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Over to You

Listener bugbears on truncating news interviews

Why do live interviewees sometimes get abruptly cut short by the interviewer?

Oona Chaplin reveals her grandfather’s blacklist

Your views on Hollywood Exiles and how Charlie Chaplin ended up on a blacklist

Your reaction to schedule and programming changes

As BBC World Service English announces schedule changes, what do listeners think?

How has Stumped evolved over its 10-year innings?

We ask if sports fans are bowled over by the World Service's cricket programme

The Reith Lectures: A tradition since 1948

Your thoughts on the BBC's annual lecture series

Ask the BBC World Service English controller 2023

Listeners’ tell us about what they’ve heard in the past year

Is news fatigue something you worry about?

We hear listeners’ thoughts on the BBC WS’s reporting of ongoing global events

Do listeners enjoy World Service's arts programmes?

We look at arts on the World Service with the In the Studio and Cultural Frontline teams

A success for the women’s international game?

We hear your thoughts on the BBC’s coverage of the women's football World Cup

Explaining a solutions-focused documentary

Your reaction to the story of a schoolboy on a mission to recycle billions of batteries

The transition from live radio show to podcast

How is the change to Focus On Africa being primarily a podcast going down with listeners?

Appealing to readers for over two decades

World Book Club’s Harriett Gilbert explains how she appeals to non-heavy readers

After schedule changes are made, it’s over to you

After four programmes are dropped, you tell us what you think of the changes

Listeners’ review of the past year on the World Service

We hear your thoughts on what you heard on the BBC World Service over the past 12 months

Ask the controller 2022: Part two

The controller of BBC World Service English looks ahead to 2023

Ask the controller 2022: Part one

The controller of BBC World Service English, Jon Zilkha, responds to your questions

Challenges facing the BBC’s teams in Afghanistan

How the BBC World Service marked a year since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan

Reporting protesters on the streets of Colombo

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

A compelling story of women’s football in Ukraine

Listeners react to Surviving the Siege of Mariupol

Has the war given disinformation a boost?

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

How should the BBC be funded?

Listeners’ reactions to the news that future BBC funding is due for a review

Ros Atkins on analysing news

Listeners quiz presenter Ros Atkins on how his extended news analysis series is made

Meeting the man behind the music show This Is Africa

Listeners quiz DJ Edu about selecting songs and promoting African musicians

Reporting COP26

Listeners tell us what they think of the BBC’s coverage of the COP 26 climate conference

Your thoughts on the story of the HIV-Aids crisis

We hear your comments on The Story of Aids and speak with the show’s producer

Striking the right note for the Proms

What are the challenges of broadcasting the Proms and its classical music globally?

Did the BBC WS Olympics coverage cross the finishing line?

Listeners tell us what they think of the BBC World Service’s coverage of the Olympics

A daring bank raid and a disinformation specialist’s radio diary

What listeners thought of the Lazarus Heist, a story of a most daring bank theft

Uncovering the American mother caught up in Syria

We hear your thoughts on the I’m Not A Monster podcast and we talk to its host

Behind-the-scenes of BBC Africa’s leading investigation team

Africa Eye specialises in reports from across the continent but what makes the team tick?

Asking questions of the Climate Question series

What exactly is the BBC WS’ series The Climate Question asking? We quiz its presenters.

The pros and cons of the immersive documentary

Listeners’ react to the immersive documentary that adopts some techniques used in drama

Do fake football crowd sounds do it for you?

Live football is back, but is it better with or without fake crowd sounds?

How can reporters avoid causing panic about coronavirus?

The continuing threat of coronavirus and getting access to the people and places affected

How is the newly created series Music Life settling in?

Why BBC WS has merged all of its music programming into one new show, Music Life

How Africa Eye exposed sex for grades

How BBC Africa Eye revealed sexual harassment at some of Africa’s top universities

When reports are seen as too one-sided

Was Heart and Soul’s highly personal report on having large families too one-sided?

Ideas that shape the global economy

'50 Things …' tells the stories of game changing inventions - but is it fact or opinion?

How science coverage could change

Do science programmes do it for you and how might they change in the future?

How podcasts have become mainstream

Have podcasts added a new dimension to the way you listen to the BBC World Service?

Reporting the biggest democratic poll ever held

Battling the threat of fake news in the biggest democratic poll ever held in the world

Investigating the roots of sexism in France

Not#MeToo, I'm French investigated sexism, but is France the world’s worst example?