Documentaries

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Throughout the week BBC World Service offers a wide range of documentaries and other factual programmes. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive.

Episode	Released	Listeners
Seeking the Endgame - Part One Self-confessed chess fanatic Simon Terrington assesses how computer technology has affected chess at the highest ...	2010-09-10	1
DocArchive: Assignment - Commonwealth Games There are frantic preparations underway in India's capital city, Delhi, for the Commonwealth Games which ...	2010-09-09	2
DocArchive: World Stories: Afghanistan's Dancing Boys In Afghanistan women are not allowed to dance in public, but boys can be made ...	2010-09-08	2
DocArchive: The Legal World - part two Incompetence and corruption in Uganda's justice system is leading to countless numbers of prisoners being ...	2010-09-06	4
The Battle for Hearts and Lungs - Part Two Sue Armstrong looks at the Malawi's growing dependence on tobacco growing. She also asks whether ...	2010-09-03	5
DocArchive: Assignment - Happy Birthday Mr President President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia is one of West Africa's longest serving leaders. He's maintained ...	2010-09-02	8
DocArchive: A Widow's Journey In 1989, Appapillai Amirthalingam - the most prominent political figure of the Tamil community - ...	2010-09-01	5
DocArchive: The Legal World - Part One It is claimed that thousands of people of Haitian descent are suffering systematic discrimination by ...	2010-08-31	7
The Battle for Hearts and Lungs - Part One Sue Armstrong investigates the growing pressure on developing countries as tobacco companies battle for new ...	2010-08-27	7
Assignment - Cutting the Lifeline in Honduras Money sent home by migrant workers provides a lifeline for millions of the world's poorest ...	2010-08-26	6
DocArchive: World Stories: The Rollercoaster of Life in Kabul "Why doesn't grandad smile?" Meena Baktash takes a personal look at the Kabul of her ...	2010-08-25	8
DocArchive: The Brotherhood - Part two Despite an official ban and regular crack downs the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has gone from ...	2010-08-23	9
DocArchive: The Wireless World of Gerry Wells Guru, boffin, eccentric and genius, Gerry Wells is obsessed with radio - tinkering with, building ...	2010-08-20	20
DocArchive: Assignment - On the Run in Sweden Sweden has garnered respect around the world for the welcome it offered to thousands of ...	2010-08-19	15
DocArchive: The Brotherhood "No taxi driver in Cairo knows how to find the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood. ...	2010-08-16	14
DocArchive: The Brotherhood - Part one "No taxi driver in Cairo knows how to find the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood. ...	2010-08-16	7
The Muslim Superstar Singer Sami Yusuf is one of the biggest superstars in the Muslim world. He's eyeing ...	2010-08-13	11
DocArchive: Assignment - Proud to be Georgian How do you train someone to love their country? Two years ago Russia and Georgia ...	2010-08-12	9
DocArchive: Useful Idiots - Part Two In this two part series, the BBC takes a look at the intellectuals - or ...	2010-08-11	26
DocArchive: The Mossad "They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they ...	2010-08-09	27
Korea's lost children Korea's overseas adoption programme began in the 1950s as the impoverished government's answer to the ...	2010-08-06	19
DocArchive: Assignment - Politics in Rwanda Days before Rwanda's presidential election, the government has issued a strongly worded statement denying any ...	2010-08-05	6
DocArchive: Useful Idiots “That’s what my role was. I was taken around and shown things as a useful ...	2010-08-04	34
China: Shaking the World - Part Four "This culture inhibits the evolution of new ideas," says Professor Guosong Liu of the deferntial ...	2010-08-02	21
DocArchive: Spanning the World - Part Four London Bridge has served as a crossing, a shopping district, a housing settlement and a ...	2010-07-30	8
DocArchive: Assignment - Jamaica's Sprint Factory Jamaica has a reputation for producing world class athletes. Athletes are nurtured from a young ...	2010-07-29	11
DocArchive: Listening Post - Part Two The Listening Post is a new series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories ...	2010-07-28	9
China: Shaking the World - Part Three China's social tensions may threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the ...	2010-07-26	26
DocArchive: Spanning the World - Part Three What personal stories can a bridge reveal? When the he Oresund Bridge-Tunnel opened between Denmark ...	2010-07-23	16
DocArchive: Assignment - Who Jails the Pirates? Why are so few captured pirates brought to trial? Each year hundreds of ships are ...	2010-07-22	18
DocArchive: Listening Post - Part One Mary Thida Lun works is a civil servant. She has had postings in Sudan and ...	2010-07-21	15
China: Shaking the World - Part Two Part Two of this series looks outwards at the potentially world-shaking clash of cultures between ...	2010-07-19	24
The Greatest Hits of the World - Part 2 The song Wimoweh, or The Lion Sleeps Tonight has been exposed to a mass audience ...	2010-07-16	19
DocArchive: China Shaking the World - part one Michael Robinson examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of China's growing global influence - ...	2010-07-12	34
DocArchive: Stand By Me Ben E King says of his song Stand By Me "It tends to fall in ...	2010-07-09	22
DocArchive: Assignment: The Families of Manshiyet Nasser Catherine Miller reports from one of Cairo's biggest slums where - in 2008 - a ...	2010-07-08	8
DocArchive: Caribbean voices - Part one The BBC's seminal role in launching Caribbean writing in the region is remembered 60 years ...	2010-07-06	8
DocArchive: Every Picture Tells A Story "A good photograph has an emotional component, the iconic photos hit you right away and ...	2010-07-05	17
DocArchive: Home from Home Part Two London based British-Asian DJ, Bobby Friction travels to North America to find out more about ...	2010-07-02	7
DocArchive: Assignment: Arizona's Immigration Law SB1070 Arizona has passed a law cracking down on illegal immigrants -- the toughest of its ...	2010-07-01	26
DocArchive: Tiger v Dragon: China's String of Pearls (part two) Mukul Devichand explores the rising Asian giants, China and India. How will the old acrimony ...	2010-06-30	17
DocArchive: The Power and the Passion - Part Four With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their ...	2010-06-28	11
DocArchive: Home from Home Part One How does one's family history alter one's sense of sefl? Nihal Arthanayake - a successful ...	2010-06-25	21
DocArchive: Assignment: Spain's Hard Times Pascale Harter reports from Spain for Assignment to see how families there are coping with ...	2010-06-24	23
DocArchive: Tiger v Dragon: The Power of the Poor (part one) Mukul Devichand explores the rising Asian giants, China and India. In the churn and tumult ...	2010-06-23	22
DocArchive: The Power and the Passion - Part Three With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their ...	2010-06-21	11
DocArchive: Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom from Fear Aung San Suu Kyi leads the pro-democracy movement in Burma. She has been under house ...	2010-06-18	18
DocArchive: South Africa's Path to Freedom - Part Two Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka travels to South Africa to assess the past and ...	2010-06-16	11
DocArchive: The Power and the Passion - Part Two With the World Cup underway, many fans will be avidly debating the fate of their ...	2010-06-14	15
DocArchive: Crime, Scene, Insects Amoret Whitaker is a forensic entomologist. She is called in to help on cases where ...	2010-06-11	29
DocArchive: Assignment: India's Maoist Insurgency The Indian government is engaged in its biggest ever offensive against Maoist insurgents in Jharkand ...	2010-06-10	25
DocArchive: South Africa's Path to Freedom - Part One Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian author Wole Soyinka travels to South Africa to assess the past and ...	2010-06-09	22
DocArchive: The Power and the Passion - Part One With the World Cup fast approaching many fans will be avidly debating the fate of ...	2010-06-07	23
DocArchive: In the Shadow of the Stadium What is the mood of South Africa ahead of the 2010 World Cup? Audrey Brown ...	2010-06-04	20
DocArchive: Assignment: Thawil - the Red Shirt protestor When Thai soldiers stormed an anti-government protest in Bangkok last month more than 80 people ...	2010-06-03	15
DocArchive: The Travelling Electric In 1951, a black man named Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's travelling electric chair ...	2010-06-01	26
DocArchive: Thank You for My Freedom Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy has never thanked Giandomenico Picco, the United Nations negotiator who ...	2010-05-31	14
DocArchive: Nightingales and Roses Iran has an enthralling literary landscape. Poetry extends to all areas of Iranian life: scolding ...	2010-05-28	16
DocArchive: Assignment: Jamaica's 'Godfather' This week's Assignment comes from Jamaica where there have been pitched street battles between police ...	2010-05-27	20
DocArchive: The Art of War The Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote a treatise called The Art of War over 2,500 ...	2010-05-26	34
DocArchive: Soft Power - Part Two The ability to get what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your ...	2010-05-24	13
DocArchive: Global Perspective - Wedge Island Wedge Island is located in a secluded spot on the rugged, windswept Indian Ocean coastline ...	2010-05-21	20
DocArchive: Assignment: Swine Flu: Panic or Pandemic In June 2009 the head of the World Health Organisation declared swine flu a global ...	2010-05-20	18
DocArchive: Would You Kill The Big Guy - Part Two A runaway train is heading towards five people. You're standing on a footbridge, next to ...	2010-05-19	19
DocArchive: Soft Power - Part One The ability to get what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your ...	2010-05-17	26
DocArchive: Global Perspective - The Lonely Funeral Civil servant Ger Frits and poet Frank Starik come together in their shared determination that ...	2010-05-14	14
DocArchive: Assignment: A Taliban Class War? In Pakistan, the Taliban are continuing to attract recruits, despite the fact that their violent ...	2010-05-13	21
Would you kill the big guy? A runaway train is heading towards five people. You're standing on a footbridge, next to ...	2010-05-12	26
DocArchive: Cracking The Code The BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera gains exclusive access to Britain's ultra secret listening station ...	2010-05-10	41
DocArchive: Global Perspective - Middle C A year-long transition from woman to man, chronicled by Tristan Whiston through the change in ...	2010-05-07	14
DocArchive: Assignment: Goldmine Sachs Assignment investigates how Goldman Sachs has made record profits since it was bailed out by ...	2010-05-06	19
The Other Guantanamo Award-winning travel writer Polly Evans goes in search of the other Guantanamo, talking to local ...	2010-05-05	17
DocArchive: The Price of Bio Fuels - Part Two What are the practical and moral issues around this alternative energy source? Gerry Northam reports.	2010-05-03	18
DocArchive: Global Perspective - Living in Limbo In the UK, failed asylum seekers like Collen have no rights to accommodation or benefits. ...	2010-04-30	14
DocArchive: Assignment - Inside Britain's Class System With the British election on May 6th, the BBC’s Nina Robinson examines the class system ...	2010-04-29	20
DocArchive: The Apostle's Workshop Apostle Asafo guides us around his remarkable workshops in Accra, where teenagers can learn trades. ...	2010-04-28	15
DocArchive: The Price of Bio Fuels - Part One Gerry Northam investigates claims that bio fuels - once believed to be the answer to ...	2010-04-26	29
DocArchive: On the Edge in Soweto Unemployment in Soweto is well above the national average for South Africa. How are young ...	2010-04-23	12
DocArchive: Assignment: Total Recall - The Toyota Story Toyota, the world's biggest car company, is in crisis, accused of putting the public at ...	2010-04-22	22
DocArchive: Looking for Jaballah Matar Libyan dissident Jaballah Matar disappeared 20 years ago, and his son Hisham is investigating his ...	2010-04-21	14
DocArchive: Generation Jihad - Part Three Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. In ...	2010-04-19	11
DocArchive: Return to Trebizond - Part Two In 1923 hundreds of thousands of Christian and Muslims moved between what is now modern ...	2010-04-16	10
DocArchive: Assignment - Zimbabwe's New Farmers It's ten years since Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe initiated a land reform programme which saw ...	2010-04-15	14
Living With Tourists - Part Two How does tourism affect local culture? In the second part of Living With Tourists, Ros ...	2010-04-14	12
DocArchive: Generation Jihad - Part Two Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. In ...	2010-04-12	16
DocArchive: Return to Trebizond In 1923 hundreds of thousands of Christian and Muslims moved moved between what is now ...	2010-04-09	17
DocArchive: Assignment - the French Burqa Ban With several European countries now considering banning face veils in public places, Claire Bolderson reports ...	2010-04-08	19
Living With Tourists - Part One Is tourism encroaching on lives, highlighting inequalities and causing antipathy between visitors and hosts? BBC ...	2010-04-07	16
DocArchive: Generation Jihad In the first of a three-part series, Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young ...	2010-04-05	32
DocArchive: My World Diverse short films that represent humanity. That was the end result of the BBC World ...	2010-04-02	11
DocArchive: Assignment: The Art of Match-Fixing A series of recent arrests across Europe has highlighted the growing threat of match-fixing in ...	2010-04-01	14
Queenan's Crime Scenes - Part Two American author Joe Queenan visits Sweden, perhaps the most exciting and important centre for crime ...	2010-03-31	11
The Great Writ The writ of Habeas Corpus prevents an individual from unlawful detention. Historically it safeguards individuals ...	2010-03-29	14
DocArchive: Shed Men Australian men are typically defined as confident and unassailable characters, but this stereotype is outdated, ...	2010-03-26	16
DocArchive: Assignment - Love and Morals in Mangalore Tinku Ray reports from Mangalore in south India where street vigilantes are making it dangerous ...	2010-03-25	10
Queenan's Crime Scenes American author Joe Queenan's passion for crime fiction sees him heading to two very different ...	2010-03-24	13
DocArchive: Road to Rwanda "I don't know anything about the genocide. I didn't kill anyone or steal from anyone. ...	2010-03-22	8
DocArchive: The Other Internet China patrols its cyberspace carefully. The government there closes down hundreds of websites each year ...	2010-03-19	28
Afghan Bloggers Najieh Ghulami looks at the way bloggers in Afghanistan operate and how increased internet penetration ...	2010-03-17	12
DocArchive: The Virtual Revolution - Homo Interneticus Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of the internet twenty years on by asking whether ...	2010-03-15	23
DocArchive: Internet Cafe Hobo - Part Three Nick finds that internet cafes are not just a way to stay in contact with ...	2010-03-12	8
DocArchive: Assignment: Hackers For Hire An investigation into the expertise of Russian hackers. What makes them so good at breaking ...	2010-03-11	24
Netrimony: Online dating in India The people behind the booming online dating industry in India believe they are transforming society. ...	2010-03-10	17
DocArchive: The Virtual Revolution - The Cost Of Free How commerce has colonised the web - and how web users are paying for what ...	2010-03-08	22
DocArchive: Spanning the World - Part Two The Ponte Milvio, the bridge that spans the Tiber river in Rome, is a site ...	2010-03-05	8
DocArchive: Assignment - Aid for Arms in Ethiopia It was a charity appeal on a global scale. In 1985, an unprecedented array of ...	2010-03-04	9
Great Expectations, part two Nina Robinson returns to east London for the second part of Great Expectations, the series ...	2010-03-03	4
DocArchive: The Virtual Revolution - Enemy Of The State How has the online world impacted on global politics? Twenty years on from the invention ...	2010-03-01	18
DocArchive: Spanning the World - Part One Italian artist Joseph Stella depicted the Brooklyn Bridge in New York as a metaphor for ...	2010-02-26	9
DocArchive: Assignment: Taxing Questions for Greeks No-one likes paying tax - but avoiding it is a way of life for many ...	2010-02-25	6
Great Expectations, part one The world may be coming to East London in 2012, but the world is already ...	2010-02-24	10
DocArchive: The Virtual Revolution -- The Great Leveller Since its birth almost twenty years ago, the World Wide Web has transformed our world ...	2010-02-22	12
DocArchive: Polar Bear Kebabs Iranian Kazem Ariaiwand runs the most northerly kebab shop on the planet. This is his ...	2010-02-19	12
DocArchive: Assignment - Mexico's Drug War A war is raging between rival drug cartels along Mexico's border with the United States. ...	2010-02-18	10
Obama's America - The End of the Dream As the United States endures its worst economic crisis since The Great Depression, historian Simon ...	2010-02-17	15
DocArchive: New York's Catholics The religious face of New York is being transformed. Once the preserve of the Irish ...	2010-02-15	10
DocArchive: New York's Catholics The religious face of New York is being transformed. Once the preserve of the Irish ...	2010-02-15
DocArchive: Message in a Bottle The fabric of island life as described through the most non-instant of communication devices - ...	2010-02-12	11
DocArchive: Assignment: Unlawful Detention Every year thousands of asylum seekers are detained in Britain. They are held while the ...	2010-02-11	8
Obama's America - Part One Simon Schama examines some of the daunting challenges facing Barack Obama, both on the world ...	2010-02-10	8
DocArchive: Opposing Obama - Part Two Author and journalist Gary Younge tells the story of the other side of the Obama ...	2010-02-08	9
DocArchive: China's Forgotten Admiral Zheng He was an epic seafarer who predates Columbus - and who symbolises China's martine ...	2010-02-05	3
Textbook Diplomacy - Part Two In Europe, school history textbooks are used to heal the wounds of conflict, overcome deep-seated ...	2010-02-03	1
Textbook Diplomacy - Part Two In Europe, school history textbooks are used to heal the wounds of conflict, overcome deep-seated ...	2010-02-03	1
DocArchive: Opposing Obama - Part One Author and journalist Gary Younge tells the story of the other side of the Obama ...	2010-02-01	2
Africa Kicks Farayi Mungazi looks ahead to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and explores how ...	2010-01-29
DocArchive: Assignment - Ten Days in Haiti On 12th January a powerful earthquake struck Haiti in the Caribbean. As many as 200,000 ...	2010-01-28	1
DocArchive: Textbook Diplomacy - Part One Mark Whitaker looks at South Africa’s struggle to produce school history textbooks that are adequate ...	2010-01-27
Africa Kicks - Part Three Adebayor, Droga and Essien are African football superstars who have found fame and wealth in ...	2010-01-22	1
DocArchive: Assignment - Guantanamo Reunited Gavin Lee tells the story of how a former prison guard at Guantanamo Bay detention ...	2010-01-21
DocArchive: Health of a Nation - Part Two Business, money, demographics, politics - these are the issues preventing health reform from going ahead ...	2010-01-20
DocArchive: Africa Kicks - Part Two As South Africa prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, Farayi Mungazi, the voice of ...	2010-01-15
Assignment: Closing Guantanamo Assignment explores what President Barack Obama done in his attempts to close the Guantanamo Bay ...	2010-01-14
DocArchive: Health of a Nation - Part One Michael Goldfarb looks at President Obama's mission to reform America's health care system.	2010-01-13
Africa Kicks - Part One As South Africa prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, Farayi Mungazi, the voice of ...	2010-01-08
DocArchive: Arming Angola Angola has also been described as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. ...	2010-01-06	1
Sound of Snow and Ice The Jyväskylä School for the Visually Impaired in Finland has one important aim: discouraging blind ...	2010-01-01
24 Hours in Tulsa A midget street thug on a kiddy bike. Incompetent thieves who resort to stealing air-conditioning ...	2009-12-30	1
John Simpson Returns to 1989 - part three Twenty years ago, on November 9th, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. The greatest symbol ...	2009-12-25
DocArchive: Assignment: Vancouver Gangland The Canadian city of Vancouver is routinely named as one of the best communities in ...	2009-12-24
DocArchive: Defining the Decade - Part two Back in the year 2000, the world's leaders did not seem to be troubled by ...	2009-12-23
DocArchive: Defining the Decade - Part one What have been the defining moments of the decade? Edward Stourton explores Google's mighty impact ...	2009-12-23
DocArchive: Internet Cafe Hobo Nick Baker is on a mission to connect people, stories and places via internet cafe. ...	2009-12-23
State Secrets - Part two It's estimated that up to one million people were killed during communism in Eastern Europe, ...	2009-12-18
DocArchive: Assignment: Latvia: Coping with Crisis Until recently, little Latvia appeared to have a rosy future. It was the fastest growing ...	2009-12-17
DocArchive: Internet Cafe Hobo Nick Baker is on a mission to connect people, stories and places via the internet. ...	2009-12-16
