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Over to You

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On Over to You, we hear your views, criticisms and praise for the BBC World Service’s programming. Presenter Qasa Alom puts your questions and comments to the presenters and the programme makers. We also take listeners behind the scenes to give an in-depth look into how programmes and editorial decisions are made. We’d love to hear from you by email on [email protected], or leave us a message on +441449609000 Presenter: Qasa Alom Producer: Jill Achineku Executive producer: Robert Nicholson ...
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Sacrificed

Chris O'Leary

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Sacrificed is a survivor's eye view of the Catholic sex abuse crisis that picks up where SPOTLIGHT left off, answering the question, "And then what happened?" Hosted by survivor Chris O'Leary, Sacrificed explores his efforts to get help from the Archdiocese of St. Louis, the Catholic Church, and the Pope. Efforts that, despite the PA grand jury report and VOS ESTIS, proved fruitless. It's a story many Catholics won't want to hear, but must be told. Because, if the Catholic Church can do what ...
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Simple English News Daily is a 7-minute podcast which tells today’s news in clear, simple, British English. Start your day by listening to 7 minutes of the most important stories from everywhere in the world. With SEND7, you can stay up-to-date with world news, and improve your English at the same time. SEND7 is aimed at intermediate and advanced English learners and teachers, and people with English as a second language, as well as native English speakers who want a fast, daily summary of w ...
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In the third season of her podcast, Dua Lipa: At Your Service, pop powerhouse Dua Lipa has candid, uplifting and insightful conversations with the people who inspire her most about topics like reinvention, sex and relationships, psychedelics, and more. Season Three will include conversations with internationally renowned artists, thought leaders and cultural icons. Season Three of At Your Service will also invite listeners to explore the vast landscape of human experiences, and celebrates th ...
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The Lens UK Responsible Business Podcast (The Lens) is the voice of responsible business across the UK and around the globe. The Lens creates a space for leaders to convene, always with one eye on the future. Open, unscripted and honest conversations between current and future leaders challenge the way we all think about responsible business. The Lens partners with One Young World to connect with global future leaders. Each month a global business leader sits down with an emerging leader who ...
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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 9th December 2025. Today: Cambodia Thailand fighting. Japan tsunami. Nigeria freed children. Benin Nigeria coup. Brazil art theft. Ecuador corruption. European Council US. Lithuania antisemitism. UK Ukraine meeting. UK Celtic language. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access t…
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World news in 7 minutes. Monday 8th December 2025 Today : Benin coup attempt. Mozambique displacement. US vaccine advice. Honduras no result. Argentina pistachios. India fire. Afghanistan Pakistan clash. Iran hijab. Indonesia floods. Eurovision boycott. Greece boat. France Louvre wet. Italy Pavarotti apology. SEND7 is supported by our amazing liste…
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World news in 7 minutes. Friday 5th December 2025 Today : Macron Ukraine betrayed. UK Russian responsibility. Spain trafficking. DRC rail project. Senegal protests. Honduras no result. US Perry ketamine. Palestine Shabab killed. China Macron. India Putin. New Zealand Ikea. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get acc…
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World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 4th December 2025. Today: Kenya British misconduct. Libya war-crimes suspect. Tunisia opposition arrest. Pakistan Afghanistan talks. Thailand scam crackdown. Mexico wage increase. United Nations Gaza criticism. Russia Ukraine impasse. Bulgaria government resignation. Germany state visit. Europe cat origins. With Ju…
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World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 3rd December 2025 Today : India cyber app. Lebanon Pope. Spain pigs. Ukraine update. Bulgaria protests. Italy fashion. DRC ebola. Nigeria protection. Honduras no results. US drug attacks. And the biggest donation? SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access to the transcripts an…
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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 2nd December 2025. Today: Guinea-Bissau African Union. Algeria reparations. South Africa G20. Haiti gangs. US Venezuela talk. Israel Syria raid. Hong Kong fires. Australia Ozempic. Ukraine France talk. UK MP sentenced. France snail thieves. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get acc…
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World news in 7 minutes. Monday 1st December 2025 Today : Ukraine Black Sea drones. Switzerland referendums. Spain protests. Lithuania balloons. Nigeria schools closed. Guinea-Bissau 'sham'. Senegal oil spill. Honduras election. Trump Hernandez pardon. St Vincent election. Asia floods. Hong Kong fire. Australia gambling and wedding. SEND7 is suppor…
