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Recent programmes:

February 2003

• Is France right to force a split on Iraq?
• Is the evidence against Iraq convincing?
• Iraq: Will opposition make a difference?

January 2003

• Iraq: Is there evidence?
• North Korea's nuclear plans
• Iraq: Is war inevitable?
• Should cloning be allowed?

December 2002

• Nation building
• Director of the BBC World Service, Mark Byford
• Burmese pro-Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi
• UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan
• UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan
• UN High Comissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello
• British Prime Minister, Tony Blair
• World Aids Day

November 2002

• Nato expansion
• Will China's new leadership make a difference?
• UN weapons inspections in Iraq
• Can the Chechen crisis be resolved?

October 2002

• Can gun control reduce violent crime?
• Your questions to Iraqi MP Dr Mohammad Murafa al-Adhmi
• Pakistan elections
• Afghanistan: Have the lessons been learned?

September 2002

• Iraq: Weapons Inspectors - What can they achieve?
• Iraq: Is there enough evidence against it?
• 11 September anniversary
• Oil's influence on global politics

August 2002

• Sustainable Development: Are we doing enough?
• Iraq: What action should be taken?
• What hope for peace in the Middle East?
• The Wildlife trade

July 2002

• Landmine Ban
• The role of UN peacekeeping.
• Can Aids be eradicated?

June 2002

• Did the G8 summit do enough for Africa?
• What should the West do about refugees?
• Can World hunger be defeated?
• Kashmir: Do you fear war?
• What do you think about the World Cup?

May 2002

• US/Russian relations: Is the Cold War really over?
• Children in conflict: Ask the UN's special representative Olara Ottunu
• Middle East: What are Israel's options?
• Could the far-right come to power in Europe?

April 2002

• Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, answered your questions.
• Is it time to send a multi-national force to the Middle East?
• Will an International Criminal Court work?
• Middle East: What can the world do?

March 2002

• Is religious faith still relevant?
• Are we doing enough about global warming?
• Mugabe Victory: What shoud the world do?
• Terrorist attacks on America: Six months on
• What should the Commonwealth do about Zimbabwe? Live from the Commonwealth conference in Australia

February 2002

• Can justice be done in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic?
• Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo answers your questions
• Should we be doing more to eradicate poverty?
• Globalisation: Capitalist evil or the way forward?

January 2002

• Do we need a Holocaust Memorial Day?
• Are human rights a casualty of the war on terror?
• Zimbabwe: Time for sanctions?
• India-Pakistan: Can war be averted?

December 2001

• Have the Afghan refugees been forgotten?
• How should the 'War against terror' proceed?
• Can the Afghan government succeed?
• Your questions to the UK Foreign Office minister, Ben Bradshaw

November 2001

• Should foreign troops be sent to Afghanistan?
• What now for the people of Afghanistan?
• Who should control Kabul?
• What next for the Middle East?
• Is the war strategy clear?

October 2001

• Who should govern Afghanistan?
• Anthrax: How real a threat is it?
• War in Afghanistan: What are the implications?
• Talking Point Special: Your reaction to the air strikes against Afghanistan
• Keeping the coalition together: How easy is it?

September 2001

• Military strikes: Is the US right to be cautious?
• America retaliates: What are its options?
• US tragedy: You gave us your views
• Talking Point special - US under attack: Your eyewitness accounts
• Asylum: What should rich countries do?
• Can we ever eradicate racism?

August 2001

• Should we care less about the environment?
• Is the English language conquering Europe?
• Should human embryos be harvested for body parts?
• Mass Tourism: Is it exploitation?

July 2001

• Time to reform refugee rules?
• Globalisation: Good or bad?
• What can the Agra summit achieve?
• Is it time for a world court?
• What now for the Balkans?

June 2001

• Is violent protest ever justified?
• Does Europe need the USA?
• Is Tony Blair's victory best for Britain?
• Is corruption inevitable?