Orphans of '89 - Part Two Quentin Peel, International Affairs editor of the Financial Times, looks at the communist regimes and ...	2009-12-14
DocArchive: State Secrets - Part One To what extent did communist regimes intrude into the lives of ordinary people? And how ...	2009-12-11	3
DocArchive: Assignment - Return to Nablus Six years ago, the second Palestinian Intifada – or uprising – was raging in the ...	2009-12-10
Can China Go Green? Part two The second part of Jonathon Porritt's report from China, where, amidst the toxic power stations ...	2009-12-09	1
Orphans of '89 Quentin Peel, International Affairs editor of the Financial Times, presents the first of a two-part ...	2009-12-07
DocArchive: StoryCorps - Part Two Did I turn out to be the son you wanted? What was the saddest moment ...	2009-12-04
DocArchive: Assignment - Bhopal Twenty-five years ago, a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal killed ...	2009-12-03
Can China Go Green? Part One Jonathon Porritt reports from China, where, amidst the toxic power stations and burgeoning numbers of ...	2009-12-02	1
DocArchive: The Crescent and the Cross - Part Four In the final part of this series, Owen Bennett-Jones examines the Islamic leader who confronted ...	2009-11-30
DocArchive: StoryCorps - Part One How would you like to leave a record of your life for your great-great-great-grandchildren? That's ...	2009-11-27
DocArchive: Assignment Malvinas War Crimes Twenty seven years after Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falklands, or the ...	2009-11-26
DocArchive: Assignment - The Congo Connection In Assignment Peter Greste investigates whether Rwandans in France and Germany are controlling a deadly ...	2009-11-26
Short Changing the Planet The BBC World Service has been investigating the controversial issue of whether poor countries have ...	2009-11-25
The Crescent and The Cross: Part Three In the third instalment of The Crescent and the Cross, Owen Bennett Jones examines one ...	2009-11-23
DocArchive: John Simpson Returns to 1989 - Part Two The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist ...	2009-11-19
A Dollar A Day - Part Three In Nepal, severe drought and unreliable monsoon rains have led to acute food shortages. The ...	2009-11-18
The Crescent and The Cross: Part Two Owen Bennett Jones explores five crucial battles in the relationship between Christianity and Islam. This ...	2009-11-16
Africa's Forgotten Soldiers Seventy years after the start of the Second World War the overwhelming impression is of ...	2009-11-12	1
DocArchive: Assignment: Better Banking As governments struggle to curb the so-called “casino-banking” practices which some blame for the global ...	2009-11-12
DocArchive: A Dollar a Day - Part 2 Thrown off nearby farms at the time of Namibia’s independence, the squatters of Otjivero lived ...	2009-11-11
The Crescent and the Cross - Part One The Crescent and the Cross, a four-part series, presented by Owen Bennett-Jones, examines several turning ...	2009-11-09
DocArchive: Youssou N’Dour at 50 To mark the 50th birthday of Youssou N'Dour, Robin Denselow travels to Senegal to profile ...	2009-11-05
DocArchive: Assignment - Guinea on the Brink Mark Doyle reports from Guinea in West Africa on the harrowing events of 28 September ...	2009-11-05
DocArchive: A Dollar a Day - Part 1 What keeps a billion people trapped in the most persistent poverty? Mike Wooldridge travels to ...	2009-11-04
DocArchive: The extraordinary but little-known tale of Russia's three all-female regiments that flew more than 30,000 ...	2009-11-02
DocArchive: Public Places, Private Lives - Part Two Public Places, Private Lives is a series of portraits of well known places that reveal ...	2009-10-30
DocArchive: Assignment - Dying to Give Birth Jill McGivering travels to Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to meet a doctor who is battling ...	2009-10-29
DocArchive: Rebranding Nigeria - Part Two Nigeria is campaigning for a new image and a new reputation in an effort to ...	2009-10-28
DocArchive: MI6 - A Century in the Shadows - Part Tree The head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service Sir John Scarlett, talks for the first time ...	2009-10-26	1
DocArchive: Public Places, Private Lives - Part One Public Places, Private Lives is a series of portraits of well known places that reveal ...	2009-10-23
DocArchive: Assignment - Protecting Britain's Children When a 17 month-old London child died after horrific abuse by his family, it unleashed ...	2009-10-22
DocArchive: Rebranding Nigeria - Part One Can the home of 419 internet scams, corruption and voodoo ever transmit a positive image? ...	2009-10-21	1
MI6 - A Century in the Shadows In Programme Two, we find out what were spies really up to behind the Iron ...	2009-10-19	1
DocArchive: Assignment Armenia: The cleverest nation on the planet Every two years teams from all over the world compete with one another in the ...	2009-10-15
DocArchive: John Simpson Returns to 1989 The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson tells the story of 20 years of post-communist ...	2009-10-15
MI6 - A century in the shadows An unprecedented look inside MI6 - Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, which marks its centenary this ...	2009-10-12	1
DocArchive: Memento, part two Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all that ...	2009-10-09
DocArchive: Assignment - Three Strike Lifers A life sentence for stealing a pair of socks. In California the tough 'three strikes' ...	2009-10-08
DocArchive: Yiddish - a Struggle for Survival - Part One Yiddish was the language of the Jewish Diaspora, the language of a people on the ...	2009-10-07
The Crash: Back from the brink The third part of the BBC's definitive series on the banking crash tells the extraordinary ...	2009-10-05
DocArchive: Memento, part one Imagine that conflict and violence force you to flee your country, leaving behind all that ...	2009-10-02
DocArchive: Assignment - The Mystery of the Arctic Sea It's straight out of the pages of a thriller novel: a cargo ship, lost without ...	2009-10-01	1
DocArchive: Desperate Dreams - Part Two Presenter Jenny Cuffe sets out to find Fereinatu, a teenage girl who was trafficked for ...	2009-09-30
DocArchive: Assignment - Chasing the Tax Cheats This week's Assignment looks at the much-vaunted crackdown on tax havens announced by the G20 ...	2009-09-29
The Crash: The Age of Risk The second of this three-part series that examines the boom before the bust of 2008 ...	2009-09-28
DocArchive: Building out of the Recession - part two Can we build our way out of the recession? The Empire State Building was started ...	2009-09-25
DocArchive: Desperate Dreams - part one Two years ago, Jenny Cuffe followed the journeys of migrants trying to leave Africa and ...	2009-09-22
The Crash: The bank that busted the world What were the key moments that led to financial meltdown, and what happened in the ...	2009-09-21
DocArchive: Assignment - Dog Fighting in Chicago If my dog is tough then I'm tough. Killer dogs give teenagers status in Chicago. ...	2009-09-17
DocArchive: Building Out of the Recession Just weeks after the Wall Street Crash in 1929, work began on the Empire State ...	2009-09-17
DocArchive: Dreams from my mother President Barack Obama has famously written of the influence exerted on him by his father ...	2009-09-15
DocArchive: Benjamin Jealous - the future of the NAACP enjamin Jealous is the leader of America's oldest and largest black civil rights group. In ...	2009-09-14
World Stories: Mexico's Missing Island Bermeja Island is missing. This strategically important island was clearly visible on maps of the ...	2009-09-11
Assignment: Mastering Business What role did the business schools play in last year's financial crisis? In this week's ...	2009-09-09
DocArchive: Citizen Journalism - Part Two n the second episode Michael Buerk visits Cairo and experience for himself how bloggers - ...	2009-09-09
DocArchive: Why is Africa poor? Part three Enterprise, money, innovation are all there. Is tapping into a continent's optimism the key to ...	2009-09-07	1
World Stories: Israel's Muslim soldiers Rachid Sekkai from the BBC's Arabic Service talks to Muslims currently serving in the Israeli ...	2009-09-04	1
DocArchive: Assignment - China Saving's Habit Colin Yu is a teacher who lives in Shanghai. He has a job but still ...	2009-09-03
DocArchive: Citizen journalism - democracy or chaos? Michael Buerk analyses the potential – and the dangers – of citizen journalism. In part ...	2009-09-02
DocArchive: Why is Africa poor? Part Two Accusations of tribalism, corruption and complacency have all been offered as explanations to the question ...	2009-08-31	2
DocArchive: World stories: new media in Kashmir Violent footage from the Kashmir conflict has been shared almost in real-time by citizen-journalists on ...	2009-08-28
DocArchive: Assignment - Mutiny in Bangladesh Six months ago there was a short military revolt in Bangladesh that threatened to push ...	2009-08-27
DocArchive: Gold - part three Nick Rankin explores how we assess the value of gold.	2009-08-26
DocArchive: Why is Africa poor? Mark Doyle crosses the continent of Africa and finds a place rich in natural resources ...	2009-08-24	2
World Stories: Fighting for Pao Culture in Burma Ko Ko Aung from the BBC's Burmese Service, travelled to Burma to find out why ...	2009-08-21
Assignment: America's African Outpost Fran Abrams is given rare access to the US base in Djibouti questioning military chiefs, ...	2009-08-20
DocArchive: Gold - part two Nick Rankin descends into the deepest goldmine in the world – Tau Tona in South ...	2009-08-19	1
DocArchive: Selling cheese to the Chinese Mukul Devichand tells the story of the Europeans who are trying to persuade China's expanding ...	2009-08-14
World Stories: Bombs, Stamps and Throat Singers American physicist Richard Feynman fell in love with the remote Russian region Tuva through his ...	2009-08-14
DocArchive: Assignment - The Pardon Game The Afghan drugs mafia is rich, powerful and entrenched, with connections running into the heart ...	2009-08-13
DocArchive: Gold - part one Man's long-term obsession with gold and the lengths we have gone to to get it. ...	2009-08-12	1
DocArchive: William Morris and the Muslims Navid Akhtar examines the influence of Islamic design and values in the life of Victorian ...	2009-08-10
Tracing the strain The World Health Organisation has warned that the worldwide spread of the so-called Swine Flu ...	2009-08-04
DocArchive: Iran and the West - part three Iran in the post 9/11 era, a time of friction and unrest over its nuclear ...	2009-08-03
Global Perspective: Chungking Mansions A slice of life at a shabby but popular tenement in Hong Kong's teeming commercial ...	2009-07-31
DocArchive: Caribbean voices - Part two Colin Grant reflects on the BBC’s role in boosting Caribbean writing in the region 60 ...	2009-07-28
