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Newshour
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Newsroom
The Newsroom is where the BBC's worldwide network of correspondents tell the stories of the day - clearly and concisely providing compelling journalism, eyewitness accounts, context and analysis.
Top of the Pops
Long-running music chart show featuring videos and performances
Business Weekly
The most compelling reports and interviews from the BBC's business programmes over the past week, examining the huge issues facing policymakers and asking what the future holds for our working lives.
The Cultural Frontline
Every week the programme carves out a space for journalistic responses to cultural moments and culturally informed reflections on current affairs, unfolding across the world.
BBC Trending
Explaining the stories the world is sharing in social media.
Over to You
A weekly interactive programme offering listeners the chance to air their views and put forward their questions and comments about BBC World Service programmes.
The Science Hour
Highlighting science, tech, & more
Worklifeindia
Debate, stories and features about life in India today
Story; The
Story; The
More or Less
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life.
The Documentary
In-depth investigations and reports reveal a window on the world to help you understand what lies behind the headlines.
From Our Own Correspondent
Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world.
This is Africa
With the hot new tunes from every corner of the motherland, This Is Africa is a weekly showcase of all-Africa musical talent.
Weekend
A review of the week with the latest news. Two guests discuss and comment on themes and ideas from the week's news, covering the realms of politics, science, music and the arts.
CrowdScience
We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.
Outlook Weekend
Compelling real life stories
BBC OS
BBC OS is an exercise in open journalism. It offers insights into how the news is made and how decisions are taken about the BBC’s coverage of stories.
Heart & Soul
R&B from today and back in the day.
The Compass
Longer factual series exploring topics in greater depth, to explain the world with a narrative arc across a number of weeks. Every series reflects something new and essential about the 21st century with the very best presenters.
The Inquiry
Experts analyse a pressing question from the news.
Assignment
The world's stories from the point of view of those most affected by them - the victims, the witnesses - and the perpetrators.
The Forum
Bridget Kendall presents an ideas discussion show which tackles the big questions of our age with some of the world's most eminent minds.
Sportsworld
Live commentary from the English Premier League, topical sporting debate and big name interviews.
When Katty Met Carlos
A series that looks at the themes reshaping America’s future. Katty Kay is one of the BBC’s most distinguished presenters and an expert on US politics. Carlos Watson is a successful journalist and entrepreneur. Both have a reputation for hosting great interviews and each offers a different perspective. Together with their guests they will debate what happens next in America…
Music Life
Where msuic stars dicuss how they make their music.
Discovery
Discovery explores today's most significant scientific discoveries and talks to the scientists behind them.
World Business Report
The latest business and finance news from around the world.
HARDtalk
Hardtalk interviews newsmakers and personalities from across the globe.
The Conversation
Success stories from two women from two cultures on the passions that have shaped their lives.
Sporting Witness
The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history.
Climate Question
A global, topical weekly show examining climate change and how to stop it.
Newsday
Get an immediate handle on the trends that are shaping the world with the BBC's new international news show, presented live from London. Tune in and join in the conversation.
Business Daily
The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
Witness
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
Outlook
Compelling real life stories
Sport Today
The BBC's sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news with interviews and reports from across the world.
The History Hour
First hand historical encounters
Business Matters
Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.
People Fixing the World
Embracing the principles of ‘solution-focussed journalism’, this weekly programme takes on the big and small problems of our time - and those who are trying to solve them. Presented by an international team of journalists with the courage to challenge, probe, and share the humour and humanity behind positive change.
In the Studio
Do you ever wonder how the world's leading creative people work, think, develop? We follow leading artists, designers, musicians, dancers, directors and creatives of all types as they make their work.
The Arts Hour
Music, TV, books, film and the arts – everything that's new in global culture.
Digital Planet
For the best debate on global technology, social media and the internet, every week we explore the latest digital news, gadgets and trends.
Health Check
Health Check grapples with health issues on a global scale, investigates discoveries and solutions in healthcare, and looks at how to deliver a healthier world. Presented by Claudia Hammond.
The Food Chain
The economics, science and culture of what we eat. What does it take to put food on your plate?
Science In Action
Science in Action discusses the impact and implications of the latest international scientific news and research - from outer space to the inner workings of the human body.
