BBC World Service

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

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From barbed wire and the bar-code, to paper money and pizza, Tim’s choices range across history, and the world. What they have in common, however, is that each of them changed the world in profound – and almost always unanticipated – ways.”

Analysis

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A nine-minute current affairs program providing analysis on one topic per day by a BBC Journalist, giving thorough context for stories and issues in the news. The program is script-led featuring experts and those with first-hand experience on a topic.

BBC Trending

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Explaining the stories the world is sharing in social media.

Charlie Gillet’s World of Music

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Charlie Gillett uses his unique knowledge to present the best contemporary and classic tracks from across the globe. Whether themed, from location or simply a pick of the best, Charlie provides half an hour of amazing music and background information.

Close Up

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A weekly half hour documentary/feature offering an in-depth look at the best of world culture, the program explores new and important creative trends. It also provides insights into art and artists that have stood the test of time with short series and one-off documentaries.

Compass

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A series of programmes about stories, ideas, arguments and trends. Every series will capture something of our time and reflect something new and essential about the early 21st Century.

Crowd Science

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We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.

Culture Shock

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From the next wave of telecommunications to the latest design craze or toy, from new ways to entertain to future behaviors, the program looks at trends in cultural expression from around the world. Tim Marlow hosts a show that is intelligent, lively and thirsty for new knowledge.

Digital Planet

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Taking you inside the digital world, the program covers every aspect of digital culture from education, entertainment and business, to consumerism, technology and social change. The program makes sense of rapidly evolving landscape helping listeners to understand their place in it.

From Our Own Correspondent (FOOC)

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A personal perspective from BBC reporters around the world on the beats they cover. The program combines expert analysis with insight and includes anecdotes from an informed, personal point of view.

Global Business

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Global Business reports on major business and workplace issues, emerging trends and significant personalities from countries and cultures around the world. 

Have Your Say

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A weekly global interactive program that invites World Service listeners, World television viewers and BBC online users to share their views and questions on one key issue with a worldwide audience. The program often features a leading global figure taking questions from listeners.

In the Studio

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Do you ever wonder how the world's leading creative people work, think, develop? We follow leading artists, designers, musicians, dancers, directors and creatives of all types as they make their work.

Instant Guide

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Filling the gaps in our general knowledge and providing information on the key events, issues and topics of the day, this program examines a topical person, place, space, thing or idea in ways no other program does. The aim is to inform on issues you really ought to know about in an engaging way.

News Bulletins

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Regularly updated bulletins and summaries of global news. A clear, concise, trustworthy and authoritative summary of what is happening of significance around the world. News bulletins set the agenda and are the spine of the World Service’s programs.

People Fixing the World

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Embracing the principles of ‘solution-focussed journalism’, this weekly programme takes on the big and small problems of our time - and those who are trying to solve them. Presented by an international team of journalists with the courage to challenge, probe, and share the humour and humanity behind positive change.

Politics UK

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Covering political and policy issues in the UK, defined in the wider sense, including social, economic and cultural change throughout the UK, the program debates trends such as Britain’s standing in the EU and in the world, making topics relevant to an international audience.

Reporting Religion

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Analyzing religious issues and aspects of world news stories, the program clarifies current events in the role and influence of religion on world events, briefs listeners on global religious stories, questions key topical religious figures and debates religious/ethical questions.

Science in Action

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Jack Stewart and guests discuss the latest science research and news stories from all over the world.

The Beat

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Hear about stars who are successful on a global scale and thriving regional artists in a program about global popular music and the industry that surrounds it. The show offers a guide to important artists and their work as well as the personalities and powers involved in the global music industry.

The Fifth Floor

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A fresh look at global news.

The Food Chain

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The economics, science and culture of what we eat. What does it take to put food on your plate?

The Forum

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Bridget Kendall presents an ideas discussion show which tackles the big questions of our age with some of the world's most eminent minds.

The History Hour

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First hand historical encounters.

The Real Story

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BBC correspondents look at a topic in the news indepth.