DocArchive: Caribbean voices - Part two Colin Grant reflects on the BBC’s role in boosting Caribbean writing in the region 60 ...	2009-07-28	1
DocArchive: Iran and the West: From Khomeini to Ahmedinejad - part 2 The inside story of Iran's war with Iraq, and how the US viewed the conflict ...	2009-07-27	1
DocArchive: Global Perspective - Across the Water Nick Rankin travels to Fair Isle, one of the most remote inhabited islands in the ...	2009-07-24	1
DocArchive: Assignment - Pakistan - Winning the Peace In this week's edition of Assignment, Jill McGivering travels through Pakistan, hearing the stories of ...	2009-07-23	1
DocArchive: West African journeys - Part two Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura drops into the middle of an undercover investigation of a Chinese ...	2009-07-22	1
DocArchive: Caribbean voices - Part one Colin Grant reflects on the BBC’s role in boosting Caribbean writing in the region 60 ...	2009-07-21
DocArchive: Iran and the West: From Khomeni to Ahmedinejad - part 1 For the first time, the BBC tells the story of Iran's relationship with the West ...	2009-07-20
DocArchive: Death Diminishes Me A soundscape of memory, loss, regret and hope from men who have been living with ...	2009-07-17
DocArchive: The Greening of the Deserts - part three In this series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert. In the ...	2009-07-15
DocArchive: From Guantanamo to Paradise The story of four imprisoned Uyghur men transferred from Guantanamo Bay to the wealthy paradise ...	2009-07-10
DocArchive: Global Persepctive: Islands of Security South Africa's wealthy are retreating to high-security gated communities to protect themselves from violent crime. ...	2009-07-10
DocArchive: Assignment - Land Grab Cambodia 150,000 Cambodians are reported to be facing eviction from their land. Huge tracts of the ...	2009-07-09
DocArchive: The Greening of the Deserts In this three part series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert. ...	2009-07-08
DocArchive: Global Perspective: Alert Bay Teenagers on the island of Alert Bay, British Columbia, talk openly about the beauty and ...	2009-07-02
DocArchive: Thembi’s Story Thembi Ngubane’s Radio Diary about living with Aids in a South African Township.	2009-07-02
DocArchive: Assignment - The Opus Dei enigma It's widely regarded as one of the most secretive religious organisations in the world. It ...	2009-07-02
DocArchive: The Greening of the Deserts In this three part series, Ayisha Yahya explores climate change issues in the African desert. ...	2009-07-01
Assignment: Iran in crisis In this special edition of Assignment, John Simpson reveals how the protests, and the police ...	2009-06-27
DocArchive: Blood and lava When the dried blood of Naples' patron saint fails to liquefy, Neapolitans believe great misfortune ...	2009-06-26
DocArchive: Mubarak's Egypt - part two After 28 years in power, President Mubarak's promise of shepherding his country into a stable ...	2009-06-25
DocArchive: Assignment - The Rich in Retreat In a programme first broadcast in April, Ed Butler reports from New York on how ...	2009-06-25
DocArchive: Farm Swap - part two In the final part of this series, Mike Gallagher meets a British farmer working vast ...	2009-06-24
DocArchive: Mubarak's Egypt - part one After 28 years in power, Mubarak's promise of leading Egypt into stable democracy has dissipated. ...	2009-06-22
DocArchive: Dear Birth Mother Listen to the story of Suzanne, a single woman in her forties who opted for ...	2009-06-18
DocArchive: Assignment - America's Somali Bantu Hundreds of thousands of people have fled from Somalia since civil war broke out there ...	2009-06-18
DocArchive: Farm Swap - part one In this series, Mike Gallagher meets two farmers working outside their own countries. In programme ...	2009-06-17
DocArchive: Diabetes: The Silent Killer Justin Webb goes beyond his role as a journalist to explore the issue from the ...	2009-06-12
DocArchive: My world: Thailand's Dr Death The final programme in the My World series explores the story of Pornthip Rojanasunan, Thailand’s ...	2009-06-12
DocArchive: The Cricket Revolution - part two In this series, David Goldblatt charts the rise of Twenty20 cricket. In the final programme ...	2009-06-10
DocArchive: My World: Kades A poetic story of survival set against the soundscape of the Mathare slums in Kenya. ...	2009-06-08
The Economy on the Edge Martin Wolf, of the Financial Times, predicted that the global downturn would be much worse ...	2009-06-08
DocArchive: Anatomy of a Hijack Since the beginning of last year, pirates have succeeded in seizing more than 70 ships ...	2009-06-04
DocArchive: The Cricket Revolution - part one David Goldblatt charts the recent arrival and rise on the sporting scene of Twenty20 cricket. ...	2009-06-03
Anatomy of a Car Crash Tracing the profound physical and emotional toll on all those involved in the wake of ...	2009-05-29	1
DocArchive: My world: A different kind of stroke Every year, 15 million people will suffer from a stroke, five million of them will ...	2009-05-28
The Lost Voices of Tiananmen Square - part two James Miles, the BBC's China correspondent in 1989, was an eye-witness to the events leading ...	2009-05-26
DocArchive: Lincoln and the World Abraham Lincoln's legacy and political influence is more powerful today than it ever was. Allan ...	2009-05-25
DocArchive: My world: The homecoming Follow the story of Gemma Tracee Apiku, a former refugee who spent her teenage years ...	2009-05-22
DocArchive: Assignment - The Bad Samaritan Until the end of last year Bernard Madoff was a highly respected financial guru and ...	2009-05-21
DocArchive: The Lost Voices of Tiananmen Square - part one James Miles, the BBC's China correspondent in 1989, was an eye-witness to the events leading ...	2009-05-19
DocArchive: Freedom from Slavery in Mauritania Mauritania is a country with a tradition of slavery, but in August 2007 owning slaves ...	2009-05-18
DocArchive: On the brink - part 2 Continuing his award-winning reports for the BBC World Service, Michael Robinson looks at the increasingly ...	2009-05-13	1
DocArchive: My World - The Infidelity Agency Vivek Kumar runs India's number one detective agency and business - investigating marital infidelities - ...	2009-05-12
DocArchive: West African Journeys - Part Four In the last of this four part series, Sorious Samura is in a fishing village ...	2009-05-11
DocArchive: Friday Documentary: The Library Cart Exploring the world of an extraordinary individual. This week, we travel to Colombia to experience ...	2009-05-08
DocArchive: On the brink - part 1 Continuing his award-winning reports for the BBC World Service, Michael Robinson looks at the increasingly ...	2009-05-05
DocArchive: West African Journeys - part three Award-winning journalist Sorious Samura heads back to his native West Africa for a trip through ...	2009-05-01
DocArchive: Assignment - The Rich in Retreat Just one year ago Wall Street bankers enjoyed widespread regard, even veneration, in American public ...	2009-05-01
DocArchive: The Secret Scientists - part three Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at the legacy of scientists from the Islamic world. In part ...	2009-04-29
DocArchive: The Secret Scientists - part two Jim Al-Khalili looks at the scientists from the Islamic world who created a legacy for ...	2009-04-21
DocArchive: West African Journeys - Part One Sorious Samura takes four journeys that explore the challenges and contradictions of life in modern ...	2009-04-20
DocArchive: The Secret Scientists Jim Al-Khalili looks at the scientists from the Islamic world who created a legacy for ...	2009-04-17
Keeping the Peace - part two After one of Africa's most vicious conflicts - a war that claimed the lives of ...	2009-04-17	1
DocArchive: Escape from Eritrea: Assignment The Eritrean government is turning its country into a giant prison, according to new report ...	2009-04-16
DocArchive: The Atrocity Archives - part two In Guatemala four years ago, 80 million documents were discovered. They contained evidence of police ...	2009-04-13
DocArchive: Keeping the Peace - part one In 2003 peace was declared between the Liberian government and rebel groups.	2009-04-10
DocArchive: Kosovo's Disappeared Ten years after the war in Kosovo, Michael Montgomery returns to the region for Assignment. ...	2009-04-08
DocArchive: The Atrocity Archives - part one In Guatemala four years ago, 80 million documents were discovered in a warehouse. They contain ...	2009-04-06
DocArchive: Culture Not Colour Jared Thomas is an Aboriginal Australian. Born of mixed race parents. We follow his search ...	2009-04-03
DocArchive: Assignment - Turkey's Dirty War For twenty five years, Turkey fought a dirty war with Kurdish separatist insurgents. Atrocities were ...	2009-04-02
DocArchive: Obama's Pentagon Mark Urban asks if Barack Obama's presidency will see substantial reform at the Pentagon.	2009-03-30
DocArchive: Chinua Achebe: A Hero Returns Richard Dowden joins the greatest of all African novelists, Chinua Achebe, on his first trip ...	2009-03-25
DocArchive: Third Agers - Part Four What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little ...	2009-03-23
DocArchive: Third Agers - Part Three What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little ...	2009-03-20
DocArchive: Yiddish: A Struggle for Survival - part two What has become of Yiddish and how much of the language survives today?	2009-03-20
DocArchive: Assignment - Falling in Love with the Stasi During the cold war, more than thirty west German women were prosecuted after been tricked ...	2009-03-19
DocArchive: Indonesian Journeys - Bali In the run up to the Indonesian elections in April, Anita Barraud explores how terrorism, ...	2009-03-18
DocArchive: Third Agers - Part Three What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little ...	2009-03-16
DocArchive: Yiddish: A Struggle for Survival - part one Yiddish was the language of the Jewish Diaspora, the language of a people on the ...	2009-03-13
DocArchive: Indonesian Journeys - West Timor In the run up to elections, Anita Barraud finds out why poverty and starvation are ...	2009-03-10
DocArchive: Third Agers - Part Two What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little ...	2009-03-09
DocArchive: Assignment - Rating the Credit Ratings Agencies Who’s responsible for our current economic meltdown? Financial institutions around the globe are now sitting ...	2009-03-05
DocArchive: Public Places, Private Lives Trafalgar Square is a must-see destination on any tourist map of the UK. But beyond ...	2009-03-04
DocArchive: Indonesian Journeys - Aceh Anita Barraud explores how peace and democracy is working in Aceh, a region that has ...	2009-03-04
DocArchive: Third Agers - Part One What is it really like to be old? In this four part series, Jane Little ...	2009-03-02
DocArchive: Assignment: Kenya Reconciliation It's a year since Kenya's political rivals signed a power-sharing agreement to end the violence ...	2009-02-26
DocArchive: Indonesian Journeys - Jakarta In the run up to the Indonesian elections in April, Anita Barraud travels to four ...	2009-02-24
DocArchive: Fresh Start - Part Three Lucy Ash looks at a successful prison reform scheme in Kansas that is turning crack ...	2009-02-16
DocArchive: Beatles in the USSR As Beatlemania swept throughout the world in 1964, it seemed unable to penetrate the Iron ...	2009-02-13
DocArchive: Fresh Start - Part Two Lucy Ash looks at why allowing prisoners to raise puppies has proved to be a ...	2009-02-06
DocArchive: The Wildlife Smugglers Worldwide, the illegal trade in wildlife is worth up to $25 billion US a year. ...	2009-02-06
DocArchive: Assignment - Children for Sale Nadene Ghouri goes undercover to expose the trade in children by some charities registered in ...	2009-02-05
DocArchive: Fresh Start - Part One As prison numbers in Britain continue to soar, what can be done to stop criminals ...	2009-01-30
DocArchive: The Bicycle Diaries - part three This three-part series looks at the impact the bicycle has had on people's lives. In ...	2009-01-30
DocArchive: Assignment - A City Divided At the end of last year, violent clashes broke out in Jos in central Nigeria ...	2009-01-29
DocArchive: The Legacy of George W Bush - Part Two Justin Webb explores the domestic and international legacies of President George W Bush as he ...	2009-01-26
DocArchive: The Bicycle Diaries - part two This three-part series looks at the impact the bicycle has had on people's lives. Programme ...	2009-01-23
DocArchive: Human Rights and Wrongs at the UN Is the UN's Human Rights Council fulfilling its role to protect the most vulnerable from ...	2009-01-20
DocArchive: The Bicycle Diaries - part one This series features three portraits of the use of the bicycle around the world. The ...	2009-01-16
DocArchive: The Legacy of George W Bush - Part One Justin Webb explores the domestic and international legacies of President George W Bush as he ...	2009-01-15
DocArchive: Obama: Professor President Kwame Anthony Appiah is one of America’s leading public intellectuals. In this investigative feature he ...	2009-01-13
DocArchive: The Pardon Game A US president has a constitutional and inalienable right to grant pardons. He usually does ...	2009-01-08
DocArchive: Brand Cuba - part two On 1st January 2009, Cuba marks the 50th anniversary of its revolution. All over the ...	2009-01-05
DocArchive: The Story of Braille Peter White tells the story of Louis Braille, the founder of Braille, and the story ...	2009-01-02
DocArchive: The Rules of Risk As leaders in Europe and America struggle to re-write the rules of international finance following ...	2008-12-29
DocArchive: Brand Cuba - part one In Brand Cuba, Allan Little analyses some of the factors that have kept Cuba alive ...	2008-12-29
DocArchive: Too Many Santas Throughout much of the Christian world Christmas is the time when Santa Claus dominates – ...	2008-12-26
DocArchive: Assignment - In Exile There are more than 10 million Palestinians living around the world, more than half of ...	2008-12-25
DocArchive: Return to White Horse Village - part three While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million ...	2008-12-23
DocArchive: Timeline - part three Timeline is the programme where the past sheds light on recent events though use of ...	2008-12-19
DocArchive: 1968: The year that changed the world? In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John ...	2008-12-19
DocArchive: Assignment - A Return to Helmand Last year our correspondent Jill McGivering reported from Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on the ...	2008-12-18
DocArchive: DocArchive: Return to White Horse Village - part two While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million ...	2008-12-17
DocArchive: 1968: The year that changed the world? In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John ...	2008-12-12
DocArchive: Timeline - part two In this topical and lively series, contemporary stories and events are explored through the examination ...	2008-12-12
DocArchive: Assignment - Bolivia on the Brink And now Assignment asks whether Bolivia is on the brink of civil war. In the ...	2008-12-10
DocArchive: Return to White Horse Village - part one Over the past two-and-a-half years, former BBC Beijing correspondent Carrie Gracie has been witnessing the ...	2008-12-10
DocArchive: 1968: The year that changed the world? In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John ...	2008-12-05
DocArchive: Assignment - Aids and the Caribbean Five years after doing a series of reports on HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean, ...	2008-12-04
DocArchive: Timeline - part one In this topical and lively series, contemporary stories and events are explored through the examination ...	2008-12-03
DocArchive: The Priest of Pará Father Henri Des Roziers is a Dominican priest and human rights lawyer working in Pará, ...	2008-12-03
DocArchive: 1968: The year that changed the world? In this four part series, using archive recordings and music from the time, Sir John ...	2008-11-28
DocArchive: Street Art - Part Two This series looks at the growth of street art. Programme two focuses on Sao Paulo, ...	2008-11-28
DocArchive: Tired of Terror Part Two Rupa Jha explores what ex-militants in Kashmir and their families expect from the future.	2008-11-25
DocArchive: Street Art - Part One This series looks at street art in two very different cities: New York and Sao ...	2008-11-20
DocArchive: Dead by Christmas The Neapolitan crime syndicate, the Camorra, has said it wants a young writer dead by ...	2008-11-20
DocArchive: Giving up the gun in Kashmir Rupa Jha talks to former militants in Kashmir and their families about why they took ...	2008-11-18
DocArchive: The world without...copper You might think that copper is just another metal, but in fact it is a ...	2008-11-14
DocArchive: Toxic Trailers - Assignment Hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless when Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the ...	2008-11-13
DocArchive: Hard lessons from Afghanistan - Part Two Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet ...	2008-11-12
DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Four Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the ...	2008-11-10
DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Three Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the ...	2008-11-10
DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change - Part Two Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the ...	2008-11-10
DocArchive: The world without...cows Discover just how important cows have been civilisation, all around the world.	2008-11-07
DocArchive: Hard Lessons from Afghanistan - Part One Former Kabul correspondent Alan Johnston reflects on decades of turmoil in Afghanistan, from the Soviet ...	2008-11-05
DocArchive: Animal Migration in a Climate of Change Animal Migration in a Climate of Change is a special four-part series that explores the ...	2008-11-04
DocArchive: The PR battle for the Caucasus The South Ossetian conflict not only sparked a military war between Russia and Georgia, but ...	2008-11-03
DocArchive: Rat Attack Neil McCarthy pieces together a story of rats, famine and insurrection from the 1950's to ...	2008-10-31
DocArchive: The Lost Veterans Andrew Purcell investigates the growing homelessness crisis among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in the United ...	2008-10-29
DocArchive: America’s First Principles Allan Little presents an appraisal of the man described as America's Apostle of Freedom: Thomas ...	2008-10-27
DocArchive: Failure or Fraud As the global banking crisis deepens, a flood of multi-million dollar lawsuits is beginning to ...	2008-10-24
DocArchive: Is al-Qaeda winning? Part Four The Saudi Interior Ministry and the US Military in Iraq have offered al - Qaeda ...	2008-10-20
DocArchive: Out of the Ghetto This special documentary exploring life in Chicago's inner city is based on Ghetto Life 101, ...	2008-10-17
DocArchive: The View from Kashmir - Assignment A series of protests against Indian rule in Kashmir has left more than 30 people ...	2008-10-16
DocArchive: Is al-Qaeda Winning? Part Three Owen Bennett-Jones tests the big promises governments have made about the financial war on terror.	2008-10-10
DocArchive: The Italian Patient What is the state of health of the Italian nation today? Is Italy in crisis ...	2008-10-10
DocArchive: In the Shadow of the Cartel : Assignment In Mexico, the government has deployed thousands of troops in an attempt to break up ...	2008-10-09
DocArchive: Children of the Revolution - Part two In Iran, the constant drugs crisis and loss of skilled workers contrast with a lively ...	2008-10-08
DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? - part two Owen Bennett-Jones looks at al Qaeda's hard power and military capabilities in its chosen key ...	2008-10-03
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part Four The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells ...	2008-10-02
DocArchive: Africa's Guantanamo - Assignment In Assignment, Robert Walker travels to East Africa to investigate a secret detention programme - ...	2008-10-02
DocArchive: Children of the revolution - Part one This series explores what life offers to Iran's burgeoning young population who are trapped by ...	2008-10-01
DocArchive: Is al Qaeda Winning? Part one Seven years into the global war on terror, is al-Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple ...	2008-09-29
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part Three The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells ...	2008-09-25
DocArchive: Pakistan's Tribal areas Pakistan's government is locked in an intense battle with Islamist militants for control of areas ...	2008-09-25
DocArchive: My Senator, My Vote - Part Two Robin Lustig travels to Phoenix, Arizona, the home of Senator John McCain, to ask two ...	2008-09-24
DocArchive: Looted Art A tale of a tiny painting, set against a large canvas of war, politics and ...	2008-09-22
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part Two The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells ...	2008-09-18
DocArchive: The Afghan Arms Bazaar Assignment As the insurgency in Afghanistan grows, Kate Clark travels undercover to investigate who's arming the ...	2008-09-17
DocArchive: My Senator, My Vote: Part One We know the two US presidential candidates and what they would do in office, but ...	2008-09-17
DocArchive: The Desert Capitalists - Part Two How are the Marwari traders managing as India goes global? Can a business culture based ...	2008-09-15
