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Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, is usually pretty tight-lipped about its role in the shadowy world of international espionage. But BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera recently got access to senior intelligence officers, agents, and even the head of MI6 himself. We interview Corera about the making of his radio documentary, “MI6: A Century in the Shadows.” >>>Click here to read and hear more about Corera’s radio documentary.
Tributes from stars and fans have been pouring in for singer Michael Jackson, who has died aged 50 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home. The BBC has received a flood of comments on Michael Jackson’s death from around the world.
North Korea’s recent nuclear test has received condemnation from around the world. But North Korean residents themselves make of it? Despite the difficulties of investigating inside a closed society like North Korea’s, a Japanese magazine called ‘Rimjingang’ managed to get a glimpse behind the facade, helping a few brave people to film inside North Korea. BBC correspondent Roland Buerk went to Osaka to meet the man behind the project, Jiro Ishimaru.
The record label that brought Bob Marley, Roxy Music and U2 to the world’s attention has turned 50 – and as part of the celebrations a month-long exhibition, Island Life, opened in London on May 22nd. With the help of archive interviews with Island Records’ founder Chris Blackwell, and artists including Bryan Ferry, Jimmy Cliff [...]
Pakistan is gripped by a wave of bloody attacks by Islamic militants. In one of the most recent, they stormed a police training school in Lahore armed with guns and grenades. It’s the latest evidence of the violence spreading from the troubled North-West border region to the country’s major cities. The BBC’s Jill McGivering has been traveling across Pakistan, conducting interviews with a variety of people in an attempt to assess the impact of the insurgency.
