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The Fifth Floor
Drug ballads in Mexico
27 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Reporting Pistorius; the poems of Pablo Neruda; Mexican drug ballads; and Azerbaijan's outlawed names. Show more
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A review of the week with the latest news.
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Heart and Soul
Absolving the Past - Part 2
27 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Imam Khalid Latif considers what happens when world religions change their minds and how they revise, update and apologise. Show more
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A review of the week with the latest news.
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A review of the week with the latest news.
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The Documentary
Rosa Parks - Quiet Revolutionary (From 2013)
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Rosa Parks's moment in history - refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in 1955 - is celebrated as the birth of the civil rights movement in the USA. Show more
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In the Balance
Tax and the multi-nationals
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Do big companies pay enough tax? Some people think they should pay none at all, others that they have a duty to pay more, but everyone agrees the system needs to change. Show more
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As baby boomers turn 65, many countries are growing old. As Peter Day reports, this means big changes for the economy, healthcare, and our way of life. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Syrian opposition SNC boycotts talks; UK loses AAA credit rating; missing Banksy on auction.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Meaning in life: what is it, exactly, that makes our lives worthwhile? And who decides? Show more
This week Tim Harford asks how the figure of 1.2 billion Catholics world-wide is calculated. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
BBC News reports from around the world.
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The Fifth Floor
Drug ballads in Mexico
27 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Reporting Pistorius; the poems of Pablo Neruda; Mexican drug ballads; and Azerbaijan's outlawed names. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
BBC News reports from around the world.
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
In the Balance
Tax and the multi-nationals
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Do big companies pay enough tax? Some people think they should pay none at all, others that they have a duty to pay more, but everyone agrees the system needs to change. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
As baby boomers turn 65, many countries are growing old. As Peter Day reports, this means big changes for the economy, healthcare, and our way of life. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
The Strand Weekend Archive
23/02/2013
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.
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Vatican condemns media over gay dossier; what does Britain's credit downgrade mean? Listeners 'talk' to an astronaut in space.
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The family may be central to Italian business life, but many economists believe that nepotism is also holding the country back. Show more
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Science In Action
Meteor strike “a one in 50 year event”
18 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Meteor strike “a one in fifty year event”; Bionic eye trials
Bees detect electric buzz from flowers; Why eating late is unhealthy – linking the body’s internal clock to obesity Show more
It's seventy years today since three German students were executed for trying to protest against Hitler. They called themselves the White Rose. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Meaning in life: what is it, exactly, that makes our lives worthwhile? And who decides? Show more
This week Tim Harford asks how the figure of 1.2 billion Catholics world-wide is calculated. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
BBC News reports from around the world.
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
In the Balance
Tax and the multi-nationals
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Do big companies pay enough tax? Some people think they should pay none at all, others that they have a duty to pay more, but everyone agrees the system needs to change. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
BBC News reports from around the world.
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Adam Rutherford explores the many routes to female or male. He meets a giant komodo dragon, and discusses the platypus’ weird sex chromosomes and the sex secrets of Nemo the fish. Show more
Witness History
People Power in the Philippines
9 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
How four days of huge protests brought down Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. Show more
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Meaning in life: what is it, exactly, that makes our lives worthwhile? And who decides? Show more
Over to You
Pope resignation: Media reaction
10 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
This week on Over To You, we explore the way the Italian and international media have reacted to the decision of the Pope to stand down. Show more
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Clicks reports on the rise of Seoul's hacker culture. How robots help defuse landmines in Egypt. And multiplayer computer gaming geeks hook up via their mobile phones in GEEK 2013 Show more
This week Tim Harford asks how the figure of 1.2 billion Catholics world-wide is calculated. Show more
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From Our Own Correspondent
Planes, trains and horse-drawn carts
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Pascale Harter introduces stories from a Romanian abbatoir, Italian academia, Japan's well-regulated streets, Swiss and Nigerian railways, and the anxious skies at 35,000 feet. Show more
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
As baby boomers turn 65, many countries are growing old. As Peter Day reports, this means big changes for the economy, healthcare, and our way of life. Show more