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Stephen talks to Andrew Ryvkin again - this time for Andrew to answer listeners' questions. Andrew Ryvkin self-describes as having worked as a Russian propagandist. Stephen interviewed him on this podcast, on episodes released on the 1st November and 8th November. Go back and listen to those before listening to this one. Andrew's Substack : https:/…
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BLACKFRIDAY25 World news in 7 minutes. Friday 28th November 2025 Today : Hong Kong fire. Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia floods. France military service. Pope trip. Italy fake mother. Nigeria kidnappings. Guinea-Bissau coup. Peru sentence. Mexico Miss Universe investigation. US expensive comic. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Ou…
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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 3rd September 2024. Today: Guinea-Bissau takeover. Kenya trade deal. Hong Kong building fire. New Zealand murder. Australia social media ban. United Kingdom tax rise. France Sarkozy conviction. European Commission Shein. Peru Vizcarra prison. Mexico extortion law. Taiwan film Oscars. With Juliet Martin SEND7 is supp…
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World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 26th November 2025 Today : Sudan truce? Nigeria rescues. Ethiopia volcano. US Comey no case. Brazil Bolsonaro jail. Afghanistan Pakistan strike. Thailand floods. Ukraine Russian strikes. France National Rally. Estonia ancient gum. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access to t…
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How well can you remember the details of your childhood? Sometimes, the memories are there, but a little hazy. But what if you could trick your brain into thinking you looked like your younger self again? Would that help you recall more childhood memories? A new study has tried exactly this, so Claudia Hammond meets Professor Jane Aspell to have a …
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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 25th November 2025. Today: Switzerland Ukraine talks. Slovenia assisted dying. Cameroon opposition. South Africa Ukraine trick. US Venezuela terrorist. Jamaica Jimmy Cliff. South Korea Vigilantes. Pakistan suicide bombers. Japan Ukrainian sumo. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get…
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World news in 7 minutes. Monday 24th November 2025 Today : Europe Ukraine counter-proposal. UK Reform jail. Slovenia euthanasia. Nigeria kidnappings. South Africa G20. Vietnam floods. Israel Lebanon hit. Brazil Bolsonaro arrest. US RFK CDC. Shakira the ancient turtle. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access t…
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World news in 7 minutes. Friday 21st November 2025 Today : Ukraine US-Russia proposal. UK Russian lasers. France Grok investigation. Spain Franco. Israel Gaza strikes. Korea ship ground. Cuba power cuts. Brazil COP fire. Nigeria Biafra jail. Guinea-Bissau election. Madagascar special secret rock. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you…
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With COP30 taking place, presenter Qasa Alom looks at how climate is covered on the network. He hears from listeners and speaks to Angus Foster, the BBC News climate and science lead.He explains how climate is prioritised when there are competing stories. The flagship climate programme for the BBC World Service, The Climate Question, launched its f…
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World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 20th November 2025. Today: Ukraine drone attack. Poland consulate closure. North Macedonia nightclub trial. United States Epstein files. Canada space funding. Chile Patagonia deaths. Japan fire. Vietnam floods landslides. New Zealand drug ban. Tunisia doctor strike. Egypt village reconstruction. With Juliet Martin …
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World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 19th November 2025 Today : Japan-China problems. Bolivia-Peru problems. Singapore horns. US Saudi question. Ai Bubble? Libya governments agree. Nestle Africa sugar. Ukraine Kharkiv strikes. Romania evacuates. Poland sabotage. Croatia fire. France gold digger. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. O…
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More than 32,000 asylum seekers are being housed in hotels in the UK, the latest figures show. There's been intense political debate in recent weeks focused on the cost – both financially for the government and for local communities. But what about the cost to the mental health of those living in the hotels? Today we’re going to hear from an asylum…
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This month, our host Sarah Travers is joined by Richard Sykes, SVP and President of one of the UK and Ireland’s largest integrated facility, engineering, and infrastructure solutions firms – ABM UK and Ireland; and Manuella Appiah, Environment, Social and Governance Manager for Sunrock, a leading European developer of integrated clean energy system…
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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 18th November 2025. Today: Nigeria kidnapping. DRC mine. Ukraine France jets. UK immigration. Poland sabotage. Chile elections. Ecuador referendum. US Epstein files. Bangladesh Hasina death sentence. Saudi Arabia pilgrimage crash. Pakistan vaccines. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporter…
