Over to You Episodes Episode guide
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Will the focus remain on Africa?
Why Focus on Africa is changing from broadcasting live to being pre-recorded
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Was undue prominence given to Prince Harry?
Should Prince Harry’s personal opinions have been given so much airtime?
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Explaining the spooky drama The Dark Is Rising
We hear your thoughts on The Dark Is Rising and reveal the challenges faced in making it
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Listeners’ review of the past year on the World Service
We hear your thoughts on what you heard on the ±«Óãtv World Service over the past 12 months
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Ask the controller 2022: Part two
The controller of ±«Óãtv World Service English looks ahead to 2023
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Ask the controller 2022: Part one
The controller of ±«Óãtv World Service English, Jon Zilkha, responds to your questions
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Celebrating 90 years of broadcasting to the world
What have listeners thought of the World Service during its 90-years of broadcasting?
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Carrying out an audit of Business Matters
How does Business Matters explain complex stories in a way that people can understand?
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Reporting all aspects of the football World Cup
We hear your views on coverage of the World Cup and speak with the WS’s sports editor.
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Discovering what women in Doha have to say
We speak with the producer of The Real Lives of Doha’s Housewives and hear your comments
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The art of the news interview revealed
The news interview requires specific skills but is there a way of doing it differently?
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How the jazz genre helped give musicians a voice
We speak to the producer of The Truth About Jazz and how it forged social attitudes
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The slow brain drain of Nigerian doctors
We hear listeners’ comments on The Brain Drain and ask its presenter about the report
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Explaining the turmoil in British politics
As British politics made headlines globally, what did listeners think of the coverage?
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How the Americast team cast their eye on the US
We speak to the new team behind Americast about how they report events in the US
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The long-forgotten 1920s black female sports star
The Untold Legends producer tells us of the difficulties faced in researching the series
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Putting digital first at the heart of the ±«Óãtv
How will the “digital first†announcements by ±«Óãtv World Service impact output and jobs?
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The Music Life debate resumes
We hear from listeners who are both complimentary and critical of Music Life
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More listener reactions to the death of the Queen
Listeners give us their feedback on coverage of the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II
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The death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Listeners' comments and feedback on how the ±«Óãtv World Service reported the events
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Listeners react to Global Britain after Boris Johnson
Listeners tell us what they think of a profile of Boris Johnson as he stands down as PM
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Explaining some inconvenient truths
Does highlighting the problems of green energy set a shift back to fossil fuels?
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The story of award-winning podcast Dear Daughter
How Dear Daughter came out of a listener’s desire to write letters to her young child
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Challenges facing the ±«Óãtv’s teams in Afghanistan
How the ±«Óãtv World Service marked a year since the Taliban took control in Afghanistan
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Reporting protesters on the streets of Colombo
What were the challenges of covering the recent civil unrest in Sri Lanka?
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Exploring media freedom in Kenya during elections
We ask ±«Óãtv Africa what challenges its team face in reporting the Kenyan elections.
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Discovering the Large Hadron Collider
Can you really make complex physics such as Higgs Boson accessible to a general audience?
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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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Is the ±«Óãtv committed to achieving impartiality?
Research says there’s a perception that the ±«Óãtv is not fulfilling its impartiality remit
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Covering the week’s biggest stories in technology
The Tech Tent team on how to choose the right stories from the world of technology