Interestingly, quite a number of listeners outside the UK want to be able to make financial contribution – although as Alice Choyke from Hungary points out, “it is clearly not possible to make this mandatory”. 

So it’s a topic that Rajan raises on this week’s programme with Professor Stephen Barnett, from the University of Westminster.  He rules out the idea of listeners’ contributions – you can hear why on the programme.

Rajan asked him whether advertising might be a better option.

Professor Barnett’s view is that “there’ll be a lot of people against that because there is a problem with contaminating the BBC brand, and I think both the BBC corporately and its listeners and viewers would worry about that”.

So we’re interested to know what you think about that. 

Would listening to adverts between programmes drive you mad? Would you feel it was contaminating the brand?  Or would you be happy if it meant there was more money available for programmes? 

We also hear from a regular listener, Dipak Bhandari from Kathmandu in Nepal, who tells Rajan how valuable the World Service is in his country. 

And to reinforce his point, we also hear from Narayan Shrestha, who presents a discussion programme made by the World Service Trust and broadcast on 130 radio stations across Nepal.

The idea is to let listeners speak directly to politicians, something they don’t have the opportunity to do elsewhere.

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The British government has announced a reduction in the budget of 16% in real terms; and it has also decided that from 2014 the World Service will be funded entirely by the licence fee paid by everyone in the UK who owns a TV set.

So we’ve devoted most of this week’s programme to looking at how all this will affect you, the listeners.

You can hear Rajan talking to Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, which is the body that governs the corporation. 

Several listeners have already expressed their concerns that British licence payers might not want their money to go towards the World Service, and Rajan put this point to Sir Michael.  As you’ll hear on the programme, the reply was optimistic. 

We’ll look forward to hearing whether you share this optimism.

Rajan also talks to Torin Douglas, the BBC’s media correspondent, to find out more about which programmes and services might be cut, and what the World Service will look like in the future.  His view is that it will retain its distinctive tone – but that things are certainly going to be very different.

And there’s an interview with the former head of the British Army, Sir Richard Dannatt, who shares with us his views on the importance of the network’s presence in conflict zones around the world as a source of factual news.

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There will be live commentary on the opening ceremony in Sportsworld on Sunday, and the main commentators – Russell Fuller and Mukesh Sharma, sports editor of BBC Hindi – both make an appearance on Over To You this week.

Mukesh tells Rajan about a new twitter service that he’ll be providing for the BBC Sport website – the quickest way, he believes, of getting the headline developments out to as wide an audience as possible.  He has some interesting thoughts on the importance of twitter, rather than more conventional forms of news broadcasting, as you can hear on this week’s programme. 

And Russell Fuller tells Rajan some of the secrets of being a sports commentator – what he does when things go wrong, for example, or when a match or tournament just goes on and on and he needs to liven up the dull bits.

Korea comparison

And we also hear from the BBC’s China Editor, Shirong Chen, about how the recent party conference in North Korea has been reported in that country – a place where the media is more restricted than almost anywhere else in the world. He makes an interesting comparison between North Korea in 2010 and China in the 1970s, as you can hear in this week’s Over To You.

We also hear from a listener in Barbados, Julius Gittens, who got in touch after hearing about some of the cuts to the World Service that were announced last week. 

If you haven’t heard all the details you can find out more on Over To You this week... and do let us know what you think about what’s already been announced – and about what else should or shouldn’t be cut.

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And you probably won’t be surprised to learn that most of those emails are critical – although I remember recently that the promos for a documentary called 'Would You Kill the Big Guy?' attracted roughly as many favourable comments as critical ones.

Anyway, in the last couple of weeks we’ve had a lot of comments that have been prompted by trails for two documentaries – Seeking the Endgame, which is about the effect of modern technology on the world of chess; and The Mysteries of the Brain. 

Some people didn’t think much of the trails themselves, but the main thrust of the criticism was – why do you trail the same thing so often, and so far ahead of its broadcast date? 

Or as listener Eddy Blaxell in Nepal so succinctly put it, the trails are “too many, too repetitive, too early”. 

So as you can hear on this week’s programme, Rajan tackles Murray Holgate, network manager for the World Service, and the man ultimately responsible for what gets trailed and how often it’s promoted on air.

He explains how he and his team go about planning a promotional campaign, and about the difficulties of juggling the need to let people know what’s coming up and telling them about it so often that they want to switch off.

