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With the European Athletics Championships,
the Men's FIFA World Cup and the Commonwealth Games all taking place,
2026 is shaping up to be a terrific year for global sports.
And the More Than The Score podcast will be following all the action,
bringing you interviews with sports stars and exploring the stories beyond the scoresheets with the BBC's expert sports journalists.
More Than The Score from the BBC World Service.
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wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Hi, I'm Helena Merriman and I'm jumping on this feed to tell you about a new BBC podcast,
The History Bureau.
In our first series, Putin and the Apartment Bombs,
we explore one of the most contested and consequential stories in modern Russia.
And if you like what you hear, listen on BBC.com.
or wherever you get your podcasts.
They say that when a bomb goes off, you feel it before you hear it.
The explosives create a shockwave that pushes walls inwards, disintegrates glass, compresses air.
And for a brief moment, there's just silence.
Then you hear it.