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Health Check
Using Frozen Faecal Matter to Treat Gut Infection
29 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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How frozen faecal transplants can cure gut infection; The women dying from silicone buttock injections in Venezuela; How a mother’s diet can influence the genes of her baby. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Presented by Paul Henley with guests Dom Joly and Helen Scales.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Presented by Paul Henley with guests Dom Joly and Helen Scales.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Presented by Paul Henley with guests Dom Joly and Helen Scales.
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Outlook
Prejudice, Thrillers and Reggae
29 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Italy's first black cabinet minister Cécile Kyenge tells Matthew Bannister about prejudice. Plus, thriller writer David Baldacci, India's 90-year-old sex guru, and Ziggy Marley. Show more
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From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition: Moving With the Times
25 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Global stories of adjusting to new realities, from migrant workers in the USA; Qatari families; South Africa's mines; Bahamian mailboats, Algerian politics and homes in Gaza. Show more
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Heart and Soul
Betraying the Faith - Abuse in Jewish Brooklyn
Betraying the Faith: Abuse in Jewish Brooklyn
27 minutes on BBC World Service Online
The culture of secrecy and denial surrounding the crime of child sexual abuse among New York's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Show more
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BBC Africa Debate
South Africa Decides: Is Democracy Delivering?
55 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Has the ANC betrayed the values it championed for so many years? Show more
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What are businesses doing to reinvent the battery? Show more
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A turning point in the history of colonialism, that lost France Indochina and won Vietnam for Ho Chi Minh. Show more
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Newshour
Ukraine PM blames Odessa police
55 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
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Unexpected Elements
Chernobyl Birds, Exo Skeleton, Frozen Faecal Transplants
50 minutes on BBC World Service Online
How birds in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl are adapting to – and may even be benefiting from – long-term exposure to radiation. Show more
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A journalist narrowly escapes a kidnapping in eastern Ukraine by being very Canadian. 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
Prejudice, Thrillers and Reggae
29 minutes on BBC World Service Online
Available for over a year
Italy's first black cabinet minister Cécile Kyenge tells Matthew Bannister about prejudice. Plus, thriller writer David Baldacci, India's 90-year-old sex guru, and Ziggy Marley. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Best-selling thriller writer Harlan Coben talks to Harriett Gilbert about his novel Six Years and answers questions from a live audience . Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Newshour
Nigerian President speaks about abducted girls
55 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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President Jonathan promises to rescue girls; Gerry Adams released; what is the future of journalism?
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'If Pompeii was the Vegas of its time, I would be Mike Tyson' - Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Show more
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Trending
How Fresh is Neymar’s Banana?
18 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Shoplifting communities on Tumblr - #BBCTrending investigate the online ‘Bling Ring’. And, why the global anti-racism #weareallmonkeys might not be all it seems. Show more
More or Less
Did Sir Roger Bannister make the ‘impossible’ possible?
11 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Sir Roger Bannister was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes 60 years ago. Did positive thinking propel dozens to do the same the year after? Show more
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Discovery
Whatever Happened to Biofuels - Part Two
27 minutes on BBC World Service Online
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Gaia Vince takes to the water of Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland to see an experiment in growing algae that can be turned into fuel. And could bacteria produce petrol? Show more
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The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.
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Outlook
Prejudice, Thrillers and Reggae
29 minutes on BBC World Service Online
Available for over a year
Italy's first black cabinet minister Cécile Kyenge tells Matthew Bannister about prejudice. Plus, thriller writer David Baldacci, India's 90-year-old sex guru, and Ziggy Marley. 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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Why do humans kiss? You might think it is a universal act, something that we all do. But when early European explorers travelled the world, they met tribes that didn’t kiss. Show more
More or Less
Did Sir Roger Bannister make the ‘impossible’ possible?
11 minutes on BBC World Service Online
Available for over a year
Sir Roger Bannister was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes 60 years ago. Did positive thinking propel dozens to do the same the year after? Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Microscopic tails on cells, hair on the head, fur on animals – why these slender filaments are essential to life. With Philip Beales, Ralf Paus and Adeline de Monseignat. Show more
How much coverage is the Scottish independence referendum getting on the World Service? Show more
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Birds adapting to radiation in Chernobyl; Deep sea mining of copper and gold from hydrothermal vents; Tales from the EGU; Insect sounds of Borneo Show more