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World news in 7 minutes. Monday 17th November 2025 Today : Ecuador referendum. Chile election. Mexico, Philippines protests. US tariffs cut. DRC peace deal. Ethiopia Marbug. China Japan tension. India explosion. Ukraine Russian oil targets. Europe Claudia. Spain Rubiales. Germany no auction. And sheep. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners li…
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Bree Aesie is the host of the "Into the Story Podcast" and is a communication coach. Stephen talks to Bree about Canada in 2025; the fall of Justin Trudeau, the influence of Donald Trump, the unexpected results of the 2025 election, and the rise of Canadian nationalism. Into the Story podcast : intostory.com…
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World news in 7 minutes. Friday 14th November 2025 Today : Iraq results. Iran no water. Pakistan bombing. US unshut. Pennies end. Chile election. Ghana crush. South Africa G20. Ukraine corruption. Hitler sexual disorder. France commemorations. Serbia protests. Vatican favourite films. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our suppor…
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World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 13th November 2025. Today: Italy human safari. Ireland president. Gabon Bongos sentence. Libya migrants drown. Somalia pirates. US Epstein. Caribbean US warship. Israel pardon. West Bank settlers. China gay dating apps. Australia bagpipes. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get acc…
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World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 12th November 2025 Today : Tanzania protest deaths. Nigeria cocaine. South Africa Zuma trial. Angola Argentinians blocked. India explosion investigation. Malaysia Thailand Rohingya. Thailand ceasefire paused. South Korea rescue continues. Georgia Turkish plane. Turkiye Imamoglu 2000 years. Poland independence. Bra…
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It is now compulsory for schools across the UK to teach children about mental health and wellbeing. Whilst it might seem like classes for everyone on these topics might be helpful, a new study has found that in some cases, they may actually be worsening mental health problems. How could this be? Claudia Hammond is joined by Dr Lucy Foulkes to discu…
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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 11 November 2025. Today: Uganda Kenyan activists. Mali Islamists. US shutdown vote. Brazil COP30. India Delhi explosion. India Delhi pollution. Philippines Typhoon. Poland Russian agent. France Sarkozy. UK BBC. Spain language study. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access to t…
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World news in 7 minutes. Monday 10th November 2025 Today : Philippines typhoons. Indonesia prisoners freed. Iraq election. Brazil tornado. US Musk pay. Somalia pirates. Tanzania arrests. Albania gender test. Ukraine energy attacks. UK BBC resignations. Greece Albania spiders. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get …
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This is the second part of Stephen's conversation with Andrew Ryvkin, who self-describes as having worked as a Russian propagandist. Andrew talks about how and why he left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, why he thought that Russia would invade Ukraine, how propaganda has changed since the invasion of Ukraine, how propaganda works inside and o…
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World news in 7 minutes. Friday 7th November 2025 Today : Mexico President groping. Brazil COP30. Bolivia Añez released. US child shooter. France Shein. UK prison problems. Ukraine Pokrovsk. Germany swastikas. Philippines typhoon. Korea power plant. Malaysia Taiwan influencer. Sudan ceasefire? Grand Egyptian Museum. SEND7 is supported by our amazin…
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World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 6th November 2025. Today: US Mamdani. Brazil police. Philippines Typhoon. Japan bears. Australia social media. Tanzania protest bodies. Morocco Western Sahara. France car attack. Belgium drones. UK AI testing. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access to the transcripts and voc…
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World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 5th November 2025 Today : Sudan history repeats. Cameroon protests. Europe Tesla down. France Shein. Italy tower. Spain citizenship. China starbucks. Iraq weapons control. Peru-Mexio relations. US elections. Dick Cheney. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access to the transcr…
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This programme may contain information that you might find to be evidence-based and informative... Trigger warnings are everywhere. They’re used in the news, on social media and in academia to flag potentially distressing material so we can emotionally prepare ourselves or avoid it. But what if they actually make things worse? We interrogate a grow…
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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 4th November 2025. Today: Mexico Mayor. US Venezuela. Israel lawyer. Afghanistan earthquake. Nepal avalanche. Tanzania inauguration. Nigeria US islamists. Spain floods resignation. Georgia drug smuggler. Polish AI prompts. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access to the transcr…
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World news in 7 minutes. Monday 3rd November 2025 Today : UK no prince. Serbia rival protests. Spain tall church. Lebanon Israel strikes. Indonesia bad meals. Sudan crimes. Tanzania election violence. Kenya Uganda floods. Mexico fire. US New York. Spain Picasso mistake. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access…
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World news in 7 minutes. Friday 31st October 2025 Today : Netherlands election. Ukraine Pokrovsk. France arrests. Greece to Iraq. Caribbean recovery. US deportation. Tanzania protests. Western Sahara. Trump Xi meeting. Australia message in a bottle. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access to the transcripts a…
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World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 30th October 2025 Today : Ukraine crimes against humanity. France partial guilt. Slovenia resignations. Korea Trump Xi. Israel Gaza airstrikes. Sudan RSF attacks. Tanzania election protests. Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba Melissa. Brazil raid. US monkeys. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters g…
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World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 29th October 2025 Today : Caribbean hurricane. Brazil favela raid. US boat strikes. Guterres climate fail. Lebanon no explosives. India cricket arrest. Netherlands, Cote d'Ivoire, Tanzania elections. Kenya plane crash. Georgia British teenager. And art galleries for health. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listen…
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Autism tends to be viewed as a spectrum, but a new study published this month in Nature suggests that there are both genetic and behavioural differences between early and later diagnosed autism. So is autism still a spectrum, or should we be thinking of it as having multiple different subtypes? Claudia Hammond talks to Professor Uta Frith, who has …
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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 28 October 2025. Today: Argentina elections. Caribbean hurricane. Japan Trump visit. India China flights. Sudan Al-Fashir. Cameroon President. Mali fuel shortage. Lithuania balloons. Ireland artist UBI. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access to the transcripts and vocabulary …
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World news in 7 minutes. Monday 27th October 2025. Today: East Timor ASEAN membership. Thailand Cambodia ceasefire. Taiwan pride parade. Namibia minister change. South Africa Nigeria. Brazil US tariffs. Jamaica tropical hurricane. France Louvre arrests. Ukraine long-range weapons. Spain Picasso recovered. With Juliet Martin SEND7 is supported by ou…
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This is an episode of the podcast English Learning for Curious Minds. If you enjoy this episode you can find English Learning for Curious Minds in your podcast app, or at leonardoenglish.com Transcript / Study pack : https://bit.ly/474GafO ------------------- Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was shocked to read his own obituary branding him …
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World news in 7 minutes. Friday 24th October 2025 Today : US Russia sanctions. Ukraine drone strikes. Hungary Orban 'puppet'. Argentina, Cote d'Ivoire elections. Mexico biolab. Uganda bus crash. US Trump lawfare. Thailand Myanmar crossings. New Zealand strike. UK France return. And churches together. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like…
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World news in 7 minutes. Thursday 23rd October 2025. Today: China Taiwan "retrocession". Thailand minister resignation. UAE Palestinian security. Russia reservist deployment. Ukraine drone attacks. Czechia scooter ban. Nigeria road accident. Tunisia chemical protests. Peru emergency declared. Eswatini hunger strike. Belgium Sakharov prize. With Jul…
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World news in 7 minutes. Wednesday 22nd October 2025 Today : Japan Takaichi PM. Myanmar scam centre raid. Thailand Cambodia mines. Putin Hungary journey? Slovakia sentence. France tornado / Sarkozy / thieves. Iceland mosquitoes. Ethiopia train crash. Africa malaria. Bolivia Venezuela relations. US Amazon repaired. Pumpkin boats. SEND7 is supported …
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Many of us can empathise with that feeling of keeping stuff for years and years. We might keep treasured objects with real sentimental value, or we might have items for a long time - and yet we can't really explain why. For those of us who don’t like getting rid of our belongings, life can feel very full of stuff. But when does a tendency to hold o…
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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 21st October 2025. Today: Afghanistan cricketers. North Korean defector. Hong Kong plane crash. Nigeria protests. Morocco Gen Z protests. US Amazon Web Services. US Trump Ukraine. Bolivia President. Luxembourg EU gas. UK blindness treatment. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get ac…
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World news in 7 minutes. Monday 20th October 2025 Today : France Louvre robbery. Romania explosion. UK Israel football. Peru, US protests. Madagascar president. Namibia Mpox. Gaza aid. Bangladesh fire. India cough syrup. And Diwali. SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you. Our supporters get access to the transcripts and vocabulary lis…
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