We also had an email this week from Daniel Cohen, who listened to Seeking the Endgame, and then downloaded the podcast version, which turned out not to be quite the same. 

You can find out why if you listen to this week’s Over To You.

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It's the question of news values - what makes one news story more important than another so that it runs more prominently in news bulletins.

This week the particular stories in question were the miners trapped underground in Chile, and the continuing devastation caused by the floods in Pakistan. 

Listener Ulric Schollaert from Brussels in Belgium feels that the Pakistan story is the more important, so much so that when he heard it appear after the miners' story in a recent bulletin he felt this was "close to insulting". 

On Over To You this week, Rajan puts this to Andrew Whitehead, Editor of News and Current Affairs for the World Service, who makes some interesting points about how journalists decide on the relative importance of the stories they are covering.

Too American?

Another listener, Jayaram from Hong Kong, takes on Annette Mackenzie, the output editor of The Interview.

In fact he's a big fan of the programme - and clearly an assiduous listener - but he thinks they have too many American interviewees in comparison with those from other countries.

Annette explains why this might be - and she's keen to hear from listeners who'd like to suggest potential interviewees.  But you'll have to listen to Over To You to find out what her criteria are for considering anyone as a potential candidate.

Finally, I must apologise for the fact that last week we had the wrong podcast up on our webpage for several days: although the information accompanying it was correct, the actual podcast was from the previous week.

I know how annoying it can be, as I look forward to new editions of my regular podcasts and get very bad-tempered when they don't appear.

The BBC Podcast Team is extremely sorry, and so are we.

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Among them was a documentary called Korea's Lost Children, produced and presented by Ellen Otzen, and it told the fascinating story of South Korea's overseas adoption programme. 

The scheme began in the 1950s as a way of dealing with the mixed race children who were orphaned in the aftermath of the Korean War, and even now around 1000 South Korean children are given up for adoption in western countries every year.

You can hear an interesting selection of comments from listeners who all have some personal interest in the subject, or experience of it.

Rajan also talks to Gilles Lordet, chief editor of the organisation Reporters Without Borders, which campaigns for international press freedom.

This is in the light of the recent elections in Rwanda, in which the president, Paul Kagame, was re-elected with more than 90% of the votes cast in his favour. 

This could be seen as a vote in favour of stability - but the independent election observers were concerned at the lack of an opposition movement within the country. 

Gilles tells Rajan about the difficulties for journalists of reporting anything the government would prefer them not to report, and the ways in which he'd like to see the situation change. 

Rajan also talks to Murray Holgate, the Network Manager for the World Service and the man in charge of the schedules - not a job I'd want to take on, now that I've heard more about what it involves.

Murray was responding to listener Joan DeForeest from the Czech Republic, who is unhappy that, since the schedules changed in the spring, she can't find some of her favourite programmes at a time when she's able to listen.

You can hear whether Murray is willing - or able! - to do anything about it in this week's Over To You.

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Tazeen Ahmad is presenting again this week while Rajan's on holiday, and she has a particular empathy with Pakistan, as it's the country where she was born.

As you can hear on the programme, she talks to Aamer Ahmed Khan, head of the BBC's Urdu Service. He admits that finding out what's really going on - when not only the physical infrastructure of the country, like roads and bridges, has been destroyed, but phone and power lines are also damaged - can often be extremely difficult.

As you can hear in the interview, he says that he might like to be able to provide more coverage - although he does feel that, bit by bit, his journalists have been able to piece together a picture of what is really happening.

He also tells Tazeen about the special lifeline programming that's planned for the region.

From next week, extra programmes in Urdu and Pashto will be broadcast, giving listeners in that part of Pakistan up-to-date information concerning the relief operation, and where they can go in order to get help.

We also have a varied selection of listeners' comments and queries in the programme, including a fascinating email from Kerubbar Sekho, who contacted us from Zambia, confused as to when to use the terms English or British - and where the UK comes into the picture.

As someone who was born in England (and, for that matter, Britain and the UK), I'm still not sure I could come up with a coherent explanation of the differences.

So we approached Robin Lustig, one of the most experienced World Service presenters, and a man who is used to conveying complicated issues to listeners.

You can hear his explanation of a tricky conundrum on this week's Over To You.    

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But the trial, which has so far lasted some three years, is already being widely reported in west Africa, thanks partly to a team of journalists specially trained by the World Service Trust.

