| 00:00 | 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTWe return to people we spoke to earlier in the pandemic(R) 00:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 00:32GMTWhat can we learn from human remains? Alice Roberts talks bones with Jim Al Khalili(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTFeaturing It’s A Wonderful Life, Studio Ghibli and Charlie Chaplin
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTWe celebrate Italian performance artists who have risen to the challenges of Covid-19(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTHas Covid-19 changed the way we hear, see, smell, taste and touch?(R)
| 00:06GMTDr Kevin Fong talks to the people who have created a coronavirus vaccine in record time
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTAs the year draws to a close, correspondents muse on the upcoming global events of 2021(R)
| 00:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 00:06GMTThree extraordinary artists blur the lines between cabaret, theatre and real-life(R) 00:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 00:32GMTWhen James Le Mesurier fell to his death he left behind a tangle of truths and lies.(R) 00:50GMTMary Hockaday, controller of BBC World Service English, answers listeners' complaints(R)
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| 01:00 | 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTAre some African nations restricting growth by taxing online activity? 01:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 01:32GMTUnwrapping the myriad meanings of Santa Claus in the “official home of Santa”, Rovaniemi(R)
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMT14 million unemployed Americans and stock markets await news of financial stimulus
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTDebate over cheques sent out to people in the US to help them during the pandemic
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTThe new Coronavirus vaccines are coming soon to people in Britain
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTThe UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTWe look ahead to some of the trends that may be big this year.
| 01:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 01:06GMTMaking sense of a year of confusion
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| 02:00 | 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTFrom bush fires to hurricanes, 2020 has been a year of extreme weather events
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTIn 1914 an Indian student caused a sensation when she won a top Welsh cultural prize
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTHas Singapore found a solution to improving its citizens’ wellbeing?
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTHow one young man went missing after Nigerian troops opened fire at a protest
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTWe mark the 50th anniversary of the Ibrox stadium disaster which killed 66 people.
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTReaction to India's victory over Australia in Melbourne, plus Scotland's Kathryn Bryce.
| 02:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 02:06GMTWill innovation and passion shape the economy of the future? 02:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 02:32GMTLeah Sottile on the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing and America’s far-right today.(R) 02:50GMTTim Harford showcases statistics from 2020
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| 03:00 | 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTTranscendental music from the Caucasus(R) 03:50GMTPete Goss’s heroic solo rescue during the 1996 Vendee Globe round-the-world yacht race(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTTartania Brown is one of few sickle cell doctors in New York who also has the condition(R) 03:50GMTHow UNESCO fought racism and advocated tolerance.(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTBrothers Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse(R) 03:50GMTOne of the largest dams in the world, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed in 1970(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTJo Fidgen reveals the final two winners of the BBC Inspirations Awards 2020.(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTHow a 180-year-old miniature cello shaped the musical dreams of two American girls(R) 03:50GMTIn the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTLooking ahead to 2021 in Brazil, China and the Democratic Republic of Congo(R) 03:50GMTHistory as told by the people who were there(R)
| 03:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 03:06GMTWill the approval of a cheaper and easier to use vaccine help the developing world?(R)
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| 04:00 | 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTSome of the CrowdScience team answer listeners' questions from all over the world(R)
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTWildfires, floods, hurricanes made 2020 record breaking. What it says about climate change(R)
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTThe best tech of 2020 including Kivuwatt, internet shutdowns and digital death.(R)
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTDoughnuts today or tomorrow? How 4 year olds understand time(R)
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 04:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 04:32GMTMaking sense of a year of confusion(R)
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTDr Kevin Fong talks to the people who have created a coronavirus vaccine in record time(R)
| 04:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 04:06GMTSjón answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.
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| 05:00 | 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTThe new law will support US business and people, and ensure the government remains open.
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTJoe Biden singles out the Defense Department as failing to brief his team properly
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTUS President elect Biden promises to move heaven and earth to speed up vaccinations
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTWe head to California as it becomes the latest place to register the new strain of Covid
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTThe British prime minister, Boris Johnson, has called it a new beginning
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 05:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 05:32GMTThree extraordinary artists blur the lines between cabaret, theatre and real-life
| 05:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 05:06GMTHow did life change in 2020? Plenty in the USA, Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Belgium 05:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 05:32GMTWhen James Le Mesurier fell to his death he left behind a tangle of truths and lies.(R) 05:50GMTTim Harford showcases statistics from 2020(R)
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| 06:00 | 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTMr Trump approved the covid stimulus package days after objecting to elements of the bill
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTMr Biden says he's not getting the information needed to make the transition to power
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTBoris Johnson, the UK prime minister, is hoping to persuade parliament to ratify his deal
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTBritain is struggling with a spike in Covid cases, as new Brexit rules come into effect
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMT'Brexit Day' finally arrives - so what will it mean for business?
