| 00:00 | 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTThe latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC. 00:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 00:32GMTHow sound and music influence the way we taste food and drink.(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTHackers exploited a vulnerability in the SWIFT system for international payments
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTThe tech giant reported a 13% drop in its second quarter revenues as iPhone sales slip
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTFacebook reported a 195% jump in first quarter profits thanks to new advertising income.
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTUS economic growth slowed to an annual pace of 0.5% during the first three months of 2016
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTKenya leads the fight against illegal ivory trading
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTKenyan president sets fire to huge ivory stockpile in fight against poaching 00:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 00:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 00:32GMTExtraordinary childhood homes: growing up on a boat in Alaska and in an Australian zoo
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| 01:00 | 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTWhy balance in humans, machines and music are needed for effectiveness and safety 01:50GMTHow do debate programmes ensure their invited panel behave themselves?(R)
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTAustralian zoo keeper Kylie Bullo released the first zoo-born orangutan into the wild.(R)
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTKimberley Motley on representing Farkhunda's family(R)
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTPedro Martín Núñez’s journey from prison to pastor(R)
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTBritish-Ethiopian poet Lemn Sissay discovered his real name on his birth certificate(R)
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTHow the campaign against corruption and privilege is being waged in Brazil and Tanzania(R)
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTRemembering Chernobyl, Charles Darwin and the McCarthy era, plus 60s icon, the Mini
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| 02:00 | 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTSouth Sudan's refugees; Mexico's missing students; Remembering Papa Wemba 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTHow America's sense of national identity is perceived by the American people(R) 02:50GMTHow much to build The Great Pyramid, a nuclear power station, or an airport?(R)
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTRising Carbon Dioxide; Canadian hostage; Chernobyl anniversary 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTAristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method(R)
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTUS presidential race; Kissing garlic; South Sudan politics 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTHow Virtual Reality will enhance and transform lives(R)
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTSyria talks need urgent initiative; Identity in Germany; Trachoma eradication plan 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTThe Wellcome Book Prize for 2016 was won this week by neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan(R)
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTLife in Aleppo; Elephant poaching summit; Leicester City's Premier League hopes 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTFast-track evolution in the lab deals with growing resistance of insects to Bt crops(R)
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTShaky unity in South Sudan, China's 'surplus' children, ageing in Cuba; nuclear Belarus 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMT2/4How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life. With Stephen Sondheim.(R)
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTCan a computer programme choose the right applicant for a job? 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTThe ancient African spiritual concept of Ubuntu
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| 03:00 | 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTSouth Sudan's violence; Nepal child trafficking; South African president Zuma in Iran
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTCanadian hostage executed; Containing Chernobyl; Child discrimination
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTUS presidential race; Hillsborough verdict; Prince's will
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTUN appeal to save Syrian talks; Donald Trump's foreign policy; "Solutions Journalism"
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTElephant conservation meeting in Kenya; UK anti-Semitism; Brazilian identity
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTThe politics of top level sport in America(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTThe music of the world that unites fans - even across borders that divide old enemies
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| 04:00 | 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTViolence in South Sudan; Obama Syria; Tribute to Congolese star music Papa Wemba 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTMeet the women who would take a bullet for their wealthy clients
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTChernobyl anniversary; North Carolina transgender people; Pablo Neruda reburial 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTNkem Ifejika examines the fall of Igbo, one of West Africa’s most widely spoken languages
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTSouth Sudan's Riek Machar; Mexican missing students; Forgotten girls of Bangladesh 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTCan girls living in a slum in Bangladesh shape their own identities?
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTUN appeal for Syrian talks to be rescued; China's ivory trade; Mars plan by 2018 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTThe story of Pasca, a young lesbian, and how South Africa's rainbow nation failed her
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTElephant poaching; Liberia's presidential candidate; Jazz in the White House 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTFootball's biggest stories of the week on the BBC.
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTIt took 27 years, but we got there in the end. The cover-up was finally uncovered. 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTThe story of a 20-something CIA officer who took on the Taliban.
