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Witness History
US Occupation of Japan
9 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
For six years following the end of World War II, Japan was occupied by the US. Akira Iriye, ten years old at the time, remembers the arrival of the first American GIs in Tokyo. Show more
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A review of the week with the latest news.
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Claudia Hammond explores the mind games of babies, and how weightlifting cuts your type 2 diabetes risk. There’s also a heavy weight suit to make young doctors nicer to their older patients. Show more
Witness History
Elvis - The Comeback Special
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
How a 1968 television special revived the career of the King of Rock and Roll. Show more
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A review of the week with the latest news.
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Aleks Krotoski explores what computer gaming offers as a cultural medium and its blurring boundaries with other cultural forms. Show more
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The secret world of Vietnamese workers in Russia; our Iranian reporter in Israel; Ramadan TV dinners; and where is Cameroon's First Lady? Show more
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Discovery
Saving the Ganges River Dolphin
18 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Discovery joins Indian conservation scientists on the Brahmaputra River, surveying the endangered Ganges River Dolphin and trying to prevent its extinction. Show more
Over to You
Coverage of London 2012 Olympic Games
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
This week we look back at the way the World Service handled the London 2012 Olympic Games. Show more
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The Strand Weekend Archive
19/08/2012
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
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The pulse of electricity: why it’s essential not just for economies and societies, but to keep the human body going too and how it can now be harnessed through music. Show more
More or Less
Levelling the statistical playing field
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
If you adjust for the fact that some countries are richer than others and some have more people in them, can we work out what the Olympic medal tally should have looked like? Show more
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Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
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From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 18/08/12
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Pascale Harter presents personal stories and insight from correspondents in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, the Philippines, rural Nebraska in the USA, southern Spain, Somalia - and the streets of Paris. Show more
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Claudia Hammond explores the mind games of babies, and how weightlifting cuts your type 2 diabetes risk. There’s also a heavy weight suit to make young doctors nicer to their older patients. Show more
Witness History
Elvis - The Comeback Special
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
How a 1968 television special revived the career of the King of Rock and Roll. 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.
Peter Day discovers what's bringing out the bubbles in English sparkling wine. Show more
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Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
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Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
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Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
Football and more - the fan's phone-in from the BBC.
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BBC News reports from around the world.
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The secret world of Vietnamese workers in Russia; our Iranian reporter in Israel; Ramadan TV dinners; and where is Cameroon's First Lady? Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition 18/08/12
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Pascale Harter presents personal stories and insight from correspondents in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, the Philippines, rural Nebraska in the USA, southern Spain, Somalia - and the streets of Paris. Show more
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John McCarthy meets the biblical scholar Geza Vermes to talk about the historical Jesus, and how that figure differs from the Jesus millions of worshippers follow. Show more
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Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Aleks Krotoski explores what computer gaming offers as a cultural medium and its blurring boundaries with other cultural forms. Show more
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The secrets behind the dazzling animation at the Olympics; Hollywood movies faster than our eyes can perceive them; 10,000 volunteers to record their voices to help with Parkinson's disease Show more
Over to You
Coverage of London 2012 Olympic Games
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
This week we look back at the way the World Service handled the London 2012 Olympic Games. 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.
Peter Day discovers what's bringing out the bubbles in English sparkling wine. 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.
Discovery
Saving the Ganges River Dolphin
18 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Discovery joins Indian conservation scientists on the Brahmaputra River, surveying the endangered Ganges River Dolphin and trying to prevent its extinction. 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.
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The secret world of Vietnamese workers in Russia; our Iranian reporter in Israel; Ramadan TV dinners; and where is Cameroon's First Lady? Show more
Only the BBC brings you World News every half hour.
Aleks Krotoski explores what computer gaming offers as a cultural medium and its blurring boundaries with other cultural forms. Show more
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Robotic exoskeletons controlled by the mind; Camouflaging, colour-changing artificial animals; Fish playing computer games; Finding out exactly how the mouse eye spots an aerial predator Show more
Witness History
The Last Viceroy of India
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
The daughter of the last British viceroy in India, Lord Mountbatten, remembers the transfer of power in 1947. Lady Pamela Hicks accompanied her father at celebrations in both Karachi and Delhi. Show more
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John McCarthy meets the biblical scholar Geza Vermes to talk about the historical Jesus, and how that figure differs from the Jesus millions of worshippers follow. Show more
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The Strand Weekend Archive
19/08/2012
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
