World Service Schedule

Gain-of-Function: Loss-of-Funding

Trump signs executive order restricting funding to ‘dangerous’ biological research

12/05/2025 00:06 GMT

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Unstoppable: Tebello Nyokong

Tebello Nyokong is deploying cutting-edge chemistry to revolutionise cancer treatment

12/05/2025 01:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

Is red sky at night really sailor’s delight?

Just how reliable is this common weather proverb?

The classroom tablet revolution

In Malawi Myra Anubi looks at ways that technology is improving children’s education.

Why are millions livestreaming a Swedish forest?

It's all to do with moose! Plus you say goodbye to radio legend, Julian Marshall

Jamming shortwave, too many repeats and Americast

How China is continuing to try and block BBC shortwave broadcasts in parts of Asia

12/05/2025 03:06 GMT

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Tackling the tide of trash

Two women in the UK and Nigeria ensuring what we throw away doesn’t go to waste

Ukrainian President willing to meet Vladimir Putin

Ukrainian President Zelensky will travel to Turkey to take part in talks with Russia.

President Zelensky will meet Russia for direct talks

Volodomyr Zelensky, says he will be in Turkey on Thursday for talks about the war.

President Zelensky urged to meet Vladimir Putin

President Zelensky says he'll travel to Turkey on Thursday for talks with Russia.

Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister - are the lessons of WW2 being forgotten?

Nick Robinson speaks to Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the UK

Tariffs and terroir

From Burgundy to California, winemakers discuss the prospect of US taxes

Intervision Song Contest

In 1980, Finnish singer Marion Rung won Intervision, the USSR's answer to Eurovision

12/05/2025 08:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

Is red sky at night really sailor’s delight?

Just how reliable is this common weather proverb?

Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures and 80 years since VE Day

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes

12/05/2025 10:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

Tackling the tide of trash

Two women in the UK and Nigeria ensuring what we throw away doesn’t go to waste

The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi

Lothar Hermann found out his neighbour was ‘architect of the Holocaust’ Adolf Eichmann

Intervision Song Contest

In 1980, Finnish singer Marion Rung won Intervision, the USSR's answer to Eurovision

12/05/2025 12:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

Is red sky at night really sailor’s delight?

Just how reliable is this common weather proverb?

China and US agree major tariff cuts

China and the United States have agreed to major tariff cuts during talks in Geneva

Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister - are the lessons of WW2 being forgotten?

Nick Robinson speaks to Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the UK

Tariffs have fallen....but is the trade war over?

The US and China have struck a temporary deal to ease their escalating trade war

Kurdish group PKK says it is laying down arms and disbanding

The group has waged a 40-year insurgency against Turkey

Hamas release Israeli-American hostage

Edan Alexander has been transferred to Israeli forces in Gaza.

The blind Holocaust survivor who caught a fugitive Nazi

Lothar Hermann found out his neighbour was ‘architect of the Holocaust’ Adolf Eichmann

Intervision Song Contest

In 1980, Finnish singer Marion Rung won Intervision, the USSR's answer to Eurovision

12/05/2025 18:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

2025/05/12 GMT

BBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.

Fear and mistrust in the new Syria

As Syria tries to rebuild after the fall of Assad, sectarian violence fuels division.

Unstoppable: Inge Lehmann

How seismologist Inge Lehmann rewrote geophysics by discovering Earth’s inner core

Last living US hostage released by Hamas

Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander returns to Israel after release by Hamas

Sir John Major, former UK Prime Minister - are the lessons of WW2 being forgotten?

Nick Robinson speaks to Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the UK

Tackling the tide of trash

Two women in the UK and Nigeria ensuring what we throw away doesn’t go to waste

12/05/2025 22:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

US and China pull back from beyond brink

The prohibitive triple-digit tariffs between both countries have been reduced

Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures and 80 years since VE Day

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes