We want to hear from people who would like to be linked up with their family on live radio. It does not matter how far apart you live - we can put you in touch again.

Just email us with your details and tell us where your relatives are.

Terrorism is a key theme

And in this age of globalisation, with so many people on the move, many use the BBC to stay in touch with events back home. How does this work for you? What memories do you have of hearing stories from home when you are thousands of miles way?

Perhaps its those world-changing moments that touch us all which have forged your relationship with us.

Global Live! will also be bringing together people who have been directly and deeply affected by some of the biggest news stories in the last five years. Survivors of the terrorist attacks in Bali, of the 9/11 attacks and the bombing of the US embassy in Kenya will discuss how they are coping and are moving on from tragedy.

Send your stories and contact details to us using the form below. We will get in touch with you about taking part in Global Live!, which will be broadcast on the BBC World Service on 19th December at 1630GMT

I was nine when Iraq attacked Kuwait. I remember my parents listening to a little red radio we had. That was the first time I heard the word 'BBC'. I want to wish all of humanity a year of good luck and peace.
Sanjeev Koppal, India/Kuwait/USA

When World War I broke out I was 11 years old. All through the war our family listened to the war news received from the BBC. We received a clear and sometime terrifying view of the war. One segment we never missed was the Christmas message from King George V1.

We always felt that we were getting a clear and true account of events when the BBC was involved.
Sylvan Villett, Canada

I started listening to the BBC World Service more than 30 years ago when I was still at school. Nowadays I can also watch it on Hungarian Cable TV and visit its website. I couldn't even imagine that one day there would be no jamming and no persecution. In the 1970's I had to use earphones in a students' hostel in Kiev to avoid being overheard.

There used to be a poem in the old Soviet times: "What happens in Russia you can learn from the BBC." I think it's great to visit your website and be in touch with the free world.
Vadim Vozdvizhensky, Hungary

It was when I was a little boy living in a remote village in Afganistan that I first heard the name of the BBC. It was when my father told the other people around him that the Soviets had occupied our country. The people asked my father "who told you?" - he replied "I have heard it on the BBC, the radio which tells you the truth." Nowadays I visit the BBC site almost every day and hear the Pashto news.
Aimal Hazeqzai, Sweden

The United States loves to tout the fact that we have Freedom of the Press, which is almost true. However there are many stories and events that are not printed. For that information, I rely upon the BBC.

I has struck early on by the fact that many stories and events don't make it to the New York Times for up to two or three days if at all. So when I awake each day and go online, the very first news website I visit is the BBC and I recommend it to everyone I know. Thank you.
Chuck Yeager, USA

I literally grew up on the BBC World Service. When I was 9, I worked one and a half years after school so as to buy my first SW radio set. I installed a long wire out of my bedroom window leading up to a tree, so that I could listen to you at night! I still had my small set with me when I was near China during the Tianemen Square crisis so as to get "real" info. I still listen to you daily, here in Belgium.
Peter Hume, Belgium

I migrated from Sri Lanka to live in Canada with my family in 1980. For news from my country I was always relaying on the BBC's Tamiloosai news. When I was listining to the Tamioosai service I sometimes felt as if I was back in Jaffna Sri Lanka. It is one of the oldest Tamil broadcasting sevices in the world today. My family join all other displaced families around world in wishing many years of success to the BBC. Long live the BBC World Service.
Sinnathamby, Canada

I'm listening to your fab concert here on shortwave radio in the Turks and Caicos Islands, West Indies. I'm Irish and have been a fan for many years. I don't have a TV by choice - who needs it when you have the World Service. Here's to another 70 years - thanks for making every day special.
Trish Flanagan, Turks and Caicos Islands

Ever since I was born, the BBC has been the radio I listened to. My father listened to it and now it is like a thing of inheritance. I grew up hooked on the BBC, and have also reached as well as make a lot of friends through the BBC. Now, through the BBC, I want to wish my family members happy Christmas! Thank you and God bless you.
King Anderson Emmy Snr, Nigerian living in Ivory Caost.

I moved out of the UK to Malaysia the day after Princess Diana died. Being so far from home the BBC was an automatic choice to gain access to the UK.

My four and half years in Malaysia was supported by links with the BBC. Jill Dando's death was another occasion when we relied on you. The petrol crisis last year was also a memorable event.

I'll be off to South China in January and feel that the BBC will always help me maintain that link to the UK. Things have got better and better over the five years I have been relying on you... but not the cricket!
Stuart Moore, Australia

I just want to say merry Christmas and happy New Year to mom in Waat, Sudan. For eight years I never get a chance to say hi to my mother.
Khor-Hook Gal, Sudan

On 9/11/01, the US news websites were swamped, and the BBC was there with exactly the information I wanted. A regular visitor to BBC websites since then, I remain very grateful to Britain for its uncommonly fine support of the BBC, which is unmatched by any news organization in the world in its sharing of facts. May God bless the BBC in its tireless work of providing a continuing education to the world's residents.
Brian Lane, USA

As a former UN staff member, I have long admired Kofi Annan. My thanks to the BBC World Service for organising his lecture, to him for the content and to BBC World for sending it via satellite - thus allowing me to see him deliver it.
Eric Bull, Turkey

My family emigrated to Australia in 1967, and I clearly remember them buying a radio on the trip. With much dial twiddling and no knowledge, my father finally found the BBC World Service somewhere in the Indian Ocean. At the time, the Six Day War had just happened, we were almost caught in it, and the BBC was an important link to the world for us on that trip.

Andrew, Australia

I absolutely rely on the BBC for all my news and sports from the country I grew up in. checking the site is the first thing I do every mornbing at work (dont tell the boss). On occasion I even find out about whats happening here in NZ before it is reported here
Alan Ball, New Zealand

I'm so glad to surf on the BBC website, because it is the first site that gave me the information about the current signed peace deal made in my country of origin (Burundi). Consequently, I e-mailed the story to a lot of my fellow countrymen who didn't know about it. The BBC keeps me informed about the situation in my country and I'm impressed when you look at how small my country is (27000 square km).
Jubile, Canada

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