World Football
Football's biggest stories of the week on the BBC.
Tech Tent
Rory Cellan-Jones on the latest stories in the tech world.
The Real Story
BBC correspondents look at a topic in the news indepth.
The Fifth Floor
A fresh look at global news
Stumped
The weekly cricket show from BBC Sport in association with ABC and All India Radio brings you lively, informative and humorous debate.
The Story
This is where the world’s stories are heard in detail, piece by piece, episode by episode. These series of reports are a chance to experience the human stories that explain our world. This is in-depth reporting from across the globe about issues that affect us all.
Sportshour
Shining a light on the world's sport stories and issues. Sportshour draws on the expertise of our sport correspondents around the world, and is presented by Caroline Barker.
Fergus Nicoll
Fergus Nicoll joined the BBC as a producer for the African Service before moving to reporting for BBC 's Cairo Bureau. Following several years at BBC World TV, he returned to news-gathering as a World Affairs Correspondent, filing reports from Cameroon rainforests to Sarajevo refugee settlements.
Razia Iqbal
Razia Iqbal is one of the main hosts of Newshour, the flagship current affairs programme of the BBC World service. She has worked for the BBC for twenty-five years. She began her career in the newsroom and was soon sent to Pakistan as a reporter. She was the BBC 's arts correspondent for ten years and travelled all over the world covering cultural stories.
Jamie Commerasamy
Jamie Commerasamy is a regular presenter of Newshour since 2010. Before that, James presented the BBC 's daily European affairs programme, Europe Today. He is also a presenter on BBC World News TV. James has spent 15 years as a BBC correspondent, with postings in Washington, Paris, Warsaw and Moscow.
James Menendez
James Menendez joined BBC Newshour as a regular anchor in 2012 having worked as a host, correspondent, and international producer for the BBC. He is also a regular anchor on BBC World News TV. James has also worked for the BBC as a world affairs producer, which included deployments to a range of countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kuwait between 2001 and 2003.
Dan Damon
Dan started out as a BBC radio technical operator before leaving to cover wars and revolutions in countries from Mongolia to Albana with a freelance news team that included his wife, a camera operator. He returned to the BBC as a reporter covering environmental, energy and human rights issues.
Owen Bennet Jones
A BBC anchor for almost 20 years, Owen Bennett-Jones was a BBC correspondent in Romania right after the revolution and covered Europe, Asia and the Middle East reporting on crises in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Owen also writes for UK newspapers such as The Guardian and Financial Times.
Julian Marshall
Julian has been presenting Newshour for quarter of a century! His BBC career began in the mid-seventies with the World Service 's Africa division when he reported from all over the continent at a time of considerable political turbulence. And he likes to draw on that background as a Newshour presenter. Along the way he 's picked up four Sony gold medals either individually or as part of the team. He 's most proud of his award for the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990. Married with four children Julian likes to relax with long distance walks on the west coast of Wales.
Max Pearson
Max has been a BBC World Service lead anchor for more than 20 years. He first worked on BBC radio but resigned to see the world after completing his post-graduate work in broadcast journalism. After traveling the Middle East, India, Pakistan and the Far East, the World Service is a natural for him.
Tim Franks
Tim Franks joined BBC World Service radio in 1990, becoming an award-winning foreign correspondent for the BBC, before returning to London in 2010. He is now a main anchor on BBC World Service 's leading international current affairs programme Newshour.
Jo Fidgen
Jo Fidgen anchors BBC World Service programs, including rolling news coverage on stories including the Iraq war, the Beslan siege and the London bombings. She has been a reporter, producer and anchor on several BBC networks and edited a documentary series Learning to Solve the World 's Problems.
Roger Hearing
After starting out at the Birmingham Post newspaper, Roger was a BBC correspondent in South Asia, Southern Europe and East Africa for about 10 years before returning to the UK, reporting and anchoring mainly for the BBC World Service and BBC World TV.
Lyse Doucet
A BBC TV and radio anchor and correspondent, Lyse Doucet often anchors special news coverage from around the world. She interviews world leaders such as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and covers breaking stories such as the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami on India and Indonesia.

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