BBC World Service English will bring listeners a varied offering of factual and inspiring programming this spring with the return of familiar favourites and new commissions.
Newly commissioned series, The Interview, will bring listeners the best conversations from the BBC, featuring global leaders, decision-makers and cultural icons. Each interview be packed full of insight and analysis, covering the biggest issues of our time. While the BBC World Service’s new sport offer, Not by the Playbook, will hear from some of the most famous names in sport, with inspirational stories on resilience and perseverance.
Audiences can expect the return of Untold Legends, spotlighting the American actress and inventor, Hedy Lamarr, and award-winning podcast Good Bad Billionaire, is back for a third season to analyse the minds, motives and money of the world’s richest people.
Dear Daughter, the podcast that’s building a “handbook to life” for daughters everywhere, will be kicking off its fifth season and Amazing Sport Stories: Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team, will explore the story of the Lithuanian basketball team that made it to the 1992 Olympics against all odds.
Jon Zilkha, Controller, BBC World Service English, says: “I’m proud of the breadth, depth and variety we have lined up for World Service English listeners in our new and returning commissions programming this spring. Our new commissions will aim to engage and inspire listeners with stories that inform as well as resonate globally. Our returning series will cover business, sport, lifestyle and history like no other international radio network.”