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Health Check
Sickle Cell Disease Spreads with Migration
29 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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As more people from areas where sickle cell disease is common migrate, their receiving countries should be prepared to treat them. Show more
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A review of the week with the latest news.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
A review of the week with the latest news.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
A review of the week with the latest news.
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
Outlook
Poverty USA and Supersized Snakes
29 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Poverty USA, supersized snakes, finding Daniel Pearl's killer and a doctor paid in rubbish: Matthew Bannister picks some of the best true life stories from the week's Outlook. Show more
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From Our Own Correspondent
The Correspondents' Animal Menagerie
25 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Our correspondents' encounters with animals provide insight on issues of global significance. From slavery in the Thai fishing industry to a camel beauty contest in Abu Dhabi. Show more
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Mark Dowd witnesses The Blood Miracle of San Gennaro the patron saint of Naples. Show more
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Over-ambitious projects, impossibly tall skyscrapers, and the sometimes foolhardy expeditions into cosmetic surgery, with Bent Flyvbjerg, Stephen Bayley and Alexander Edmonds. Show more
Is the proliferation of technology programmes on the BBC becoming confusing? Show more
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Elements
The Elements and the Economy
27 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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From aluminium to zinc, how the chemical elements are driving the global economy. Where do we get them from, and what do we use them for? Show more
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Exchanges at the Frontier
Exchanges at the Frontier
Episode 1: Bonnie Bassler, Professor of Molecular Biology
55 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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AC Grayling speaks to Bonnie Bassler, the world specialist in how bacteria communicate within the human body. Show more
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Newshour
Muslim man 'burned in street'
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Mob violence in CAR; music from thoughts; the changing flavour of NY's Chinatown
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Unexpected Elements
Mount Sinabung; Blind mice; Oceans and climate change
50 minutes on BBC World Service Online
Relief efforts are continuing at Mount Sinabung volcano in Indonesia’s North Sumatra after it erupted on Saturday, leaving at least 15 people dead. Show more
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Boston Calling
Snow, Slaves, Shoes and Gary Shteyngart
27 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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How climate change might make it harder to find future Winter Olympics host cities. 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.
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.
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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Outlook
Poverty USA and Supersized Snakes
29 minutes on BBC World Service Online
Available for over a year
Poverty USA, supersized snakes, finding Daniel Pearl's killer and a doctor paid in rubbish: Matthew Bannister picks some of the best true life stories from the week's Outlook. Show more
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What role does music play for today’s soldiers? Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
EU regrets Swiss immigration vote; US gay marriage; the sound of Gravity
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"We don't understand each other"- Denmark's Kim Bodnia on acting with his Swedish co-star. Show more
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BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.
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The debate over #SochiFail, the social media users who forced an apology from Iran’s president – and a very irritating bird. Show more
More or Less
Rising Drug Overdose Deaths
11 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Deaths from drug overdoses in the United States are on the rise – but why? Show more
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The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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Mark Dowd witnesses The Blood Miracle of San Gennaro the patron saint of Naples. Show more
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World Business Report
Switzerland Votes to Cap Immigration
25 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Swiss voters narrowly back plan to curb immigration. Show more
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Outlook
Poverty USA and Supersized Snakes
29 minutes on BBC World Service Online
Available for over a year
Poverty USA, supersized snakes, finding Daniel Pearl's killer and a doctor paid in rubbish: Matthew Bannister picks some of the best true life stories from the week's Outlook. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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Do changes in an adolescent’s brain explain behavioural turbulence in the teenage years or is adolescence a manufactured concept we’ve invented? Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
Spain and Denmark
11 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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A 'secret' press conference gives Tom Burridge an insight into the beleagered Spanish Royal Family; in Denmark, Jake Wallis Simons meets a robot hoover. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Over-ambitious projects, impossibly tall skyscrapers, and the sometimes foolhardy expeditions into cosmetic surgery, with Bent Flyvbjerg, Stephen Bayley and Alexander Edmonds. Show more
More or Less
Rising Drug Overdose Deaths
11 minutes on BBC World Service Online
Available for over a year
Deaths from drug overdoses in the United States are on the rise – but why? Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Live news, business and sport from around the world.
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
Why are the pyroclastic flows on Mount Sinabung so deadly? Plus, a first glimpse inside an asteroid, and the Greenland glacier that's retreating at a record pace. Show more
Is the proliferation of technology programmes on the BBC becoming confusing? Show more