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Are E-cigarettes helping people stop smoking or encouraging them to start? Also your Ebola questions answered and why the use of xenon and argon gas has been banned for athletes. 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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Fergus Nicoll and guests
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Outlook
A Flying Elephant and the God of Sight
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Matthew Bannister and the moving story of a baby elephant flown in a light plane. Plus Nepal's 'God of Sight', Kinshasa's unique orchestra and a paralympian training in a warzone. Show more
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From Our Own Correspondent
Weekend Edition: Unusual Leisure Pursuits
25 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
From rowing choppy seas to reading poems on battlefields and dancing at Caribbean festivals, our correspondents indulge in remarkable freetime activities. Show more
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Should the remains of Sikh Prince Maharaja Duleep Singh be returned to India? Show more
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The secrets of rivers, from hidden underwater rivers flowing under our oceans to rivers venerated as givers of abundance. With Toby Wilkinson, Mathew Wells and Olwen Fouéré. Show more
Kitty Hart-Moxon's story of how she survived almost two years in the notorious Nazi death camp. Show more
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The internet and social networking have created the possibility of total recall for life's most significant moments. Peter Day reports. Show more
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The War That Changed the World
Turkey: Modernity and Secularism
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Turkey emerged from the First World War as a new republic, with a secular and modern identity, attempting to break from its Ottoman past. How has this influenced Turkey today? Show more
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Fresh violence threatens truce; first Japanese Grand Slam finalist; 9yr old jazz pianist
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Winifred Robinson reports on the child sex abuse scandal involving least 1,400 children in the English town of Rotherham. Show more
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We’ll keep reporting: A journalist’s reaction to the killing of a colleague 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.
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The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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Outlook
A Flying Elephant and the God of Sight
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Matthew Bannister and the moving story of a baby elephant flown in a light plane. Plus Nepal's 'God of Sight', Kinshasa's unique orchestra and a paralympian training in a warzone. Show more
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World Book Club
Pat Barker - Regeneration
53 minutes
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The author discusses the psychological impact of World War I Show more
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Newshour
UK offers Scotland more powers ahead of independence vote
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
UK offers Scotland more powers ahead of independence vote; Michael Ignatieff on the Canadian example; sound man remembers Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood.
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"For me paintings are the best and most direct inspiration" - Lang Lang Show more
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Trending
How Iranians Have Morphed the Ice Bucket Challenge
18 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
How Iranians are adapting in order to take part in the Ice Bucket Challenge. Plus, people using Facebook to appeal for donations for individuals - how credible are they? Show more
The ALS ice bucket challenge viral phenomenon has raised over $100m. Is this good for charitable giving overall, and should we be more choosy about the charities we give to? Show more
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Rebecca Morelle examines how children could be born with DNA from three people. The UK might be the first country in the world to make this legal. Show more
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The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.
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Outlook
A Flying Elephant and the God of Sight
28 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Matthew Bannister and the moving story of a baby elephant flown in a light plane. Plus Nepal's 'God of Sight', Kinshasa's unique orchestra and a paralympian training in a warzone. 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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The Why Factor
The 100th Programme: The Life of Why
18 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
In the 100th edition of The Why Factor, Mike Williams explores what we have learnt about our existence; from birth to burial, with much more along the way. Show more
The ALS ice bucket challenge viral phenomenon has raised over $100m. Is this good for charitable giving overall, and should we be more choosy about the charities we give to? Show more
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The secrets of rivers, from hidden underwater rivers flowing under our oceans to rivers venerated as givers of abundance. With Toby Wilkinson, Mathew Wells and Olwen Fouéré. Show more
Talk back to the BBC and challenge the programme makers.
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The discovery of 'Dreadnought' Dino; Engineering microbes to make propane in the lab; Opium-making bacteria; Snail fur and growing limbs. Show more
