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Every month on BBC World Service Radio, presenter Harriett Gilbert chairs a World Book Club discussion with an internationally acclaimed author about one of their best-known books, in front of an invited...
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Chinua Achebe, originally broadcast on 27 July 1986 in the AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES series on the BBC World Service. Chinua Achebe talks to Fiona Ledger about: 1)...
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Margaret Atwood, originally broadcast on 18 November 1996 as a Meridian feature on the BBC World Service. Margaret Atwood talks to Harriet Gould about: 1) the...
On 5 July 1948, the National Health Service was launched with the proud expectation that it would make the UK the ‘envy of the world’. This collection of programme extracts, party political broadcasts,...
Focuses on the findings of the World Commission on Dams, launched by Nelson Mandela in November 2000. Visits three countries to investigate the effects of the dams built there. In Brazil and Thailand local...
A radio series from BBC English, the teaching arm of the BBC World Service which introduces and explains the main schools of literary criticism in the 20th century. Each critic is asked to illustrate their...
Two episodes from the popular BBC2 programme. Once notorious for bad, overpriced food and outdated facilities, now the big companies that run them say they are spending millions to transform their sites...
In 1981 the government of Mozambique stressed development that benefited the majority and not just the elite. The expanding health service won praise world-wide, and the economy was growing. Mozambique even...
Looks at the forces shaping the market in the television industry. With the pressure of new services and financial contraints, and the globalisation of the media, the programme looks at how a public service...
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