The Ticket

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A weekly hour takes you on a global journey through the world of arts, culture and entertainment. Presented by Mark Coles, nothing creative is out of bounds. Live studio performances, celebrity guests and showbiz gossip as well as all aspects of art and culture are discussed.

Why Factor

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The extraordinary and hidden histories behind everyday objects and actions.

World Business Review

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A discussion program focused on the main international business and economic stories of the week with guests chosen based on first hand knowledge of the stories and an ability to highlight underlying trends and future developments.

Carrie Gracie

The Interview CV host Carrie Gracie has been with BBC World Service for more than 30 years, starting out as a reporter in Beijing, taking a few years off to complete a degree in Mandarin Chinese before returning to the Beijing bureau. Now at the BBC in the UK, Carrie anchors for various shows.

Claire Bolderson

Claire Bolderson has been a BBC veteran for almost 20 years, starting as a correspondent based in Indonesia reporting on South Asia. She moved on to the Washington Bureau as North America Correspondent before anchoring for BBC’s World Service and Radio 4.

Dan Damon

Dan started out as a BBC radio technical operator before leaving to cover wars and revolutions in countries from Mongolia to Albana with a freelance news team that included his wife, a camera operator. He returned to the BBC as a reporter covering environmental, energy and human rights issues.

Fergus Nicoll

Fergus Nicoll joined the BBC as a producer for the African Service before moving to reporting for BBC’s Cairo Bureau. Following several years at BBC World TV, he returned to news-gathering as a World Affairs Correspondent, filing reports from Cameroon rainforests to Sarajevo refugee settlements.

George Arney

An experienced BBC broadcasting veteran, George Arney has specialized in covering South Asia for almost 30 years. George is a regular anchor on the World Service’s news program, Newshour and The World Today. He is frequently heard on the BBC World Service when Asian affairs are the topic.

Jo Fidgen

Jo Fidgen anchors BBC World Service programs, including rolling news coverage on stories including the Iraq war, the Beslan siege and the London bombings. She has been a reporter, producer and anchor on several BBC networks and edited a documentary series Learning to Solve the World’s Problems.

Julian Marshall

Julian Marshall is an anchor of Newshour, the BBC World Service flagship news and current affairs program and has won several awards including UK’s prestigious Sony Gold Award. Julian also reports on major events such as the capture of Saddam Hussein and the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Lyse Doucet

A BBC TV and radio anchor and correspondent, Lyse Doucet often anchors special news coverage from around the world. She interviews world leaders such as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and covers breaking stories such as the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami on India and Indonesia.

Max Pearson

Max has been a BBC World Service lead anchor for more than 20 years. He first worked on BBC radio but resigned to see the world after completing his post-graduate work in broadcast journalism. After traveling the Middle East, India, Pakistan and the Far East, the World Service is a natural for him.

Owen Bennet Jones

A BBC anchor for almost 20 years, Owen Bennett Jones was a BBC correspondent in Romania right after the revolution and covered Europe, Asia and the Middle East reporting on crises in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq. Owen also writes for UK newspapers such as The Guardian and Financial Times.

Robin Lustig

After a 20-year career as a print journalist for Reuters and Britain’s newspaper The Observer, Robin anchored a variety of news programs for the BBC including coverage of the Iraq war, elections in Israel, Britain, the US and Iran, and documentaries on subjects such as AIDS in Africa and democracy.

Ros Atkins

Ros Atkins hosts the discussion program, World, Have Your Say, weekdays from London. Ros began his career in Johannesburg as Centre Policy Studies’ researcher before joining the BBC as news and sports producer and the BBC World Service, where he utilizes his knowledge of Africa and the Caribbean.

Thomas R. Keene, CFA

Thomas R. Keene is an editor-at-large for Bloomberg News, providing economic and investment perspective. Tom is the host of Bloomberg Radio’s Bloomberg Surveillance. He also hosts Surveillance Midday on Bloomberg Television.