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Ask the controller: Part two

The controller of 主播大秀 WS English responds to more of your views, favourable and critical

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主播大秀 World Service: The highs and lows of 2021

During Desmond Tutu's funeral, why did a presenter talk over South Africa鈥檚 president?

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Exploring the dark undergrowth of modern America

Listeners tell us what they think about Gabriel Gatehouse鈥檚 new series The Coming Storm

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How less can often be more

Listeners put their comments to Tim Harford, host of numbers show More Or Less

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How should the 主播大秀 be funded?

Listeners鈥� reactions to the news that future 主播大秀 funding is due for a review

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Making the documentary Music that Survived the Nazis

How the documentary, Music that Survived the Nazis, was made and what listeners thought

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Making coverage of Africa Cup of Nations possible

The man who made the 主播大秀鈥檚 coverage of the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations possible

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Was an exclusive Djokovic interview too dominant?

Listeners ask if an interview with a leading tennis player should have been so dominant.

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A series about bringing peace in conflict zones

Listeners' thoughts on Women Building Peace and those who bring calm to conflict zones

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Maintaining balance and impartiality in conflicts

Listeners react to the coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine

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Fact checking and reporter safety in Ukraine

The foreign editor for 主播大秀 News, Paul Danahar, responds to listeners' questions

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It is not a question of quality but quantity

What our audience think of the 主播大秀 World Service鈥檚 coverage of the war in Ukraine

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Exploring OS Conversations and Learning English

We speak to the team behind OS Conversations to ask how subjects are chosen

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Exploring the Explanation for answers

The Explanation and the show鈥檚 presenter tells us how stories are chosen

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Are news reports too distressing to listen to?

How 主播大秀 correspondents are having to document truly horrifying sights in Ukraine

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Has the war given disinformation a boost?

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

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Helping listeners connect the strands of history

How Mai Noman set out to answers questions about the killing of her grandfather

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Reporting the French presidential election

What were the challenges in reporting a divisive French presidential election?

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Putting the opinions of youth centre stage

Why the Climate Question gave young delegates a global voice six months after COP 26

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New podcast Lives Less Ordinary

Lives Less Ordinary is from the team who produce Outlook. So what lies in store?

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What is it like to report on a slave-owning past?

Listeners give their thoughts on Laura Trevelyan exploring her family鈥檚 slave owning past

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An observer of the geopolitical state of our world

主播大秀 World Affairs editor John Simpson on his new series Unspun World and what it offers

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A compelling story of women鈥檚 football in Ukraine

Listeners react to Surviving the Siege of Mariupol

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Behind the scenes of the Platinum Jubilee

Did you have to be a royalist to enjoy the 主播大秀's special Platinum Jubilee programming?

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The challenges of revealing a defector鈥檚 story

How the 主播大秀 WS got the inside story on life at the top of the North Korean regime

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A particularly curious case for a science show

Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry explain how their show The Curious Cases is put together

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Reaction to the US Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling

We hear what listeners think about the WS鈥檚 reporting of the Roe v Wade abortion law

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Covering the week鈥檚 biggest stories in technology

The Tech Tent team on how to choose the right stories from the world of technology

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Is the 主播大秀 committed to achieving impartiality?

Research says there鈥檚 a perception that the 主播大秀 is not fulfilling its impartiality remit

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The Bomb: The making of a new series

In The Bomb we meet a Soviet spy - but does the series overdramatise, listeners ask?

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