Global News Podcast Podcast
The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens.
The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk
Episodes to download
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The Happy Pod: Beers, braids and bonding
Sat 21 Mar 2026
Meet the men helping fellow Dads connect with their daughters through hairstyling lessons
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The Happy Pod: Turning my toddler's tales into tunes
Sat 14 Mar 2026
Millions of people have watched Stephen Spencer set his daughter's stories to music
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The Happy Pod: My friends made me a new hand
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Lois, 14, and her classmates used a 3D printer to make her new prosthetic hand
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The Global Story:The tightrope of reporting in Putin’s Russia
Sun 22 Feb 2026
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 led to an intense crackdown on dissent
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The Happy Pod: Former teacher celebrated as a crocodile
Sat 21 Feb 2026
A newly discovered species is named after Mr Jones
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The Global Story: Epstein’s global network: What the files reveal
Sun 15 Feb 2026
The latest tranche of Epstein files shed new light on the scandal’s global implications.
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The Happy Pod: The model redefining beauty norms
Sat 14 Feb 2026
A woman whose leg was amputated aged 2 is challenging stereotypes through modelling
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The Global Story: Is ISIS having a resurgence in Syria?
Sun 8 Feb 2026
The US has carried out strikes on ISIS targets, amid prison breaks and in-fighting
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The Global Story: The mystery of Putin and the apartment bombs
Sun 1 Feb 2026
How a series of attacks on Russian apartments helped propel Putin’s rise to power.
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The Happy Pod: What makes people instinctively kind?
Sat 31 Jan 2026
Lessons in kindness from an expert inspired by a stranger risking his life to save hers
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The Global Story: How Canada's Mark Carney is taking on Trump
Sun 25 Jan 2026
Canada’s PM Mark Carney says “the old world order is not coming back”.
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The Happy Pod: Saving lives with the man who saved mine
Sat 24 Jan 2026
A man who had two heart operations later worked with his surgeon to save others
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The Global Story: The post-World War II era is over. What comes next?
Sun 18 Jan 2026
Did the rules based order ever exist and what could replace it if it goes away?
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The Happy Pod: The injection that saved my sight
Sat 17 Jan 2026
The new sight-saving treatment inspired by one woman's determination not to go blind
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The Global Story: The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall – it predicted chaos
Sun 11 Jan 2026
Officials have for years run war games on Venezuela – here's what they predicted.
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The Happy Pod: The 88-year-old veteran given nearly $2m by strangers
Sat 10 Jan 2026
Why an Australian man raised nearly two million dollars to help an elderly US veteran
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The Happy Pod: Christmas with the man I saved
Sun 4 Jan 2026
A US bone marrow donor spent Christmas with the man whose life she saved in Australia
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The Global Story - Why Australia’s gun laws aren’t as strong as you might think
Sun 21 Dec 2025
Australia reconsiders its gun control laws, following the Bondi Beach massacre.
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The Happy Pod: The magic of festive airport reunions
Sat 20 Dec 2025
Videos of emotional families reuniting in Dublin Airport have gained thousands of views
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The Global Story: The murders that moved a nation: Italy’s new femicide law
Sun 14 Dec 2025
How two shocking murders of young women fueled outrage in Italy and led to femicide law.
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The Happy Pod: The cafe where mistakes are expected
Sat 13 Dec 2025
A pop-up cafe in Tokyo is giving people with dementia a place to volunteer
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The Global Story: The Fifa-Trump bromance
Sun 7 Dec 2025
Fifa’s new ‘Peace Prize’ raises questions about politics in the world’s biggest sport.
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The Happy Pod: My best friend had my baby
Sat 6 Dec 2025
The extraordinary teenage promise that led to a woman having a baby for her best friend
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The Global Story: The international drama of Miss Universe
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Miss Universe 2025 has been chaotic and scandalous - but will it win back viewers?
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Why there's hope for Haiti
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Why many Haitians believe there’s a way out of the crisis in their country.
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The Happy Pod: Diabetes Awareness Month special
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Stories of innovation, advocacy and education to mark Diabetes Awareness Month
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The Global Story: The oil lobbyist who tried to sink the first big climate deal
Sun 23 Nov 2025
The true story of the man once described as ‘the high priest of the carbon club’
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The Happy Pod: Donating my kidney transformed a child's life
Sat 22 Nov 2025
An organ donor has seen the impact she had by meeting the boy who received her kidney
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The Global Story; The hostage negotiator’s guide to making deals with Putin’s Russia
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Roger Carstens on how he freed Americans wrongfully detained by Russia.
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The Happy Pod: Saving a drowning man changed me
Sat 15 Nov 2025
A woman who saved a kayaker's life says she feels like he's one of her children