British supermodel Naomi Campbell will give evidence at the warcrimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor about a 'blood diamond' he allegedly gave her. Picture: Getty Images

This week, Rajan talks to one of them, Joseph Cheeseman, and to his mentor, the former BBC Home Affairs correspondent Jon Silverman, who has many years of experience reporting court cases here in the UK as well as a number of high-profile war crimes trials.

Joseph tells Rajan about the anger that the trial has caused among supporters of Charles Taylor and its role in the reconciliation process, and he and Jon discuss the challenges and potential pitfalls of court reporting.

Shhh... it's a World Service podcast

One of our listeners, Sadek in Algeria, got in touch this week to enquire why World Service podcasts often seem very quiet.

He was insistent that the problem doesn't lie with his mp3 player, so we got in touch with Gareth Davis from the Digital Delivery department who make the podcasts available. He agrees that the podcasts are quiet, and he explains why, as you can hear in this week's programme.

Together in Olympic Dreams

Rajan also talks to Matthew Pinsent, the British rower who has won four Olympic gold medals.

He was at the Olympic Stadium here in east London this week, to mark the fact that the London Olympic Games begin in exactly two years' time. 

Rajan talks to him about the World Olympic Dreams project, which will be following the progress of 26 Olympic hopefuls from around the world. 

But the scheme will also mean that those of us who have no hope at all of qualifying for the Olympics can still get tips on how to improve on our own sporting performance through the interactive schemes that are part of the project - as you can hear on Over To You this week. .

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This weekend Over To You enlists two listeners with a particular interest in China to review a major new four-part series on that nation's incredible growth and its subsequent impact on the rest of the world. China: Shaking the World, presented by the irrepressible business expert Michael Robinson, certainly didn't leave our listeners short of things to discuss.
 
Like EXTRAORDINARY FACT NO.1: five years ago China had no high-speed railways; today it has more than all of Europe, and by the end of next year it will have more than the rest of the world put together.  
   
Or EXTRAORDNARY FACT NO.2 : 150 million Chinese people are believed to have moved to work in coastal factories - the biggest migration in human history.

Or EXTRAORDINARY FACT NO. 3: From a standing start last year, China will be making a third of all the world's laptops by next year.
 
The list goes on but the series attempts to look beyond these great economic leaps forward to analyse how the Chinese leadership has achieved this, the effect on ordinary citizens of these dramatic changes and the reaction of global competitors like Japan and the United States to China's single-minded approach to growth.
 
Listen to Over To You to see if our special reviewers think China: Shaking the World offers new insights into an already well-documented phenomenon.

Dangers in the dust

Also: investigative journalism is dead - long live investigative journalism!  A ground-breaking partnership between the BBC and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists produced a major new series of reports on the sale and use of asbestos around the world - in spite of the ban on asbestos in many countries because of concerns about its carcinogenic properties.
 
We talk to Anne Koch, Deputy Director of the World Service, and the Director of the ICIJ, David Kaplan about how this painstaking, expensive and legally hazardous investigation came about.  And at a time of cost cutting in the media world, it is heartening to hear David being so optimistic about the future of this endangered journalistic genre.       
 
Plus apologies from a top World Service executive to complaints from irate listeners in Dubai who recently had the FM broadcast of their beloved station abruptly removed ...all because of money apparently.

Maybe the BBC should ask the Chinese to build some new improved super-fast transmitters to replace the current leased equipment and wavelengths in the UAE... you can bet your bottom dollar (or yen) they would get it done, and in double quick time!
  
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The World Service has been broadcasting a number of programmes designed to bring Africa to the rest of the world - starting with the bus that took some of the BBC's journalists on a journey through west Africa - and other programmes that highlighted the role of football in society as a whole.

Well, all this was too much for some people.

Golden moment: Iniesta's winning goal was watched by millions - but did the World Service coverage cross the line? Picture: Getty Images

Even before the opening ceremony got underway at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, listeners were telling us they were sick of hearing the World Cup trails.

Then - inevitably, I suppose - there were those who said they don't like football and wouldn't be listening to the World Service until it was all over.

And then there were emails saying that the sheer volume of football-related coverage - including special documentaries, editions of World of Music and Heart and Soul and so on - was over the top.

Of course, there have been plenty of others who've praised the high quality of many of the programmes.

