; Stealing a trick from nature to make hydrogen - a clean fuel; Elephants tottering around on tiptoes Show more
Witness History
Concert for Bangladesh
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
In 1971 the first big rock benefit gig was organised by former Beatle, George Harrison. He did it to raise money for refugees from the Bangladesh War of Independence. Show more
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
2011 Festival Of Nine Lessons And Carols
1 hour
on BBC World Service Online
Christmas hymns and carols sung by the choir of King’s College Cambridge, interspersed with nine Bible readings. Show more
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Sunshine stops chicken pox spreading; Wellcome Book Prize is thriller featuring Alzheimer’s disease; health myth on water and dry skin; silent strokes in children with sickle cell disease. Show more
As we approach Christmas we look back at the turning point in the career of the world's most famous evangelist - Billy Graham. Show more
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The Strand Weekend Archive
24/12/2011
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Show more
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BBC News reports from around the world.
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Clouds in cold climates and the environmental impact of our lives online. Show more
In 1996 the Spice Girls were at the top of the charts. Their brand of cheeky British pop had taken the world by storm - they called it 'Girl Power'. Show more
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John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012. Show more
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In the Balance
In the Balance: 2011 - Reaping the Whirlwind
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Are we as perilously placed now as we were in the darkest days of 2008? Lesley Curwen asks a former British finance minister, a former central banker, and a former US presidential adviser. Show more
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The Documentary
The Songs of Comrade Time
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
The Children's Choir of the USSR sang to millions, they sang the soundtrack of their time but by 1991, this world was about to change forever. Show more
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Gorbachev calls for Putin resignation; deadly gunfire in Yemen; a non-Christian Christmas
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AC Grayling in conversation with Steven Pinker, a leading authority on language and mind. Show more
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Sixty seconds to improve the world. We discuss ideas from Forum guests. Should taxi drivers rule the world and should we take a vow of silence? Show more
Witness History
The British Miners' strike
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Christmas 1984 was a difficult time for British miners who had been on strike for nine months.
They had taken industrial action to try to save their coal mines from government closure. Show more
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BBC News reports from around the world.
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.
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Clouds in cold climates and the environmental impact of our lives online. Show more
In 1996 the Spice Girls were at the top of the charts. Their brand of cheeky British pop had taken the world by storm - they called it 'Girl Power'. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
BBC News reports from around the world.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
After centuries of decline, London's gin distilling industry is picking up again, fuelled by small-scale producers. Peter Day finds out what's behind the boom. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Sixty seconds to improve the world. We discuss ideas from Forum guests. Should taxi drivers rule the world and should we take a vow of silence? Show more
Rajan Datar hears how the Arab Spring has increased audience figures, and finds out about a new foundation for journalism. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
The Documentary
The Songs of Comrade Time
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
The Children's Choir of the USSR sang to millions, they sang the soundtrack of their time but by 1991, this world was about to change forever. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
In recent years, many critics have argued that French cuisine has lost its way. Now there's a new generation of chefs in France hoping to change that. But what do the traditionalists make of it all? Show more
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How survivors and bereaved families face their first Christmas since the Utoya island massacre in July. Show more