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth - Part One The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Seychelles and Mauritius are all popular tourist destinations. Robin White tells ...	2008-09-11
DocArchive: The Desert Capitalists - Part One Mukhul Devichand finds out how the Marwari trading caste from India's western deserts has become ...	2008-09-08
DocArchive: The 66 Club Ruth Evans tells the extraordinary story of 11 women brought together on the internet by ...	2008-09-04
DocArchive: Feeding Haiti: Assignment Haiti, one of the very poorest countries in the world, has been hit hard by ...	2008-09-04
DocArchive: The Presidential Contenders - Part Two John McCain: a profile of the man who talks of honour and patriotic duty and ...	2008-09-01
DocArchive: What Lies Beneath - Part two Win Scutt finds out how the maritime treasure hunting industry has boomed in recent years.	2008-08-29
DocArchive: Spain's Civil War - Breaking the Silence Following recent legislation in Spain the government has agreed to offer support to families wishing ...	2008-08-28
DocArchive: Al-Qaeda's Internal Debate BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner talks to former allies of Osama bin Laden who are ...	2008-08-26
DocArchive: The Presidential Contenders Barack Obama:the profile of one of the two individuals who are the presumptive nominees in ...	2008-08-25
DocArchive: What Lies Beneath - Part One International seas are largely unregulated, meaning most underwater archaeological wealth can be retrieved and sold ...	2008-08-21
DocArchive: A young life of crime: Assignment The experience of growing up in a socially deprived, inner city neighbourhood is a common ...	2008-08-21
DocArchive: Why they're dying in the Congo - Part Two BBC World Affairs correspondent Mark Doyle continues travelling from the west to the east of ...	2008-08-20
DocArchive: Rehearsing for War The extraordinary US military base at the heart of a vast shift in American military ...	2008-08-18
DocArchive: Your Right to Know - Part 2 What do Freedom of Information laws actually achieve? Are they sometimes more symbolic than practical ...	2008-08-14
DocArchive: Secrets in the Family - Assignment During Argentina's Dirty War of the seventies and eighties thousands of leftists and dissidents vanished ...	2008-08-14
DocArchive: Why they're dying in the Congo - Part One BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mark Doyle explores why over five million people have died in ...	2008-08-13
DocArchive: The Billion Dollar Election: Part 2 - Ambassadors Prestigious job. Exotic location. Stately home, fine food and wine, and many other perks thrown ...	2008-08-08
DocArchive: The Right to Know - Part 1 Freedom of information is well on the way to being seen as an essential prerequisite ...	2008-08-07
DocArchive: Soft Jihad: Assignment In the United States a small but increasingly vocal group of people believe that members ...	2008-08-07
DocArchive: The Trouble with Money - Part Two Will there be a return to the dreaded days of "stagflation" with weak growth and ...	2008-08-06
DocArchive: The Billion Dollar Election - Part One - 527s The United States is due to have the first billion-dollar election in its history. The ...	2008-08-01
DocArchive: South Africa's Promised Land: Assignment After the ending of apartheid in South Africa, the transfer of land from white to ...	2008-07-31
DocArchive: The Trouble with Money - Part 1 With the world's economy now threatened by what some believe is the most dangerous crisis ...	2008-07-29
DocArchive: Secrets in the Blood - Part Two In this two-part investigation, Matt McGrath sets out to expose corruption, drug use and cover-ups ...	2008-07-25
DocArchive: Trouble in the Townships: Assignment In May violence against African immigrants exploded across South Africa. Two months on thousands are ...	2008-07-23
DocArchive: Building Better Health - Part Two Jill McGivering explores whether China is doing enough to provide healthcare to 1.3 billion people ...	2008-07-23
DocArchive: Beijing Calling - Part One Russell Fuller follows the difficult journeys of six hopefuls from around the world in the ...	2008-07-18
DocArchive: Secrets in the Blood - Part One In this two-part investigation, Matt McGrath sets out to expose corruption, drug use and cover-ups ...	2008-07-18
DocArchive: Football's Conmen - Assignment An undercover BBC investigation has exposed how young African footballers are being defrauded by conmen ...	2008-07-17
DocArchive: Building Better Health Part One: Jill McGivering compares two very different free health systems in the developed world: ...	2008-07-15
DocArchive: Policing the Poppy Fields - Part Two In the second part of this series, Kate Clark reports from those provinces where an ...	2008-07-11
DocArchive: The World's Shifting Balance The dynamics of the old world and the new world are changing and the balance ...	2008-07-10
DocArchive: Congo's Contract of the Century In a multi billion dollar deal China has promised to rebuild DR Congo's crumbling infrastructure ...	2008-07-10
DocArchive: Countdown to the Olympics: Part Two China says hosting the Olympics has accelerated national reforms, technological advances and greater freedoms overall ...	2008-07-09
DocArchive: Policing the Poppy Fields - Part One Kate Clark gains rare access to the fight against the Afghan opium trade and asks ...	2008-07-07
DocArchive: Health for All Campaigners for improving maternal health have been lobbying the G8 to get the topic on ...	2008-07-04
DocArchive: Countdown to the Olympics: Part One As the world counts down to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Gerry Northam investigates China's ...	2008-07-02
DocArchive: Race and Reconciliation - Part Three In the third part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to Atteridgeville, a township outside ...	2008-06-27
DocArchive: Health for All Is health for all a fact or just fiction? Helen Sharp asks if the world ...	2008-06-27
DocArchive: Burma - Reporting the Cyclone: Assignment This week's Assignment tells the story of the Burmese cyclone through the eyes and ears ...	2008-06-26
DocArchive: Age of Terror - part 4 In 1998, a truck bomb exploded outside the American embassy in Nairobi. Over 200 people ...	2008-06-25
DocArchive: Race and Reconciliation - Part Two In the second part of this series, Audrey Brown travels to South Africa to explore ...	2008-06-23
DocArchive: Feeding the Spirit of New Orleans Sheila Dillon reports on the work of restaurateurs, farmers, fishermen and activists to restore the ...	2008-06-20
DocArchive: The Baseball Factory Baseball may be the United States' national sport - but this year, 2008, almost half ...	2008-06-19
DocArchive: Age of Terror - Part 3 In the third part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates The Paris Plot, the hijacking ...	2008-06-18
DocArchive: Race and Reconciliation - Part One Fourteen years after liberation and 60 years since the beginning of what was then 'apartheid', ...	2008-06-13
DocArchive: Bomb Hunters More than 30 years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bomb Hunters, tells the ...	2008-06-12
DocArchive: Rome's New Wolf - Assignment The new mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno was once a so-called neo-fascist - a supporter ...	2008-06-12
DocArchive: Age of Terror - part 2 In the second part of this series, Peter Taylor investigates how two events in 1987 ...	2008-06-11
DocArchive: Leila's Story The powerful story of a young Iranian woman called Leila, sold into prostitution at the ...	2008-06-06
DocArchive: Argentina – Dancing To The Music Of The Mind Argentinian film director, writer and tango enthusiast, Edgardo Cozarinsky, talks to artists, dancers, novelists and ...	2008-06-05
DocArchive: Auroville - Assignment The town of Auroville in southern India was built in 1968 on the basis of ...	2008-06-05
DocArchive: Age of Terror Part 1 In the first part of this series, Peter Taylor reveals how events unfolded in the ...	2008-06-04
DocArchive: Taxi to the Dark Side In Taxi To The Dark Side, American film-maker Alex Gibney reports on the use of ...	2008-05-30
DocArchive: Kidnapped - part two Dr Thomas Hargrove, an American scientist kidnapped by FARC, is reunited with the family's German ...	2008-05-30
DocArchive: Assignment Lucy Ash finds out if new trade deals and diplomatic dialogue with Libya can encourage ...	2008-05-29
DocArchive: Assignment 22 May 08 The Commodities Bubble: Michael Robinson investigates and reveals how the commodities markets are attracting major ...	2008-05-29
DocArchive: What Next For Kenya? - Part Two In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels from the bustling ...	2008-05-27
DocArchive: Failure at the Central Bank For the last six decades, central bankers have run the international financial system with the ...	2008-05-23
DocArchive: Kidnapped: Part One Presenter Ritula Shah reunites former hostage Norman Kember - kidnapped in Iraq - with the ...	2008-05-23
DocArchive: What Next For Kenya? - Part One In this two-part series, former BBC East Africa Correspondent Mike Wooldridge travels from the bustling ...	2008-05-20
DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World Cyber-crime is the fastest-growing sector of global-organised crime, worth about US$100 billion a year. Misha ...	2008-05-16
DocArchive: Escape from Time Who wouldn't like to escape the relentless march of time? Find out about the routes ...	2008-05-15
DocArchive: Assignment - Beyond Mark Weil Last September, Mark Weil, the radical theatre director of the Ilkhom theatre in Uzbekistan, was ...	2008-05-15
DocArchive: Living With Chico Mendes To mark the 20th anniversary of his assassination, Nick Maes looks at the life of ...	2008-05-13
DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World: Part Three In the third part of this series on international crime, Misha Glenny is in South ...	2008-05-12
DocArchive: Where the Buffalo Roam How have non-native creatures - from birds to bovines, reptiles to rhesus monkeys - become ...	2008-05-09
DocArchive: Philosophy in the Streets Nick Fraser looks at the intellectual revolution that spread from Paris throughout the world, particularly ...	2008-05-06
DocArchive: How crime took on the world: Part two In the second of this series which charts the explosion of international organised crime, Misha ...	2008-05-05
DocArchive: Escape to New Zealand Environmental refugees seek a home somewhere in the planet where the predicted global changes can, ...	2008-05-02
DocArchive: Assignment: Football in the Holy City In this week's Assignment David Goldblatt travels to Israel to meet the fans of Beitar ...	2008-05-01
DocArchive: The My Lai Tapes - Part Two Forty years ago, 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers. It became known ...	2008-04-29
DocArchive: How Crime Took on the World: Part One As part of his investigation into global crime, Misha Glenny is in Canada, where the ...	2008-04-28