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTA huge mock immunisation drive takes place to check the country's readiness
| 06:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 06:06GMTA group of senators have said they'll challenge the certification of Biden's victory
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| 07:00 | 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTMr Trump had previously called the coronavirus stimulus and spending package 'a disgrace'
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTPresident Trump is accused of failing to share information with the incoming Biden team
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTOfficials in the UK approve the Astra-Zeneca vaccine for Covid-19 amid record daily cases
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTThree million EU citizens currently live in the UK as the Brexit deal comes into force
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMT2021 starts with Britain's departure from the EU's single market and customs union
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTA huge immunisation drill is taking place to test the country's readiness
| 07:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 07:06GMTUS Senators raise objections to the President Elect's victory
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| 08:00 | 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTStephen Sackur speaks to the historian and bestselling author(R) 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTChina is bucking a global trend and its economy is growing again 08:50GMTHow UNESCO fought racism and advocated tolerance.
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTHydrating sweets for the elderly go on sale and how a housing experiment coped with Covid 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTHow lockdown has changed the way we cook and buy food 08:50GMTOne of the largest dams in the world, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed in 1970
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTNaturalist Chris Packham says new sustainable economies can emerge after Covid-19(R) 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTHow have food businesses adapted to empty high streets? 08:50GMTThe modernist architect Le Corbusier agreed to build a 'city of the future' in India
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTWhy do boys underperform girls in schools around the world? 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTHow millennials are planning for their financial futures 08:50GMTIn the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTDo we humans massively underestimate our capacity to change things for the better?(R) 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTReplacement arrangements for travel, trade and immigration have come into force 08:50GMTHistory as told by the people who were there
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTAn immunisation drill is taking place across India to check the country's readiness 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTKatty and Carlos speak to Opal Tometi about the year when Black Lives Matter went global.
| 08:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 08:06GMTUS Vice President welcomes objections by Republican Senators over Presidential win 08:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 08:32GMTFungal networks are entangled with life on Earth and even show signs of intelligence.(R)
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| 09:00 | 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTFrom bush fires to hurricanes, 2020 has been a year of extreme weather events(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTTwo women discuss the physical prowess and dedication needed in the world of cheerleading
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTIn 1914 an Indian student caused a sensation when she won a top Welsh cultural prize(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTAR Rahman on music, God and how spirituality is entwined in the process of composition(R)
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTHas Singapore found a solution to improving its citizens’ wellbeing?(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTDoes how we treat our subservient robots impact how we treat one another?
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTHow one young man went missing after Nigerian troops opened fire at a protest(R) 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTTwo women, 8000 cookbooks
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTRory Cellan-Jones and guests on how tech will shape the coming twelve months. 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTWe mark the 50th anniversary of the Ibrox stadium disaster which killed 66 people.(R)
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTWe return to people we spoke to earlier in the pandemic 09:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 09:32GMTLeah Sottile on the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing and America’s far-right today. 09:50GMTMary Hockaday, controller of BBC World Service English, answers listeners' complaints
| 09:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 09:06GMTDr Kevin Fong talks to the people who have created a coronavirus vaccine in record time(R)
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| 10:00 | 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTFour-legged fashion – we go inside the exclusive world of designer clothes for dogs(R) 10:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 10:32GMTWhen James Le Mesurier fell to his death he left behind a tangle of truths and lies.(R) 10:50GMTTim Harford showcases statistics from 2020(R)
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTWe celebrate Italian performance artists who have risen to the challenges of Covid-19(R)
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTHas Covid-19 changed the way we hear, see, smell, taste and touch?(R)
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTThe uses and meanings of headwear from prehistory to today 10:50GMTThe Canadian who's made a career out of dancing at big sports events around the world
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTAs the year draws to a close, correspondents muse on the upcoming global events of 2021
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTWe look back at how the world of sport in 2020 stood still
| 10:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 10:06GMTWill innovation and passion shape the economy of the future?(R) 10:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 10:32GMTThe Archbishop of Canterbury and the UK’s Chief Rabbi discuss coping with losing a child(R)
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| 11:00 | 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTSome of the CrowdScience team answer listeners' questions from all over the world(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTWildfires, floods, hurricanes made 2020 record breaking. What it says about climate change(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTThe best tech of 2020 including Kivuwatt, internet shutdowns and digital death.(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTDoughnuts today or tomorrow? How 4 year olds understand time(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTMaking sense of a year of confusion(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTIn 1914 an Indian student caused a sensation when she won a top Welsh cultural prize(R)
| 11:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 11:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 11:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 11:32GMTHas Singapore found a solution to improving its citizens’ wellbeing?(R)
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| 12:00 | 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTTartania Brown is one of few sickle cell doctors in New York who also has the condition 12:50GMTHow UNESCO fought racism and advocated tolerance.(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTBrothers Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse 12:50GMTOne of the largest dams in the world, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed in 1970(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTJo Fidgen reveals the final two winners of the BBC Inspirations Awards 2020.
