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(C) BBC 2007
audioThis podcast has been relaunched. If you receive this message, then you will need to resubscribe to get future episodes. You can find the new version and more information about subscribing at bbc.co.uk/podcasts
audioIt reads like a soap opera, but this is not fiction: round-the-clock confinement, crippling illness, rape, escape, suicide and murder - women who go overseas to work as maids often encounter unforeseen terror and tragedy.
audioIn the tremendous upheaval of Indian partition in 1947, two complete strangers, one Muslim and one Hindu, help each other to survive.
audioPaul Bakibinga explores some of the ways individuals, communities and governments are trying to tackle obesity.
audioUkraine and Moldova... Are thay caught in a no man's land between the EU and Russia?
audioHomosexuality is one of the world's biggest taboos. Clare English explores what it is like to be gay and asks why some societies are more tolerant than others?
audioIlana Rehavia travels to Japan to uncover what is behind the country's intricate and highly specific sex industry.
audioPaul Bakibinga travels to the suburbs and townships of South Africa to meet people struggling with their weight, and to find out what lies behind the obesity explosion.
audioTurkey seeks EU membership despite a fraught relationship with Europe.
audioTwo Ukranian women, classmates when they were at school in Kiev, married husbands in Israel and Lebanon, on different sides of the Middle Eastern political divide.
(C) BBC 2007
audioThis podcast has been relaunched. If you receive this message, then you will need to resubscribe to get future episodes. You can find the new version and more information about subscribing at bbc.co.uk/podcasts
(C) BBC 2007
audioThis podcast has been relaunched. If you receive this message, then you will need to resubscribe to get future episodes. You can find the new version and more information about subscribing at bbc.co.uk/podcasts
(C) BBC 2007
audioThis podcast has been relaunched. If you receive this message, then you will need to resubscribe to get future episodes. You can find the new version and more information about subscribing at bbc.co.uk/podcasts
2007-07-21 (3716 days old [21/07/07])
audioDespatches from the BBC's foreign correspondents.This week Bill Law examines the growing tension between Bahrain's majority Shia Muslim population and its ruling Sunni Muslim elite and Hugh Sykes explodes a few myths after touring Turkey in the lead up to its elections. Peter Biles reports from Beit Bridge, the only official crossing point between Zimbabwe and South Africa and Mark Doyle finds reasons to be cheerful over the impact of debt relief on Nigeria. In Washington, Justin Webb considers the importance of the summer vacation to American life.
(C) BBC 2007
audioIn this the final edition of Go Digital we discuss the progress of the UN's plan to connect every village in the world to the internet by 2015. As a counterpoint we speak to someone who thinks the expansion of digital technology should all be left in the hands of the free market. We talk to an annoying robot - an essential gadget for the future according to our own technology analyst Bill Thompson. Finally we introduce our new programme Digital Planet, which you'll be able to hear on the BBC World Service from next tuesday and download to your mp3 player in the same way as this one.
(C) BBC 2005
audioThis podcast has been relaunched. If you receive this message, then you will need to resubscribe to get future episodes. You can find the new version and more information about subscribing at bbc.co.uk/podcasts
audioWe hear from a resident in Sheffield about what has happened since the floods hit. We are also joined by Hilary Benn who discusses whether or not the floods are likely to affect public attitude to climate change.
audioBBC Radio 4: The Today Programme 0810 interview. Is there ever a good reasong to show a death on television? Barbara Pointon believes she was right to allow the filming of her husband Malcolm's death from Alzheimers.
audioBBC Radio 4: The Today Programme 0810 interview.
Does the posession of jihadist internet material warrent conviction?
audioBBC Radio 4: The Today Programme 0810 interview.
Gordon Brown is expected to reccommend an extension to 28 day detention.
audioBBC Radio 4: The Today Programme 0810 interview. A rescue mission, and the latest news and predictions.
(C) BBC 2007