06/06/2010

Rajan Datar hears a view that Africa has more important matters to be concerned about than the forthcoming World Cup – but he also talks to the producer of World Cup Have Your Say, to find out about his plans for linking football fans around the world in a global discussion of their favourite sport.

Veronique Edwards defends her recent interviews with the wives of five African presidents against a charge that feminism has overtaken the World Service – and the head of BBC Chinese gives Rajan the background to a potentially sensitive interview he did this week with the President of Taiwan.

And the programme also includes the thoughts of the World Service writer-in-residence about the relationship between the BBC and its audience.