May 2001

• Should doctors clone humans?
• Smoking: Personal choice or public health issue?
• What do you think of the death penalty?
• Missile defence: Will it lead to global peace?

April 2001

• Should rich countries open the door to more immigrants?
• What can be done to stop the violence in the Middle East?
• Is China the next superpower?
• Milosevic arrest: Will justice be done?
• Kyoto: Was the US right to ditch the deal?

March 2001

• Can the internet save democracy?
• Is the world heading for recession?
• Is Putin Russia's saviour?
• What's to blame for foot-and-mouth?

February 2001

• Do we still need spies?
• Were the raids on Iraq justified?
• Sharon's victory: What next?
• Should sanctions against Libya be lifted?

January 2001

• Overseas adoption: Is it just children for sale?
• President Clinton: How will he be remembered?
• Gro Harlem Bruntland answers your questions
• The World in 2001

December 2000

• Talking Point News Quiz
• The best of Talking Point 2000
• George W. Bush: Will he make a good world leader?
• Parents: Too much special treatment?
• Should euthanasia be legal?

November 2000

• Do we need a European army?
• Are we losing the fight against global warming?
• US elections: Is this democracy?
• Do we need manned space travel?

October 2000

• Are men trapped in outdated roles?
• Are we slaves to brands?
• Is the Middle East peace process dead?
• What now for Yugoslavia?
• Were the Danes right to reject the Euro?

September 2000

• Is the Olympic spirit dead?
• Are we too dependent on oil?
• Does the UN still matter?
• Is our food poisoning us?

August 2000

• Is Russia still a superpower?
• Should human cloning be legalised?
• Does society discriminate against the childless?
• General Pervez Musharraf answers your questions: A special edition with the military ruler of Pakistan

July 2000

• Concorde tragedy: do you feel safe in the skies?
• What's the enduring appeal of the royal family?
• Aids epidemic: can it be defeated?
• Should the death penalty be abolished?

June 2000

• The Human Genome: who will really benefit?
• Illegal drugs: what can be done?
• The Middle East after Presiden Hafez al Assad's death.
• Richard Butler, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, answers your questions on why he thinks Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is still a threat.

May 2000

• Israeli Justice minister Yossi Beilin answers our listeners' questions on the Israeli pullout from Lebanon.
• Are we becoming slaves to technology?
• Thabo Mbeki answers your questions. Listen to the South African president in a special edition of Talking Point
• Sierra Leone: What went wrong?
• 'Stolen' Art: who really owns 'national' treasures?

April 2000

• Global Education: are we failing the world's children?
• Cricket legend, Clive Lloyd joins our discussion on match-fixing allegations in cricket
• Zimbabwe on the brink: Zanu-PF Chairman, John Nkomo answers your questions
• Ethiopia: Too late to avert a catastrophe?
• Elian Gonzalez: Where does he belong?
• Cults: Should they be banned?

March 2000

• Kosovo - one year on. Nato spokesman Jamie Shea and Former K-For commander, General Sir Michael Jackson answer your questions
• The president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, answers your questions
• The Commonwealth Secretary General answers your questions
• Mozambique: Is the world doing enough?

February 2000

• What future for Northern Ireland?
• US elections: Whatever happened to democracy?
• Is Joerg Haider a threat to Europe?
• Do we work too hard?

January 2000

• Big business: Who's running the world?
• Is the traditional family dead?
• Should General Pinochet be allowed home?
• Crimes of the past: Should they be pursued?
• Millennium celebrations: How was it for you?

December 1999

• Christmas: Has it lost its meaning?
• Kosovo: Can there be reconciliation?
• Aids: What can be done?

November 1999

• World Trade: Who really benefits?
  
• Is Russia's action in Chechnya justified?
  
• Are we failing our children?
  
• Are monarchies relevant in the 21st century?

October 1999

• Internet at 30: How was it for you?
  
• The military coup in Pakistan: Your views
  
• Nuclear leaks and nuclear safety
  
• 50 years of the People's Republic of China