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Painting pictures of a football match with words

What are the challenges of being a football commentator for the 大象传媒? John Murray explains

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Why some listeners say they need to be entertained!

Your views on the listener who wanted more entertainment and less news on World Service

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Ask the controller: Part one

The controller of 大象传媒 World Service English responds to questions, favourable or critical

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Ask the controller: Part two

The controller of 大象传媒 WS English responds to more of your views, favourable and critical

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大象传媒 World Service: The highs and lows of 2021

During Desmond Tutu's funeral, why did a presenter talk over South Africa鈥檚 president?

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Exploring the dark undergrowth of modern America

Listeners tell us what they think about Gabriel Gatehouse鈥檚 new series The Coming Storm

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How less can often be more

Listeners put their comments to Tim Harford, host of numbers show More Or Less

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How should the 大象传媒 be funded?

Listeners鈥� reactions to the news that future 大象传媒 funding is due for a review

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Making the documentary Music that Survived the Nazis

How the documentary, Music that Survived the Nazis, was made and what listeners thought

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Making coverage of Africa Cup of Nations possible

The man who made the 大象传媒鈥檚 coverage of the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations possible

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Was an exclusive Djokovic interview too dominant?

Listeners ask if an interview with a leading tennis player should have been so dominant.

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A series about bringing peace in conflict zones

Listeners' thoughts on Women Building Peace and those who bring calm to conflict zones

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Maintaining balance and impartiality in conflicts

Listeners react to the coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine

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Fact checking and reporter safety in Ukraine

The foreign editor for 大象传媒 News, Paul Danahar, responds to listeners' questions

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It is not a question of quality but quantity

What our audience think of the 大象传媒 World Service鈥檚 coverage of the war in Ukraine

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Exploring OS Conversations and Learning English

We speak to the team behind OS Conversations to ask how subjects are chosen

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Exploring the Explanation for answers

The Explanation and the show鈥檚 presenter tells us how stories are chosen

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Are news reports too distressing to listen to?

How 大象传媒 correspondents are having to document truly horrifying sights in Ukraine

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Has the war given disinformation a boost?

We return to the ongoing issue which is worrying many listeners: disinformation

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Helping listeners connect the strands of history

How Mai Noman set out to answers questions about the killing of her grandfather

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Reporting the French presidential election

What were the challenges in reporting a divisive French presidential election?

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Putting the opinions of youth centre stage

Why the Climate Question gave young delegates a global voice six months after COP 26

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New podcast Lives Less Ordinary

Lives Less Ordinary is from the team who produce Outlook. So what lies in store?

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What is it like to report on a slave-owning past?

Listeners give their thoughts on Laura Trevelyan exploring her family鈥檚 slave owning past

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An observer of the geopolitical state of our world

大象传媒 World Affairs editor John Simpson on his new series Unspun World and what it offers

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A compelling story of women鈥檚 football in Ukraine

Listeners react to Surviving the Siege of Mariupol

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Behind the scenes of the Platinum Jubilee

Did you have to be a royalist to enjoy the 大象传媒's special Platinum Jubilee programming?

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The challenges of revealing a defector鈥檚 story

How the 大象传媒 WS got the inside story on life at the top of the North Korean regime

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A particularly curious case for a science show

Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry explain how their show The Curious Cases is put together

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Reaction to the US Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling

We hear what listeners think about the WS鈥檚 reporting of the Roe v Wade abortion law

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