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTHow the city of Medicine Hat in Canada, gave every person living in the streets a home(R) 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTThe Nigerian novelist and poet discusses his creative process.(R)
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| 05:00 | 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTRefugees in South Sudan; Obama plan for Syria; Nepal earthquake one year on
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTChernobyl survivors; India drought; Zimbabwe musician
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTSouth Sudan's Riek Machar; US Primaries; Ivory smuggling
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTUN appeals for Syrian talks to be rescued; Identity in Germany; Vatican budget report
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTStopping the illegal ivory trade; Sexist tweets; Brazilian identity
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTFighting rages in Aleppo; German party to rebrand as anti-Muslim; Facebook profits
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTDemonstrators ensconce in 'Green Zone'; Syrian radio drama; Hillsborough verdict
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| 06:00 | 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTSouth Sudan film festival; Nepal earthquake; Burundian prize winner 06:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 06:32GMTHow America's sense of national identity is perceived by the American people(R) 06:50GMTHow much to build The Great Pyramid, a nuclear power station, or an airport?(R)
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTChernobyl anniversary; Iraq protests; Burundi violence 06:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 06:32GMTAristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method(R)
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTSouth Sudan's economy; Death ray; Cape Verde killings 06:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 06:32GMTHow Virtual Reality will enhance and transform lives(R)
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTUN appeal to rescue Syria talks; Constructive Journalism; What is Beyoncé's message? 06:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 06:32GMTThe Wellcome Book Prize for 2016 was won this week by neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan(R)
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTProtecting Africa's elephants; Saving Syria's ceasefire; Women in sport online abuse 06:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 06:32GMTFast-track evolution in the lab deals with growing resistance of insects to Bt crops(R)
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTJose Eduardo Agualusa's novel is among candidates for the Man Booker International Prize
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTObama entertaining journalists; Protests in Baghdad; History of Bible translations
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| 07:00 | 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTWar in South Sudan; PKK conflict in Turkey; Tribute to Papa Wemba 07:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 07:32GMTThe emissions scandal, Ford's boss looks ahead, and could an African car brand take off? 07:50GMTIn 1966 the great French fashion designer went to Morocco for the first time
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTChernobyl nuclear accident; Hillsborough inquest verdict; Shakespeare today 07:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 07:32GMTHow banks do not know their customers - and penalise workers and businesses as a result 07:50GMTIn April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTSouth Sudan peace deal; Big Ben; Bangladesh's forgotten girls 07:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 07:32GMTAs climate change plays havoc with the rain, could we draw water directly from the ocean? 07:50GMTThe great English naturalist Charles Darwin is buried at Westminster Abbey in April 1882
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTUrgent initiative needed for Syria; Germany's Identity; Papa Wemba tribute concert 07:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 07:32GMTHow smart phone technology has changed the plight of the modern migrant 07:50GMTIn spring 1950, an American academic was wrongly named as the main Soviet agent in the US
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTSyria's ceasefire; South Africa president corruption charges; Leicester football hopes 07:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 07:32GMTHow difficult is it to sway voters with economic arguments? 07:50GMTIn 1959 the British Motoring Corporation unveiled a very small new family car - the Mini
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTKenyans intend to burn ivory today in protest against slaughter of elephants. 07:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 07:32GMTIs bottled water the ultimate marketing con, or a potential lifesaver?
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTEfforts to renew ceasefire in Syria; Can Trump be stopped? New findings about T-Rex. 07:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 07:32GMTExtraordinary childhood homes: growing up on a boat in Alaska and in an Australian zoo(R)
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| 08:00 | 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTDirector Don Cheadle on his new film Miles Ahead; Shah Rukh Khan on new thriller Fan(R)
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTWhy balance in humans, machines and music are needed for effectiveness and safety(R) 08:50GMTThe cancer patient who inspired Canada with an attempt to run across the country in 1980
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTStories from people who identify as ‘non-binary’ – not male, not female(R)
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTWill a new nuclear power station in the UK be the most expensive 'object' ever built?
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTThe politics of top level sport in America
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTRufus Wainwright on adapting Shakespeare's sonnets for his album, and music from Katy B
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTShaky unity in South Sudan, China's 'surplus' children, ageing in Cuba; nuclear Belarus(R) 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTThe ancient African spiritual concept of Ubuntu(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTNepal is still a country of tarpaulins, tents and tin-roofed shacks
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTThe total number of victims remains a subject of debate.
