Documentaries
By BBC World Service
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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.
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Docs: The Royal Visit - Episode One 26 May 12 | Presenter Dzifa Gbeho tours Accra with Chris Hesse - the then President's official photographer - who followed Queen Elizabeth II's every move during her first visit to Ghana in 1961. This visit is then contrasted with her second visit to the country in 1999. | 5/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Marriage Breakers of Bangladesh | In Bangladesh, twenty percent of girls are married before their fifteenth birthday. This week's Assignment looks at the issue of child marriage, through the eyes of three children. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Art Of The Monarchy - Part One - 22 May 12 | Will Gompertz begins a four-part exploration of almost 1000 years of the British monarchy as told through the objects of art they collected. In part one, he looks at some of the most personal images in the Royal Collection. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Too Old To Get Rich - Assignment | China's natural ageing process has been accelerated by the One Child Policy. For Assignment, Mukul Devichand asks whether Shanghai's ageing population could be undermining economic growth. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Danger In The Download - Part Three 15 May 12 | In the final episode, Ed Butler investigates the many internet stakeholders. What can governments do to protect the net? And what can we do? | 5/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Migrants of the Caribbean - Assignment | The drowning of more than fifty people people in a small fishing boat in the Dominican Republic has left the local community in shock. | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Danger in the Download - Part Two 8 May 12 | Is the Internet's original architecture and governance still fit for purpose? Or has it gone out of control and become hopelessly insecure? | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: A Death in Honduras | Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world. Linda Pressly profiles the People's Funeral Service - a unique organisation offering succour in a sea of violence. | 5/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Danger in the Download - Part One 1 May 12 | Ed Butler assesses the ever-increasing threats from hackers and cyber weapons, and the challenges that today's most powerful countries face from threats in cyperspace. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Soap Operas - Part Two 28 Apr 12 | Can soap operas around the world help people approach their lives with a more positive attitude? Your World examines the impact in Rwanda, Turkey, Brazil and India. | 4/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: In the Shadow of Charles Taylor | Sierra Leonean journalist Amara Bangura travels through Sierra Leone and Liberia to meet those who remember the brutality of the Charles Taylor era. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Nigerian Crossroads - Part Two 24 Apr 12 | Nigeria is at a crossroads between chaos and a modern state. Can it become the pioneer for Africa? Mark Doyle investigates. | 4/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs : Soap Operas - Part One 21 Apr 12 | Can soap operas around the world help people approach their lives with a more positive attitude? Your World examines the impact in Rwanda, Turkey, Brazil and India. | 4/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Bahrain Formula 19 Apr 12 | Formula 1 returns to Bahrain this weekend. Last year's race was cancelled amid political unrest. Can the race heal wounds and allow the country to move on? | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Nigerian Crossroads - Part One 17 Apr 12 | Nigeria is at a crossroads between chaos and a modern state. Can it become the pioneer for Africa? Mark Doyle investigates. | 4/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Global Perspectives: Chatsworth - A Chance For Change 14 Apr 12 | 'Sugars' addiction in the township of Chatsworth near Durban and the hallucinogenic detox which gives addicts the chance to change their lives. | 4/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Assignment - Forcible Sterilisation In Uzbekistan 12 Apr 12 | Natalia Antelava uncovers evidence that women are being sterilised, often without their knowledge, in an effort by the Uzbek government to control the population. | 4/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The School To Prison Pipeline 10 Apr 12 | Nina Robinson reports from Texas on how the heavy hand of the law in some US schools is criminalising the very young. | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Assignment - Forty Years In Solitary, Louisana Style | Tim Franks looks at the case of two US inmates who have been held in solitary confinement in Louisiana for what will be 40 years this month. | 4/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The War Over Syria 03 Mar 12 | Barbara Plett investigates how the conflict in Syria, and the future of the Assads, might reshape the Middle East. | 4/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Neon Cowboy 31 Mar 12 | Writer Bart Bull explores the extraordinary story of the Neon Cowboy at the Round Up Drive In, in Phoenix, Arizona. | 3/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Canada's Prescripton Drug Crisis | Assignment investigates prescription drug abuse among Canada's First Nation communities. | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Pink Certificate 27 Mar 12 | Military service is mandatory for all Turkish men - they can only escape it if they are ill, disabled or homosexual. But proving homosexuality is a humiliating ordeal. Emre Azizlerli lifts the lid on the only country within the Nato military alliance to discriminate against homosexuals in this way. | 3/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Secret Policemen 24 Mar 12 | Why secrecy for Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland can be the difference between life and death. | 3/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Assignment - Facing the Future in Greece 22 Mar 12 | What's it like to be a graduate in Greece contemplating the future? Chloe Hadjimatheou reports for Assignment on the prospects for new graduates in Athens who are at the start of their working lives. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Europe's Choice - Part Three - 20 Mar 12 | Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the current crisis. In part three he examines new resentments and divisions within the EU exposed by the crisis. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Torture By Music 17 Mar 12 | British citizen, Ruhal Ahmed, spent two years in Guantanamo Bay. After his release he returned home to Tipton in the West Midlands without ever being charged with a crime by the British or US governments. During his incarceration Ruhal was repeatedly tortured by his captors. The technique he feared most was being tortured with music. We chart Ruhal's progress as he attempts to silence torture by music. | 3/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Syrian Stories | Divided by conflict. The human stories behind Syria's uprising. Owen Bennett Jones reports for Assignment. | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Europe's Choice - Part Two - 12 Mar 12 | Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the current crisis. In part two, he focuses on the failure to enforce the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Gaza - The World's Strangest Marathon | Jon Donnison travels to Gaza for Assignment to witness the world's strangest marathon. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Europe's Choice - Part One - 06 Mar 12 | Allan Little looks at key moments and issues that brought the European Union to the current crisis. In part one he focuses on the transformation of Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. | 3/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: African Perspective - The Dream Home 03 Mar 12 | We meet an ordinary Kenyan woman who has done an extraordinary thing and opened her home to 49 orphaned children. She is one of an increasing number of Kenyans who are stepping forward to adopt or care for children in need. | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Favela Pacified | The BBC's Nina Robinson reports for Assignment from one of Rio de Janeiro's biggest urban slums, or favelas, to see whether drug gangs can be controlled for good. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Battle for Egypt 28 Feb 12 | A year after the fall of President Mubarak of Egypt, the army is still in charge of the country, and there's daily unrest on the streets. What happened to the revolution? Magdi Abdelhadi reports. | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Life In Many Voices 25 Feb 12 | In the occupied Palestinian territories the rate of blindness is as high as ten times the norm in the West. We follow the story of different people whose lives converge through the work of St John Eye Hospital, which has been bringing modern medical care to a community in desperate need, regardless of ethnicity, religion or politics. | 2/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Bosnia's Heritage | There's a crisis of culture in Bosnia Herzegovina. The guardians of the nation's heritage - the museums and libraries - are under threat of closure. Assignment's Rebecca Kesby reports from Sarajevo. | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: English In The East: Part Two 21 Feb 12 | English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of the future in rising South East Asia? In part two, Jennifer Pak visits Hanoi in Vietnam to look at how the country, with a French and Russian colonial history, is now adopting English in preference to Mandarin, despite the growing neighbouring Chinese economy. | 2/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: A Family Business 18 Feb 12 | Mair Bosworth looks at conflict between generations in a small family business in London. | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Bombardment of Homs 12 Feb 12 | The Syrian city of Homs has seen some of the worst violence in the government's crackdown against opposition activists and armed fighters in the country. BBC reporter Paul Wood and his team managed to slip into Homs as the bombardment of the city was getting underway. In this special programme, Paul tells the story of his four days in Homs - how the story unfolded, how he reported it and what life is like for residents of a city under fire. | 2/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - America's Poor | The BBC's Hilary Anderson examines what it means to be poor, in the richest country in the world. | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: English In The East: Part One 14 Feb 12 | English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of the future in rising South East Asia? In the first of two documentary programmes Jennifer Pak visits Malaysia and Singapore, two countries where colonial ties to the English language are loosening. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Lisdoonvarna – Ireland’s Love Capital 11 Feb 12 | Alison Finch meets one of Ireland's last traditional matchmakers as he reigns over the great Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival. | 2/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Equatorial G****a | Rob Walker investigates what’s happened to billions of dollars in oil revenues paid to the government of Equatorial G****a. | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Dickens And India - Mutual Friends 07 Feb 12 | To celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens' birth, Indian writer Ayeesha Menon explores India's love affair with Dickens. | 2/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Dreaming Dickens: Feb 03 12 | In this documentary-fantasy we bring the danger back to Dickens. Slipping in and out of his weird and brilliant imagination, we see modern London as he might have done, travelling through the city's streets at night to crack dens and strip-joints as the police sirens wail. We meet characters from his novels and characters who would be in his novels if he were still alive today. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Opposing Syria's President Assad | Undercover in Damascus for Assignment. Tim Whewell enters the dangerous world of the Syrian opposition to find out how strong they are – and what they really want. | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Great Expectations: Part Eight - 27 Jan 12 | Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Australia's FIFO Workers | Australia's mining boom is proving lucrative for its so called Fly in Fly Out (FIFO) workers but as James Fletcher reports in Assignment, it can come at a cost. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Wealth Gap – The View from London: Part Two 24 Jan 12 | The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London. | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dos: Great Expectations: Part Seven - 21 Jan 12 | Nina Robinson reports from two Olympic cities - Beijing who were hosts in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro, who will be hosts in 2016. | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Toughest Guys On Ice | Assignment goes inside the fast and furious world of North American ice hockey. Alex Capstick reports. | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Wealth Gap – The View from London: Part One 17 Jan 12 | The gap between the super-rich and the rest has grown sharply around the world. Michael Robinson examines its effects on London. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Antartic Explorer | Karen Bowerman retraces the route of Antarctic explorer Frank Wild - Sir Ernest Shackleton's second-in-command - as Wild's ashes are taken to South Georgia for burial next to Shackleton. | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - What Happened to the Kurdish Spring | For Assignment Gabriel Gatehouse asks whether the autonomous Kurdish region in Northern Iraq should be a model for the Middle East to follow or avoid? | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Sporting Chances: Australia Part Two 10 Jan 12 | Farayi Mungazi looks at the role of sport in shaping the country's national identity and asks whether sporting success will always be part of Australia's soft power. | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Women Of Tahrir Square: 7 Jan 2012 | Women were at the forefront of the revolution in Egypt. Hanan Razek discovers why many are disappointed and angry at the Egyptian revolution's failures. | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Truth About NGOs - Haiti 5 Jan 2012 | Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti. Why, despite the vast effort and resources that flowed after the earthquake two years ago, are people still living in tents without basic amenities? | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Sporting Chances: South Sudan Part One 3 Jan 12 | Farayi Mungazi explores the power of basketball to create a national identity in newly independent South Sudan, as well as give its people a sense of dignity and pride. | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Goodbye To Bush House: Part Two 31 Dec 11 | John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012. | 12/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Guangzhou - China's migrant metropolis | China's economy depends on a system regulating workers from around China and beyond. In Guangzhou, the migrant metropolis, Mukul Devichand hears stories of anger and reform. | 12/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Goodbye To Bush House: Part One 24 Dec 11 | John Tusa presents memories and archive about the BBC World Service in Bush House, from 1941 to leaving Bush House in 2012. | 12/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Truth About NGOs - India 27 Dec 11 | Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in India. Who really benefits from the work of NGOs? | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Songs of Comrade Time: 24 Dec 11 | The Children's Choir of the USSR sang to their leaders, they sang to their people, and through their songs projected a bright, happy dream of the Soviet Union to the furthest reaches of the Red Empire. Then, in 1991, the world they had sung about ceased to exist and the Soviet Union passed into memory. Monica Whitlock goes in search of The Children's Choir of the USSR. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - France Food Fights | France has long been a country with a reputation for some of the best food in the world. But in recent years, many critics have argued that French cuisine has lost its way. Now there's a new generation of food-lovers hoping to change that. But what do the traditionalists make of it all? Robyn Bresnahan reports. | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Tales From The Arab Spring: Whose Tomorrow? (Syria) 22 Dec 11 | The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand. | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Tales From The Arab Spring: Counter Revolution (Libya) 21 Dec 11 | The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand. | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Truth About NGOs - Malawi 20 Dec 11 | Allan Little investigates allegations of NGO inefficiency, political bias and lack of transparency in Haiti, Malawi and India. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Tales From The Arab Spring: Revolution (Egypt) 20 Dec 11 | The BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen looks back over a momentous year in the Middle East and hears from those who witnessed events at first hand. | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Boundaries Of Blood: Part Two 17 Dec 11 | Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan. | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment Cholera in Haiti | A hard hitting Assignment from Mark Doyle who reports on the massive cholera outbreak in Haiti and the controversy that surrounds it. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Boundaries Of Blood: Part One 10 Dec 11 | Shahzeb Jillani explains how the 1971 war over Bangladesh shaped modern Pakistan. | 12/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Exposing Bali's Orphanages | In Assignment Ed Butler investigates reports that some orphanages in Bali are being run as commercial rackets and that children there are being exploited for the owners' benefit. | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Out In The World: Part Two 06 Dec 11 | Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East. | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Knitting In Tripoli 03 Dec 11 | Knitting in Tripoli tells an intimate story of life during the Libyan war through the eyes of people who battled their own fears to step out of Gaddafi's dark shadow. Rana Jawad became the BBC website's Tripoli Witness and took up knitting and baking to cope with the strains of living in hiding and secretly gathering information. | 12/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: A New Global Economics: Radical Economics - Part Two | Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part two Paul Mason asks whether the expansion of credit created a new form of worker exploitation. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Missing in Kashmir | A dark secret lies beneath the earth in Indian Kashmir. Bodies - thousands of them. Who are they and how did they die? Jill McGivering reports for Assignment. | 11/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: Out In The World: Part One 29 Nov 11 | Richard Coles confronts accusations that the West is attempting to force gay rights on Africa, Asia and the Middle East. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Docs: The Trouble With Condoms 28 Nov 11 | Around one million people around the world are infected with a sexually transmitted disease every single day. Yet even those with easy access to condoms often choose not to use them. Paul Bakibinga sets out to discover why. | 11/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: A New Global Economics: Radical Economics - Part One | Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with the system rather than a mere failure of policy? This two-part series investigates two schools of economics with radical solutions. In part one, Jamie Whyte looks at the free market Austrian School of F.A. Hayek. | 11/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Roubles & Radicals in Dagestan | A Dagestani billionaire, Suleiman Kerimov is bankrolling a football club and building new sports facilities across the country in the hope of encouraging the young to turn away from militant Islam. Lucy Ash reports. | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: New Global Economics: The Shock & the Shift: 22 Nov 11 | Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator of The Financial Times, examines how the world has changed since the beginning of the financial crisis four years ago, and asks if the pre-2007 era might be the high point for free market capitalism. | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Boy With The Violin | The BBC's Priyath Liyanage searches for a boy who was carrying a violin case when he was used as a human shield by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. | 11/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Upsetting The Apple Cart - The Genius of Steve Jobs | Mark Gregory examines the legacy of Steve Jobs. How will he be compared to the great American entrepreneurs of the past, such as Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie?Did he invent a new way of doing business? | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - India's Whistleblowers | Rupa Jha reports for Assignment on India's whistleblowers - the people who find themselves on the frontline of the country's anti-corruption struggle. | 11/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: A Short History Of Story: Part Two: 11 Nov 11 | Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media. | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part Two: 08 Nov 11 | Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes. | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The state of Israel | Tim Franks reports from Israel for Assignment on how the country now sees itself as political upheaval in neighbouring countries continues to change long held perceptions and alliances. | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: A Short History Of Story: Part one: 05 Nov 11 | Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today's online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media. | 11/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Spain's Stolen Babies: 03 Nov 11 | Katya meets the heartbroken families in Spain searching for their children and the trafficked babies, now grown up, searching for their biological relatives and their true identities. | 11/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Dark Side Of Diplomacy: Part One: 01 Nov 11 | Diplomacy is often presented as an artform, the peak of civilisation in a barren political world. But what happens when it is conducted with torturers, murderers and serial human rights abusers? Lyse Doucet asks diplomats, politicians and activists how we should engage with brutal regimes. | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: After The Dictators: 29 Oct 11 | As Libyans absorb the impact of the death of Gaddafi, Owen Bennett-Jones presents a special programme exploring what happens after dictators leave power. | 10/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Zanzibar | Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar because of his love of African music. | 10/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: One Day In Syria | For Assignment, Bill Law paints a portrait of one day in the Syrian revolution, talking via the internet and phone to people across the country. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The British Establishment: Who For? - Part Two: 25 Oct 11 | Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis? | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Nashville - Episode 2 | Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part two, Jesse Lee Jones explains how his love of country music took him from Brazil to Nashville. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Musical Migrants: Milan - Episode 1 | Portraits of people who relocated to other lands, influenced by music. In part one Pedro Carrillo from Venezuela fell in love with Italian opera and moved to Milan. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment Ivory Coast: A family divided | Robyn Bresnahan reports on how politics is dividing families in Ivory Coast. | 10/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The British Establishment: Who For? - Part One: 18 Oct 11 | Michael Goldfarb looks at why Britain's narrow and elite establishment keeps stumbling from crisis to crisis. | 10/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Lives In Landscape | Alan Dein explores the impact of last summer's riots on a London man and his friends in the immediate aftermath of the rioting. | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Defining Hezbollah | In Lebanon many people fear that another war between Hezbollah and Israel is just over the horizon. But what exactly is Hezbollah and why do people support it? For Assignment Owen Bennett Jones reports from southern Lebanon on the nature and structure of the Shia movement that is so difficult to define. | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Controlling People: Part Three: 11 October 11 | The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals. | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Down and Out in Paris and London | Some 80 years after George Orwell chronicled the lives of the hard-up and destitute in his book Down and Out in Paris and London, what has changed? Retracing the writer's footsteps, Emma Jane Kirby finds the hallmarks of poverty identified by Orwell - addiction, exhaustion and, often, a quiet dignity - are as apparent now as they were then. | 10/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Fading Voices | Facing old age presents its challenges where ever you come from. Nina Robinson travels to Wales in the United Kingdom to talk to members of an all male choir as their numbers decline and their voices fade. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Controlling People: Part Two: 4 October 11 | The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals. | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Listening Post - Episode Two | A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part two, we hear the story of 84 year-old Sybil Phoenix, who 50 years ago started fostering. She has cared for countless children and was awarded an MBE in 1973 for her involvement in community relations - making her the first black female recipient. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Supporting Fenerbahce | Fenerbahce fans are angry. Their club is at the centre of a match fixing scandal and they've suffered the humiliation of being banned from the first game of the season. Tim Mansel went to meet them. | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Controlling People: Part One: 27 September 11 | The story of modern population control, and why it didn't work. Matthew Connelly on a campaign that began with the best ideals. | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Listening Post - Episode One | A series that invites close, unhurried listening to the stories of individuals. In part one we hear the story of Yusef Shakur, who in 1992 at 19 was about to start a prison sentence of five to 15 years. Now almost two decades on, he has managed to turn his life around. | 9/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Rangers v Celtic | Strong views and language from the fans of Scotland's top football clubs - Rangers and Celtic. But how sectarian is their rivalry? Rob Walker reports for Assignment. | 9/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Future of Amnesty International: Part Two: 20 September 11 | Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage. | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Always Hope: Cambodia's New Music | How Cambodia's contemporary music scene is creating a new golden era for a country recovering from the dark years of Pol Pot's rule. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Zimbabwe's Migrant Children | Mukul Devichand goes on the road with young children travelling alone on a journey of desperation, danger and hope - south from Zimbabwe and across the border to South Africa. | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Future of Amnesty International: Part One: 13 September 11 | Matthew Bannister tells the story of Amnesty International at 50, and discusses its future on the world stage. | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - The Great Pyramid | eading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores. | 9/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - The Indignants of Greece | As the Greek government struggles to tackle it's massive debt crisis, Ed Butler travels to Athens for Assignment to investigate the so-called Indignants - the popular protest movement gathering pace across the country. | 9/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Secret War On Terror: Part Two: 06 September 11 | The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11. | 9/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - The Taj Mahal | Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores. | 9/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi | Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dirar Abu Sisi. He vanished from a train in Ukraine in February and turned up in an Israeli prison nine days later. Is he really the brains behind Hamas' missile programme, as Israel claims? | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Secret War On Terror: Part One: 30 August 11 | The Secret War On Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against al-Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11. | 8/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Iconic Geometry - Stonehenge | Leading structural engineer and designer Cecil Balmond goes beyond the well known histories of three celebrated monuments: Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal and the Great Pyramid, to reveal the hidden geometry at their cores. | 8/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Road To Tripoli | Events in Libya have reached a dramatic conclusion. After a six month uprising, rebel forces have swept into the capital Tripoli. The Leader Colonel Gaddafi, after almost 42 years in power, has been forced from power. James Reynolds reports how this happened and what were the key turning points in Libya's conflict. | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Day the Wall Went Up: Part Two: 23 August 11 | On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences. | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Too Hard Basket | Warning: This documentary contains conversations about sexual experience. Disabled people are rarely touched in a loving way or thought of as sexually desirable yet they have the same need for a sex life as everyone else. John Blades, who has a major disability himself, takes a look at the importance of touch to every human being. | 8/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - August Central America | Linda Pressly follows the migrants heading north through Guatemala into Mexico – despite the dangers of kidnap by the notorious Zetas gang. | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Day the Wall Went Up: Part One: 16 August 11 | On the Berlin Wall's 50th anniversary, Gerry Northam looks at its political context and its human consequences. | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Education of Ashif Jaffer | Can a young Canadian man with Down's Syndrome get a university degree? Alisa Siegal follows the story of Ashif Jaffer who wants to fulfil his dream for a university education and the degree that goes with it. | 8/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Zimbabwe's Diamond Fields | Have you bought a diamond recently? Would you really know where it came from? Assignment goes into Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields and uncovers evidence of torture camps and wide-scale killings. | 8/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden | BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the untold tale of how the Americans hunted their most wanted man - from the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan through to his stronghold in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: India's Working Children | Nina Robinson reports from India where the booming economy has fuelled a demand for cheap domestic labour. She finds that children are filling the gaps, with evidence of trafficking and youngsters being set to work in households, where they are open to abuse with little hope of ever going to school. | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Ruling Iran: A Profile of the Supreme Leader | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is Iran's Supreme Leader, a position he has held since 1989. Ayatollah Khamenei is the most powerful man in Iran, though one of the country's least scrutinised politicians. So who is this man? And how has he consolidated the Revolution? The BBC's Iran correspondent, James Reynolds, charts the Ayatollah’s reign and, through a number of interviews with relatives, biographers and politicians, builds a profile of Iran's most powerful man. | 8/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: The Afghan Governors | Ten years after foreign forces invaded Afghanistan, they've begun to hand full responsibility back to Afghans. Lyse Doucet, who's been covering Afghanistan for more than 20 years, travels around Afghanistan to meet the Afghans in charge. | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Afghanistan: War Without End? | To mark ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan, key decision-makers reveal the inside story of how the West was drawn ever deeper into the Afghan war. John Ware charts the history of a decade of fighting and looks at when the conflict may end. | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Dead News Network: 23 July 11 | A medium tells Colette Kinsella what it's like to have a life like the film, The Sixth Sense, how bored spirits play havoc with her love life, and why grocery shopping is a challenge. | 7/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Luis Posada Carriles | Cuba and Venezuela describe Luis Posada Carriles as the Bin Laden of the Americas. Rob Walker goes on the trail of the man who for 50 years has opposed Cuba’s Fidel Castro and who leaves in his wake intrigue, alleged terrorist plots and assassination attempts. | 7/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Atomic States - Part Two | BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. In part two, Richard compares how the world's nations are having very different approaches to the nuclear landscape in the wake of Fukushima. | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Womb For Rent: 16 July 11 | Is outsourcing pregnancy to India exploitative or mutually beneficial? Over the course of nine months, we follow two women, who in each other seek solutions to the problems of poverty and infertility. | 7/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: On the road with Hillary | In this week's Assignment the BBC's State Department correspondent Kim Ghattas has gained rare "behind-the-scenes" access to one of Hillary Clinton's recent overseas trips. Join her on "special air mission 883" as it heads from the U.S. to the Middle East and Africa. | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Atomic States - Part One | BBC Environment Correspondent Richard Black explores the history and likely future of the nuclear energy industry. Did the first atomic nations develop the best and safest technologies possible, or have they left the world with a ticking bomb? | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Big House: Part Two: 10 July 11 | Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia. | 7/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Korea's People Smugglers | Defecting from North Korea is a dangerous business. It comes at a high price and there's no guarantee of success. Many make the journey to South Korea with the help of brokers who smuggle people along the illegal overland route known as the "Underground Railroad". For Assignment Lucy Williamson meets the brokers who make a living helping people escape North Korea. | 7/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: America's Own Extremists - Part Two | BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, investigates why America is facing a resurgent threat from violent right-wing groups. | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Big House: Part One: 02 July 11 | Sharon Mascall follows 18 young Aboriginal men through a new rehabilitation programme at Port Augusta prison in South Australia. | 7/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The story of Rafiq Hariri | Who was Rafiq Hariri and who might have wanted to kill him. Owen Bennett Jones reports on the life of the man they once called Mr Lebanon. | 6/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: America's Own Extremists - Part One | BBC Washington Correspondent Jonny Dymond, examines why some native born American Muslims are becoming radicalised, and turning their sights on their own country. | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Picturesque Street | This year Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the USSR. Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg took a walk down his favourite street to find out how Russians view the past and to hear their hopes for the future. | 6/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Alzheimer's in Colombia | An extended family in Colombia struck by hereditary and very early onset Alzheimer's is taking part in a new drugs trial that doctors hope will lead to a cure for sufferers worldwide. Bill Law reports. | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Embracing The Dragon - Part Two | Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Dot.Com Camps: 18 June 11 | Ruth Evans reports on a unique dot.com venture providing jobs for the poor. | 6/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Antigua beyond Stanford | Emma Joseph reports for Assignment from Antigua on how people are rebuilding their lives two years on from the collapse of Allen Stanford's business empire. | 6/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Embracing The Dragon - Part One | Will Taiwan's new rapprochement with China bring opportunity, or hand Beijing control over what it sees as a renegade province? Chris Hogg reports. | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Kill Factor: Part Two: 11 June 11 | Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go against their instinctive repulsion. | 6/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Shaken Babies | Shaken baby syndrome - the sudden and violent shaking of an infant which often results in death - was once believed to be virtually a medical diagnosis of murder. But as Linda Pressley reports from the United States for Assignment, there's now growing disquiet about miscarriages of justice after such deaths. | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part Three | Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whole story? Michael Robinson asks whether investors and speculators are making prices more volatile and examines the role of the giant traders, banks and companies which now increasingly dominate the world's commodity markets. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Kill Factor: Part One: 04 June 11 | Soldiers who have killed in war at close quarters talk about how it affects them today. They talk frankly about their feelings before, during and after. And they reflect on whether humans are "natural" killers or whether they have to be trained to go against their instinctive repulsion. | 6/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment Inside California's Porn Industry | California is the world's largest producer of commercial pornographic movies. But, as Ed Butler reports for Assignment, the billion dollar industry is in trouble. The programme begins on the film set of a porn movie in Los Angeles. | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Fifa - Football, Power and Politics | David Goldblatt tells the turbulent story of Fifa, international football's governing body. | 6/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part Two | Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whole story? Michael Robinson asks whether investors and speculators are making prices more volatile and examines the role of the giant traders, banks and companies which now increasingly dominate the world's commodity markets. | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Ancestors Are Calling | The pressure on Lesego Mangwanyane - a South African journalist - to become a sangoma, or traditional healer. Does she have a choice? | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Stalin's Toxic Legacy | Twenty years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union the toxic legacy of its industries still lives on. For Assignment Angus Crawford travels to a remote valley