I always enjoy reading emails like this, as they often point me towards a programme I've missed. As a result of praise from several listeners, I was able to enjoy a recent edition of World Football, about the importance of football to the prisoners on Robben Island - fascinating stuff.

Anyway, now that it's all over - was there too much football coverage?

That's a question that Tazeen Ahmad, who's presenting Over To You this week, puts to Tony Phillips, the commissioning editor responsible, on this week's Over To You. Judging by the comments you've sent in to us, I don't think everyone is going to agree with what he says. 

Tazeen also talks to Nic Davis, the BBC's reporter in the Caribbean.

It's six months this week since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti, and Nic has been in and out of the country several times since.

He tells Tazeen how the local people have reacted to an invasion of international journalists who then disappear just as suddenly - and he talks about the helplessness that a journalist can sometimes feel in a disaster situation.

And one of our listeners, Hilal Ahmad, talks to the head of news and current affairs at the World Service, Andrew Whitehead, about what he perceives as the lack of coverage of the recent violent clashes in the Kashmir valley. 

Hilal is a Kashmiri Indian, although living in Saudi Arabia, and Andrew knows Kashmir well, having visited the region many times when he was a correspondent based in Delhi.

All of which makes for a fascinating discussion, as you can hear on this week's programme.

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A world view

Peter Horrocks, Director of the World Service, discusses the BBC's Annual Report with Rajan, who asks him how he accounts for the decline in listener numbers, particularly in certain parts of the world, and how he plans to respond if, as seems to be widely expected, the World Service is asked to make savings through cuts or efficiencies.

He also gives Rajan his view on another study, carried out by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, whose Director David Levy, is also interviewed on this week's programme. 

The Reuters Institute study was carried out in eight countries - Cameroon, Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Algeria, India and Pakistan - and compares what the local broadcasters provide in these countries with what's on offer from international networks like the BBC, Al-Jazeera, France 24 and others. 

Proms season

And on a musical note, Rajan's been finding out what's in store at the Proms this year. 

He talks to Louise Fryer, one of the presenters of the weekly concerts that will be broadcast on the World Service, starting next weekend and continuing until the middle of September. It certainly sounds as if there's plenty of variety - from Mahler to Stephen Sondheim to an Iraqi guitarist and composer Ilham Al Madfai. If you manage to catch any of the concerts, do let us know what you think!

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One such example was the interview we broadcast last week with the BBC's Director-General, Mark Thompson. 

If you heard last week's programme, you'll know that Rajan's interview with him covered a number of topics - the role of the BBC in the 21st Century, whether more coverage should be directed to certain parts of the world than others and the future for radio. 

And you weren't slow to send us your own thoughts on some of these issues, so we've tried to use a good cross-section in this week's programme.

Some listeners expressed their concern that in the future they might find themselves listening to radio programmes on devices other than radios - a computer or mobile phone for example. 

Robert Hyman emailed us from Norway.  "Call me old fashioned," he said,  "but I don't have a computer in each room of my house, and prefer radio from a radio". 

I wonder how many other people feel the same? 

Put your hand in your pocket?

There were also some interesting comments about ways of making up for possible cuts in BBC funding that might be necessary in the future. 

These included a suggestion from Dimitri Tsamados that listeners might like to make donations in appreciation of the services provided by the BBC. 

And Saeed Salehi suggests charging for different services. 

It would be fascinating to know how many people would agree with these ideas - or whether the audience would disappear to listen to free services elsewhere. 

Reporting from Kyrgyzstan

Also in this week's programme, Rajan talks to Firdevs Robinson, Editor of the BBC's Central Asia region, about the dangers and difficulties of reporting the recent ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan - a part of the world that is notoriously dangerous for journalists. 

There are tensions between the Kyrgyz community, and the ethnic Uzbeks who make up 15% of the country's population. 

And interestingly, the Central Asian service includes both Kyrgyz and Uzbek staff - who, understandably, have their own views of the conflict. 

Reconciling the different positions has been a challenge, as Firdevs Robinson tells Rajan in this week's Over To You.

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The World Cup is finally underway, and for the next month, those involved will be pulling out all the stops in an attempt to be the best on the planet. 

But by "those involved", I don't just mean the players, although they'll have the highest profile.  I'm thinking also of the commentary teams - which is why on this week's programme Rajan talks to two of the people involved in bringing the matches to the World Service audience.

