BBC World Service TV Guide

Nuala McGovern brings together people from around the world to discuss how major news stories are affecting their lives

The old feud that came back to haunt the Lee family. A seed sown decades ago blossomed into a fraternal battle, putting the carefully planned succession at risk

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the exchange of cultures and biology across the Atlantic and Pacific after Columbus reached the Bahamas in 1492. Europe had no potatoes, tomatoes, sunflowers or, arguably, syphilis in its most virulent form; while the Americas had no cattle, bananas, sugar cane or smallpox. The lists of what was then exchanged are long and their impact ranged from transformation to devastation

Global reports as BBC correspondents across the world tell stories and examine news developments in their region

The BBC's world affairs editor reflects on the week's major global news stories, talking to local experts from around the world to go behind the headlines

Global reports as BBC correspondents across the world tell stories and examine news developments in their region

The business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put it on a person's plate

Brilliant solutions to the planet's problems, featuring the people with ideas to make the world a better place and an analysis of whether they will work

The week's global stories from the Fifth Floor, home to the BBC's 40 language services

The old feud that came back to haunt the Lee family. A seed sown decades ago blossomed into a fraternal battle, putting the carefully planned succession at risk

Tim Harford presents the programme that explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life

Nuala McGovern brings together people from around the world to discuss how major news stories are affecting their lives

Stories on why people find it so hard to save the planet, and how it might be possible to change that