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BBC World Service delivers breaking news and information programming around the world, in English and 28 other language services, on radio, TV and digital.

The Wallow Fire ravaging eastern Arizona has spread to the New Mexico border, as officials worry about it affecting the power grid that supplies a three-state region; a look at immigration laws after Massachusetts pulls out of the Secure Communities program, and Alabama passes an immigration provision said to be stricter than Arizona's SB-1070; high-level defections from Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign staff; The Takeaway’s Movie Date podcast hosts talk with us about JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg's new film, "Super 8;" and emails from Sarah Palin's time as Alaska governor. Todd Zwillich guest hosts for John.

Susan Freinkel discusses the ubiquity of plastics in our world and the many problems that it is creating. Then the former director of the MIT Media Lab tells what the future holds for digital technology. Congolese director Djo Tunda Wa Munga discusses his new film, “Viva Riva!” Plus, our latest Please Explain is all about the disappearance of bees!

Marco Werman hosts an engaging daily portrait of what’s happening around the world, from PRX, the BBC and WGBH in Boston.

Marketplace is not only about money and business, but about people, local economies and the world — and what it all means to us.

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Hosted by Warren Olney, To the Point is a fast-paced, news based one-hour daily national program that focuses on the hot-button issues of the day, co-produced by KCRW and Public Radio International.