A Week Without the World Service in Freetown
Frustrated listeners in Freetown were unable to tune into the World Service via 93.4FM for a week. Plus, a listener questions the balance of guests on World Business Report.
For a week, listeners in Freetown, Sierra Leone heard only static when they tried to tune into Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service on 93.4FM. On Tuesday evening, it appeared that the station had finally returned to the airwaves. Abass Shaw, an avid World Service listener in Freetown, explains why he was so badly affected by the station’s absence. And Umaru Fofana, a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ journalist based in Freetown, sheds some light on what happened.
Listener Kerry in Edinburgh, UK has been wondering why the World Business Report appears to give a regular platform to the pro-Brexit economist Roger Bootle, but not to a Remain supporter. Editor Martin Webber joins Rajan Datar in the studio to address Kerry’s point and explain how he selects his regular guests.
Plus, a recent episode of World Hacks about the decline in smoking, drinking, and drug-taking among Iceland’s teenagers proved a huge talking point for listeners. We hear the reaction of five of them.
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- Sat 25 Nov 2017 20:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except Australasia, East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Sun 26 Nov 2017 00:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Sun 26 Nov 2017 10:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except News Internet
- Mon 27 Nov 2017 02:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service West and Central Africa
- Mon 27 Nov 2017 06:50GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service South Asia
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