60 Best BBC World Service Podcasts

1. Global News Podcast

The latest from Israel and Gaza and all the top stories from BBC News. Twice a day on weekdays, daily at weekends and special episodes. Reports and analysis from around the world.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Jackie Leonard
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 6MTwitter Followers 2.3MInstagram Followers 5.5M Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 30 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. Newshour

Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 5.7MTwitter Followers 2.3MInstagram Followers 5.5M Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 46 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

3. Business Matters

Global business news, with live guests and contributions from Asia and the USA.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Ed Butler, Sasha Twining
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 15.6KInstagram Followers 8.6K Frequency 4 episodes / week Avg Length 50 min Since Dec 2015 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

4. Focus on Africa

Three essential stories to round off your working day. Explaining the big topics and news from Africa, the people behind them, plus an African perspective on global stories. Hosted by Audrey Brown. Five days a week, ready by late afternoon, Monday to Friday.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Audrey Brown
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 6MTwitter Followers 2.3MInstagram Followers 5.5M Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 32 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

5. Science In Action

The BBC brings you all the week's science news.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Roland Pease
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 61.1MTwitter Followers 40.6MInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 31 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

6. Africa Daily

One question to wake up to every weekday morning. One story from Africa, for Africa. Alan Kasujja takes a deep dive into the news shaping the continent. Ready by early morning, five days a week, Monday to Friday.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Alan Kasujja
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 5.7MTwitter Followers 2.3MInstagram Followers 5.5M Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 20 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

7. CrowdScience

We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Caroline Steel, Anand Jagatia
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 59.8MTwitter Followers 40.6M Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 31 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

8. Discovery

Explorations in the world of science.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts James Gallagher, Adam Hart
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 4 episodes / month Avg Length 30 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

9. HARDtalk

In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Stephen Sackur, Zeinab Badawi
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5Facebook Followers 7.2MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 3 episodes / week Avg Length 23 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

10. World Business Report

The latest business and finance news from around the world from the BBC
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 15.6KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 27 min Since Dec 2016 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

11. Business Daily

The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5Facebook Followers 61.2MTwitter Followers 15.6KInstagram Followers 27.1M Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 18 min Since Jul 2014 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

12. Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Claudia Hammond
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 27 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

13. World Book Club

The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Harriett Gilbert
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 5 episodes / quarter Avg Length 47 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

14. World Questions

The public's questions about issues affecting their country, recorded in a different global location each month
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Jonny Dymond
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 50 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

15. Lives Less Ordinary

Have you ever locked eyes with a stranger and wondered, 'What's their story?' Step into someone else's life and expect the unexpected. Extraordinary stories from around the world.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Andrea Kennedy, Jo Fidgen, Asya Fouks
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 38 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

16. Tech Life

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Chris Vallance, Shiona McCallum
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 824.1KTwitter Followers 15.9KInstagram Followers 5.5M Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 27 min Since Oct 2018 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

17. The Documentary Podcast

A window into our world investigating, exploring and telling stories from everywhere. Original BBC documentary storytelling, bringing the globe to your ears. Award-winning journalism, unheard voices, amazing culture and 'unputdownable' audio. New episodes every week from our teams: documentaries, Assignment, Heart and Soul, In the Studio and OS Conversations.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts James Reynolds, Lukwesa Burak
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 59.8MTwitter Followers 40.6M Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 28 min Since Mar 2020 Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

18. On the Podium

The stories behind the medals. Paralympian Scout Bassett, comedian Eliza Skinner and athletics commentator Ed Harry interview remarkable athletes about the journeys they took to the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Scout Bassett, Eliza Skinner, Ed Harry
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 5 episodes / quarter Avg Length 35 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

19. The History Hour

A compilation of the latest Witness History programmes.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Max Pearson
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 51 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

20. Music Life

Where music stars discuss how they make their music.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Adrian Younge, Jean Carne
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 24 episodes / year Avg Length 30 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

21. Witness History: Black history

Listen to and download our programmes
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Josephine McDermott
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 11 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

22. Sporting Witness

The inside and personal story of the key moments from sporting history
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Uma Doraiswamy, Alex Last
Producer Ben Henderson
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 10 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

23. Trending

In-depth reporting on the world of social media.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Reha Kansara, Beth Godwin
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 5.7MTwitter Followers 2.3MInstagram Followers 5.5M Frequency 2 episodes / quarter Avg Length 19 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

24. Unexpected Elements

The news you know, the science you don't. Unexpected Elements looks beyond everyday narratives to discover a goldmine of scientific stories and connections from around the globe. From Afronauts, to why we argue, to a deep dive on animal lifespans: see the world in a new way.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Marnie Chesterton, Camilla Mota, Alex Lathbridge
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 50 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

25. Witness History: World War Two

Listen to and download our programmes
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Josephine McDermott
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 8 episodes / year Avg Length 10 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

26. Over to You

Talk back to the BBC and challenge the programme makers.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Rajan Datar
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 5.7MTwitter Followers 2.3MInstagram Followers 5.5M Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 9 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

27. Fukushima

Season 2: FukushimaA tsunami hits the Japanese nuclear plant. The disaster is told in a seven-part drama. As the energy company and politicians in Tokyo lose control, the reactors become unstable and a 'suicide squad' of older workers is sent inside. This drama follows the heroes who fight to contain the disaster and those whose mistakes led Japan to catastrophe. Years later, some seek atonement.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 2 episodes / year Avg Length 23 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

28. What in the World

Helping you make sense of what's happening in your world. Big stories, small stories and everything in between. Understand more, feel better. Five days a week, Monday to Friday.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Hannah Gelbart, Megan Lawton
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.4KInstagram Followers 439.5K Frequency 5 episodes / week Avg Length 15 min Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube Play Get Email Contact

29. The Real Story

Global experts and decision makers discuss, debate and analyse a key news story.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Shaun Ley
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 6.6MTwitter Followers 2.3MInstagram Followers 5.5M Frequency 29 episodes / year Avg Length 45 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

30. The Lazarus Heist

Hackers, North Korea and billions of dollars. Lazarus returns in fact, the criminals never went away. Season 2 begins at an ATM, possibly near you. With Jean Lee and Geoff White. Investigators claim a secretive, elite North Korean hacking ring, nicknamed the Lazarus Group, is responsible for the theft of billions of dollars around the globe. Pyongyang denies having anything to do with cybercrimes, saying the United States is making these allegations to try to tarnish its image. Season 1 told the stories of the Lazarus Group's alleged hacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment and Bangladesh Bank and the WannaCry ransomware attack.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Hosts Jean Lee, Geoff White
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Facebook Followers 61MTwitter Followers 40.6MInstagram Followers 397.1K Frequency 1 episode / year Avg Length 31 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact