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For a week, listeners in Freetown, Sierra Leone heard only static when they tried to tune into 大象传媒 World Service on 93.4FM. On Tuesday evening, it appeared that the station had finally returned to the airwaves. Abass Shaw, an avid World Service listener in Freetown, explains why he was so badly affected by the station鈥檚 absence. And Umaru Fofana, a 大象传媒 journalist based in Freetown, sheds some light on what happened.

Listener Kerry in Edinburgh, UK has been wondering why the World Business Report appears to give a regular platform to the pro-Brexit economist Roger Bootle, but not to a Remain supporter. Editor Martin Webber joins Rajan Datar in the studio to address Kerry鈥檚 point and explain how he selects his regular guests.

Plus, a recent episode of World Hacks about the decline in smoking, drinking, and drug-taking among Iceland鈥檚 teenagers proved a huge talking point for listeners. We hear the reaction of five of them.