DocArchive: Policing the UN The BBC's Africa editor Martin Plaut sets out to examine serious new allegations of corruption ...	2008-04-28
DocArchive: The Convict Streak The resourcefulness and resilience of prisioners fighting for freedom that make Australians today proudly boast ...	2008-04-24
DocArchive: Assignment - Granny Dumping Abandonment, abuse and neglect of the elderly by their own children and grandchildren is at ...	2008-04-24
DocArchive: The My Lai Tapes - Part One Forty years ago in the village of My Lai in South Vietnam, a massacre took ...	2008-04-22
DocArchive: Strangers in Marseilles Laurie Taylor explores Marseille's unique racial geography to find out what kept the peace during ...	2008-04-21
DocArchive: Harare Festival Manuel Bagorro, the director of the Harare International Festival of the Arts, describes his efforts ...	2008-04-18
DocArchive: Assignment: Inside Somalia's Insurgency The last few weeks have seen an increase in violence in Somalia. Insurgents have stepped ...	2008-04-17
DocArchive: Elegy for the Tech Award winning poet Fred D’Aguiar is head of creative writing at Virginia Tech, the scene ...	2008-04-16
DocArchive: A Dollar a Day - China China is on track to meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving Dollar-a-day poverty. But ...	2008-04-11
DocArchive: Call me Nana More than 65,000 grandparents in Canada are raising their grandchildren on their own, turning their ...	2008-04-11
DocArchive: The Message from China Dr Anne-Marie Brady from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand investigates how the Chinese ...	2008-04-09
DocArchive: Simpson Returns to China - part 2 John Simpson meets the ladies cracking down on spitting in Beijing before the Olympics and ...	2008-04-07
DocArchive: The Grass is Greener Why do Ghanaians dream of living a better life abroad? What must change in Ghana ...	2008-04-04
DocArchive: Assignment: The Most Dangerous Gang in America The United States has long been home to violent gangs, from the Mafia to the ...	2008-04-03
DocArchive: Return to Kurdistan Part 2 For Iraqi Kurds these are the best times they have ever known. But can the ...	2008-04-02
DocArchive: Simpson Returns to China Programme one: The Road From Tiananmen charts John Simpson's return to modern China 19 years ...	2008-03-28
DocArchive: No Way Out Shazia Khan investigates the agony of forced marriages in the UK and the risks of ...	2008-03-28
DocArchive: Assignment: No more child witches in DRC? Is it possible to legislate against deeply held beliefs? That's what the authorities in the ...	2008-03-27
DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Four John Simpson looks at the how the Iraq War has affected America's international role and ...	2008-03-26
DocArchive: Return to Kurdistan - Part 1 In the first part of the series Return to Kurdistan, Michael Goldfarb follows the upheaval ...	2008-03-26
DocArchive: Escaping the Water Wolf With climate change bringing new threats of rising sea levels and increased rainfall, will luck ...	2008-03-21
DocArchive: The Kids Who Ran Iraq After the invasion of Iraq in 2003 hundreds of young American recruits were sent by ...	2008-03-20
DocArchive: Pirates Part Three Nick Rankin enters cyber space to explore the world of intellectual piracy - the stealing ...	2008-03-18
DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Three In Programme Three, Lyse Doucet looks at how the Iraq War changed the regional balance ...	2008-03-17
DocArchive: Teacher Flower In the 1980s Kathy Flower became the most famous face on Chinese television, as English ...	2008-03-13
DocArchive: Assignment: Afghanistan - Winning Hearts and Minds According to US intelligence the Afghan president Hamid Karzai controls only 30 percent of Afghanistan, ...	2008-03-13
DocArchive: Pirates Part Two Nick Rankin travels to Africa to find out how modern day pirates are ruling the ...	2008-03-12
DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Two Magdi Abdelhadi explores how the dream of a democratic Arab world was promoted then put ...	2008-03-10
DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part Two In Programme Two Magdhi Abdulhadi looks at how the neocon dream of a democratic Arab ...	2008-03-10
DocArchive: Boom or Bust Sharon Mascall investigates the Australian mining industry where many inexperienced workers are lured by high ...	2008-03-06
DocArchive: Assignment Jacob Zuma: The Investigation Jacob Zuma is one of the most powerful men in South Africa. He controls the ...	2008-03-06
DocArchive: How Iraq's War Shaped Our World: Part One Programme One: BBC correspondent Jim Muir evaluates how war has changed Iraq from the beginning ...	2008-03-03
Doc: After the KGB: Part Two Martin Sixsmith gets under the skin of the fastest growing and arguably most politically influential ...	2008-02-29
Doc: Assignment - Unknown Neighbours Why are the British so scared of Islam? When the head of the Anglican church, ...	2008-02-28
Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 4 Russia has made more enemies than friends recently. Tim Whewell finds out where this new ...	2008-02-27
Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 3 Tim Whewell investigates why a 'new' Cold War could be underway and if Russia and ...	2008-02-25
Doc: Friday Documentary: After the KGB - Part One Martin Sixsmith looks at Russia's fast growing and politically influential secret service.	2008-02-22
Doc: The Danish Nazi Soeren Kam is a former Danish SS Officer and one of the most wanted Nazi ...	2008-02-21
Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 2 Pipeline Power: Could Russia's vast energy sources possibly be the missiles of the future? Tim ...	2008-02-19
Doc: The Kremlin and the World - Part 1 Nearly twenty years after the Cold War, there’s a new chill in relations between Russia ...	2008-02-18
Doc: Uncovering Pakistan - Part 2 Owen Bennett-Jones examines the rise of Islamist militancy in Pakistan and the risk of the ...	2008-02-14
Doc: Uncovering Pakistan - Part 1 Why have so many of the hopes and aspirations of Pakistan's founders remained unfulfilled?	2008-02-13
Doc: Pain: Episode Two In this second programme on Pain, Andrew North explores the strategies we use to survive ...	2008-02-13
Doc: Bangladesh Floods: Three Months On It's been three months since cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh. BBC reporter, Siobhann Tighe returns to ...	2008-02-11
Doc: Fading Traditions - part 3 Temple prostitutes: The ancient Hindu tradition of dedicating young girls to the temple has come ...	2008-02-07
Doc: Assignment - Kurdistan Corruption 05 Feb 2008 With its functioning parliament, a booming oil economy and a small but well-trained army, the ...	2008-02-07
Doc: Pain: Episode One In this two part series, former BBC Iraq correspondent, Andrew North takes a personal journey ...	2008-02-06
Doc: Securing Pakistan's Bomb What would happen if the government of Pakistan, one of the world's nuclear powers, were ...	2008-02-04
Doc: Fading Traditions - Part 2 Georgia, considered to be the birthplace of wine, risks losing its wine industry. How are ...	2008-01-31
Doc: Assignment - Kenya violence 30 Jan 2008 This week's Assignment reports on the post election violence in Kenya which has claimed the ...	2008-01-31
Doc: A Dollar A Day - Part 4 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have ...	2008-01-29
Doc: Fading Traditions - Part 1 The number of Moroccan story-tellers, known as halakis, is dwindling. Why is their art dying ...	2008-01-24
Doc: Desperate Dreams Part 3 The final part of a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from ...	2008-01-24
Assignment - African Footballers 24 Jan 2008 Millions of young African boys dream of following such football stars as Didier Drogba and ...	2008-01-24
Doc: A Dollar A Day - Part 3 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have ...	2008-01-22
Doc: Desperate Dreams - Part 2 The second in a three part series. Every year, thousands of young people from sub-Saharan ...	2008-01-17
Doc: Looted Art: Part II Charles Wheeler is on the trail of art seized by the Soviets at the end ...	2008-01-17
Doc: Assignment - On the trail of spammers 17 Jan 2007 Simon Cox tries to track down the criminals who plague us with spam emails offering ...	2008-01-17
Doc: A Dollar A Day - Part 2 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have ...	2008-01-15
DocArchive: Desperate Dreams Part 1 Every year, thousands of young men and women from sub-Saharan Africa set off across the ...	2008-01-11
DocArchive: Friday Documentary - Looted Art: Part One At the end of World War Two, as Nazi Germany lay in ruins, millions of ...	2008-01-10
DocArchive: Assignment - S Korea computer addiction 10 Jan 2008 Computer gaming has become a national obsession in South Korea but there is a dark ...	2008-01-10
DocArchive: A Dollar A Day - Part 1 In this four part series, Mike Wooldridge looks at what it's really like to have ...	2008-01-08
DocArchive: Debt Threat Part 2 The dangers of the present crisis turning into a full scale recession, and at the ...	2008-01-07
DocArchive: Only One Bakira Bakira Hasecic is unrelenting in her pursuit of the war criminals of the Bosnian war. ...	2008-01-04
DocArchive: Assignment - Taxi to the Dark Side 3 Jan 2008 American film-maker Alex Gibney tells the story of an Afghan taxi driver, tortured to death ...	2008-01-03
DocArchive: Press For Freedom Part 4 In the final part of the series Roy Greenslade profiles the head of News Corporation ...	2008-01-02
DocArchive: Debt Threat The first programme will show how rapidly the shock wave of the credit crunch is ...	2007-12-31
DocArchive: Assignment - Blackwater 27 Dec 2007 There are now as many private security contractors in Iraq as there are US soldiers. ...	2007-12-27
DocArchive: Quest for a Cure Peter Day reports on whether the US Food and Drug Administration will licence the HIV/AIDS ...	2007-12-21
DocArchive: Global Account - Part 4 Allan Urry investigates links between the Pentagon, politicians and weapons manufacturers.	2007-12-20
DocArchive: Assignment - Inside Uzbekistan Since the Uzbek government put down an uprising in Andijan in 2005, the country has ...	2007-12-19
DocArchive: Press for Freedom - part three Building democracy: What is the role of radio in building democracy? In Papua, a new ...	2007-12-19
DocArchive: Press for Freedom - part two Freedom of the internet:How do the motives of mainstream news websites compare with the agendas ...	2007-12-19
DocArchive: Citizen Journalists What is the future of news, when the internet may undermine the old-fashioned paternalistic precepts? ...	2007-12-17
DocArchive: Press For Freedom Part 1 BBC's Roy Greenslade looks at how far reporting 'the truth' can be endangered by governments, ...	2007-12-12
DocArchive: Making News Part 1 The BBC and other international broadcasters boast "objective" news and impartial window onto the world, ...	2007-12-10
