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World Service,·256 episodes
Residents of Lagos describe how stress affects their lives
Would you lie to spare someone’s feelings?
What’s the difference between emails, voicemails and video mails?
When did the Â鶹ԼÅÄ start broadcasting Focus on Africa?
Top tips for becoming a photographer
Why evenings are colder when there’s no cloud cover
Why spiders don’t get caught in their own webs
How and when Margaret Thatcher got her famous moniker
Boney M. Singer Liz Mitchell on how the band has drifted apart
Where did Africa get its name from?
How to stay in touch with Â鶹ԼÅÄ Africa from outside the continent
In the year 2000, 90% of all executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the US
Why stammerers don’t stammer when they sing
The search for the first ever radio broadcast
How the remote Tristan da Cunha islands became a safe haven for sailors
Where is ousted Ugandan Head of State Idi Amin?
Why the demand for slaves moved from west to east Africa
Lagos women on why they choose to wear make-up
Why the world’s top cadets are sent for officer training at Sandhurst
Does HIPIC – an initiative to solve debt problems in the world’s poorest countries – work?
Music and songs produced in apartheid era South Africa
The 1966 assassination that planted the seed for South Africa’s liberation movement
Have new hooliganism rules made football safer?
John Barnes on the formation of a Great Britain football team
The impact of the human genome on medical research
How a Roman myth inspired the annual celebration of love
The symbolism and folk lore behind cats’ nine lives
Soldiers’ memoirs from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
The curative properties of honey, from treating wounds to soothing coughs
Will the Internet ever gain consciousness?