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTHow a 180-year-old miniature cello shaped the musical dreams of two American girls 12:50GMTIn the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTLooking ahead to 2021 in Brazil, China and the Democratic Republic of Congo 12:50GMTHistory as told by the people who were there(R)
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTDoes it matter if songwriters don't know where their songs will end?
| 12:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 12:06GMTFeaturing soprano Fatma Said, violinist Timothy Ridout and the Trish Clowes Jazz trio.(R)
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| 13:00 | 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTTwo women discuss the physical prowess and dedication needed in the world of cheerleading(R)
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTAR Rahman on music, God and how spirituality is entwined in the process of composition(R)
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTDoes how we treat our subservient robots impact how we treat one another?(R)
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTTwo women, 8000 cookbooks(R)
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 13:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 13:32GMTThe Archbishop of Canterbury and the UK’s Chief Rabbi discuss coping with losing a child
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTMilitary threats increase as Iran marks anniversary of Qasem Soleimani's killing.
| 13:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 13:06GMTIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines
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| 14:00 | 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTZhang Zhan, who covered Wuhan's coronavirus outbreak has been jailed for four years.
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTA record 41,385 cases were recorded
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - cheap and easily-transported - gets UK approval
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTThe Sinopharm vaccine is approved in China beyond emergency use
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTBoris Johnson says the UK has the ability to do things "differently and better"
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTAnd coverage from around the world - including the English Premier League
| 14:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 14:06GMTSjón answers questions from readers about his novel Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was.(R)
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| 15:00 | 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTStephen Sackur speaks to the historian and bestselling author(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTBusinesses across the UK are working out what the EU Brexit trade deal means for them
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTHydrating sweets for the elderly go on sale and how a housing experiment coped with Covid(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTPakistan is the latest country to extend its ban on flights from the UK into the New Year
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTNaturalist Chris Packham says new sustainable economies can emerge after Covid-19(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use in the UK against coronavirus.
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTWhy do boys underperform girls in schools around the world?(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTA row over coronavirus relief payments in the US is raging.
| 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTDo we humans massively underestimate our capacity to change things for the better?(R) 15:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 15:32GMTA new era has begun for the United Kingdom
| | 15:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 15:06GMTThe uses and meanings of headwear from prehistory to today(R) 15:50GMTTim Harford showcases statistics from 2020(R)
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| 16:00 | 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTHow will the measures help unemployed Americans?
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTA magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck southern Croatia
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTThe UK has ordered 100 million doses - enough to vaccinate 50 million people
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTChina has given its first full approval of a coronavirus vaccine
| 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTThe country has completed its formal separation from the European Union
| | 16:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 16:06GMTCoverage from around the world - including the English Premier League.
