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ON NOW : BBC News
19/05/2013

BBC News The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.

ON NEXT : 11:06 The Forum

Your World

Your World Episode guide

  1. Sporting Chances

    Farayi Mungazi looks at the close links between sport and national identity.

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  2. Soap Operas - Art Imitating Life

    Exploring the notion that soap operas shape societies in subtle but profound ways.

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  3. Global Perspectives: Chatsworth - A Chance For Change

    The bitter taste of 'sugars' and the addicts' chance for change.

    First broadcast: 14 Apr 2012

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    over a year left to play

  4. The Strange World of the People's Mujahedin

    The People's Mujahedin of Iran - terrorists, victims or Iranian government-in-waiting?

    First broadcast: 07 Apr 2012

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    over a year left to play

  5. Neon Cowboy

    Writer Bart Bull explores the extraordinary story of the Neon Cowboy.

    First broadcast: 31 Mar 2012

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    over a year left to play

  6. The Secret Policemen

    Secrecy for Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland can be a life or death situation.

    First broadcast: 24 Mar 2012

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    over a year left to play

  7. Torture By Music

    Ruhal Ahmed spent two years in Guantanamo Bay, where he was repeatedly tortured with music

    First broadcast: 17 Mar 2012

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    over a year left to play

  8. The Bizarre and Influential World of Alice Cooper

    A profile of musician Alice Cooper - how has he shaped rock performance around the globe?

    First broadcast: 10 Mar 2012

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    over a year left to play

  9. African Perspective: The Dream Home

    Meet the Kenyan woman who has opened her home to 49 orphaned children.

    First broadcast: 03 Mar 2012

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    over a year left to play

  10. Life In Many Voices

    Experiences of patients and medical staff whose lives converge in a Jerusalem Eye Hospital

    First broadcast: 25 Feb 2012

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    over a year left to play

  11. A Family Business

    Mair Bosworth looks at conflict between generations in a small family business in London.

    First broadcast: 19 Feb 2012

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    over a year left to play

  12. Lisdoonvarna – Ireland’s Love Capital

    Alison Finch meets one of Ireland's last traditional matchmakers.

    First broadcast: 11 Feb 2012

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    over a year left to play

  13. Dreaming Dickens

    A dream-walk with Charles Dickens through the London night.

    First broadcast: 04 Feb 2012

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    over a year left to play

  14. The Antartic Explorer

    Retracing the route of Antarctic explorer Frank Wild, Shackleton's second-in-command.

    First broadcast: 14 Jan 2012

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    over a year left to play

  15. The Women Of Tahrir Square

    Why some women are disappointed and angry at the Egyptian revolution's failures.

    First broadcast: 07 Jan 2012

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    over a year left to play

  16. Goodbye To Bush House

    John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House.

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  17. Boundaries Of Blood

    Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan.

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  18. Knitting In Tripoli

    An intimate story of life during the Libyan war.

    First broadcast: 03 Dec 2011

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    over a year left to play

  19. The Trouble With Condoms

    Frank and intimate personal stories of why the safe sex message is still so often ignored.

    First broadcast: 26 Nov 2011

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    over a year left to play

  20. The Boy With The Violin

    Priyath Liyanage goes to Sri Lanka in search of the boy with the violin.

    First broadcast: 19 Nov 2011

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    over a year left to play

  21. A Short History Of Story

    Noah Richler asks why humans from the earliest times have felt the need to tell stories.

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  22. Musical Migrants

    Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music.

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  23. Lives In Landscape

    Alan Dein explores the impact of the recent riots in England on one London man

    First broadcast: 15 Oct 2011

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    over a year left to play

  24. Down and Out in Paris and London

    We retrace George Orwell's account of poverty in Paris and London, 80 years on.

    First broadcast: 08 Oct 2011

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    over a year left to play

  25. Listening Post

    A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals.

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  26. Always Hope: Cambodia's New Music

    How Cambodia's new bands are promising signs of a culture in recovery.

    First broadcast: 17 Sep 2011

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    over a year left to play

  27. Iconic Geometry

    Cecil Balmond examines the shapes that define three of the world's iconic structures

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  28. The Too Hard Basket

    Why disabled people have as much right to a sex life as the able bodied

    First broadcast: 20 Aug 2011

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    over a year left to play

  29. The Day the Wall Went Up

    On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context.

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  30. The Education of Ashif Jaffer

    Can a young Canadian man with Down's Syndrome get a university degree?

    First broadcast: 13 Aug 2011

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    over a year left to play

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