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTTrump considers himself 'presumptive' candidate for US presidential elections
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTLaw lets the government declare a "state of emergency" over the migrant crisis
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTSouth African judges say dismissing corruption charges in 2009 was irrational
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTHow tennis helped break down racial divides at one of the worlds most notorious prisons
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMT2/4How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life. With Stephen Sondheim.(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTWe investigate the online prank call community who live stream their crimes.(R) 09:50GMTBBC World Service commissioning editor responds to claims of bias against certain faiths(R)
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| 10:00 | 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTWith people still in temporary accommodation, what kind of recovery has there been?
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTCommemorations are under way to mark the anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTThe country is experiencing severe power shortages
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTRed Cross says key Syrian city "on the brink"
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTDeath toll passes 200 in seven days of air strikes and shelling
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTThe politics of top level sport in America(R)
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTCan a computer programme choose the right applicant for a job?(R) 10:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 10:32GMTThe story of a 20-something CIA officer who took on the Taliban.(R)
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| 11:00 | 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTAustralian zoo keeper Kylie Bullo released the first zoo-born orangutan into the wild.
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTKimberley Motley on representing Farkhunda's family
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTPedro Martín Núñez’s journey from prison to pastor
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTBritish-Ethiopian poet Lemn Sissay discovered his real name on his birth certificate
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTHow the campaign against corruption and privilege is being waged in Brazil and Tanzania
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTIt took 27 years, but we got there in the end. The cover-up was finally uncovered.(R) 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTThe Nigerian novelist and poet discusses his creative process.
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTWhat is the American Identity and why is it a portrait recognized around the world?(R)
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| 12:00 | 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTAid agencies say hardly any reconstruction has taken place; Obama calls Europe complacent 12:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 12:32GMTMeet the women who would take a bullet for their wealthy clients(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTInquest found police action after the crush contributed to deaths, British doctors strike 12:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 12:32GMTNkem Ifejika examines the fall of Igbo, one of West Africa’s most widely spoken languages(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTChina anti-forced labour activist Harry Wu dies at 79, and Olympics 100 days countdown 12:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 12:32GMTCan girls living in a slum in Bangladesh shape their own identities?(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTSyria ceasefire in tatters, big pay for VW 'cheating' bosses, UK Labour anti-Semitism row 12:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 12:32GMTThe story of Pasca, a young lesbian, and how South Africa's rainbow nation failed her(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTJudgement against South African President, Elephant summit, Youth gene discovered 12:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 12:32GMTFootball's biggest stories of the week on the BBC.(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTAleppo bombing; Kenya burns over 100 tonnes of ivory; Roman coins discovered in Spain
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTIraqi protestors demand end to corruption; Leicester City; Linda Ramone reminisces
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| 13:00 | 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTRed tape impedes reconstruction; Imploding Republicans; Uber referendum
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTLiverpool fans 'unlawfully killed'; 30 years since Chernobyl; Grief in Shakespeare
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTAustralia's offshore asylum centres; Riek Machar in South Sudan; Madness in Shakespeare
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTCeasefire breaks down in Aleppo; Russia's new cosmodrome; Demand in the ivory trade
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTKenya summit to abolish elephant poaching; Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTAs the globe contracts, we will end up with less and less musical diversity?
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe music of the world that unites fans - even across borders that divide old enemies(R)
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| 14:00 | 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTAfter so many doping scandals, must all sporting success be treated with suspicion? 14:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 14:32GMTHow America's sense of national identity is perceived by the American people(R) 14:50GMTHow much to build The Great Pyramid, a nuclear power station, or an airport?(R)
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTHow the city of Medicine Hat in Canada, gave every person living in the streets a home 14:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 14:32GMTAristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method(R)
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTIs our racial identity something we can define for ourselves? 14:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 14:32GMTHow Virtual Reality will enhance and transform lives(R)
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMT2/4How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life. With Stephen Sondheim. 14:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 14:32GMTThe Wellcome Book Prize for 2016 was won this week by neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan(R)
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTRobert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, on the Sanders campaign and Hilary Clinton 14:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 14:32GMTFast-track evolution in the lab deals with growing resistance of insects to Bt crops(R)
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTPremier League goals and sporting debate with Lee James and the Sportsworld Team.
