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Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.
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We look FrontlineSMS, a piece of software that allows you to run two-way messaging campaigns. Plus we find out about the Space, a new digital arts platform, and report on 3D printing and copyright. Show more
Witness History
Rudolf Nureyev defects
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
It is over 50 years since the great Russian ballet dancer left the Soviet Union for good.
He asked for asylum at a Paris airport. Show more
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The World Today Weekend Archive
17/06/2012
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Evan Davis and guests discuss how companies appeal to consumer taste for instant gratification. They also examine the psychology of competition in business. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
The World Today Weekend Archive
17/06/2012 (0700 GMT)
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
The Documentary
Is Science Fiction Coming to Africa?
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Award-winning South African author Lauren Beukes asks: Is Science Fiction coming to Africa, or is it already here? Show more
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Spotlight on Russia and cooking up protest cuisine in Cairo and Moscow; reporting Rwanda's Gacaca; and in Delhi, a quick jaunt to get a spot of biometric testing Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
BBC News reports from around the world.
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Two suppressed reports showing how bird flu could be made more infectious have now been released. Kevin Fong asks what lessons for public health can be learned from GM viruses. Show more
This week on Over to You Rajan Datar hears about the interactive relationship between listeners and authors on World Book Club. Show more
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The Strand Weekend Archive
17/06/2012
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
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
How can we best utilize the new connections that bind the world together and transform politics, economics and neuroscience? Show more
Is the chance of bumping into your boss on holiday greater than you think? More or Less assesses the probabilities of some of life's great coincidences. Show more
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Newshour
Newshour (1200 GMT) 17/06/2012
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
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From Our Own Correspondent
16/06/2012: Weekend edition
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Pascale Harter presents insight and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers around the world. With despatches from India, Greece, Spain, Libya, Burma and South Africa. Show more
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A shortage of critical medicines in Greece; using horses for medical therapy; should we stretch before exercising? Show more
Witness History
The end of the Falklands conflict
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Thirty years ago the war ended between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland or Malvinas islands.
A British veteran has spoken to Witness about life for British soldiers during the campaign. Show more
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BBC News reports from around the world.
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This week Global Business is in Japan, a country that is growing old fast. In addition it’s population is shrinking too. Peter Day reports on Japan’s plans for dealing with the problem. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
Football and more - the fan's phone-in from the BBC.
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.
Spotlight on Russia and cooking up protest cuisine in Cairo and Moscow; reporting Rwanda's Gacaca; and in Delhi, a quick jaunt to get a spot of biometric testing Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
From Our Own Correspondent
16/06/2012: Weekend edition
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Pascale Harter presents insight and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers around the world. With despatches from India, Greece, Spain, Libya, Burma and South Africa. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Heart and Soul
The President vs The Church
27 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Matt Wells investigates how President Obama has made an enemy of the Catholic Church and how this may affect his re-election. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
The Documentary
Is Science Fiction Coming to Africa?
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Award-winning South African author Lauren Beukes asks: Is Science Fiction coming to Africa, or is it already here? Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
We look FrontlineSMS, a piece of software that allows you to run two-way messaging campaigns. Plus we find out about the Space, a new digital arts platform, and report on 3D printing and copyright. Show more
Witness History
President Karzai of Afghanistan
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
It is 10 years since Hamid Karzai was first appointed as interim President of Afghanistan. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
BBC News reports from around the world.
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Evan Davis and guests discuss how companies appeal to consumer taste for instant gratification. They also examine the psychology of competition in business. 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.
Two suppressed reports showing how bird flu could be made more infectious have now been released. Kevin Fong asks what lessons for public health can be learned from GM viruses. Show more
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.
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.
Spotlight on Russia and cooking up protest cuisine in Cairo and Moscow; reporting Rwanda's Gacaca; and in Delhi, a quick jaunt to get a spot of biometric testing Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
The Documentary
Is Science Fiction Coming to Africa?
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Award-winning South African author Lauren Beukes asks: Is Science Fiction coming to Africa, or is it already here? Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
How sequencing the genomes of all kinds of species can help us understand and treat diseases, from the parasites, malaria and cryptosporidium - which causes diarrhoea - to the superbug MRSA. Show more
Sporting Witness
Maradona's 'Hand of God'
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Former England striker Gary Lineker on Maradona's historic goals in the 1986 World Cup. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Live news and current affairs, business and sport from around the world.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Evan Davis and guests discuss how companies appeal to consumer taste for instant gratification. They also examine the psychology of competition in business. Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
The Strand Weekend Archive
17/06/2012
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
