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Digital Planet
- An online revolution?
  
  "These protests were started by a man setting himself on fire - not because he shut down his Facebook page." The internet sceptic Evgeny Morozov debates the place of social media in the uprising that ousted the president of Tunisia last week.
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Have Your Say
- Thilo Sarrazin
  
  Should we keep welfare from those who don't speak our national tongue or fine parents whose religion keeps their children from school? The controversial German politician who once equated intelligence with ethnicity joins World Have Your Say in Berlin. Send in your questions.
Global Business
- Dragon dispossessed
  
  As China roars into another decade it embarks on a huge urbanisation project that will displace hundreds of thousands of people - and billions of gallons of the Yangtze river. But who are those left behind?
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Witness
- Beyond the pole
  
  "It's just like being born again." In January 1997 Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland became the first man to traverse the cruel plateau of Antartica alone. He recounts the highs and lows of his epic journey into the white expanse.
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World Briefing

BBC News reports from around the world.

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The World Today

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Newshour

Tunisian interim government close to collapse;Baby Doc detained;new Sherlock Holmes author

ListenDuration: 55 minutes
Business Daily

Could rising food and energy prices in China provoke social discontent?

ListenDuration: 18 minutes

Transition test for Tunisia

Several members of the new government have resigned and protests continue in Tunis. Newshour talks to the PDP opposition party.

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Reactions to interim government

Will a 'new' political climate bring about stability?
Q&A: Tunisia riots

A guide to the causes behind anti-government protests

The Strand
- Following John
  
  Across America in Steinbeck's footsteps
Business Daily
- Moving pets
  
  "It turned out the cat was a fully grown tiger"
Health Check
- Giffords' brain op
  
  How half her skull was removed to save her brain
Documentary
- Inside the IMF
  
  Is the IMF up to the job of fixing the global economy?
Newshour
- The King's Speech
  
  A stammerer's perspective on the award-winning film
The Forum
- Waste not
  
  What if companies recycled their own goods?
Witness
- Kindertransport
  
  "Such a traumatic experience - you will never forget it"
Competition
- Enter now
  
  Can you write a radio play for our African audience?
Outlook
- 18 year struggle
  
  Betty Anne Waters on proving her brother's innocence
The Interview
- Super surgeon
  
  Meet the 'Henry Ford' of heart surgery in India
Newshour
- Medical clowns
  
  Study suggests clowns can improve people's health
Assignment
- Cyber bullies
  
  Schoolground taunts now follow students online

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