in Georgia where research has shown that there are dangerous levels of arsenic in the soil and water and yet the local community remains unaware of the health risks. | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Bubble Trouble? - Part One | Across the world the cost of basic commodities is soaring. Endless demand from China is blamed for the record price of copper; flood, fire and drought for boosting the cost of food; and political tension in the Middle East for the sharply-rising price of oil. But are such fundamental forces the whole story? Michael Robinson asks whether investors and speculators are making prices more volatile and examines the role of the giant traders, banks and companies which now increasingly dominate the world's commodity markets. | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment Calling for Change in Yemen | For months Yemen has been the scene of widespread unrest and anti-government protests. President Ali Abdullah Saleh has warned that if he stands down the country risks falling into the hands of extremists groups like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. For Assignment, Natalia Antelava reports from the capital Sana'a, on how warnings like these feed into the very fear that shapes US counter-terrorism policy in Yemen. | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Wars of Diplomacy: Part Two: 17 May 11 | In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and assesses how the decisions have changed the course of these two brutal conflicts. | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - The Pakistan Connection | The killing of Osama bin Laden has stirred deep suspicions about whether the Pakistani authorities knew the world's most wanted man was living quietly in Abbotabad. For Assignment, Owen Bennett-Jones explores allegations of a web of links between Pakistan's security forces and militant jihadists. Does Pakistan consider some extremists to be useful allies? And does it turn a blind eye when the courts allow notorious killers to walk free? | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Wars Of Diplomacy: Part One: 10 May 11 | In the space of just over ten days in March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed two of its most significant, emphatic and far-reaching resolutions in decades. Claire Bolderson looks at how the world body used a new-found strength to intervene militarily in Libya and Ivory Coast and assesses how the decisions have changed the course of these two brutal conflicts. | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part Two: 7 May 11 | Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth. How does the city compare to neighbouring Doha? | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Mission Bin laden | On a moonless night on Sunday May 1st, four American military helicopters descended on a compound in the quiet town of Abbottabad in north-west Pakistan. Their mission to capture and if need be, kill, United States Enemy Number One - Osama Bin Laden. They succeeded and America's most exasperating manhunt was over. But how did the risky operation unfold both in Washington and in Pakistan? Rob Walker reports for Assignment. | 5/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part Two: 3 May 2011 | On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone". | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Building on Sand: Part One: 30 Apr 11 | Jonathan Glancey looks at whether Dubai has a sustainable policy towards building in one of the harshest environments on earth. | 4/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - A Matter of Life and Death | Jill McGivering reports from Pakistan where calls for debate about the country's controversial blasphemy laws have been almost silenced by death threats and violence. The laws stipulate the death penalty if blasphemy is proven but critics say the laws are frequently being used to target innocent people. For Assignment Jill goes in search of the accused and their accusers. | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Alive In Chernobyl: Part One: 26 April 2011 | On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl - in her native Ukraine - to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone". | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: After the Crash - Part Two | On the anniversary of the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by the events of 10 April 2010, a day on which Poland lost its President and 95 others, which included many talented public servants and dignitaries. For Part Two, Zamoyski travels to Warsaw to examine how the legacy of the crash has impacted on a year of Polish politics. | 4/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Trafficked from Uganda to Iraq | Anna Cavell tells the extraordinary story of a rescue of a group of Ugandan women who were trafficked into Iraq. They were told they would get decent jobs but instead found themselves working as slaves and subject to violence and even rape. They were saved by an unlikely pair of heroes – a Ugandan security guard and an American military officer. | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Who Says I Can't Fish? | Restrictions on commercial fishing in Europe were put in place to aid sustainability, but are they still appropriate? Charlotte Smith reports on the British perspective from the northen English town of Scarborough. | 4/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: After the Crash - Part One | One year on from the Smolensk air crash, writer and historian Adam Zamoyski examines how Polish politics and society have been affected by loss of its President and other dignitaries. | 4/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Louisiana Deep Water | A year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico creating a huge oil spill. In the aftermath, the BBC's Robyn Bresnahan spent a month in the American state of Louisiana with fishing families to see how they were affected. She found many communities on the brink, with fishermen fearing they would never fish again. One year on, she has returned to meet with some of the same families. | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Pomp and Matrimony: 12 Apr 2011 | From the news coverage of the 1923 wedding of the future King George VI to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, to the moment Lady Diana Spencer stepped out of the glass coach, we look back to the glamour and gossip, the spectacle and romance of British Royal weddings. | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Great Expectations: 08 Apr 2011 | In dense blocks of flats and social housing, just 10 minutes away from the Olympics Park, young people with nothing much else to do, are at risk of getting involved with gangs. The BBC's Nina Robinson explores the problem of crime for those affected. | 4/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Jos: A City Still Divided | Assignment reports on the shocking sectarian violence in the Nigerian city of Jos. But Rob Walker finds one neighbourhood where Christians and Muslims have come together to prevent the violence. This programme contains graphic descriptions of violence. | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: For King or Country? Part Two - America | A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part two looks at America - whose very creation involved rejecting kingship - and those who prefer a crown to a republican constitution. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Great Expectations: 02 Apr 2011 | Great Expectations follows the lives of people who live in the diverse ethnic mix of east London, on the doorstep of the 2012 Olympic Games. It looks at their view of the changes and money being spent around them from where they live - in a deprived part of the inner city, in dense blocks of flats and social housing - known as an estate in the UK. The BBC's Nina Robinson reports in the first of two programmes on the incidence of poverty in the area and how this is reflected in the lives of residents. | 4/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Speaking up in Saudi Arabia | In this week's Assignment Sue Lloyd Roberts reports from Saudi Arabia where custom and religion are keeping women covered up and largely hidden. But behind the scenes Sue finds women pushing for change. | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: For King or Country? Part One - Sweden | A committed republican and ardent monarchist examine the case for and against monarchy as a form of government. Part one looks at Sweden - home to one of the world's oldest and yet most modernised courts. Why is it that opposition to keeping the king as head of state is growing? | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: How My Country Speaks - Part Two | "It just takes 26 letters to create the universe, the word is dismantled and then reassembled through the lens of a pen and verse." The South African poet Lebo Mashile contemplates the role of poetry in her country. | 3/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Somaliland - Going it Alone | It’s twenty years since Somaliland declared itself independent but it still remains unrecognised as a nation state. For Assignment, Mary Harper reports from Hargeisa, the capital, where she finds many people happy to be going it alone. | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan | In a society where the sexes are strictly segregated, it is common for boys to dance for men in Afghanistan at weddings and traditional gatherings. But the tradition exposes the boys to sexual abuse. | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Family Matters - Part Two | Lucy Williamson reports on why Mexico, a developing Catholic nation, is the latest country to turn away from marriage. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: How My Country Speaks - Part One | "I was sentenced to 12 years for writing poetry." Russian poet and dissident, Irina Ratushinskaya contemplates the role of poetry in her country. | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Albania's Munitions Mountain | Albania's paranoid Cold War dictator stockpiled vast amounts of ammunition to threaten potential invaders. Albania now wants to get rid of the old ammunition -- and quickly. It's even willing to give it away. For Assignment Neal Razzell meets those trying to shift what the government calls "the heavy burden of the past." | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Animals on Trial 15 Mar 11 | Throughout history donkeys, pigs, dogs, rats, even insects have been put on trial and some convicted and sentenced. Frances Fyfield, looks at these extraordinary cases of animals in court. | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Family Matters - Part One | Why is the nuclear family model so successful across the developing world? Lucy Williamson reports from Nepal - currently experiencing one of the fastest-ever shifts from extended families to nuclear ones. Who are the winners and losers in that process? | 3/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Changing Worlds Of Formula One | From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event? | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Oil City Takoradi | What happens when you take a run down African city and introduce a brand new oil industry worth billions of dollars? For Assignment Rob Walker reports from port city of Takoradi on the impact oil is having. | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: What Can I Say? Singapore | The government behind the economic powerhouse that is Singapore guards its reputation for stability to the point of authoritarianism and censorship. What happens when journalists challenge the status quo? | 3/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Silent War: 7 Mar 2011 | Why has India's north-east insurgency lasted so long, and is there any hope of a peaceful resolution? The BBC's Rupa Jha investigates and asks if special powers granted to the military are prolonging the problems. | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Changing Worlds Of Formula One | From Italy to India, David Goldblatt examines the ever changing face of Formula One. Can Europe financially support the sport and does it matter that a country like India has been chosen to host the event? | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Imam of Peace | John Mohammed Butt travelled to Kabul in the 1960s. Rather than finding drugs and hedonism, he discovered a tribal culture that transfixed him. Now a trained Imam and Muslim, he has dedicated his life to spreading peace in South Asia. But as reporter Nadene Ghouri discovers in this week's Assignment, that message has made him a target for militants. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: What Can I Say? Thailand | In Thailand, what part have - illegal - community radio stations had to play in the demonstrations by activists - redshirt or yellowshirt - that occupy opposite ends of the political spectrum? | 3/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Revolutions in Iran: 28 Feb 2011 | How does the spread of ideas impact individual lives, shape millions of minds, fuel revolutions and alter world opinion? The BBC's Afshin Dehkordi is on a quest to find out in the context of both Iran's recent media revolution and the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. | 2/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: The Short History of Five Notes: 25 Feb 2011 | Dancehall singer Sean Paul, Hip hop star Missy Elliot and Malian singer Habib Koite all use a deceptively simple but hypnotic beat from the heart of Africa in some of their biggest hits. But what is it? Music journalist Rita Ray journeys to Ghana to find out. | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Depicting Detroit | Nina Robinson goes to Detroit where police have killed a seven-year-old girl while conducting a raid filmed for a reality TV programme. She finds a city asking deep questions about the way the media cover crime. | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: What Can I Say? - Part Two | In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part two he goes to Cambodia. How is the country's fledging media dealing with a nation still scarred by widespread murder and violence? | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Ship of Spies: 21 feb 2011 | After allegations of torture and targeted killings, how can the CIA hope to repair its damaged reputation? The Spy Cruise has been set up for the public to sail around the Caribbean with ex-CIA chiefs and discuss global security - but who really gains? | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Tahrir Square: 18 Feb 2011 | The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi - himself Egyptian-born - relives the drama on the final days of Mubarak's 30 year rule and talks to Egyptians about their hopes for the future. | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Europe's New Politics - Part Two | In part two of Europe's New Politics, the BBC's Chris Bowlby travels to Austria and Germany to investigate the rise of populist politics there. | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: What Can I Say? - Part One | In this four-part documentary, Gary Bryson travels across South East Asia to explore freedom of speech and democracy. In part one he goes to Indonesia. How is independent media faring since the fall of Suharto's dictatorship? | 2/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China: Shaking the World - Part Four | This series has shown how China is barrelling ahead with new infrastructure and new strategies to import the latest industrial technologies But China's leaders want Chinese ideas and innovation to drive their economy. This programme follows people at the leading edge of that effort, in the arts and sciences and for some, it's a time of unparalleled freedom. | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | "Mosquito one, mosquito two, mosquito jump in a hot callaloo." What are the world's most popular number rhymes and how do they overlap between different cultures? Kim Normanton looks at the different approaches to counting around the world. | 2/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Europe's New Politics | Chris Bowlby investigates for Assignment how the far right is influencing mainstream European politics. He travels to Scandinavia where anti-immigration parties are increasingly powerful. The Danish People's Party has cleverly used its hold on the balance of power to introduce harsh measures. And the Sweden Democrats have rapidly increased their share of the vote, claiming that public services are being swamped by immigrants. | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: One Block in Harlem - Part Two | Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day. | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China: Shaking the World - Part Three | Michael Robinson examines the social tensions within China that threaten the growth upon which much of the rest of the world now relies. This programme examines China's leaders attempts to manage growing conflicts and calls for political change - not for multi-party democracy, as some in the West advocate, but for a shift from a system of absolute Communist Party rule to one where individual rights are protected under law. | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Profile: Mohamed ElBaradei | Mukul Devichand tells the story of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Laureate and former Chief Weapons Inspector who some want to see as the next president of Egypt. Could he now unite a fragmented opposition and ride the wave of protest to the very top? | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Palliative Care in India | As part of the BBC's Extreme World coverage Linda Pressly reports from India on palliative care - medical provision for those nearing the end of life. | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: One Block in Harlem - Part One | Michael Goldfarb traces the iconic neighbourhood's story by telling the history of a single street in Harlem from 1910 to the present day. | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China: Shaking the World - Part Two | As China's role has become the world's banker, Michael Robinson looks at the potentially world-shaking clash of cultures between non-democratic, state-planned China and the American-centred world of democracy and free market ideology. | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Japan: A Friend In Need | Would you still walk down the aisle if you found out that you're prospective in-laws, the best man and congregation were fake? Roland Buerk investigates Japan's growing 'rent a friend' service and why social standing is driving excluded people to extremes. | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - India's Microcredit Meltdown | Why is there a crisis in India's microcredit industry? For Assignment Madeleine Morris travels to the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to investigate. | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Open Eye: Part Two | Why are racial tensions increasing in one of the most progressive countries in Europe? Joseph Rodriguez goes to a region of Sweden that is symbolic of the divide between the Muslim population and indigenous Swedes. | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China: Shaking the World - Part One | This documentary series examines the political, economic and cultural mechanisms of China's growing global influence. Michael Robinson, who documented China's awakening for the BBC almost 20 years ago, returns to assess the prospects and problems of the unrelenting shift of power from West to East. | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Lost Voices of Afghanistan | "My mind is unhinged and I'm sick of the smell of blood / it's hard to stay human in such a morass / to avoid prejudice and bigotry/ to keep your hands clean." Through words and verse, Afghan civilians reflect on decades of war. Listen to their poetry. | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: Baghdad International Airport | A snapshot of Iraq as seen through the prism of its main airport. For Assignment, Gabriel Gatehouse talks to the travellers and workers who pass through Baghdad international airport each day. | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Open Eye: Part One | What sort of relationships do photojournalists form with the people that are the subject of their pictures? Photographer Dalia Khamissy has been documenting the story of the thousands of people who disappeared during Lebanon's civil war. | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Inside the IMF - Part Two | In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IMF in Washington really think about their role? And are they up to the job? The BBC Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders has had an exclusive opportunity to interview staff including the Managing Director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss Kahn. | 1/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wikipedia at 10 | As it enters its tenth year, we look at the history and evolution of Wikipedia, which by allowing people from opposite sides of the world to contribute, has grown into one of the most popular websites on the internet. What does the future hold for the site? Will it simply be replaced by another way of sharing knowledge on a mass level? Or will Wikipedia one day contain the sum of human knowledge? And are there any downsides to this democratisation of information? | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment - Cyber Bullied | For Assignment, Nina Robinson reports on how teenagers are navigating their online lives in a virtual world, where they face the very real risk of being cyber bullied. | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Blind Man Roams the Globe - Part Two | Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. By listening to the sounds of his surroundings, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about the city of Istanbul? | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Inside the IMF - Part One | In the past two years the International Monetary Fund has come out of the shadows to play a key role in efforts deal with global financial crisis. Governments say they want it to fix the global economy as well. But what do those working inside the IMF in Washington really think about their role? And are they up to the job? The BBC Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders has had an exclusive opportunity to interview staff including the Managing Director of the IMF, Dominique Strauss Kahn. | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Terra Madre | The world’s disappearing food tribes and how their traditional food production may offer the world a sustainable model. | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Assignment: The Rise and Fall of Wikileaks | The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is currently in England fighting extradition to Sweden. Despite this he remains defiant that his whistle blowing website will continue to publish sensitive material. Simon Cox investigates the rise of Wikileaks and asks if it can recover from its recent troubles. | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Blind Man Roams the Globe | Peter White is blind, but travels all over the world for his job. Though listening to the sounds of a city, he gets to know a place. What does he discover about San Franciso? | 1/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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DocArchive: Brazil: Lula's Legacy - part two | In this two-part series, the BBC’s Paulo Cabral looks at Brazil’s investment fever and asks if the massive state-led development programmes during Lula’s reign have put the country in the global economic super league. | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
A Fascinating Exploration of Current Events
This podcast is one of the most insightful and interesting news and politics shows that I have come across. Each episode is only 20 minutes long, so it's easy to listen to while still still offering in-depth detail about current events, political movements, and social ideas. Current events from all over the world are discussed and explored in detail, and the reporting is always done on-the-spot in foreign countries. This podcast is a fascinating and insightful way to discover stories from around the world that you wouldn't hear on a typical newscast here in Canada.
Too Depressing!
I have listened to these documentaries for about 2 years and while often interesting they are almost universally negative with rarely a glimmer of hope that the world is going right anywhere. I have had to stop listening, at least for a few weeks to give myself relief from constant downers - just too depressing.
Best podocumentary ever.
Great job and congratulations to the staff at BBC World Service Documentaries. Great podcast. Wish you come up with other interesting documentaries as well, such as history or political history related.
