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21/01/2012
BBC Burmese editor on what it's like to report freely from Rangoon, after years of exile
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04/02/2012
Inside the Arabic Service - how do they verify videos and stories from Syria?
11/02/2012
A poignant perspective on conflict reportage, from a man who grew up in the shadow of war.
18/02/2012
Austerity, bailout, and the euro - how many different ways can you tell a familiar story?
25/02/2012
Remembering fallen colleagues: dealing with the news of death when it really hits home
03/03/2012
Reporting elections: How do you cope when everything goes haywire?
10/03/2012
Persian Service vs Iranian government - the media saga continues.
17/03/2012
Reporting Kandahar's massacre and an Afghan's experience of a US army embed.
24/03/2012
The tricky business of setting the news agenda – and the battle to get your story heard
31/03/2012
Are politicians taking nicknames too personally - shouldn't they just laugh them off?
07/04/2012
Behind the scenes at BBC Arabic's first ever feature length documentary on pornography
14/04/2012
Reporting from the world's highest battlefield - is Siachen worth dying for?
21/04/2012
What do you say to a suicide bomber? Also, life in volatile Kabul for a journalist.
28/04/2012
A Charles Taylor perspective from Nigeria, Rwanda and Kenya.
05/05/2012
Bin Laden's letters are released but what do his missives mean?
12/05/2012
Maoist hotline? Why the Hindi service is being used as messenger by the Indian insurgents
19/05/2012
D-I-Y Dictator - what attributes and quirks would you add to our bucket of batty despots?
26/05/2012
How Viagra is fast becoming a lucrative black market trade in Kabul
02/06/2012
Racism, corruption, and football hooliganism - can Ukraine's image get any worse?
09/06/2012
Love in the office? What to do when you work with your spouse in the newsroom
16/06/2012
Russia's conspiracy cookies and does Putin really control the wind and rain?
23/06/2012
We take you behind the scenes of Aung San Suu Kyi's visit to the fifth floor
30/06/2012
How a search for genocide survivors led to the start of the Great Lakes radio service
07/07/2012
Overcoming detention and torture in Tajikistan - a World Service reporter tells his story
14/07/2012
A reporter's diary from four days of covering flash floods in the Russian town of Krymsk
21/07/2012
Syrians reporting Syria - the despair of watching your hometown slide into chaos
28/07/2012
As athletes defy gravity, do sporting politics bring us back to earth? Let the Games begin
04/08/2012
An Urdu Service journalist forced into hiding - the perils of reporting Balochistan
11/08/2012
A new constitution, parliament and President by 20 August - can Somalia do it?
18/08/2012
The BBC's Iranian reporter in Israel on the paradoxes of living with the so-called 'enemy'