Global News Podcast

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  • Duração: 112:05:40
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The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.

Episódios

  • What keeps China’s president up at night?

    17/03/2024 Duração: 27min

    A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. What keeps China’s president up at night? The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

  • The Happy Pod: country star Jordan Davis wants more good news

    16/03/2024 Duração: 27min

    This week, the singer Jordan Davis tells us how the need for more positive and uplifting stories inspired his latest song, Good News Sold. Also: the school children surfing the web without internet access, and the birth of a rare, bright orange baby monkey.

  • Bonus: The Global Story

    10/03/2024 Duração: 27min

    A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Could just 100,000 people decide the US election? The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

  • The Happy Pod: Sounds of the stars

    09/03/2024 Duração: 27min

    This week, how Nasa is harnessing the power of sound to help people visualise the universe. Also: we meet the man making bees whoop. And the woman making history in college basketball.

  • Bonus: The Global Story

    03/03/2024 Duração: 25min

    A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Trump’s trouble with abortion. The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

  • The Happy Pod: The billion dollar gift of education

    02/03/2024 Duração: 27min

    This week, a former professor donates $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Also: the felines and felons providing mutual support in Chile, and do apes have a sense of humour?

  • Bonus: The Global Story

    25/02/2024 Duração: 26min

    A bonus episode from The Global Story podcast. Bengal famine: The WWii trajgedy the world forgot. The Global Story brings you one big story every weekday, making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, from the BBC, with Katya Adler. For more, go to bbcworldservice.com/globalstory or search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

  • The Happy Pod: Hurtling into History

    24/02/2024 Duração: 27min

    This week, we hear from Africa's first bobsleigh champion. Also: the Spanish football club doing its bit to make the beautiful game greener. And how foxes are providing therapy in the Florida Keys.

  • Ukraine Two Years On – Your Questions Answered

    23/02/2024 Duração: 29min

    For two years, the Russian president Vladimir Putin has been waging a brutal conflict in Ukraine - the bloodiest in Europe since the Second World War. But after tens of thousands of deaths on both sides who has the upper hand? What is life like in Ukraine, and Russia, today? And when will the killing end? The Global News Podcast and Ukrainecast have come together to answer your questions.

  • The Happy Pod: Eight-year-old steals the show at the Six Nations

    17/02/2024 Duração: 27min

    This week, the eight-year-old boy who sang in front of tens of thousands of people at a rugby international. Also: the campaign encouraging appreciation of the people who do the vital job of waste picking in India. And how a penguin helps out his short-sighted friend.

  • The Happy Pod: Model Maker Outmatches Guinness World Records

    11/02/2024 Duração: 27min

    This week, the French model-maker celebrating a world record that he nearly missed out on due to a technicality. Also: a guide to the Lunar New Year celebrations. And can you tell the mood of a chicken by its cluck?

  • Special episode: Eight Numbers To Understand China

    10/02/2024 Duração: 34min

    Why are millions of apartments in China sitting empty? How has the country managed to produce as much cement in two years as the US did in the last century? For a special edition celebrating the Lunar New Year, the BBC's Asia Pacific editor Celia Hatton looks at the significance of eight numbers representing different aspects of modern China. Celia teams up with some of the BBC's China correspondents and analysts to look at topics ranging from China's marriage rates to its zodiac calendar.

  • The Happy Pod: Time's up for monkey on the run

    03/02/2024 Duração: 28min

    This week, the adventures and safe recapture of a runaway monkey in Scotland. Also: how scientists tracked down four previously undiscovered penguin colonies. And, the "Motorbike Grandma" riding the length and breadth of China.

  • The Happy Pod: Pioneering ultrasound treatment for Alzheimer's and addiction

    27/01/2024 Duração: 27min

    This week, pioneering work using ultrasound In the treatment of both Alzheimer's and addictions. Also: a water skiing world record, and how a chatbot for a parcel delivery service went rogue

  • The Happy Pod: Heroic teens save couple from drowning

    20/01/2024 Duração: 27min

    This week, we meet the teen rescuers who saved a couple from drowning in Barbados. Also: the pioneering heart transplant for a newborn hailed as a success. And, ending homelessness the Finnish way.

  • The Happy Pod: Trapped tourists saved from flooded caves

    13/01/2024 Duração: 26min

    Five people were rescued from a system of underground lakes in southern Slovenia. Also: scientists say they've decoded a baby's cry. And, the mouse that's been caught tidying up a garden shed.

  • The Happy Pod: Art student's lost work recovered thousands of kilometres away

    06/01/2024 Duração: 28min

    Grace Hart's artwork was accidentally thrown away, only to end up in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Also: the jewellery store owners in Hawaii helping to restore precious items damaged in wildfires. And, the teenage darts player, 'Luke the Nuke', taking the sport to new audiences.

  • The Happy Pod: Mobile coverage reaches remote Norwegian town

    30/12/2023 Duração: 31min

    Our weekly collection of the happiest stories in the world. This week, how a settlement in Norway is taking a unique approach to mobile phone etiquette, after getting signal for the first time. Also: the man who composes music on TikTok to tell short stories. And we look ahead at what's to come in the worlds of sport and music in 2024.

  • Israel-Gaza War: Your Questions Answered

    27/10/2023 Duração: 28min

    We've teamed up with The Conflict podcast to answer your questions. These include Russia's role, the reaction from Israel, and what we can all do to be part of the solution.

  • Israel-Gaza War: Your Questions Answered

    20/10/2023 Duração: 26min

    These include why Hamas attacked Israel, the fate of the hostages, Israel's response so far, and whether both sides can overcome the trauma of their past.

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