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Fact checking and reporter safety in Ukraine

The foreign editor for ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service’s 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’s presenter tells us how stories are chosen

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Are news reports too distressing to listen to?

How ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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’s slave owning past

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An observer of the geopolitical state of our world

´óÏó´«Ã½ World Affairs editor John Simpson on his new series Unspun World and what it offers

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A compelling story of women’s 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 ´óÏó´«Ã½'s special Platinum Jubilee programming?

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The challenges of revealing a defector’s story

How the ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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’s ruling

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

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Covering the week’s biggest stories in technology

The Tech Tent team on how to choose the right stories from the world of technology

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Is the ´óÏó´«Ã½ committed to achieving impartiality?

Research says there’s a perception that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is not fulfilling its impartiality remit

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The Bomb: The making of a new series

In The Bomb we meet a Soviet spy - but does the series overdramatise, listeners ask?

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Discovering the Large Hadron Collider

Can you really make complex physics such as Higgs Boson accessible to a general audience?

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Exploring media freedom in Kenya during elections

We ask ´óÏó´«Ã½ Africa what challenges its team face in reporting the Kenyan elections.

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Reporting protesters on the streets of Colombo

What were the challenges of covering the recent civil unrest in Sri Lanka?

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Challenges facing the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s teams in Afghanistan

How the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service marked a year since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan

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The story of award-winning podcast Dear Daughter

How Dear Daughter came out of a listener’s desire to write letters to her young child

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Explaining some inconvenient truths

Does highlighting the problems of green energy set a shift back to fossil fuels?

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Listeners react to Global Britain after Boris Johnson

Listeners tell us what they think of a profile of Boris Johnson as he stands down as PM

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The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Listeners' comments and feedback on how the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service reported the events

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More listener reactions to the death of the Queen

Listeners give us their feedback on coverage of the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II

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The Music Life debate resumes

We hear from listeners who are both complimentary and critical of Music Life

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