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Bering Strait Swimmer
10 minutes
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How an American swimmer crossed the "Ice Curtain" between the USA and the Soviet Union in 1987. Show more
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A Review of the week with the Latest News.
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Julian Rotter - Locus Of Control
18 minutes
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Is your life about down to luck? Or do you make your own luck? These questions were at the heart of ground-breaking personality research by psychologist Julian Rotter. Claudia Hammond meets him. Show more
Witness History
Abebe Bikila the barefoot runner
9 minutes
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At the 1960 Olympics in Rome an Ethiopian athlete stunned the world. He was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal and he did it without wearing shoes. Show more
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Small time musicians from the American South shine a light on ambition, failure and the nature of success. Show more
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Olympic park gossip from China and Russia; Somalia's countdown to a new government; our man in Mogadishu; and are countries obsessed with constitutions? Show more
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Over to You
The importance of impartiality - Part two
10 minutes
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Rajan Datar considers the importance of impartiality and the challenges facing news reporting. Show more
Witness History
Bering Strait Swimmer
10 minutes
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How an American swimmer crossed the "Ice Curtain" between the USA and the Soviet Union in 1987. Show more
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The Strand Weekend Archive
12/08/2012
55 minutes
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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Show more
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We hear your best bits of the last two weeks.
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Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
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From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 11/08/2012
25 minutes
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Pascale Harter with the pick of dispatches from around the world. Stories on postwar Sri Lanka, Syria's rebels, Yemeni infighting, Indian schools, drought in the USA and the Galapagos' giant tortoise. Show more
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Health Check
Julian Rotter - Locus Of Control
18 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Is your life about down to luck? Or do you make your own luck? These questions were at the heart of ground-breaking personality research by psychologist Julian Rotter. Claudia Hammond meets him. Show more
Witness History
Abebe Bikila the barefoot runner
9 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
At the 1960 Olympics in Rome an Ethiopian athlete stunned the world. He was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal and he did it without wearing shoes. Show more
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BBC News reports from around the world.
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Peter Day continues his look into the world of computer games with a conversation with a British game developer and a novelist and games writer. Show more
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What is the verdict on the London 2012 Olympics? Did it live up to expectations? And what sort of legacy will it produce? Show more
More or Less
How to lose money - fast
10 minutes
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Is the rapid growth of high frequency trading progress, or – as some think – a threat to the stability of the entire financial system? Show more
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The Documentary
The People's Games: London 2012
55 minutes
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Capturing the story of the London Olympic Games through the sounds of the peole who went to, worked on and competed in them. Show more
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Small time musicians from the American South shine a light on ambition, failure and the nature of success. Show more
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The Why Factor
The Best of One Planet
18 minutes
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For the final edition of One Planet, we look back at some of our greatest hits. Show more
Witness History
Omarska concentration camp
9 minutes
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Omarska was the first concentration camp discovered in Europe since World War II. One survivor tells of the torture and beatings inmates suffered during his ten weeks of incarceration. Show more
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Olympic park gossip from China and Russia; Somalia's countdown to a new government; our man in Mogadishu; and are countries obsessed with constitutions? Show more
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From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 11/08/2012
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Pascale Harter with the pick of dispatches from around the world. Stories on postwar Sri Lanka, Syria's rebels, Yemeni infighting, Indian schools, drought in the USA and the Galapagos' giant tortoise. Show more
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Heart and Soul
Putin And The Patriarch
27 minutes
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Tom Esslemont reports from Moscow on the relationship between Church and state in Russia - in light of the Pussy Riot court case. Show more
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Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
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Small time musicians from the American South shine a light on ambition, failure and the nature of success. Show more
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Researchers are exploring how tags can monitor our moods; A report on the technology that channels food to the needy; The sensory blanket that monitors your sleep Show more
Over to You
The importance of impartiality - Part two
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Rajan Datar considers the importance of impartiality and the challenges facing news reporting. Show more
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BBC News reports from around the world.
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Peter Day continues his look into the world of computer games with a conversation with a British game developer and a novelist and games writer. Show more
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Discovery
Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars
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Nasa's Curiosity robot lands on Mars. Jonathan Amos explores the billion dollar roving laboratory's mission to discover whether the Red Planet was once hospitable to to life. Show more
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Olympic park gossip from China and Russia; Somalia's countdown to a new government; our man in Mogadishu; and are countries obsessed with constitutions? Show more
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Small time musicians from the American South shine a light on ambition, failure and the nature of success. Show more
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Safe touchdown of the Mars Science Lab; Are recent heat waves in US and Russia caused by climate change?; Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell dies; The final finalist of the STAGE, science play competition Show more
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Twenty-five years of Botox
9 minutes
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It's quarter of a century since the world's most popular cosmetic treatment was discovered by two doctors working in Vancouver. Show more
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Heart and Soul
Putin And The Patriarch
27 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Tom Esslemont reports from Moscow on the relationship between Church and state in Russia - in light of the Pussy Riot court case. Show more
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The Strand Weekend Archive
12/08/2012
55 minutes
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The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Show more
