bbc World Service podcasts

Give us the help but keep your aid workers, Burma tells the world. Do you feel happy that the supplies you've helped to pay for are now in the hands of a military junta? Also, mad or bad? Is confessing to mental illness any defence for the actions of Josef Fritzl? And should atheists and people of faith sit down and learn from each other? The Catholic church here says they should..

From the holocaust to a haven, from independence to Intifada....Israel celebrates it's 60th birthday but who is joining in the party?

With the price of food and fuel climbing ever higher, we ask the question are we living beyond our means? We also hear the latest on the cyclone in Burma and ask whether Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the MDC, should participate in the presidential election run-off.

What's the latest from Burma? And do aid agencies working in countries with undemocratic governments help them to stay in power?

22 thousand dead and 40 thousand more still missing; a major relief operation is underway in Burma after the cyclone hit the country on Saturday....we'll hear reaction and you reports. We also discuss if it's right to use a natural disaster to bring about change in a country?