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Epic space stories. Season 1: the first Moon landing, Apollo 11. Season 2: the near disaster of Apollo 13. Coming soon: Season 3, the space shuttle. Theme music: Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music.

Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.

Why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that.

Hackers, North Korea and billions of dollars. Lazarus returns – in fact, the criminals never went away. Season 2 begins at an ATM, possibly near you. With Jean Lee and Geoff White. Investigators claim a secretive, elite North Korean hacking ring,...

D Day, traitors and evacuees

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The award-winning inside story. An investigation into the death of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Includes interviews with those accused of her murder.

Before a plane could save a country, the people had to build it. This is the story of a beautiful and deadly icon of resistance, built and flown against extraordinary odds.

Expert answers to your questions in World Football: The Phone-in from BBC Radio 5 Live's Up All Night programme.

All the BBC World Service music podcasts gathered into one place. New documentaries will be added intermittently. Only available in the UK.

The best five minutes of sport from 'Utro na BBC', the morning programme from the BBC Russian Service. Hear the big stories and interviews with key sporting personalities. We broadcast Monday to Friday from 0630 to 1000 Moscow time. Episodes are added...

Reports, interviews and discussions on key news stories of the day from the BBC Russian Service. Utro na BBC is broadcast between 0630 and 1000 Moscow time. New episodes are added at 1100 Moscow Monday to Friday.

A triple murder. 40 hours of tape recordings. Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter. Bob Dylan wrote a song about him. Hollywood made a movie. This is the full story.

Insight, colour, wit and analysis as the BBC Russian Service business team looks at the world business and economy stories and their effects on everyday life. New episodes are added at 1830 Moscow (1530 London) Monday to Friday.