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Analysis
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Analysis is a 9 minute current affairs programme that provides analysis of one topic per day by BBC Journalist. It gives thorough context for stories and issues in the news and is script-led and uses experts and those with first hand experience.
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Assignment
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A weekly current affairs programme which reports from locations around the world, examining topical issues from a global perspective, for a global audience. This is the programme where the BBC’s correspondents report first hand and indepth on events shaping our world.
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Business Daily
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A new daily 18 minute business programme is business with a difference. With a broader agenda than World Business Report, it brings more context to the big stories in business and economics. It includes interviews with newsmakers, key global players and those at the cutting edge of new ideas, plus topics such as technology and innovation, business ethics, the environment and management. It will also include features and profile columns.
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Charlie Gillet’s World of Music
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Charlie Gillett is one of the foremost experts on ‘World Music’. Every week he uses his unique knowledge to present the best contemporary and classic tracks from across the globe. Whether themed, from location or simply a pick of the best, Charlie provides half an hour of amazing music and background information.
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Close Up
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A weekly half hour documentary/feature which offers an in depth look at the best of the worlds culture. Close Up explores new and important creative trends. It also brings surprising insights into art and artists that have stood the test of time. Generally programmes will run in short series - with the occasional 'one off' documentary.
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Culture Shock
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Culture Shock is a new programme that looks across the world at trends in cultural expression – what are people thinking, buying, doing and why? From the next wave of telecommunications to the latest design craze or toy, from new ways to entertain to future behaviours. Intelligent, lively and thirsty for new knowledge – the programme presented by Tim Marlow is accessible & fun.
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Digital Planet
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Digital Planet is the programme that takes you inside the digital world. It covers every aspect of digital culture from education, entertainment and business, to consumerism, technology, and social change. The programme makes sense of the complexities of this rapidly evolving landscape and helping listeners to understand their place in it.
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Europe Today
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An hour of news reports, comments and interviews with politicians and opinion formers, from across Europe. The programme has a particular commitment to reporting business stories. It provides an indepth coverage of European political, economic and social affairs to an international audience.
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From Our Own Correspondent (FOOC)
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Each week From Our Own Correspondent asks BBC reporters around the world to give a personal perspective on news events in their area. It’s a programme which combines expert analysis with insight and anecdote from an informed, personal point of view.
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Global Business
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A weekly business programme for a general audience which reports on major business and workplace issues, emerging trends and significant personalities in global business, from many different countries and cultures around the world.
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Have Your Say
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Have Your Say (HYS) is a weekly global interactive programme on radio, television and online which invites World Service listeners, World television viewers and BBC online users to share their views and questions on one key issue with a worldwide audience. The programme often features a leading global figure who is invited to take questions from the audience.
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Health Check
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Health Check grapples with health issues on a global scale. This magazine style programme looks at discoveries and solutions in healthcare, tackles issues on conditions where there are no easy answers and examines the choices to be made by individuals or organisations trying to deliver a healthier world.
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Instant Guide
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The Instant Guide fills the gaps in our general knowledge, providing essential information on the key events, issues and topics of the day. It takes a current person, place, space, thing or idea and examines it in ways no other programme would aiming to inform listeners of things they really ought to know about in a fun way.
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News Bulletins
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Bulletins or summaries of global news, regularly updated and refreshed. A clear, concise, trustworthy and authoritative summary of what is happening of interest and significance around the world. News bulletins set the agenda and are the spine of the World Service’s programmes.
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Newshour
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A one hour daily flagship programme that goes out seven days a week and provides the latest news, interviews with newsmakers, eyewitnesses, correspondents and analysts; the best BBC reportage and features, debate and discussion. Global in reach, authoritative in style.
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One Planet
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One Planet gets to grips with the major issues and themes in the world of development and the environment. The perspective is truly global providing investigation and considered analysis on themes and trends that affect us all.
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Outlook
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Outlook is an hour long daily human interest current affairs programme. It’s about individuals and their stories. It’s concerned with how peoples lives have been affected by the big stories, events and trends across the world. Outlook invites listeners to participate in the programme, giving them a sense of global citizenship.
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Politics UK
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Politics UK is the weekly programme that covers political and policy issues in the UK, defined in the wider sense, including social, economic and cultural change throughout the UK. The programme debates trends; and Britain’s standing in the European Union and in the world. The programme will make the topics relevant to an international audience.
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Reporting Religion
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A half hour magazine programme analysing key religious affairs and the religious aspects of world news stories. Complementing current affairs output it clarifies the role and influence of religion on world events; briefs listeners on global religious stories; questions key topical religious figures and debates current religious/ethical questions.
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Science in Action
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A weekly look at science stories in and behind the news from around the world. From outer space to the inner workings of the human body, Science in Action tells you what’s happening and why it matters.
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Sports Round-up
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Constantly updated throughout the day, this highly illustrated round-up gives the listener a comprehensive review of all the news, action and results of the day’s major fixtures and events.
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The Beat
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A weekly half hour magazine programme about global popular music and the industry that surrounds it. It offers a ‘hot this week’ guide to important popular artists and their work and to the personalities and powers involved in the music industry. We hear about the stars who are successful on a global scale but also about thriving regional artists who are interesting to a world audience. AVAILABLE ONLY ON FTP
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The Interview
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A half hour long interview with prominent and/or interesting people from around the world. In a relaxed, friendly way the programme explores topical issues, personal motivation, family history and the interviewee’s aspirations. Authoritative yet intimate in style.
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The Ticket
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The Ticket is a weekly hour that takes listeners on a global journey through the world of arts, culture and entertainment. Presented by Mark Coles, it features the arts in the broadest sense and nothing creative is out of bounds. There are discussions and updates on all aspects of art and culture as well as live studio performances, celebrity guests and showbiz gossip.
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The Word
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Each week presenter Harriett Gilbert looks at the world of writing. The programme takes the broadest possible definition of literature across all written media. It explores the process of writing – as well as the results – and examines the literary industry itself. Once a month it features ‘World Book Club’, where the world’s best-known authors answer listeners’ questions in front of a live audience.
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The World Today
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The World Service Breakfast news and current affairs programme which sets the agenda for the day and provides the latest news, interviews and on the spot features on a wide range of subjects for breakfast audiences around the world. It also includes business and sport, and its broad agenda includes culture, lifestyle and health. Its style is friendly and relaxed.
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World Business Report
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A News programme which reports on and analyses significant developments in international business, finance and economics. This is the World Service’s business programme that is most news driven. The programme has a wide agenda, minimum figures and is accessible to a wide audience.
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World Business Review
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A half hour weekend discussion programme focused the main international business and economic stories of the week with guests chosen because of their first hand knowledge of the topics under discussion and their ability to highlight underlying trends and future developments.
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World Have Your Say
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World Have Your Say (WHYS) is a ground-breaking live global interactive programme on radio every weekday and online. It invites World Service listeners, and BBC online users, to share their views and questions on key issues each weekday with a worldwide audience. The programme features leading global figures, experts and correspondents who are invited to take questions and comments from the audience.
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World Update
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A one hour long global news and current affairs programme designed to brief listeners mainly in the USA but also around the world on the news agenda, to break news and move stories forward in an engaging and authoritative way. The programme includes news, interviews, features, reports, debates and discussions.
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