Richard Connelly needs no introduction to fans who listen regularly to the sports output.

He talks to Rajan about a deal the World Service has reached with football's governing body, FIFA, to do live commentary across Africa, in English and Swahili, on all the matches in which the six African teams are playing.

Alongside Richard in the commentary box will be Stanley Katsande, whose regular job is as a commentator and analyst for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation.

For the duration of the World Cup, though, he'll be one of three African sports journalists working alongside the WS commentary team.

On Over To You this week, he talks to Rajan about what he'll bring to the broadcasts - and what he's already learned from his new BBC colleagues.

And Rajan also talks to Mark Coles, who takes over at the end of this month as presenter of "World of Music" - and faces the rather daunting task of stepping into the shoes of Charlie Gillett, the programme's previous presenter, who died in May.

Mark tells Rajan about his love of world music, and about the ideas he has for his new programme.

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With only a couple of weeks left until the World Cup kicks off in Johannesburg, we've got into pre-match mood this week on Over To You, with a look at what seems like an imaginative way of adding a bit of background to the matches themselves.

A bus-load of journalists from the English networks and some of the language services are going on a journey through west Africa, starting in Ivory Coast, travelling through Ghana, Togo and Benin, before they end up in Nigeria ten days later.

The first ever World Cup to be held in Africa kicks off on 11 June. (Picture: Getty)

This is all being masterminded by Joseph Warungu, editor of African programmes, whom you can hear talking to Rajan on this week's programme.

He chose west Africa for the trip because this is the "football factory" of Africa - the region that produces the highest number of international players, Didier Drogba, Michael Essien and Emmanuel Adebayor among them.

The programmes that Joseph and his travelling companions will be producing sound absolutely fascinating.  It's true that football will be providing the theme, but there's a lot more to it, as Joseph explains in the interview.

Now, I should possibly admit at this point that I'm not particularly interested in football, although Rajan's enthusiasm more than makes up for it in the Over To You office.

But if there's anyone out there who shares my feelings - well, perhaps we can compare notes at the end of the tournament as to whether there was too much football-related coverage. I look forward to hearing what you think.

Lend your voice to the accent debate

This week I've enjoyed the lively debate amongst listeners on the subject of accents. If you heard the programme last week, you'll know that listener David Corbett gave us his thoughts on the use of accents used on the World Service, particularly in voice-overs.

He feels that something neutral - BBC English in fact - is what's needed. But not everyone shares his view, as you can hear on this week's programme.

Reith lecture

And we also have an interview with this year's Reith lecturer, the astronomer Martin Rees.

He talks about his theme, which is the importance of science, and how we must all be able to understand it if we're to face the challenges of the 21st century.

Do let us know what you think, both of what he says in our interview, and of his lectures, which start on the World Service on 5th June.

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One area of the world that is particularly hazardous at the moment is the Thai capital, Bangkok. Since the middle of March, there has been violent conflict between government supporters - the so-called Yellow Shirts - and the opposition Red Shirts, who support the former Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006.

BBC correspondent Vaudine England paints a fascinating picture for us, as you can hear in this week's programme.

Thai residents glance at members of the Thai military as they stand guard on central Bangkok's Sukhumvit Road after red shirt protesters attempted to enter the residence of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. (Getty Images)

She describes how difficult it is to find out what's actually going on - made harder because of all the various rumours that are circulating from the two sides and all the different factions within them.

But add to that the problems of personal security - not helped by the location of the BBC office in the middle of the area occupied by the Red Shirts - and the fact that both sides in the conflict think organisations like the BBC are biased towards the other side - and you begin to get some idea of how tricky the life of a foreign correspondent can sometimes be.

Story Story

We also find out about the drama serial "Story Story", which is broadcast every week across Africa on the English network.

Eric Taylor, a listener in Accra in Ghana, emailed us to ask why a story about Nigerians going about their daily life  - and speaking in what he describes as "impenetrable local accents" - should be broadcast across the whole continent.

So, as you can hear, Rajan has been talking to Linda Nwoke, who's country manager in Nigeria for the World Service Trust, which is responsible for the programme. She explained to him about the work of the Trust in promoting good governance, among other things, which, according to her evidence, can be done very effectively through drama.

The Trust does similar things in other parts of the world, so if you are a fan, either of Story Story, or of similar broadcasts in other regions, we'd be interested to know whether you agree.

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