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTHip hop artist Smockey; actress Meryl Streep; sculptor Anish Kapoor
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| 15:00 | 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTThe emissions scandal, Ford's boss looks ahead, and could an African car brand take off?(R) 15:23GMT"The course of true love never did run smooth" is a perfect summary of love 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTHow banks do not know their customers - and penalise workers and businesses as a result(R) 15:23GMTWhat does "at one fell swoop" mean now and what did it mean in Shakespeare's time? 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTJohn Bennett brings you today's verdict from the Hillsborough inquests.
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTAs climate change plays havoc with the rain, could we draw water directly from the ocean?(R) 15:23GMT"That way madness lies" is from King Lear, but how has its meaning changed over time? 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTWe mark 100 days to go until the Olympics
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTHow smart phone technology has changed the plight of the modern migrant(R) 15:23GMTThe line "A tower of strength" is from Richard III, but originally featured elsewhere 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTHugh Ferris previews the Europa League semi-finals.
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTSilicon Valley's tech giants; start-ups in Ghana; the gig economy. 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTLee James previews the weekend's Premier League action.
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTNewcastle v Crystal Palace from St. James' Park.
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTSouthampton versus Manchester City from St Mary's Stadium
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| 16:00 | 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMT1 year after the devastating 2015 Nepal quake, Anu Anand returns to talk to survivors
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTLive from Liverpool after a court ruled 96 football fans died unlawfully in 1989
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTDonald Trump makes a key foreign policy speech - we take it live and get reaction
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTOne year after the quake, Anu Anand returns to Nepal
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTAs the influx of migrants arriving in Greece diminishes, what routes are they now using?
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTThe day's top stories from the Premier League and beyond.
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTSouthampton versus Manchester City from St Mary's Stadium
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| 17:00 | 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTSaudi Arabia approves economic reforms to reduce its dependence on oil 17:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 17:32GMTWe ask what has prompted a major rethink of Saudi Arabia's future plans.
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTRiek Machar, back in South Sudan as part of peace deal designed to end civil war. 17:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 17:32GMTThe firm's president says it has been cheating fuel consumption tests for 25 years.
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTBrazil takes charge of Olympic flame, and Chinese rural youth obesity 17:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 17:32GMTThe OECD club of rich countries' secretary general, Angel Gurria explains the thinking
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTCeasefire in Syria on the verge of collapse as fighting intensifies in Aleppo. 17:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 17:32GMTThe US economy has barely grown at all in the last three months on lower business spend.
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTDeadly fighting has resumed in Syria's second city of Aleppo after a brief lull overnight 17:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 17:32GMTSouth Africa reviews dropped corruption charges against President Zuma.
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTShia demonstrators storm parliament during protests against government corruption 17:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 17:32GMTThe story of a 20-something CIA officer who took on the Taliban.(R)
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTThe day's top stories, including reaction to Manchester United versus Leicester City
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| 18:00 | 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 18:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 18:32GMTMeet the women who would take a bullet for their wealthy clients(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTInquest concludes unlawful killing over Hillsborough deaths 18:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 18:32GMTNkem Ifejika examines the fall of Igbo, one of West Africa’s most widely spoken languages(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTBritish Police Chief suspended a day after Hillsborough inquest findings 18:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 18:32GMTCan girls living in a slum in Bangladesh shape their own identities?(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTKen Livingstone suspended for bringing Labour 'into disrepute',Syria ceasefire in tatters 18:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 18:32GMTThe story of Pasca, a young lesbian, and how South Africa's rainbow nation failed her(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTReinhold Hanning speaks out during his trial in Germany, Fresh fighting in Syria's Aleppo 18:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 18:32GMTFootball's biggest stories of the week on the BBC.(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTWhat is the American Identity and why is it a portrait recognized around the world?
