World Questions

World Questions comes to Finland at a time of political change. In elections this April, the left wing Social Democratic Party won a narrow victory over the nationalist Finns Party. What does the result mean for the country? Jonathan Dimbleby is joined by leading politicians and a public audience at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki to find out.

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

Photo: Helsinki cityscape with City Hall and Cathedral, Credit: Lehnartz/ullstein bild/Getty Images

World Questions comes to Ethiopia at a crucial time in the country’s history.

Producer: Helen Towner

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

(Photo: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Lion of Judah, Credit: M.Torres /Getty Images)

As European leaders meet to discuss Britain’s request for more time to leave the European Union, a special edition of Europe, Have Your Say with Chloe Tilley joins radio stations throughout Europe to hear what people are making of the Brexit dilemma.

China’s extraordinary economic boom is finally cooling. And it’s locked into a damaging trade war with the United States. Is the Chinese economic miracle grinding to a halt? If so, what will be the impact on the global economy? Could it even trigger another financial crisis?

The deep divisions of Brexit Britain are explored with a raucous London audience and an expert panel. A further referendum? The Prime Minister's withdrawal deal? How has voting to leave the European Union affected Britain’s standing in the world? BBC World Questions is in the capital to debate some of the contentious issues that are still dividing the UK.

Producer: Charlie Taylor

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

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World Questions visits Armenia at a crucial time in the country’s history. Following a popular and peaceful uprising last year, the country’s new Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, won over 70% of the vote at recent elections. He says his political bloc will now lead an economic revolution that will help pull many of its people out of poverty. How will the new government deliver this transformation? Will it balance growth and investment with environmental concerns? And what will drive Armenia’s foreign policy goals?

The BBC’s Jonny Dymond is joined by a panel of leading Armenian politicians and thinkers in a debate, in English, led by questions from a lively, youthful audience at the American University in Yerevan.

The panel:

Producer: Helen Towner

(Photo: Armenian opposition supporters shout slogans after protest movement leader Nikol Pashinyan announced a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience, Republic Square, Yerevan, Armenia 2 May 2018, Credit: Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

Some believe Europe is more divided than ever. After years of austerity and migration, populists are on the rise in countries like Italy, framing politics as a battle between ordinary voters and a corrupt European ‘establishment’. But the continent is also divided over how to move forward in a world where rising economic powerhouses threaten to dominate.

Zeinab Badawi and her panel - Hugh Bronson from Germany’s AFD party, Marta Grande from Italy’s 5Star Movement, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt from the European People’s Party and Pauline Bock, a French journalist and political commentator - take questions from an audience in Rome about the future of the continent.

The cannabis industry, reparations for slavery, how to tackle the fourth highest murder rate in the world: World Questions is in Jamaica to debate the big issues of a country which despite its problems has a host of successes in fields as diverse as academia, athletics, literature and reggae music.

Chairing the debate in the capital, Kingston, is the BBC’s Jonny Dymond. His panel of guests are: Kamina Johnson Smith, the Foreign Secretary; Peter Bunting, the opposition MP and former Minister of National Security; Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate; Alvin Wint, emeritus professor of International Business at the University of the West Indies

Producer: Charlie Taylor

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Brazil’s burning issues are discussed with an audience of Brazilians at the Cultura Inglesa in São Paulo. Jonny Dymond and a panel of leading politicians and commentators tackle the recent election of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, the environment, racism and crime.

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

(Photo: Hands over the Brazilian national flag, Credit: RapidEye/Getty Images)

India’s key issues are hotly debated with a Delhi audience at the British Council’s HQ. Anu Anand and a panel of leading politicians and commentators tackle jobs, pollution, fake news and the controversy over spending $430m building the world’s tallest statue.

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

(Photo: The India Gate, Credit: narvikk/Getty Images)