To coincide with the World Health Organisation's Road Safety Day, BBC World Service examines how road traffic accidents are becoming a global epidemic.
“Rhythms of Life” looks at how we use music throughout our lives to soothe and celebrate, mourn and mark events. This week listen to a style of music we’re all introduced to at an early age – the lullaby.
As part of the The World Service Death on the Roads season, George Arney looks at what causes the million plus deaths a year, and asks whether radical thinking is needed to tackle the epidemic.
Crippled by a misdirected American bomb, Ali Abbas became the focus of an emotional campaign to help Iraq's war victims. He tells his story from his new home in London.
South Africa is about to celebrate ten years since its first democratic elections. Artbeat explores what impact the last decade has had on the South African arts scene.
As Jewish communities celebrate Passover, commemorating the exodus from Egypt, Katie Whittaker joins Jewish cookery writer Denise Phillips to find out more about the importance of the Seder meal.
New advances in diabetes treatments. Is there really life on other planets and Archaeologists in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park have discovered artifacts which suggest our Middle Stone Age ancestors were more cultured than we thought.