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTProtestors threaten to topple the government if demands aren't met, Paris May Day trouble 18:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 18:32GMTThe ancient African spiritual concept of Ubuntu(R)
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| 19:00 | 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTAustralian zoo keeper Kylie Bullo released the first zoo-born orangutan into the wild.(R)
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTKimberley Motley on representing Farkhunda's family(R)
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTPedro Martín Núñez’s journey from prison to pastor(R)
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTBritish-Ethiopian poet Lemn Sissay discovered his real name on his birth certificate(R)
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTAre African sports administrators are letting down their athletes?
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe Nigerian novelist and poet discusses his creative process.(R) 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTWe investigate the online prank call community who live stream their crimes. 19:50GMTBBC World Service commissioning editor responds to claims of bias against certain faiths
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTAs the globe contracts, we will end up with less and less musical diversity?(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTSaudis approve economic plan; Murders in Bangladesh; Why are we obsessed with spoilers?
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTUkraine Chernobyl anniversary; Hillsborough verdict; Is Brazil ready for The Olympics?
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTTrump says 'America First;' Paris attacks suspect extradited; Prince's philanthropy
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMT‘Catastrophe’ in Aleppo; Indiana bellwether; anti-Semitism in British politics
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTPentagon says Afghan strike not war crime; first commercial Zika test; Garrison Keillor.
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTSupporters of Moqtada Sadr break into the Green Zone; Walt Whitman's health tips for men
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTGerman populist party approves anti-Islam policies; Trump rally; Circus lions freed
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| 21:00 | 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTAfter so many doping scandals, must all sporting success be treated with suspicion?(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTAristocrat writer and thinker Margaret Cavendish and the birth of the scientific method
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTHow Virtual Reality will enhance and transform lives
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTIs our racial identity something we can define for ourselves?(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTThe Wellcome Book Prize for 2016 was won this week by neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMT2/4How Shakespeare became part of the fabric of early American life. With Stephen Sondheim.(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTFast-track evolution in the lab deals with growing resistance of insects to Bt crops
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTRobert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, on the Sanders campaign and Hilary Clinton(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTWhat does the world see when it looks towards America? 21:50GMTWe explore how statistics can support two seemingly contradictory results.
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTNkem Ifejika examines the fall of Igbo, one of West Africa’s most widely spoken languages(R) 21:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 21:32GMTIs bottled water the ultimate marketing con, or a potential lifesaver?(R)
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTRemembering Chernobyl, Charles Darwin and the McCarthy era, plus 60s icon, the Mini(R)
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| 22:00 | 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTAbu Sayyaf group blamed for John Ridsdel's death, mass Egyptian protests 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTWe ask what has prompted a major rethink of Saudi Arabia's future plans.
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTFirst ever decline in Apple Iphone sales, Pop star Prince left no will 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTThe firm's president says it has been cheating fuel consumption tests for 25 years.
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTCruz selects potential running mate, Palmyra damage report, World's best bank note 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTThe OECD club of rich countries' secretary general, Angel Gurria explains the thinking.
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTUS urges Russia to rein in Assad's forces, Britain's Labour Party in anti-semitism row 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTThe US economy has barely grown at all in the last three months on lower business spend.
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTPartial truce in Syria supposed to come into force, but it doesn't include Aleppo 22:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTSouth Africa reviews dropped corruption charges against President Zuma.
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThirty years since Chernobyl's nuclear accident, its impacts on human health
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTShaky unity in South Sudan, China's 'surplus' children, ageing in Cuba; nuclear Belarus(R) 22:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 22:32GMTCan a computer programme choose the right applicant for a job?(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTDirector Don Cheadle on his new film Miles Ahead; Shah Rukh Khan on new thriller Fan(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTWhy balance in humans, machines and music are needed for effectiveness and safety(R) 23:50GMTThe cancer patient who inspired Canada with an attempt to run across the country in 1980(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTStories from people who identify as ‘non-binary’ – not male, not female(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTWill a new nuclear power station in the UK be the most expensive 'object' ever built?(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTThe politics of top level sport in America(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTIt took 27 years, but we got there in the end. The cover-up was finally uncovered.(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTMeet the women who would take a bullet for their wealthy clients(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTBrazilian scientists warn Zika may be much more dangerous than previously thought 23:20GMTBBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world. 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTThe story of a 20-something CIA officer who took on the Taliban.(R)
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