Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,18 Apr 2014,55 mins

Ukraine Deal

Big Boss Interview

Available for over a year

After a day of talks there is finally a deal on Ukraine. Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva, where representatives from Russia, the US, the EU and the UN met. Weibo launches on the New York Stock Exchange and shares leap 19 per cent. But what's the link between China's answer to Twitter, an actress and a little purple bear? In Taiwan reporter Cindy Sui investigates the illegal trade in dolphin meat. And is it possible to buy your way into Heaven. Billionaire US politician Michael Bloomberg seems to think so. We asked Rev Dr Graham Tomlin, Dean of the Mellitus Theological College in London if he's right. In Singapore, regular contributor Simon Littlewood talks Tasmanian lavender; in Washington, Alexis Goldstein from The Other 98%, admits to a little office gossip. And Rahul Tandon is in the mountains of Darjeeling on the Indian election trail. But how's the tea?

Programme Website
More episodes