DocArchive: Assignment - Leila's story 6 Dec 2007 Leila is a young woman in Iran, sold into prostitution by her family at the ...	2007-12-07
DocArchive: Global Account Part 2 Africa's Cocaine Coast - Guinea-Bissau is awash with cocaine and is ranked by the United ...	2007-12-07
DocArchive: Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 2 Jonathan Marcus explores the impact of these two conflicts on the american political psyche.	2007-12-03
DocArchive: Global Account - Part 1 Angus Stickler travels into the disputed "Red Zone" of Southern Thailand to discover the victims ...	2007-11-29
DocArchive: Assignment - Inside Gaza 28 Nov 2007 Six months ago, the radical Palestinian faction Hamas took total control of the Gaza Strip. ...	2007-11-29
DocArchive: Seeing Iraq, Thinking Vietnam Part 1 Correspondent Jonathan Marcus compares the impact of the two conflicts on American society and politics.	2007-11-26
DocArchive: Jihad and the Petrodollar part 2 Roger Hardy follows the money trail and looks at the case of two prominent Saudi ...	2007-11-23
DocArchive: Assignment - The internet chatroom murder 22 Nov 2007 This week on Assignment, a story of lust, deception and betrayal on the internet. It ...	2007-11-22
DocArchive: Taxing Questions (part four) The final part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation ...	2007-11-21
DocArchive: Taxing Questions (part three) In the third of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the ...	2007-11-20
DocArchive: Can America Go Green? - Programme 3 The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role ...	2007-11-19
DocArchive: Taxing Questions (programme two) In the second of a four part series Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation and the ...	2007-11-16
DocArchive: Jihad and the Petrodollar - part 1 Has Saudi Arabia fanned the flames of Muslim militancy by exporting its own puritanical form ...	2007-11-16
DocArchive: Assignment - The neglected thalidomiders 15 Nov 2007 Fifty years ago, the drug thalidomide was introduced as a treatment for pregnancy sickness. The ...	2007-11-15
DocArchive: Taxing Questions (programme one) The first part of a four part series in which Maurice Walsh discovers why globalisation ...	2007-11-12
DocArchive: Can America Go Green? - Programme 2 The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role ...	2007-11-12
DocArchive: In Search of a New Kyoto In a special BBC WS One Planet debate, we bring together four people at the ...	2007-11-09
DocArchive: Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 3) The final part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex ...	2007-11-07
DocArchive: Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 2) The second part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex ...	2007-11-05
DocArchive: Inside the Climate Change Talks (part 1) The first part in a three part series in which Mike Williams explores the complex ...	2007-11-05
DocArchive: Can America Go Green? - Programme 1 The BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan explores how the US could retreat from its role ...	2007-11-05
DocArchive: Assignment - Sexual violence in South Africa 1 Nov 2007 South Africa has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world. There ...	2007-11-01
DocArchive: Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra Part Two In this part, Wole Soyinka travels back on a route he first took in 1967 ...	2007-10-31
Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation In Pakistan President Musharraf and the former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir Bhutto did a deal ...	2007-10-29
DocArchive: Benazir Bhutto - The Investigation We investigate the substance of the allegations against Benazir Bhutto and ask whether she could ...	2007-10-29
DocArchive: Wole Soyinka Returns to Biafra Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winning author, Wole Sayinka travels back to Biafra and comes face to face ...	2007-10-24
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth 4 In the final part of this series Robin White visits Georgetown the capital of Guyana ...	2007-10-19
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth Robin White visits Maputo the capital city of Mozambique. After sixteen years of civil war ...	2007-10-19
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth Robin White finds out about the disappearing Kweyol culture in St Lucia. Why is it ...	2007-10-19
DocArchive: China's Long Arm 4 China has turned its attention to the US in its search for natural resources, even ...	2007-10-18
DocArchive: China's Long Arm 3 Lucy Ash assesses the wider impact of China's insatiable appetite for natural resources, and focuses ...	2007-10-17
DocArchive: China's Long Arm 2 Maurice Walsh considers whether China might use its growing military power to reclaim Taiwan, possibly ...	2007-10-16
DocArchive: China's Long Arm 1 Maurice Walsh examines whether US government concerns about rising defence spending in China will fuel ...	2007-10-15
DocArchive: Tales from the Commonwealth 1 Local broadcaster Eunis Taumomoa guides us through Papua New Guinea, a country that has more ...	2007-10-12
DocArchive: Assignment - Afghanistan's war crimes 11 Oct 2007 Afghanistan's recent history has been a long list of human rights abuses and war crimes ...	2007-10-11
DocArchive: Stem Cell Bazaar - Part 2 Meet the doctors who are trying to introduce regulation of stem cell therapies in India, ...	2007-10-10
DocArchive: The Land of the Mobile Millionaires Matthew Sweet presents the extraordinary story of Finland's Nokia Millionaires, and how the mobile phone ...	2007-10-07
DocArchive: Life After Vietnam Lance Corporal Baronowski's personal recordings, made in Vietnam shortly before he was killed in 1966, ...	2007-10-05
DocArchive: Assignment - Britain's gangmasters 4 Oct 2007 Assignment reports on the fate of thousands of migrants from eastern Europe, who come to ...	2007-10-04
DocArchive: Stem Cell Bazaar - Part 1 Do stem cells really offer a miracle cure? Are the clinics offering genuine treatments at ...	2007-10-03
DocArchive: Assignment - Burma: the road to crisis 29 Sep 2007 The two week uprising in Burma has been ruthlessly put down by the Burmese military. ...	2007-10-01
DocArchive: Rebuilding Southern Sudan Part 2 Darfur has diverted attention from Southern Sudan, now emerging from civil war. Mike Wooldridge investigates ...	2007-10-01
DocArchive: Assignment - Eritrea's persecuted Christians 27 Sep 2007 Assignment reports on the persecution of Christians in Eritrea - home to one of the ...	2007-09-28
DocArchive: The Boys from the Bush Robin Denselow tells the story of the Zimbabwean band The Bhundu Boys. From their triumphs ...	2007-09-28
DocArchive: A Journey from Conflict to Brotherhood John McCarthy looks at how the Kaduna Declaration in Kaduna, Nigeria, has had some success ...	2007-09-26
DocArchive: Rebuilding Southern Sudan Part 1 Darfur has diverted attention from Southern Sudan, now emerging from civil war. Mike Wooldridge investigates ...	2007-09-24
DocArchive: We're No Angels Karin Wells investigates controversial new laws in Poland that require over 35s to prove they ...	2007-09-21
DocArchive: Top of the Class - Part 2 Owen Bennett-Jones visits two of the world's leading educational establishments - Harvard University and Westminster ...	2007-09-19
DocArchive: Assignment - Liverpool's drug gangs 20 Sep 2007 Assignment reports on how a once model public housing project in Liverpool, has become terrorised ...	2007-09-19
DocArchive: The Clinton Years Part 4 Gavin Esler tells the story of Bill Clinton's controversial and colourful presidency, from epic victories ...	2007-09-17
DocArchive: On the road in Iraq Many ordinary people in Iraq continue to live in extraordianry circumstances. World Affairs coresspondent, Mike ...	2007-09-14
DocArchive: Assignment - Rough justice in Japan We report on a miscarriage of justice in Japan - a case which has opened ...	2007-09-13
DocArchive: Top of the Class - Part 1 Education matters - Owen Bennett-Jones visits educational establishments which have been judged to be the ...	2007-09-12
DocArchive: The Clinton Years Part 3 Having won a second term, Clinton found new confidence when dealing with foreign policy. But ...	2007-09-10
DocArchive: Heritage, The Balkans - Part Four: Butrint, Albania Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.	2007-09-04
DocArchive: The Clinton Years - part 2 From authorising emergency bailout during the Mexican economic collapse to balancing the budget, Clinton's strategic ...	2007-09-03
DocArchive: Mother's Mountain In August 1986 Julie Tullis became the first British woman climber to reach the summit ...	2007-08-30
DocArchive: Heritage, The Balkans - Part Three: Bosnia Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.	2007-08-29
DocArchive: The Clinton Years - Part 1 When William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States on 3 November 1992, ...	2007-08-27
DocArchive: Sudan: The Lost Boy Returns Jane Little follows one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan" who goes back to be ...	2007-08-23
DocArchive: Heritage, The Balkans - Part Two: Dubrovnik, Croatia Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.	2007-08-22
DocArchive: Mexican Drugs: So Far From God Nick Caistor investigates the causes and effects of drug violence in Mexico, which is reaching ...	2007-08-17
DocArchive: Zimbabwe Out of Control - Part 2 In the second of these two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers how Zimbabwe might become prosperous ...	2007-08-16
DocArchive: Malaria and Fake Drugs Jill McGivering follows the trail of fake drugs, from the marginalised communities at risk, to ...	2007-08-16
DocArchive: Heritage, The Balkans - Part One: Kosovo Malcolm Billings explores the reconstruction projects slowly restoring the region's cultural legacy.	2007-08-14
DocArchive: Maids: The Untold Story Part 1 It reads like a soap opera, but this is not fiction: round-the-clock confinement, crippling illness, ...	2007-08-10
DocArchive: Zimbabwe Out of Control - Part 1 In the first of two programmes, Paul Bakibinga considers the causes behind the collapse of ...	2007-08-10
DocArchive: Freetown Rap Rappers from Freetown, Sierra Leone, perform and talk about their songs, background and dreams for ...	2007-08-10
DocArchive: Assignment: Ghanaian Drug Mules Gabby O'Donnell goes to Ghana to meet some convicted drugs mules, and hears how they, ...	2007-08-09
DocArchive: Maids: The Untold Story - Part Two In the second programme, Judith Kampfner looks at women who work as maids in their ...	2007-08-08
DocArchive: Coming Out Part 2 In South Africa, equality - on the basis of race, language, culture and sexual orientation ...	2007-08-06
DocArchive: The Generals Debate Iraq Owen Bennett-Jones chairs a unique debate with some of the most senior and influential military ...	2007-08-03
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