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| 17:00 | 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTWe return to three mums who gave birth during the pandemic
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTWe speak again to two women who suffer from long Covid symptoms
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTOur health correspondent reflects on a year of covering the pandemic
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTThe new deal between the UK and the European Union comes into effect 23.00 local time
| 17:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 17:06GMTThree health experts discuss how the pandemic might play out in the new year
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| 18:00 | 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTTartania Brown is one of few sickle cell doctors in New York who also has the condition(R) 18:50GMTHow UNESCO fought racism and advocated tolerance.(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTBrothers Luke and Ryan Hart are trying to change the conversation around domestic abuse(R) 18:50GMTOne of the largest dams in the world, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed in 1970(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTJo Fidgen reveals the final two winners of the BBC Inspirations Awards 2020.(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTHow a 180-year-old miniature cello shaped the musical dreams of two American girls(R) 18:50GMTIn the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef(R)
| 18:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 18:06GMTLooking ahead to 2021 in Brazil, China and the Democratic Republic of Congo(R) 18:50GMTHistory as told by the people who were there(R)
| 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. 18:32GMTWhen James Le Mesurier fell to his death he left behind a tangle of truths and lies. 18:50GMTThe Canadian who's made a career out of dancing at big sports events around the world(R)
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| 19:00 | 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTBBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTFeaturing soprano Fatma Said, violinist Timothy Ridout and the Trish Clowes Jazz trio.
| 19:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 19:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 19:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 19:32GMTKatty and Carlos speak to Opal Tometi about the year when Black Lives Matter went global.(R)
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| 20:00 | 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTFrom bush fires to hurricanes, 2020 has been a year of extreme weather events(R) 20:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 20:32GMTWildfires, floods, hurricanes made 2020 record breaking. What it says about climate change
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTIn 1914 an Indian student caused a sensation when she won a top Welsh cultural prize(R) 20:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 20:32GMTThe best tech of 2020 including Kivuwatt, internet shutdowns and digital death.
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTHas Singapore found a solution to improving its citizens’ wellbeing?(R) 20:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 20:32GMTDoughnuts today or tomorrow? How 4 year olds understand time
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTHow one young man went missing after Nigerian troops opened fire at a protest(R) 20:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 20:32GMTMaking sense of a year of confusion
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTRory Cellan-Jones and guests on how tech will shape the coming twelve months.(R) 20:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 20:32GMTFungal networks are entangled with life on Earth and even show signs of intelligence.
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTJoin us as we say goodbye to 2020 in style with some of the world’s funniest comedians
| 20:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 20:06GMTDoes it matter if songwriters don't know where their songs will end?(R)
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| 21:00 | 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTInterviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTUK scientists call for “decisive” action to tackle Covid spread
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTHalf a million doses of the new AstraZeneca vaccine will be rolled out in UK from Monday
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTAfter 13 years of peacekeeping, the UN hands over responsibility for security to Sudan
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTThe island is devaluing its peso for the first time since the 1959 revolution
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTIsrael has a rate of 11.55 vaccination doses per 100 people
| 21:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 21:06GMTNew Indian vaccine approved before final clinical trials.
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| 22:00 | 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 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. 22:32GMTBusinesses across the UK are working out what the EU Brexit trade deal means for them
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 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 latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 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 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use in the UK against coronavirus.
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 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 UK is to complete its separation from the EU's single market and customs union
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 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. 22:32GMTA new era has begun for the United Kingdom
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 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 Archbishop of Canterbury and the UK’s Chief Rabbi discuss coping with losing a child(R)
| 22:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 22:06GMTThe world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen 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. 22:32GMTLeah Sottile on the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing and America’s far-right today.(R) 22:50GMTTim Harford showcases statistics from 2020(R)
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| 23:00 | 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTStephen Sackur speaks to the historian and bestselling author(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTTwo women discuss the physical prowess and dedication needed in the world of cheerleading(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTHydrating sweets for the elderly go on sale and how a housing experiment coped with Covid(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTAR Rahman on music, God and how spirituality is entwined in the process of composition(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTNaturalist Chris Packham says new sustainable economies can emerge after Covid-19(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTDoes how we treat our subservient robots impact how we treat one another?(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTWhy do boys underperform girls in schools around the world?(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTTwo women, 8000 cookbooks(R) 23:59GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTDo we humans massively underestimate our capacity to change things for the better?(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTWe mark the 50th anniversary of the Ibrox stadium disaster which killed 66 people.(R)
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTWill the approval of a cheaper and easier to use vaccine help the developing world?
| 23:00GMTThe latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 23:06GMTHow did life change in 2020? Plenty in the USA, Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Belgium(R) 23:30GMTThe latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. 23:32GMTSinger Elza Soares survived poverty and public scandal to become a music legend in Brazil
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