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News & views from the BBC's international radio station.

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15:32 BST
Business Daily
Power Players: The most economy-focused mid-term ever?
With less than a month until the mid-term elections, how important will the US economy be to voters?
15:50 BSTWorld Business Express
Is AI powering a global trade boom?
16:00 BSTBBC News
08/10/2026 15:01 GMT
16:06 BSTOutside Source
2026/10/08 15:06 GMT
17:00 BSTBBC News
08/10/2026 16:01 GMT
17:06 BSTOutside Source
2026/10/08 16:06 GMT
18:00 BSTBBC News
08/10/2026 17:01 GMT
18:06 BSTOutlook
‘I couldn’t watch him die’: how saving a diver changed me
18:50 BSTWhat in the World
Everyone is talking about the "great lock-in"
19:00 BSTBBC News
08/10/2026 18:01 GMT
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LIVE
15:30 BST
Feedback
BBC Radio Cuts, Charter Renewal, and Welcome to Defiance.
At the start of a new series, Andrea Catherwood discusses a new raft of cuts to BBC Radio, and listeners give their thoughts on a drama that marked the 25th anniversary of 9/11.
16:00 BSTThe Briefing Room
Why does the Yemen war matter to the world?
16:30 BSTBBC Inside Science
The future of mathematics in the age of AI
17:00 BSTPM
08/10/2026
18:00 BSTSix O'Clock News
08/10/2026
18:30 BSTDo Gooders
1. The Team Player
19:00 BSTThe Archers
08/10/2026
19:15 BSTFront Row
Review Show: The Social Reckoning, The 90s at Tate Britain and reaction to Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson
20:00 BSTWhen It Hits the Fan
'The Race We Can't Afford to Lose'
20:15 BSTThe Media Show
Reporting on the Cornell rape investigation; Woman’s Hour at 80; Anneka Rice
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