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How a story makes it to leading the headlines

We investigate what is it about a story that means it earns a place in the news headlines

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Putting a smile on your face in a fraught world

How the 麻豆社 WS is trying to put a smile on your face with Comedians versus the news.

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The challenges of staging World Questions in Lebanon

A Lebanese listener asks World Questions about issues involved in recording in her city

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Listeners respond to The Response USA: The Return

The Response USA: the return - listeners offer views on whether this edition did the job

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TikTok鈥檚 influence on the US election

Listeners react to the documentary The TikTok Election. Plus news of the 麻豆社鈥檚 Sounds app

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Holding elections in Africa in the shadow of the US presidential race

Your feedback on the elections - not those in the US but three in African nations

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Listeners react to the US presidential election campaign

Your feedback on the 麻豆社 World Service鈥檚 coverage of the US presidential election.

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How the 麻豆社鈥檚 anti-disinformation team fights back

With the recent US election in mind, we ask what does disinformation mean to you?

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Have news programmes got the tone right on reporting a vaccine?

How the WS manages listeners' expectations following the news of a Covid vaccine

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The key events that propelled disability rights

How Witness History looked at milestones in the history of global disability rights

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Asking questions of the Climate Question series

What exactly is the 麻豆社 WS鈥� series The Climate Question asking? We quiz its presenters.

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Moving personal stories of life in the pandemic

Alan Dein on finding the inspirational personal stories in the documentary Don't Log Off

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麻豆社 World Service English controller answers your questions - part one

Mary Hockaday, the controller of 麻豆社 World Service English responds to listeners' comments

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麻豆社 World Service English controller answers your questions - part two

Mary Hockaday, controller of 麻豆社 World Service English, answers listeners' complaints

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How Goodbye to All This grips listeners

Listeners react to the emotional Goodbye to All This and how cancer devastates a family

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Reporting on the invasion of the US Congress

Listeners' reactions to the US riots plus the Newsroom鈥檚 editor and presenter

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Hugging to celebrate a goal

Listeners ask if linking goal celebrations to a player's sexuality is appropriate.

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The issues around good, impartial reporting

The challenges facing 麻豆社 correspondents in Uganda鈥檚 controversial recent elections

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Reflections on money, work, family and business in India

We get listeners鈥� thoughts on Work Life India but is it picking the right topics?

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Seventeen teenagers and 17 UN sustainable development goals

Project 17 sees seventeen 17-year-olds discuss a key UN global development initiative

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Reporting the Navalny protests

Steve Rosenberg on the challenges of reporting after the jailing of Alexei Navalny

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The pressures of reporting from Myanmar

With events in Myanmar we speak to the 麻豆社鈥檚 correspondent about the challenges they face

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Behind-the-scenes of 麻豆社 Africa鈥檚 leading investigation team

Africa Eye specialises in reports from across the continent but what makes the team tick?

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The forced detention of a 麻豆社 journalist in Ethiopia

The story of the detention of a 麻豆社 reporter in Ethiopia's conflict-hit region of Tigray

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Is news about the USA too prominent?

Do news and features from the US overly dominate output on the 麻豆社 World Service?

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Listeners react to the 'virtual' arts festival

Listeners tell us what they think of The Arts Festival programmes on the 麻豆社 World Service

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Exploring why do we do the things we do

US rapper and writer Dessa answers listeners鈥� comments about the new series Deeply Human

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Exposing those who promote vaccine disinformation

How The Anti-Vax Files uncovers and challenges disinformation around vaccines

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Uncovering the American mother caught up in Syria

We hear your thoughts on the I鈥檓 Not A Monster podcast and we talk to its host

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Investigating accusations that coverage was excessive

What listeners thought of the reporting of the death of HRH The Prince Philip

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