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Dec 2023
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A listener’s radio diary on World Questi...

Bbc World Service
About this episode

Listener power strikes again! Following an invitation from Gilbert Banda from Zambia on this programme earlier in the year, World Questions has just been broadcast from Zambia. We asked Gilbert to record his own radio diary and go behind-the-scenes to report on what it is like when the BBC World Service comes to his home city of Lusaka.

Plus, a listener asks if an edition of The Real Story on right-wing populism in Europe meant to miss out Britain?

Presenter: Rajan Datar Producer: Howard Shannon A Whistledown production for BBC World Service

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