On Tuesday, December 1, BBC World Service will be running a special schedule as part of its “100 Women” series. They will present a series of three live debates from across the world. The schedule changes that will impact the U.S. are:

6:00am – 6:30am ET – World Update will take the place of Outside Source. This is an extended edition of World Update.

6:30am – 7:00am ET – BBC will air the second half of a special program “100 Women Debate: Leadership.” This will replace Outside Source.

10:00am – 11:00am ET – The special program “100 Women Debate: Image” will air in place of Business Daily / The Essential / The Documentary

11:00am – Noon ET – Business Daily / The Essential / The Documentary will air in place of World Have Your Say. There is no World Have Your Say edition on December 1.

1:00pm ET – The special program “100 Women Debate: Relationships” will air in place of The Newsroom and World Business Report.

Please see program details below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/partners/english/programme-season/100-women

Program Descriptions

The BBC brings together a series of debates from across the globe, asking women all over the world if they feel they have to conform to what is considered the “right way” to behave.

What is a “good girl” and who decides what is good – you, your family, society? How do you react to those pressures and expectations and do you accept or reject them?

A series of debates are hosted throughout the day at Broadcasting House in London while more than 100 conversations happen across the globe in more than eight languages.

The Universities of Harvard, Yale, Tokyo and Oslo join a wide range of organisations in the debates, including The Girl Guides, Kelly Yang project, Age International, Women to Women in LA, Being Female in Nigeria, a rape crisis centre in South Africa, Afghanistan Women’s Organisation, the 50/50 group in Sierra Leone and the School of the Nations in Macau. We will link live to their debates as they happen across the world and reflect many of their voices on bbc.com/100Women.

100 Women Debate: Leadership

Nuala McGovern hosts a discussion on leadership and asks: are women who act like men more likely to become leaders? Are quotas the only way to see more women in public roles?

100 Women Debate: Image

Shaimaa Khalil looks at the issue of image, asking: are beautiful women more likely to succeed? And how much of a role does social media play in the time you spend perfecting your image?

100 Women Debate: Relationships

Join Chloe Tilley for a debate on relationships – is a relationship more or less likely to fail when a woman is successful? And is it expected that a woman be subservient?

Broadcast Details:
First aired: Tuesday 1 December.
Broadcast window: 1 – 29 December 2015.
Number of episodes: 3.

Programme duration: 49 minutes 30 seconds (23 minutes & 26 minutes 30 seconds) or 59 minutes including the News Bulletins, billboards & promos.

Download availability from Tue 1 December on http://www.bbc.co.uk/partners/english/programme-series/100-women-debates.