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Spitfire: The People’s Plane

Spitfire: The People’s Plane

Women take control

Duration: 18 minutes

on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

The new Spitfires need to be flown to RAF bases desperate for reinforcements. That’s the job of the ATA Girls - the female flyers of World War Two. Show more

Music Life

'Are you proud of your music?' with Billy Nomates, Simone Marie Butler, Xenia Rubinos and Radie Peat

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

Billy Nomates, Simone Marie Butler, Xenia Rubinos and Radie Peat talk about living up to expectations, and the songs they write when they think no one else will hear them. Show more

From Our Own Correspondent

North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un cracks down on foreign influence

Duration: 23 minutes

on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

Having an unusual haircut or using South Korean slang: both can now earn North Koreans a prison sentence, with particularly severe punishment for watching foreign movies. Show more

The Cultural Frontline

Beatie Wolfe: Art against climate change

Duration: 27 minutes

on BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Available for over a year

Beatie Wolfe is a musician and experimental artist whose latest work is part music video, part protest piece, tackling climate change using 800,000 years of historic NASA data Show more

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